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A 178-billion-parameter program, of course. Such is just one of the attributes of Jurassic, a computer program introduced Wednesday by Tel Aviv-based artificial intelligence startup AI21 Labs. GPT-3, of course, is the language program from the San Francisco-based startup OpenAI that rocked the world in 2020 by generating sentences and whole articles that seemed quite human-like. GPT-3 also shocked the world by being kept inside a fairly restrictive beta testing arrangement by OpenAI....

A developer – also known as a programmer, coder or software engineer – is an IT professional who uses programming languages to create computer software. What do software developers do? Developers write, test, debug and maintain applications. Developer roles can vary widely depending on the type of organisation. They are usually employed by either the technology companies that create off-the-shelf software or by end-user organisations – both in the public and private sectors – who develop bespoke applications....

Many of you have seen my workshop and fab lab spaces in previous videos. Those are where I do most of the DIY IT projects for ZDNet. At some point, I’ll show you a more in-depth tour of each. I also work by our living room TV. I have a monitor and a computer mounted to a side table. I put this in when our puppy was a baby and wanted company all the time....

According to the Zebra Reflexis Third Annual International Branch Banking Survey conducted by Zebra Technologies, scheduling challenges are a rising source of job dissatisfaction among bank employees. Administrative tasks are often handled manually, causing inaccuracies, disruptions, and longer customer wait times. The problem is so acute that 20% of survey respondents have considered quitting, the survey concluded. It’s no surprise that well into the 21st Century, 95% of banking employees prefer to manage vital, yet non-customer-facing job functions through the ease and efficiency of a mobile device....

Twitter by the numbers After spending a little while digging through the company’s annual reports for the previous decade, I found only two years where a positive net income was reported. Net income was positive in 2018 and 2019, but negative in 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2020, and 2021. Based on those financial disclosure documents, it looks like the only way the company kept its lights on was ongoing infusions of capital from investors....

Before going to sleep, I used to do what millions of other people do: I put my iPhone on to charge overnight. But why do we do this? Also: Using the wrong USB-C cable can damage your tech. Here’s how to avoid that An iPhone can go from zero to 50% charge in about 30 minutes using a 20W charger, and then go to being fully charged in under two hours....

Wireshark is an open source GUI network package capturing tool for those who don’t know Wireshark yet. With it, you can monitor network traffic, learn protocols and packet basics, and troubleshoot network problems. For network admins, Wireshark is the de facto standard for checking the health and security of networks at a microscopic level. If you want to know more about how to use Wireshark, I highly recommend Chris Sander’s Practical Packet Analysis: Using Wireshark to Solve Real-World Network Problems....

Industrial drones are being used in major industries like insurance, mining and aggregates, using cutting-edge technologies (AI, machine learning, and deep data analytics, to name a few) to drastically reduce the time workers spend gathering and analyzing data while increasing accuracy and positively impacting the bottom line. All of these working together result in a growing field impacting industrial work and forever changing how these industries operate on a daily basis globally: smart inspections....

Yes, ZDNet’s more experienced hands can help you acclimatize to the new working style, now that the COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted modern working life. Yet some professionals may not be so able to deal with life sans their office perks. Lawyers, for example. Many are used to sitting in their enclosed chambers, closing their doors and holding vital conversations about lawyerly matters. There, they feel secure. Working in their homes, they worry who may be spying on them....

The UK’s All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on the Future of Work warned that the growing reliance on algorithmic surveillance and management tools is associated with “significant negative impacts on the conditions and quality of work across the country”. In particular, it found that pervasive monitoring and automated decision making were associated with “pronounced negative impacts on mental and physical wellbeing, as workers experience the extreme pressure of constant, real-time micro-management and automated assessment”....

Apple says the changes to app pricing are aimed to give developers more flexibility in how they price apps across the world. It’s adding 700 new price points, as well as pricing tools in its payments system to set prices per App Store country or region, and manage foreign exchange rates. The move follows Apple last year settling a class action brought by iOS developers over Apple banning apps that bypass Apple’s payment system for in-app purchases....

However, I’ve recently happened upon a new release of XeroLinux that makes a very strong case to claim that coveted spot. XeroLinux is an Arch-based distribution that uses the KDE Plasma desktop to create an environment that is not only gorgeous, but also just as user-friendly as you’ve come to expect from the modern Linux desktop. And the latest release of XeroLinux makes its case with a default color scheme that would have made Prince break into an unearthly guitar solo while dancing in the rain....

Broken down by segment, smartphone revenue was bumped up 0.5% to 47.8 billion yuan but thanks to cost controls, it improved profitability by over four percentage points and posted RMB6.1 billion in gross profit. Xiaomi said it shipped 43.9 million devices, which was a 5.8% year-on-year decrease thanks to supply constraints. The company touted that Canalys ranked it as having the highest market share in Spain, Poland, Ukraine, Belarus, Serbia, Croatia, Lithuania, Myanmar, Algeria, Peru, and India....

Do it now. Like, seriously, do that right now. But if you are already using a password manager, chances are that you’re not using it to its fullest potential. Nowhere near. Here are a few ways you could be doing more with and getting the most out of your password manager. Also: Want to ditch LastPass? Here are the best alternatives to try 1. Install it on every device you can Desktop, laptop, smartphone, smartwatch, tablet....

The outside one looks terrible after a month, with scratches visible all along the cheap protector. Thankfully ZAGG has a solution for this outside display and sent along one of its InvisibleShield Ultra Clear Plus protectors to test out. Also: Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 2 review: Foldable perfection nearly achieved I could not wait to remove the terrible Samsung protector that was all scratched up along the edges. Given that this display is flat and doesn’t extend all of the way out to the edges on the front, it is a fairly easy surface for ZAGG to design a protector for....

Revenue in the quarter rose 57% year over year to $197.1 million, yielding a profit of 14 cents a share. Non-GAAP net income reached $20.3 million in the quarter. The report sent Zscaler shares up nearly 2% in late trading. Zscaler CEO Jay Chaudhry said the company had a “record number of large deals across diverse sectors” that drove the revenue growth and a 70% increase in billings year over year....

For me, such a moment was watching The Beatles: Get Back, which is now airing on Disney+. I had heard about it and seen some of its footage slowly being released for about a year, but I had no idea just how much technology had been applied to its production. I’ve seen many films made from historical footage from the 1960s and even the 1970 and 1980s, and so much of the source material is in poor condition....

Initially reported by local media and then later confirmed by the Punjab health authority, those who do not get vaccinated will have their mobile SIMs “blocked”. “Mobile SIMs of people not getting vaccinated may be blocked, it was decided in Cabinet meeting under the chair of Minister for Health Dr. Yasmin Rashid at Civil Secretariat,” the Punjab government said in a tweet. The government added it is opening walk-in vaccination to anyone over the age of 18 years....

According to the European law enforcement agency Europol there was a 300% increase in the number of ransom payments between 2019 and 2020 alone – and that doesn’t account for 2021 being another bumper year for cyber criminals launching ransomware attacks, as they’ve taken advantage of security vulnerabilities presented by the rise in remote working. Europol’s Internet Organised Crime Threat Assessment (IOCT) shows that while cybercrime, including malware and DDoS attacks, continues to evolve, it’s ransomware attacks that have been a significant amount of disruption over the course of the past year....

The company’s plan began in 2019 when Mark Zuckerberg revealed Libra, positioning it as a new form of cryptocurrency that could be used as a payment method within the Facebook Messenger and WhatsApp platforms. Initial partners in the project included major payment card players like Visa and Mastercard, as well as retailers like eBay. The plan was to let these partners and others handle Libra’s blockchain management, with all transactions being verified and processed by them....