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Most companies have responded positively to workers’ desire to spend less time in the office and accepted that their employees’ value has little to do with where they choose to do their work. In fact, some of the highest-paying tech jobs are now offered as remote roles, with companies understanding that, in order to recruit the developers they need, flexibility must be a prerequisite. Airbnb, for instance, recently announced its new ‘work from anywhere’ (or WFA) policy....

Why hasn’t Microsoft ever gotten its security act together? The fundamental problem is that Windows was never, ever meant to work on a network. It worked as a standalone PC operating system. And, even today, 37 years later, the same pre-internet problems keep showing up. Unix and Linux started with the premise that there’s more than one user on the system, and you need to secure accounts and programs from other users, local or remote....

But Microsoft giveth, and Microsoft taketh away. A slew of once-hyped Windows 10 features and a handful of apps will vanish along with the Windows 10 upgrade. The details, in trademark Microsoft fashion, are buried in the fine print – specifically, in a document misleadingly titled “Windows 11 Specifications.” A few of the changes are simply formal statements of product decisions that have been in the works for a long time....

Over the past few days, three criminal cases have been filed against Twitter head Manish Maheshwari by police departments in the BJP-led state of Uttar Pradesh that could be a foreshadowing of things to come for free speech on social media in the country. When Maheshwari first signed up for the role at Twitter, which has turned out to be India’s most perilous job, he probably did not know he had bargained for....

However, internet users will need to sign up for 24-month contracts to get the best rates from WOW!. And the company’s limited availability means that many people will have to look elsewhere for their internet needs. Pros: High speeds at affordable pricesOffers bundled packages Cons: Limited availability Best prices require long contracts WOW! Internet Plans and Prices Estimated Speeds All of the internet plans WOW! Their customers are based on cable connections – except the Internet 1 Gig plan, which is based on a fiber connection....

About a month ago, X-Chair reached out to me to test its latest ergonomic offering: the X-Tech Executive. (I know, the name just rolls off the tongue.) While my initial reaction was, “Hey, isn’t this the chair that I saw on TV?” it was followed by a curiosity about how different a new office chair could be. After all, we’ve just passed the two-year mark of the pandemic, and ergonomic chairs have been all the rave throughout....

Powered by Qualcomm’s Arm-based Snapdragon 8cx Gen 2 SoC and supplied for review with both keyboard and stylus, the Xiaomi Book S 12.4-inch ships with Windows 11 in S mode. It’s not for anyone looking for a powerhouse computer, but how does it stack up as a 2-in-1 detachable for everyday use? This is a three-piece detachable 2-in 1, with separate tablet, keyboard and kickstand. The 12.4-inch tablet weighs 720g, while the keyboard weighs 317g....

Many available smart locks on the market have an auto-unlock feature that you enable on a phone app so your door unlocks when you approach it. It’s like having your own little digital doorman. The Apple HomeKit, however, is limited in how it lets you use this feature, unless you can work around its system. In this article, I explain how to set up auto-unlock on your Apple HomeKit. ZDNet Recommends: Yale Assure Lock SL (review) When we looked into setting up smart devices at home, we ended up getting an Apple HomePod mini to set up with HomeKit because we appreciate the value Apple puts on the privacy and security of their customers....

These systems, like Google’s Android Earthquake Alerts System, can’t foresee an earthquake, as that technology doesn’t exist yet. But it can give people a seconds-long warning to take action to prepare. On October 25, a 5.1-magnitude earthquake occurred in the San Francisco Bay Area. Twitter users thanked Google for the warning, saying they received a notification of the oncoming earthquake just a few seconds before they could feel the ground shaking....

The BNPL option currently is available only on Zalora’s website, but will be extended to its mobile app later this year. To select the payment mode, customers will have to choose Pace during checkout and complete their payment at the latter’s website, the two partners said in a statement Tuesday. They also will need to register for a Pace account, if they do not already have one, to use the payment service for their Zalora purchases....

At the most basic level, digital transformation involves using digital technologies to change a business process to become more efficient or effective. The idea is to use technology not just to replicate an existing service in a digital form, but to use technology to transform that service into something significantly better. It sounds simple but digital transformation can be a long, expensive and complicated process that doesn’t always go according to plan....

This new speed boost “VPN Accelerator,” is enabled by default on all ProtonVPN paid accounts and with all the ProtonVPN apps. It also works with all of ProtonVPN and is available for all users. VPN Accelerator will give you its speed boost no matter which VPN protocol you use: OpenVPN TCP, OpenVPN UDP, Wireguard, or IKEv2 VPN protocols. How? By making a variety of improvements. For example, to give the popular OpenVPN and other single-threaded protocols a kick in the pants, ProtonVPN has re-written OpenVPN so that multiple OpenVPN processes per server now run to take advantage of multi-core processors....

Also: John Deere rolls out new battery-powered farming and construction equipment The Ram 1500 Revolution is set to enter into production in 2024 and will push the boundaries in range, towing, payload, and charge time, according to Stellantis. The exterior of the vehicle shows significant upgrades from the traditional Ram 1500 with a sleek, ultramodern design. The car has an all-new Ram brand face that reads RAM and has an animated full-LED “tuning fork” design....

Lindy Cameron, the head of the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), will say that the organisation – the cybersecurity arm of spy agency GCHQ – is committed to tackling the threat of ransomware and “supports victims of ransomware every day” but that a coordinated response is required to combat the growing threat. While state-sponsored hacking campaigns pose a “malicious strategic threat to the UK’s national interests”, it’s cybercrime – and in particular ransomware – which has become the biggest threat....

Based around a 133MHz dual-core ARM Cortex M0 running at 133MHz, it has 264KB of on-chip memory. Designed to be built into hardware, each chip also offers 26 GPIO pins, with a host of additional controller hardware including eight programmable I/O state machines. As well as selling RP2040s to customers to build into their own devices (I have one that’s a 4x4 LED backlit keyboard and another that’s a customisable e-paper badge), Raspberry Pi uses it in its own Pico boards – low-cost devices aimed at makers and other hardware hobbyists....

Whereas the $35 Renegade competed with the Raspberry Pi on price and maintained its form factor, the Renegade Elite is a board of a different sort. It will launch on an Indiegogo crowdfunding campaign for $100 in July and then will be available in August generally for about $120, according to Liliputing. With accessories, the board could cost around $200. Compared with the Renegade, the Renegade Elite features a faster Rockchip processor, more ports, additional Type-C ports, and, instead of a single 40-pin header, it has a 60-pin PCI-E expansion header, and a 60-pin low-speed header....

For the six months ended 30 June 2021, the company posted $31.3 million in net profit, attributing the $49 million turnaround to its “strong brand position and intensely loyal user base”. “Razer had a phenomenal first half of the year,” Razer co-founder and CEO Min-Liang Tan said. “In addition to the ongoing growth in the broader industry that benefitted our core business segments, Razer’s stellar results were driven by our strong brand position and intensely loyal user base, our proven capabilities in rolling out innovative, category-defining products and services, and effective operational execution....

Microsoft warned customers in February to prepare for degraded support for IE 11 in its key Office apps from August 17: it first announced the end of M365/O365 support for IE 11 on August 17, 2020. “Beginning August 17, 2021, Microsoft 365 apps and services will no longer support… IE11 and users may have a degraded experience, or be unable to connect to, those apps and services. These apps and services will phase out over weeks and months to ensure a smooth end of support, with each app and service phasing out on independent schedules,” the latest warning notes....

The cloud communications firm’s non-GAAP net income per diluted share was 32 cents on revenue of $379 million, increasing 36% year-over-year. Analysts were expecting earnings of 28 cents per share on revenue of $359.51 million. “Second quarter results were outstanding, as contributions from our upmarket momentum and key partners including Avaya, Atos, AT&T, BT, and Telus continued to increase,” Shmunis said in a statement. “As businesses embrace hybrid workforces, they require next-generation mobile-first platforms that support team messaging, video meetings, and phone system capabilities....

That’s the conclusion of a new state of the industry report by Berkshire Gray. The reason will be familiar to those who have tracked industries like durable goods manufacturing, agriculture, and commercial trucking: A new generation of workers don’t want jobs with low pay, low stability, and high burnout. While this can be framed through a number of lenses (the one that always makes me chuckle is “they’re lazy!”), the unquestionable outcome is a massive turn toward automation, specifically robots....