Also: What are the best wireless car chargers and which can fast-charge a phone? A reliable car phone mount holds your phone on the dash, vent, or cup holder so you can quickly glance at directions while driving. I scoured the internet in the sea of options to find the best phone mounts for your car to let your phone be visible without distraction. More: The best phone tripods The best phone ring lightsThe best MagSafe accessories...
We reviewed the five best home security systems in Minnesota. We rated and reviewed home security providers based on affordability, customer satisfaction, price, and more. Comparing the best Minnesota home security systems Information accurate as of May 2021 *J.D. Power’s 2020 Home Security Satisfaction Study. Based on a 1,000-point scale. Why we chose it SimpliSafe is the top choice for Minnesota residents with its affordable pricing and flexible plans to choose from....
Having a home security system can help you avoid these slip-ups. It also ensures rapid police response in the event that a crime does occur. Our top picks for home security in Kansas City – Vivint, Frontpoint, ADT, and SimpliSafe – offer a wide range of packages. There are options from basic monitoring to full-fledged home automation systems, so anyone can find a system they’re comfortable using. The best one for your home depends on you: what kind of equipment you prefer, how much customer support you like, and your personal security concerns....
Here is the executive summary of the Future of Financial Services Institutions (FSI) report, highlighting FSI customers’ wants and needs: Here are my key takeaways from the FSI report: The future of financial services is clearly digital. The battle for customer loyalty and advocacy is based on the customer experience. Speed, personalization and intelligence (relevance and precision) are keys in a digital-first economy. Welcome to the trusted experience-led economy – this is the future of financial services institutions....
And with each passing year, these little slabs of glass and plastic become more deeply integrated into our daily lives as they launch new features to let us track our health, pay for our groceries, start our cars, scan our way onto the train and much more. They’ve become so omnipresent in our lives that we – consciously or not – now think about them the way we think about our clothes or our shoes....
As for Chrome OS Flex, Google’s promotion of it to business customers (It is hosted on the Chrome Enterprise portal) represents an upgraded positioning versus that of CloudReady. It represents return fire in the battle for business customers after Microsoft finally unveiled an alternative for those in Chrome OS’s education stronghold in Windows 11 SE. (While Chrome OS Flex will presumably be available to anyone via download as CloudReady has been, Windows 11 SE is available only through the education channel....
The M570’s design features an ear cup that, unlike its competitors, is outfitted with a grille that allows sound to pass through the planar driver. It alters the sound so that you sound right at center stage when listening to your tunes and enhances the sound portfolio. In other words, you’ll get a more engaging sound space. The padded headband is fully adjustable so it will be comfortable on your ears, and you can adjust between leatherette pads and cloth options....
Whenever I go to phone stores and talk to salespeople, I ask about their choice of phones. With exceptional regularity, many tell me they have iPhones because of their friends and family. “If everyone’s got an iPhone, just one Android makes it messy,” one phone store employee told me. It’s a modern necessity to be part of a texting group. Families need it; friends need it. It’s the quickest way to tell a lot of people nothing very special....
Apple users are all about generating content. The standout feature that separates new iPhone models from each other, year after year, is the camera systems’ improvements. Expectations are that the iPhone 14 will support 8K video. Video consumes a lot of storage. My last few YouTube videos each took about seven or eight gigabytes, and I’ve had videos consume more than 50GB. Individual clips can easily be one or more gigabytes, especially when shot in 4K....
The investment is part of a wider package of about $250 billion that covers scientific endeavors ranging from artificial intelligence to quantum communications, called the US Innovation and Competition Act. Expanding the US semiconductor industry, in particular, is one of the key provisions of the new act. It follows from a previous pledge made by US President Joe Biden, who called on Congress earlier this year to invest $50 billion in semiconductor manufacturing and research to support the aptly-named CHIPS Act (Creating Helpful Incentives to Produce Semiconductors)....
ebook Coronavirus and its impact on the enterprise This TechRepublic Premium ebook compiles the latest on cancelled conferences, cybersecurity attacks, remote work tips, and the impact this pandemic is having on the tech industry. Read now Only 37% of organizations have the skills and tech to keep pace with increasing digital projects during COVID-19.More than half (51%) of business users are currently frustrated by the speed at which their IT team can deliver projects....
UK communications regulator Ofcom has announced plans to protect phone boxes in areas with bad mobile reception or high accident rates — the occasions when people need to contact emergency services. Public phone boxes in the UK aren’t exactly popular for communications (or in many cases very pleasant), but there’s still a need for them, according to Ofcom. SEE: The IoT is getting a lot bigger, but security is still getting left behind The move to protect public phones comes as the UK and incumbent operator BT rips out old copper and replaces it with fibre to deliver internet telephony or VoIP....
Also: This $10 gadget is my favorite repair tool of all time But, shockingly, finding the perfect headlamp is no easy feat. They’re often too bulky or heavy, equipped with absurdly intricate controls, use some specialized proprietary charger that I’m going to lose within a month, or boast a beam so bright it could compete with the sun. And don’t get me started on the tactical, high-intensity strobe feature designed to disorient ninjas....
HDDs are cheaper than faster, more compact solid state drives (SSDs), which have the advantage of no moving parts, and are which now ubiquitous on smartphones, and used in many of the latest laptops. But researchers at the University of Cambridge Graphene Centre hope to breathe new life into the old HDD by using graphene to create ultra-high density HDDs. SEE: Hiring Kit: Computer Hardware Engineer (TechRepublic Premium) In a new paper published in Nature, the Cambridge researchers detail how they’ve used graphene to make HDDs that can store 10 times more data than today’s HDDs....
A global study with 1,104 respondents from 49 countries found that more than nine in 10 organizations continue to view COBOL as a strategic priority. It also found that 83% of organizations believe their COBOL-based applications will see out another 10 or more years. COBOL – or Common Business Oriented Language – has been around since 1959 and is largely credited for helping to build the computer software industry as we know it today....
We’re doomed because we’re good at dooming ourselves, and we’re really good at not anticipating the consequences of our actions. We’re already benignly accepting that robots will put us out of work, but do we really, really have to do the same to our dearest, most beloved friend – the dog? I’m only asking because I’ve nuzzled up to a YouTube video that made me fear for the better beings of this Earth....
One of the main reasons for this is the fact that most Chromebooks, to this point, have been built with relatively modest processors, no discrete GPUs (graphics cards), and few features, if any, that lent themselves to gaming. But, all of that is about to change. With a combination of some of the most impressive hardware ever to grace a Chromebook and ground-up integration of some of the most popular cloud-based gaming services, this first wave of gaming portables is poised to define an entirely new category or products designed to let you play your favorite games on the road....
NIST will later this year publish the “lightweight cryptography” standard after picking the Ascon family for the task. Also: What is the IoT? Everything you need to know about the Internet of Things right now It selected the algorithms to protect a vast array of devices, sensors, and actuators. The algorithms are also designed for implanted medical devices, stress detectors inside roads and bridges, and keyless entry fobs for vehicles....
In its report on systemic investigations into fraud enabled through phone and internet accounts, the TIO pointed out that fraudsters have exploited slow responses from telcos to create security breaches. This included a customer being kept on hold when trying to report fraud, failure of customers being able to contact telcos outside of business hours, staff not blocking fraudulent activity, staff not knowing how to deal with fraud, and attackers maintaining access to accounts after telcos were notified....
Javascript still rules in RedMonk’s Q3 2021 language popularity rankings, which have been updated twice a year since 2010. Python overtook Java for the second spot in RedMonk’s Q2 2020 ranking, and it has remained there in Python’s shadow ever since, but now it has jumped one spot to second – a place it once again shares with Python. See: Programming languages: Developers reveal the ones they love and the ones they dread As RedMonk analyst Stephen O’Grady notes, Java’s consistent third placing over the past year was “prompting questions from observers as to whether it was fated to a gradual drift down these rankings”....
