Once you’ve recovered from seeing the, frankly, ridiculous sticker prices on some of these builds, I’ll explain why someone would want to spend that much on a luxury gaming machine. Like ripping off a band-aid, let’s dive right in and look at some of the most expensive gaming PCs available right now More: Best cheap gaming laptop 2022: Level up for less Let’s kick things off with an appetizer: The OMEN 40L from HP....
The Firefox add-on allows people to donate their data to research studies that will focus on building new resources, tools, and “potentially even policies that empower people just like you to build a better internet and fight back against exploitative tech,” according to Mozilla. Rebecca Weiss, director of data science at Mozilla and inceptor of Rally, told ZDNet the platform sought to answer the question “What if – instead of companies taking your data without giving you a say – you could select who gets access to your data, and put it to work for public good?...
Verizon launched On Site 5G in June to bring private 5G networks to enterprise and public sector facilities. The service brings Verizon’s 5G Ultra Wideband capabilities to indoor and outdoor locations, regardless of whether they’re within a public 5G Ultra Wideband coverage area. The private networks are non-standalone, meaning they combine 5G Ultra Wideband small cells with the LTE packet core and radios of On Site LTE. With a non-standalone network, customers can leverage both 5G Ultra-Wideband and 4G LTE capabilities....
One aspect of MX Linux that appeals to me is that the flagship version (Xfce) looks and feels like old-school Linux but with just enough modernity to make it a viable option for today’s users. Its focus is ease-of-use and high performance. If you want an even more modern interface, you can choose the KDE Plasma version. You can go with the Fluxbox edition if you need to eke even more performance out of your system....
I left my MacBook Air perched on the armrest of the sofa. I turned to my right to grab a drink. I turned back to my left. Down went the MacBook Air. It landed on the base of a standing lamp. I picked it up. I carried on working. Hey, it was Thanksgiving Day; what was I supposed to do? Later that day, I was done. With something approaching ceremony, I shut my MacBook Air....
The Singapore-based internet service provider (ISP) said in a statement Saturday the subscriber transfer agreement, which kicked in from December 23, encompassed the acquisition of its residential and enterprise subscribers on Australia’s national broadband network (NBN), but not its assets or liabilities. Headquartered in Brisbane, Australia, Superloop owns and operates 894 kilometres of metropolitan fibre networks across Australia, Singapore, and Hong Kong, where it connects more than 309 data centres and commercial buildings....
“NASA is uniquely positioned to address UAPs,” Daniel Evans, the assistant deputy associate administrator for research at NASA’s Science Mission Directorate, said to reporters Thursday. Evans will serve as the NASA official responsible for orchestrating the study. “Few other than us can use the power of data and of science to look at what’s happening in our skies,” he said. “We plan on birnigng together some of the country’s leading scientists, aeronautics experts and data practitioners....
However, NBN added that 80% of those on services are able to hit 20Mbps. “We recognise that we have more work to do to deliver wholesale download speeds of at least 25Mbps and we are undertaking this work as a priority,” an NBN spokesperson said. “To put the whole picture in perspective, the proportion of premises not receiving the minimum peak 25Mbps download rate represents approximately 1.4% of active services across the NBN network as at 15 July 2021....
The storage company reported third quarter revenue of $1.61 billion with net income of $330 million, or $1.10 a share. Non-GAAP earnings for the quarter were $1.44 a share. Wall Street was expecting NetApp to report second quarter revenue of $1.61 billion with non-GAAP earnings of $1.07 a share. “Q3 results and positive growth outlook are powered by the alignment of our differentiated technology portfolio with customer priorities for cloud and digital transformation....
Most people would have turned back. Rutherford, whose blue-collar background and gruff presentation put him at odds with the Instagram sailing culture that’s proliferated among a new generation of seafarers, grumbled something under his breath, checked his course, and pressed ahead on a trip that would secure his place in the record book. That 2011 trip, during which Rutherford gained enormous respect for polar regions and for the surprising utility of small sailboats, would catalyze a mission that may seem odd in a digital world: To use sail power for science, and in so doing to prove that sailboats, one of the original technologies that helped humanity expand its horizons, are ideal platforms for next-generation data collection in the world’s oceans....
Incisiv’s 2022 Connected Retail Experience Study found that only 22% of grocery and general merchandise retailers are satisfied with the digital connectivity available to customers and employees in their brick and mortar locations. This number rose as high as 55% for specialty and department stores, but that still left almost half struggling with issues surrounding the availability and reliability of in-store connections. The survey discovered that the situation is likely to become even more pressing over the next 12-24 months, with 93% of retailers expecting increases in overall (customer and employee) mobile device usage within their stores by the beginning of 2025, while 83% specifically plan to grow their own use of networked in-store technology, like IoT (Internet of Things) devices....
Also: The layoffs have started at Elon Musk’s Twitter “While we have had several years where we’ve expanded our headcount broadly, there have also been several years where we’ve tightened our belt and were more streamlined in how many people we added,” she wrote. “With fewer people to hire this moment, this should give each team an opportunity to further prioritize what matters most to customers and the business, and to be more productive....
“The Electoral Commissioner regrets the inconvenience caused to these councils and their councillors, but he welcomes the resolution of the matter and will now commence preparations for fresh elections,” the NSWEC said in a statement. The integrity of local elections in Kempsey, Singleton, and Shellharbour was put into doubt at the end of last year as some people in those councils were unable to cast their vote as the iVote system suffered a failure for a portion of the voting period....
As part of the trial, Transport for NSW (TfNSW) is using IoT to enable physical objects to be “digitised” and connected to the transported network via sensors, while edge computing will be leveraged to take real-time data from connected objects to enable faster decision making. AI, meanwhile, will be used to assist with understanding data and automating the process. The technologies will be connected to several buses, ferries, and light rail vehicles in both cities, the state government said....
As part of the first CDR privacy assessment, the OAIC, which is a co-regulator of the CDR, examined ANZ, Commonwealth Bank, National Australia Bank, and Westpac as they were initial CDR data holders. Each bank was evaluated according to their compliance with privacy safeguard 1, which requires providers to have a CDR policy describing how they manage consumer data and implement internal practices, procedures, and systems to ensure compliance. There are 13 legally binding privacy safeguards under the CDR that set out consumers’ privacy rights and providers’ obligations when collecting and handling their data....
According to eMoney Advisor’s Investor Trend Survey, 34% of Americans ages 18 and older said they manage all of their own investments; however, 38% say they rely on their financial advisor to manage their entire portfolio. Twenty-three percent incorporate a hybrid model – working with a financial advisor and managing some of their own investments simultaneously. The eMoney AdvisorInvestor Trend Survey was comprised of a nationally representative sample of 2,000 Americans ages 18 and older and was fielded from December 15 to December 23, 2021....
The latest pair to bail on their in-person plans are chipmaker AMD and smartphone manufacturer OnePlus. As noted by our sister site CNET, they join a list of some of the biggest tech companies on the planet that have withdrawn physical attendance plans over fears relating to Omicron’s impact on spiking COVID-19 pandemic infection statistics. OnePlus was not an official exhibitor but it was planning to be in Las Vegas....
Red Hat’s findings in its The State of Enterprise Open Source report might settle a debate as old as the internet about whether open-source software is more or less secure than proprietary software, such as Windows. The argument for open-source software security has been that more people vetting publicly available source code can result in faster fixes compared to the ‘security through obscurity’ model – a term historically applied to proprietary software because the codebases could only be vetted by employees....
GitHub initially deposited its 21 terabyte 20 February 2020 snapshot of all public repositories shortly after the pandemic began, but none of its employees were there to witness or participate in it because of the pandemic. It left that job to local contractors. The mostly QR-encoded snapshot is stored on over 180 reels of film that have, since July, sat 250 meters deep within a mountain in Svalbard, Norway, in a former coal mine....
Also: Software Freedom Conservancy sues Vizio for GPL violations All the SFC requires is that Vizio makes this code available to the public as per its licenses. Vizio won’t hear of it. As Bradley M. Kuhn, the SFC’s Hacker-in-Residence, and Karen M. Sandler, the SFC’s Executive Director, wrote in a recent blog post, Vizio has not released the source code. Nor has the company proposed a Complete Corresponding Source (CCS) candidate for the SFC....
