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Microsoft’s Surface laptop business ran a survey with YouGov in the UK and found that 66% of workers with company-owned laptops or tablets are still using the same device they had when the COVID-19 lockdowns started last March. Microsoft’s Surface teams say the finding in the UK “raises concerns that the lack of device refreshes is hitting productivity” as businesses adopt hybrid working. SEE: Tech skills: Four ways you can get the right mix “More than a third (35%) of employees who received new devices since the onset of COVID-19 reported a resulting increase in their productivity....

Agrawal said Twitter Spaces as well as newsletter features and expanded monetization tools for creators were just a few of their efforts to evolve the platform. He also explained how his leadership style differed from former CEO Jack Dorsey, who resigned in November. “Strategy is not enough. In my first 10 weeks on the job, I have been focused on improving execution, using faster decision-making, and focusing on doing fewer things,” Agrawal said during the Q4 earnings call....

Ranting about the remaining employees needing to be “extremely hardcore” doesn’t help any. And, adding insult to injury, Musk has also abandoned Twitter’s open-source projects. Like almost all modern software companies, Twitter depends on open-source programs. The network itself runs on CentOS 7. This free Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) clone comes to the end of its life at the end of June 2024. Also: The best Twitter alternatives According to Twitter sources, the plan was to move to CentOS Stream....

Piestro, the developer of an automated pizza vending machine, just announced it is partnering with Serve Robotics, which makes delivery robots, to offer customers contactless end-to-end robotic pizza delivery. Serve’s robots fit up to four piestro pies and deliver them to customers’ doors for a completely touch-free end-to-end transaction. Customers enter a passcode to retrieve their pizza from the delivery robot. “We couldn’t be more excited to partner with Serve Robotics to offer our customers the convenience and delight of robotic delivery,” said Massimo De Marco, CEO of Piestro....

Search highlights is Microsoft’s effort to make certain content more discoverable, but it hasn’t clarified what the source of that content is. As with the feature in Windows 11, the Windows 10’s taskbar search box and search home pane will now feature content “including fun illustrations, which help you discover more, be connected, and stay productive. Search highlights will present notable and interesting moments of what’s special about each day – like holidays, anniversaries, and other educational moments in time both globally and in your region....

You can start with “Make Games Without Coding in Construct 3 for Beginners” or “Intro to Mobile Game Development,” which is a huge favorite of former students. This and several other courses offered by Zenva Academy have an impressive 4.9 out of 5 stars rating. That’s not surprising, as Zenya is a leading e-learning platform trusted by more than 400,000 students and developers. The monetization courses also by Zenya Academy are rated 4....

OIG investigators reviewed the incident from November 2020 and March 2021, finding that while the Census Bureau successfully stopped the attackers from gaining access to sensitive data, they left open a slate of vulnerabilities that hackers could have exploited. The investigators found that servers operated by the Census Bureau – which were in place to allow employees to access production, development, and lab networks remotely – were attacked using a publicly available exploit....

The date marks the end of a relatively brief chapter in Microsoft’s Skype business. Skype for Business was released in 2015, four years after it acquired Skype for $8.5 billion. Microsoft has been pushing Skype for Business Online customers to move to Microsoft Teams for the past two years, so it should come as no surprise to affected customers. The company said it has already supported millions of Skype for Business Online to Teams switchovers....

Available at Walmart, the ASUS VivoBook Pro 14 OLED is a 14-inch, thin and light laptop with specifications that will carry you through many work and entertainment tasks. Normally set at a retail price of around $530, the US retailer’s current deal will save you $80 (15%), bringing the cost down to $449. The ASUS VivoBook Pro 14 OLED would suit students and workers alike, although due to its impressive display, would also fit the bill for watching streaming services or gaming....

LastPass, a password management software vendor, found that many people still re-use passwords across accounts in a study looking at the psychology of password behavior. That’s bad because if a hacker breaches credentials on one account they can break into any other account with a common password. And that’s just one of the many risks that come with poor password choices for online accounts. LastPass found that while 92% of 3,750 people surveyed know that using the same password is a risk, 65% re-use passwords across accounts....

This mission will prepare humanity for the long journey to Mars, and it will help us establish a sustainable lunar economy. NASA is working with international and commercial partners to carry out the mission. NASA sent the unmanned Orion spacecraft into orbit around the moon to test NASA’s deep space exploration systems. At its farthest, Orion was a record-breaking 268,563 miles from Earth, surpassing the distance the Apollo 13 mission set in 1970....

HCI is hardware The key difference here is the hardware. There is a multitude of workload deployment and orchestration systems in data centers today. You’re familiar with Kubernetes. You may also be familiar with the most prominent branded versions of Kubernetes today, such as VMware’s Tanzu, HPE’s Ezmeral, and Red Hat’s OpenShift. All of these systems enable new classes of containerized workloads to be developed, tested, deployed, and managed in fully orchestrated systems, using substantial amounts of automation....

The primary reason for that is the Workspaces feature, which is the best tab management on the market. Because I’ve made Opera my default desktop browser, it only made sense to do the same on my Android phone. Also: How to use Opera’s new Pinboard feature (and why you should) And with the My Flow feature, that decision was even easier to make. What is My Flow? Simply put, My Flow makes it very easy for you to move from desktop to mobile without missing a beat....

What does the TOEFL measure? ETS offers five versions of the TOEFL: Primary, Junior, ITP, Essentials, and iBT. All versions of the TOEFL measure the same type of skills: your ability to read, write, and speak English. The Essentials or iBT versions are usually taken by undergraduate or graduate-level students who want to study abroad. High school or elementary school students take the Primary, Junior, or ITP. Here’s a brief look at the content of the iBT and Essentials tests: TOEFL iBT This test measures your ability to communicate in English in a university setting....

Some advanced multimeters can also measure other parameters, such as capacitance, frequency, and temperature. Also: Here’s why you should stop using cheap screwdrivers Multimeters can be used for all sorts of applications, from diagnosing problems in electrical circuits, appliances, or electronic devices by detecting electrical faults or component failures, measuring the electrical properties of individual components, such as resistors, capacitors, and diodes, and also checking electrical safety of equipment. My go-to unit for the past few years has been the super reliable, super useful Kaiweets HT206D....

The timing seems particularly auspicious considering that this is happening under the heels of a huge whistleblower exposure of thousands of pages of leaked information – which is now called the Facebook Papers – to the Washington Post and multiple other news sources. Very few times in history have we seen a leak this big and coordinated coverage occur at multiple newspapers and media outlets at once, so the magnitude of this is immense....

The new features, which have already been announced with general availability, are now rolling out to Windows Insiders in Release Preview on Windows 11, version 22H2 Build 22621.608 (KB5017389). With continuous innovation, Microsoft delivers new features outside of its annual updates, including via monthly servicing updates and Microsoft Store updates. Notably, this is the first set of new features released under continuous innovation. Also: Windows 11 22H2: How to get Microsoft’s latest OS update and what’s coming next Microsoft also released Windows 11 22H2 build 22621....

But last December, Microsoft signaled that it might be ready to change the way Windows 11 users can choose a default browser with the addition of a new Set Default button it previewed in the Dev Channel. Just because a feature shows up in the Dev Channel ring doesn’t mean it necessarily will make its way into some future Windows release. But in this case, it looks like the Set Default browser button is coming to Windows 11 via a cumulative update....

According to the research, young people in the UK are less likely to be getting their information about tech careers from school and teachers than social media, TV series and film. Social media ranks top for information sources about career aspirations (31%), beating out parents by a small margin (29%) and teachers by a larger margin (24%). Gen Z are more likely to learn about a future in the tech sector from TV and film (27%) than from school (19%)....

The latest Tech Jobs Report by recruitment agency Dice sheds light on exactly where this demand lies in the latter part of 2021. In Q3, job listings in the tech industry suggest that organizations are on the lookout for technology professionals “who understand the core concepts of software development and project management” and possess technical skills in Linux, as well as programming languages Java, Python and SQL. According to Dice, demand for SQL in Q3 2021 increased by 5% compared to the second quarter of this year....