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Cyber schooling - sometimes called "distance learning" - is an increasingly popular educational model at all levels. The majority of colleges and universities offer at least some online courses at undergraduate and graduate levels. And virtual K-12 schooling enables many students to learn at home at their own paces. 
The average email user is bombarded with over 2,000 spam messages per year, according to a consensus of spam fighters. Your daily deluge of spam includes overt unsolicited sales pitches, sneaky phishing scams, and messages which lure you to click on dangerous attachments. 
Rootkits, a relatively recent malware innovation, raise the stakes in computer security considerably. Typically, a rootkit is designed to take control of the infected computer with administrator ("root") privileges, and do so without the user's awareness. 
How fast is your computer's central processing unit (CPU) compared to others? That's one question that CPU benchmarking -- the act of testing the performance of a device using one or more standard test programs -- can help you answer. Another question is whether your particular CPU is performing up to manufacturer's specs. 
Is tech overload causing you to lose your ability to HEY LOOK, A BUTTERFLY! focus? Is an army of self-folding origami taking over Harvard Square? And has the iPhone made the optometrist obsolete? 
You will often see references to "Quad-core technology" when looking at high-performance personal computers. A "core," in hardware jargon, is part of a CPU that reads and executes program instructions. Quad-core is leading-edge computing power, very fast and of course more expensive than single or dual-core processors. But what is quad-core on a technical and practical level? Read on to find out...
