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But those pocket-sized miracles only go so far, and sometimes even stepping up from a smartphone to an iPad or a Chromebook isn’t enough to accomplish a particularly demanding task. For those occasions, only an honest-to-goodness PC running Windows or MacOS will do. Which is why PC makers (including Apple) continue to sell more than a hundred million portable PCs and MacBooks every year. PCs have experienced a renaissance of sorts in the pandemic era, which means more and more of us are looking at laptops as a primary work and school device instead of something that gets occasional use....

An online engineering degree equips graduates to claim one of those positions. Make the best decision for your future by exploring what to expect in an online engineering degree, what it offers, and how it might differ from in-person training. What is an online engineering degree? An online engineering degree teaches students to approach and solve problems using a systematic, ordered process. They also learn to design, experiment, and adhere to professional and ethical standards and responsibilities....

Speaking to The Guardian, WhatsApp’s chief executive, Will Cathcart, said there are “parallels” between the 2019 attacks and a recent data leak allegedly implicating NSO Group clients in widespread cybersurveillance. Israeli vendor NSO Group has experienced bad press in recent weeks due to a damning report issued by Forbidden Stories, Amnesty International, and various media outlets worldwide. Forbidden Stories claimed that a leaked list of over 50,000 phone numbers allegedly revealed individuals either “of interest” or selected for targeting by clients....

If you missed Black Friday 2022 and have the console scribbled down on a holiday list, don’t fret; we’ve scoured the internet to find the retailers where you can still get a Nintendo Switch Lite, as well as maybe a deal or two here and there as part of Cyber Monday sales. Prices and availability may vary based on color, so check different options. Also: The best Cyber Monday 2022 gaming deals...

But what about people with small pockets, both physically and financially? The smallest display that Apple puts into an iPhone is a 4.7-inch display, and that’s found in the iPhone SE. But when will an updated iPhone SE be released? You’re going to have to wait. Must read: Secret iPhone hardware upgrade Apple doesn’t want you to have Here’s the current iPhone lineup: iPhone 12 mini: 5.4-inchiPhone 12: 6.1-inchiPhone 12 Pro: 6....

The PC Health Check app for Windows 10 will be available automatically via Windows Update, but you can also manually download it from the Windows Update Catalog using the tag KB5005463. However, the site was not displaying the KB reference at the time of writing. The app still checks if the hardware meets Microsoft’s minimum requirements for Windows 11 and that it’s eligible for the Windows 11 upgrade. Requirements include: at least 4GB of RAM and 64GB of storage; UEFI secure boot enabled; a graphics card compatible with DirectX 12 or later, with a WDDM 2....

On business editions (Pro, Pro for Workstations, Enterprise, and Education), the Windows Setup program asks you to choose whether you want to set the PC up for personal use or for use on a network managed by your organization, as shown below. If you choose the second option, you can set up the PC using an account in your Windows Active Directory domain or you can sign in using an Azure Active Directory account, such as the one associated with an Office 365 Business or Enterprise subscription....

Here’s the deal. According to Apple, an iPhone’s battery is rated to hold 80% of its capacity after 500 complete charge cycles. Well, Apple doesn’t make it easy for users to find how many recharge cycles their iPhone’s battery has been through. Instead, Apple offers a Battery Health measurement that can be found in under Settings > Battery > Battery Health. According to Apple, this is a percentage figure that “is a measure of battery capacity relative to when it was new....

The government of the Sunshine State detailed that the drones will initially be trialled in each town for 12 months. The remotely piloted aircrafts will be integrated with an aerial platform featuring intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance capabilities, plus AI technologies for tracking vehicles and thermal imaging cameras to locate lost people. Police on the ground will then be able to receive a live feed of images being recorded by the aerial platform....

Customers may have been worried how these platforms would fare under the Quest banner in terms of continued investment. With these new releases, Quest would seem to be demonstrating it views these assets as strategic to its entire data management portfolio and worthy of significant care and feeding. Also read: Quest, Alteryx introduce new versions of core products A model product Capabilities in the new 2021 R1 release of Erwin Data Modeler include a mix of support for old-school and more recent data sources alike....

A statement by Europol describes the 12 suspects in Ukraine and Switzerland as “high-value targets” responsible for “wreaking havoc across the world” by distributing LockerGoga, MegaCortex, Dharma and other ransomware attacks against organisations in 71 countries. But it’s unclear if the individuals have been arrested or charged – a Europol spokesperson told ZDNet that “the judicial process is ongoing”. The suspects are believed to have various different roles in “aggressive” criminal organisations responsible for encrypting networks with ransomware and demanding a payment in exchange for the decryption key....

The MegaCortex ransomware decryptor was built by cybersecurity analysts at Bitdefender in cooperation with Europol, the No More Ransom Project, the Zürich Public Prosecutor’s Office, and the Zürich Cantonal Police. The decryption tool, which should work with all variants of MegaCortex ransomware, is available to download from Bitdefender and via No More Ransom’s decryption tools portal. MegaCortex ransomware has plagued organizations across the world for several years, with cyber criminals infiltrating computer networks, gaining access privileges, using that opening to install and trigger file-encrypting malware attacks, and then demanding a ransom payment for the decryption key....

And yet even now, I think, many workers and their managers are still struggling to understand exactly what this shift in our working lives really means. What’s become increasingly clear is the idea of everyone working from an office all day every day is no longer the automatic assumption it once was. According to one piece of research, nearly half of office workers are now working either fully remotely or in some kind of hybrid work arrangement....

According to PricewaterhouseCoopers’ (PwC) Executive Views on Business in 2022 Pulse Survey published on Thursday, 43% of business leaders plan to keep hybrid work options for employees, and 30% plan on making remote work a permanent option. In addition, 77% of executives see hiring and retaining employees as the two most important factors to consider in 2022. “As employers look to attract and retain critical talent, they’re shifting their investment into their employees – creating meaningful work opportunities, investing in learning and upskilling, and creating career advancement opportunities – all while providing new flexible working options to meet employee personal needs,” said Julia Lamm, PwC Workforce Transformation Principal, in a statement....

On Thursday, academics from the UK’s University of Birmingham and University of Surrey revealed the technique, in which attackers could bypass an Apple iPhone’s lock screen to access payment services and make contactless transactions. A paper on the research, “Practical EMV Relay Protection,” (.PDF) is due to be published at the 2022 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, and has been authored by Andreea-Ina Radu, Tom Chothia, Christopher J.P. Newton, Ioana Boureanu, and Liqun Chen....

The recommendations were just a few of the 15 changes to the payments system called for in a review [PDF] probing Australia’s 20-plus year-old regulatory architecture for payments. The Payments System Review also called for further consideration to be given to how digital wallets, buy-now, pay-later (BNPL), central bank digital currencies, cryptocurrency, and de-banking interact with the new regulatory architecture. As such, one recommendation was for the creation of defined list of payment functions that require regulation....

In North America, these forces arrived in the form of westward European expansion. As the nations of America and Canada grew, generations of settlers forced Indigenous peoples from their land. Tribal children often had to attend government-run schools. People could even face punishment for speaking their native languages. After generations of discrimination and oppression, the Ojibwe language became endangered. Recently, the Minnesota-based Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe partnered with Rosetta Stone’s Endangered Language Program to mitigate and reverse some of that language and cultural erosion....

Outseer said it will continue to build out RSA’s anti-fraud and payments security portfolio, which includes fraud detection and management, and payments authentication services. All of the RSA-branded products are being renamed to match Outseer’s new corporate identity. Outseer said its product portfolio is supported by deep investments in data and science, including a global network of verified fraud and transaction data, and a risk engine that the company said delivers 95% fraud detection rates....

The upcoming phones will also feature more partner apps that make the most of the fold-out format, Roh said in a blog post. These include hands-free optimised video calling with Google Duo, watching YouTube in Flex mode, and multitasking features from Microsoft Teams, the Samsung president said. The new phones will also have enhanced durability, he claimed, which could be referring to the rumoured upgraded water resistance for the foldable devices....

You can utilize both sides of the screens on this phone even when it is flat. Or, you could just use both screens for one app to help snap that perfect selfie without asking anyone for assistance. While the battery life on this phone isn’t the greatest, it offers fast charging, so you won’t have to go too long without your precious device. Although this phone is offered in many different colors, the deal only applies to the Black model....