Older phones are great for kids and teens since they’re more affordable, which means you won’t be out $1,000+ when it gets dropped in a school drinking fountain or crushed at football practice. If one of your resolutions is to save more money, I’ve gathered up 5 of the best old phones you can buy. I’ve broken down their features and price points to help you decide which is the best fit for both your budget and your needs....
Aside from being a place to discover viral dances, songs, and trends, the app has also proven to be a treasure trove of useful and unique products. There’s even a dedicated hashtag called #TikTokMadeMeBuyIt with all the clever products you didn’t know you needed. You’ll find everything from aesthetically pleasing products that add ambiance, or tech products that provide a solution for problems you didn’t realize you had. I’ve rounded up the best viral TikTok products we’ve seen become popular from the app you can get as gifts for someone on your list or yourself....
That’s right, if you don’t like GNOME, move to KDE, Cinnamon, Mate, Pantheon, Budgie, Xfce, Enlightenment, Fluxbox, or any number of desktop environments or window managers. But there’s one type of window manager that tends to get left out of the mix, especially when talking about user-friendly interfaces. That window manager type is of the tiling nature. For those who’ve never experienced a tiling window manager, they can be rather confusing at first because of how much they depend on keyboard shortcuts (instead of the mouse)....
Mozilla Foundation’s stated mission is to work to ensure the internet remains a public resource that is open and accessible to everyone. Since 2019, Mozilla Foundation has focused a significant portion of its internet health movement-building programs on AI. We met with Mozilla Foundation’s Executive Director Mark Surman and Senior Policy Researcher Maximilian Gahntz to discuss Mozilla’s focus and stance on AI, key facts about the EU AI Act and how it will work in practice, as well as Mozilla’s recommendations for improving it, and ways for everyone be involved in the process....
Also: The 5 best electric cars: Plus, the cheapest EV available Also: I loved driving the Hyundai Ioniq 5 and Kia EV6. Here’s why I can’t buy one These provisions limit the manufacturers that qualify for the credit. According to PBS, battery materials processed in China power the vehicles of quite a few American EV manufacturers, including Tesla. The new credit also raises the bar for plug-in hybrids or PHEVs: TechCrunch notes that new PHEVs need 7 kWh battery packs in order to qualify....
If you had to match paint colors to an existing surface in the old days, it meant taking a swatch off the wall and returning to the hardware store so a worker could give you their best guess. These days, professionals use handy gadgets like the Nix Mini Color Sensor to detect the perfect shade. And during this Spring Refresh sale, ZDNet readers can take an extra $10 off the already discounted price....
Directed Funding is based on OpenInfra’s proven track record of creating successful open-source projects for users, developers, and companies. In particular, it uses the lessons it gained from building OpenStack, the open-source infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) cloud; Kata Containers, the open-source container runtime using lightweight virtual machines (VM)s; and Zuul, the popular continuous integration (CI) service. With Direct Funding, Jonathan Bryce, OpenInfra’s executive director, explained we take our " successful, collaborative approach to open source and make it available to other infrastructure projects....
For me, the reason for this instant stardom is easily discernible. The firm’s founder Alakh Pandey has led his company in ways that have been strikingly dissimilar to the rest of the fray and offer some key lessons to entrepreneurs in any sector or discipline. Growing up in Prayagraj (formerly Allahabad) in the state of Uttar Pradesh, Pandey was forced into tutoring students in lower grades when his father fell ill and wasn’t able to provide for the family....
Right away, Acer delivers on an impressive display with a 16" 2560 x 1600 screen with a 120Hz refresh rate. The screen also holds an IPS panel with 350 nits of brightness and a 100% color gamut. But, where this Acer Chromebook really excels is in its processor, memory, and graphics. Unlike other gaming computers or monitors, this Chromebook features a 16:10 aspect ratio instead of the typical 16:9. With an Intel Core i5-1240P processor, 8GB of DDR4 RAM, and a large, 256GB SSD, Acer packs a major punch in this Chromebook, although its thick design is evident of that....
Are you always turning up the brightness on your screen to use like a light when you’re on Zoom? Need a charger for your smartphone when using it like a wireless hotspot? It sounds like you need to check out Rolling Square’s Edge kit. What is in the Edge kit? It consists of three parts: A mount that attaches to your laptop or tabletA wireless charger that magnetically attaches to the mount, to which you attach your smartphoneA light...
Or it’s just a pain to fumble with the smartphone to get the flashlight working. This is why I still carry a keychain flashlight. But the Nitecore Tiki GITD I carry is no ordinary flashlight. There’s an awful lot packed into this tiny keychain: The main LED has four settings, from a super-bright 300 lumens to a 1 lumen glow, making it perfect for a variety of uses. For such a small flashlight, it’s capable of throwing a beam of light up to 77 meters, and can also put out a more subtle glow....
Making its debut in 2015, AMSI is a vendor-agnostic interface designed to integrate anti-malware products on a Windows machine and better protect end users, supporting features including scan request correlation and content source URL/IP reputation checks. AMSI’s integration with Office 365 was recently upgraded to include Excel 4.0 (XLM) macro scanning to try and combat the increase of malicious macros as an infection vector. Microsoft’s security solution is a barrier that today’s Windows malware developers often try to circumvent – either by methods such as obfuscation, steganography, or by preventing a file from being scanned and detected as malicious in initial attack stages....
Researchers at Splunk tested how quickly 10 major ransomware strains encrypted networks – and some were much more effective than others at doing the job quickly, something that makes the attackers harder to stop. The fastest form of ransomware is LockBit, which took a median time of just 5 minutes and 50 seconds to encrypt 100,000 files. In one of the tests, it only took LockBit 4 minutes and 9 seconds to encrypt the files measuring in at 53....
The flaw in the pac-resolver dependency was found by developer Tim Perry who notes it could have allowed an attacker on a local network to remotely run malicious code inside a Node.js process whenever an operator tried to send an HTTP request. Note.js is the popular JavaScript runtime for running JavaScript web applications. “This package is used for PAC file support in Pac-Proxy-Agent, which is used in turn in Proxy-Agent, which then used all over the place as the standard go-to package for HTTP proxy autodetection & configuration in Node....
Oxford Quantum Circuits (OQC), a startup that spun out of the University of Oxford, is approaching superconducting quantum computing slightly differently. Leading superconducting quantum systems are typically built in a two-dimensional plane, with each qubit acting like a unit cell that requires intricate wiring for controls and measurements. Increasing the number of qubits means increasing the amount of wiring – and on a 2D plane, this comes with a higher risk of creating environmental noise that can damage the quality of the system....
Cybersecurity researchers at Trend Micro have detailed an increase in LockBit ransomware campaigns since the start of July. This ransomware-as-a-service first appeared in September 2019 and has been relatively successful, but has seen a surge in activity this summer. In adverts on underground forums, LockBit’s authors claim that LockBit 2.0 is one of the fastest file-encrypting ransomware variants in the market today. And those claims have proven interesting to cyber criminals seeking to make money from ransomware....
Dozens of companies have pledged to keep remote work in some form since turning to it during the COVID-19 pandemic. Remote’s global top ten rankings include Toronto, Madrid, Auckland, Madeira, Helsinki, Svalbard, Berlin, Valparaiso, Dublin and Sydney. The company compiled the ranking based on seven metrics: internet infrastructure, attractiveness, safety, quality of life, openness, cost of living and special incentives for remote workers. Remote also created an interactive tool that allows people to create their own list based on their personal preferences and search for places that might match their desires....
The Get Away Special Passive Attitude Control Satellite [GASPCAS] CubeSat was deployed from the International Space Station in January 2022, and has been tracked by ground stations globally since. Developed by undergraduates from Utah State University, the project’s main objective was to test the experimental inflatable stabilization system called ‘AeroBoom’, which successfully demonstrated that small spacecraft can self-stabilise in orbit. SEE: NASA’s Mars helicopter has a problem. This clever software trick could fix it The mission was completed within the first 18 hours in orbit, as photos sent back to Earth from the onboard Raspberry Pi Camera confirmed....
iScanner is the tool that turns your iOS device into a mobile digital office by completing educational, personal or business tasks with the help of artificial intelligence. And it’s currently on sale for just $39.99. Students and small business professionals such as realtors, lawyers and accountants will benefit from iScanner’s many features. It allows you to scan multiple pages into a single document and edit, sign, stamp and fax. You can scan photos and documents to JPG, PDF or TXT formats, as well....
The iPhone – and modern smartphones in general – are built around the idea of constant connectivity. But some people don’t have the luxury of unlimited data, and for them, going over their cellular allowance can either be costly or inconvenient. There’s a feature built into iOS that, in the event of your Wi-Fi connection being poor, can fall back onto your cellular connection. Good if you have a larger or unlimited plan....
