Answer: B — It clears temporary problems and reconnects your network.
When you reboot your router, you’re restarting the device and its network connections. That clears temporary memory and can resolve glitches that may be causing slow speeds, dropped connections, or other network problems.
Answer: D — Fish it out, towel it dry, and don’t panic.
The iPhone 12 has an IP68 water-resistance rating and was tested under controlled laboratory conditions at depths of up to 6 meters (about 20 feet) for up to 30 minutes.
If your phone takes an unexpected swim, remove it from the water and dry the outside with a soft cloth. Don’t charge it until the charging port is completely dry.
And skip the rice and hair dryer. Apple advises against using external heat or putting a wet iPhone in rice.
One important catch: Water resistance isn’t permanent. It can decrease as a phone ages or if it has been dropped, damaged, or repaired.
Not every problem is best solved with software. As software continues to take over everything around us, problems like the ones afflicting the Boeing 737 Max are going to multiply.
Great article from IEEE Spectrum on how software affects how a pilot can fly a 737 Max.
It has become a lot safer in most instances to use airport and hotel WiFi. Story at Wired.
Wired has an in depth article about Notpetya, the cyberattack in 2017 that cost businesses more than $10 billion dollars, and that few have talked enough about.
In Indiana we’ve had fee free credit freezes available to us for a long time. Now the rest of the country catches up. There is likely not one single thing you can do to protect yourself from hacking (and from yourself) than freezing your credit. Freezing your credit makes it much more difficult for attackers to harm you, even if they have your data, as they can’t open up new lines of credit in your name. Also, you won’t end up picking up a new bass boat on your way home from work, as you’ll have to think about thawing your credit before you agree to take on any debt.