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Indoor smart gardens do most of the work for you when it comes to growing herbs and vegetables, including reminding you to water and adjusting the lights to the appropriate setting. ZDNET’s Greg Nichols recently tried a smart garden in his tiny home (a WWII-era sailboat!) and wrote: The indoor smart garden kit that Nichols chose happens to be our top pick for the best smart garden overall. We’ve rounded up the best indoor smart gardens that include features like vacation mode, autonomous watering, customizable seed pods, and more to get your garden growing in no time....

To me, paperback and hardcover books are special: The smell of their pages, the sound of flipping through them, and the weight of a really big book in your hands. But in the interest of tech (and my job), I decided to give the new Kindle a shot. I’m happy to report that I’m a fully converted Kindle reader. The new 2022 entry-level Kindle comes with a lot of upgrades, making it a bit more competitive with more expensive models like the Kindle Paperwhite and the Kindle Oasis e-readers....

The Platinum Card® from American Express is one of the top – if not the top – premium travel credit cards on the market. It comes with an exceptional welcome bonus, travel credits, bonus rewards categories, and more. But there’s one catch: the $695 annual fee. So is the high annual fee worth it? We’ll be exploring that in this article, as well as sharing the top perks the card provides....

Not just in the way that bosses manage employees, and not just in the way employees treat each other. Feelings about technology are important too. You walk into a new job and discover a bright, shiny, state-of-the-art computer on your desk. There’s that extra buzz of excitement as you sit in your tiny cubicle. Or your tiny space along a very large table. There were terrible stories of so-called frupidity....

Also: How I solved one of my biggest Raspberry Pi headaches If you can think it, it probably exists. There are screens and cases and all sorts of add-on circuit boards (called HATs, short for Hardware Attached on Top) that enable you to do things like add ports to connect hard drives or even monitor the weather. In fact, nowadays it’s easier – much easier – to find accessories for a Raspberry Pi than it is to find actual Raspberry Pis unless you’re willing to pay a big premium (thanks “supply chain issues”!...

According to SentinelLabs, an advanced persistent threat (APT) group dubbed ModifiedElephant has been responsible for widespread attacks targeting human rights activists and defenders, academics, journalists, and lawyers across India. The APT is thought to have been in operation since at least 2012, and over the past decade, ModifiedElephant has continually and persistently targeted specific, high-profile people of interest. However, rather than focusing on data theft, the APT’s activities are far more sinister: once inside a victim’s machine, the group conducts surveillance and may plant incriminating files later used to prosecute individuals....

Detailed by cybersecurity company Intezer, the phishing campaign has been active for at least a year and those behind it appear to have put a lot of effort into making the phishing emails look as legitimate as possible. The phishing emails include references to executives, addresses of offices, official logos and requests for quotations, contracts and refer to real projects in order to look authentic. SEE: A winning strategy for cybersecurity (ZDNet special report) | Download the report as a PDF (TechRepublic) Cyber criminals have sent the emails to international companies in the oil and gas, energy, manufacturing and technology sectors around the world, with targets including companies in the United States, United Arab Emirates, Germany and South Korea....

Also: How to convert your home’s old TV cable into powerful Ethernet lines This means it’s possible to create numerous combinations of sources and displays that could save you from buying additional televisions or monitors. For example, if you have a PC that you use for work or competitive PC gaming, but would like to swap its output to the big screen of your TV for movie watching or casual gaming, one tap of the Blackbird’s buttons on the device or remote can redirect that video output at up to 4K@120Hz or even 8K@60Hz....

Sometimes I’ve needed to plug four or five devices in for charging. Under normal circumstances, that would require hunting down available outlets or using a standard power strip. But I don’t want a standard power strip sitting on my desk for use. Not only is it unsightly, but it’s also a bit awkward for a desk. Also: Need more ports? This tiny, lightweight, premium-quality dock delivers I can tuck this tower out of the way on my desk and have instant access to those outlets and ports at any time....

The latest preview of Windows 11 ships with the SMB server authentication rate limiter on by default, making it much more time-consuming for attackers to target the server with password-guessing attacks. “The SMB server service now defaults to a 2-second default between each failed inbound NTLM authentication,” explains Microsoft security expert Ned Pyle. “This means if an attacker previously sent 300 brute force attempts per second from a client for 5 minutes (90,000 passwords), the same number of attempts would now take 50 hours at a minimum....

The award is given by the company to the programming language that has gained the highest increase in ratings in one year. C# was on its way to get the title for the first time according to Tiobe, but Python overtook C# in the last month. Python is the most popular programming language today because of machine learning, data science and its wealth of software libraries from the Python Package index (PyPI) that lend the language to those fields....

Not only is Python is the easiest programming language to learn, but it is also one of the favorites used for data analysis and business intelligence. And complete novices will have no problem with “Introduction to Python”, which features small hands-on projects, as well as practice exercises. Python skills alone are in high demand and make a great entry into the tech industry. You will learn R programming basics, find out exactly what it can do and why data scientists favor it in “Introduction to R Programming”....

As cyber-attacks continue to increase in frequency and severity, the demand for cybersecurity professionals is outstripping the supply. It’s reached the point that entry-level salaries start at almost $90,000. And now, you can get lifetime access to an entire career of cybersecurity training with an Infosec4TC Platinum Membership for just $69. The membership offers more than 90 security-related courses that you can take whenever you like. Better yet, you will also get access to all future courses as they become available....

The case opens to reveal the earbuds, which have an over-ear silicone loop to make the buds more comfortable. The loops are light and are not noticeable when wearing the buds. Furthermore, you do not need to wiggle the buds to get the most comfort; the MoveBuds H1 hang in the ear and cause no pressure inside the ear canal – unlike other earbuds, which can feel wedged in the ear....

HDR Darkroom 3 allows you to easily produce professional-looking HDR results with 16 styles for lots of editing options. Make your images look more artistic, realistic or even futuristic. You can even create and save your own customized styles. It includes both local and global tone mapping, ghost reduction and alignment technologies, plus almost all HDR Darkroom 3 processing controls are real-time, so they are some of the fastest on the market....

Previously, users were limited to searching only the names of DM participants and the names of group chats they participated in. Now, Twitter has expanded the search feature to include any text in the body of DMs you’ve sent or received as well. Search also now supports specifying whether you’re searching for the name of a user, a group name, or message content to help narrow results when the query might be an ambiguous word....

Be it for flashing custom ROMs, installing a custom recovery, trying out a custom kernel, or gaining administrative privileges by rooting your device via Magisk, there’s a slew of intriguing things to welcome abode. However, this is just one side of the coin. Trying out these tweaks might also bring in uninvited guests. Just a slight deviation and your device might end up in a bootloop or softbrick state. Well, even then you could easily unbrick your Motorola Edge X30 via Fastboot commands....

The research, published in Journal of Imaging, outlined the aim of the study was part of an ongoing project at UniSA that aims to replace contact-based electrical sensors, which require using adhesive pads that can result in skin tearing and potential infections, with non-contact video cameras to monitor premature babies. As part of the research, UniSA researchers used high-resolution cameras to remotely monitor the heart and respiratory rates of seven infants at Adelaide’s Flinders Medical Centre Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU)....

However, the FCC only ‘partially’ granted SpaceX the right to launch its constellation of Gen2 non-geostationary orbit (NGSO) satellites: SpaceX had applied to launch 29,988 Gen2 satellites. According to the FCC, SpaceX had launched more than 3,500 Gen1 Starlink satellites as of October 2022. The 7,500 new satellites are approved to operate at altitudes of 525, 530, and 535 kilometers and inclinations of 53, 43, and 33 degrees, respectively, using frequencies in the Ku- and Ka-band, the FCC notes....

The pair plans to focus on enterprise customers initially, supplying their solutions via Verizon’s On Site 5G and 5G Edge platforms. The goal of the joint catalogue of services will be to bring compute, and storage assets “to the edge of the local network enabling the bandwidth and low latency needed to support real-time enterprise applications like autonomous mobile robots, intelligent logistics and factory automation.” Verizon and Google made it clear they see this as the first step in a larger edge computing and 5G collaboration that will eventually grow to include additional solutions for enterprises, as well as products specifically aimed at developers wishing to deploy their applications in edge locations throughout the US....