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If you don’t have a trade-in, you can still get a $150 discount, bringing the price down to $749 instead of the original $899 price tag. More: The Samsung Galaxy Tab 8+ Review The Galaxy Tab S8+ is a useful tool for working and relaxing. With the large 12.4-inch sAMOLED screen, you’ll get a stunning 8K HD resolution with up to 120Hz refresh rate. Coupled with the Wi-Fi 6E internet connection capability, you can stream, game, and more on the tablet....

Spring is the season of growth, so what better time to give your finances and stocks a thorough refresh? One tool that may help is Tykr, an all-in-one stock screener and education platform. And right now, you can save an extra $10 off a lifetime subscription to Tykr during our Spring Refresh sale when you use code SPRING10 at checkout. Getting started with investing can be challenging, and it’s easy to make costly mistakes along the way if you don’t know what you’re doing....

It has a light, compact design that makes it easy to take anywhere, and conveniently has just one cable that can be used for both data and power. The TRIO has a full 270° rotation and the brightness can be adjusted to your liking. Of course, if you’re using mobile accessories, it’s a good indication that you’ll be on public wifi at least now and then. So you need powerful VPN protection, which is exactly what VPN Unlimited: Lifetime Subscription offers....

Apple released iOS 15.3 earlier this month, but it didn’t include one fix for a security flaw it has now addressed in iOS 15.3.1. Details from Apple, as usual, are scant but it gave enough information to suggest it is a serious bug because it can lead to malicious code execution simply by users opening a web page in the Apple Safari browser. SEE: 5G: Where we are, where we’re going next “Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to arbitrary code execution....

Last week, UAE President His Highness Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan issued a new set of federal laws which include one forbidding UAE citizens from using VPNs to mask their digital footprints. As reported by International Business Times, anyone caught using a VPN or proxy server could end up cooling their heels in jail and will face a fine of between $136,000 - $545,000. The regulation stipulates: There are past laws which have been enforced in the country related to VPNs....

This is a pretty significant rollout and a proverbial canary in the gold mine for the sector’s broader automation ambitions. With the world hungrier than ever for precious and rare earth metals, technology is increasingly called on to make mining operations more efficient and cost-effective while unlocking increasingly scarce resources. Powering the new rollout is autonomous heavy equipment company SafeAI and its Australian partner, Position Partners. This new generation of autonomous heavy vehicle technology is a major upgrade from the first generation retrofits, which had limited onboard processing power and took a long time to see ROI in most cases....

The June 1 attack targeted one Google Cloud customer using the Google Cloud Armor DDoS protection service. Over the course of 69 minutes beginning at 9:45 am PT, the attackers bombarded its customer’s HTTP/S Load Balancer with HTTPS requests, starting at 10,000 rps and within minutes scaling up to 100,000 rps before peaking at a whopping 46 million rps. Google says it is the largest ever attack at Layer 7, referring to the application layer — the top layer — in the OSI model of the Internet....

Google proposed its Privacy Sandbox in 2019, with the broad goal to enable tracking of users by cohorts rather than individually to address privacy concerns about users being tracked online by marketers. It originally planned to start blocking third-party cookies in 2022. One of the key vehicles for enabling this new style of vague tracking of users on the web was FLoC, or Federated Learning of Cohorts, which would still allow targeted ads but would, in Google’s view, improve end-user privacy....

With the Google suite’s voice-to-text capabilities, transferring thoughts from speech to digital copy is quick and simple. On top of that, Google just announced Monday that its upcoming batch of voice-to-text improvements, coming in February, will make for a more reliable and accurate transcription process. Also: Microsoft seems to have very big plans for this AI chatbot The list of changes includes: Reduction of transcription errorsMinimizing lost audio during transcriptionExpanded support for major browsersAuto-generated punctuation in Slides captions...

On Tuesday, Google Cloud shared how it’s helping its customers take on the problem with a package of tools that help secure the software development process. The company unveiled the Software Delivery Shield during the Google Cloud Next conference. Software Delivery Shield is a fully managed software toolkit designed for developers, DevOps teams and security teams. It includes services that cover five different parts of the software development process: application development, software “supply,” continuous integration (CI) and continuous delivery (CD), production environments, and policies....

The unannounced smartwatch is getting a lot of attention for a good reason – a pre-production sample was left behind in a restaurant, and photos were later published online. No, you’re not having déjà vu. Below, you’ll find everything we currently know about the Pixel Watch, which you’ll quickly realize isn’t a whole lot beyond a couple of photos. Also: Pixel Watch vs Samsung Galaxy Watch 5 Pro What will it be called?...

From November, Google will start displaying ratings specific to each user’s registered country, and in early 2022 it will start displaying ratings specific to the device they’re using, with separate categories for tablets, Chromebooks and wearables. The change is as much for developers who are keen to understand their apps’ ratings and reviews from different regions and across different form factors. This move reflects the reach and diversity of Android devices and users, as well as Android’s relative fragmentation compared with iOS....

RCS is the modern take on the SMS standard that’s supported on Android but is not supported by Apple iMessage (which does support SMS). This technical gap was highlighted in a Wall Street Journal article on the weekend detailing how US teens are using iMessage to socially isolate Android users from group chats. Messages from Android users are displayed in iMessage in green bubbles versus blue bubbles for messages received from fellow iPhone users....

Two new Medicare telephone items will be available for GPs and other medical practitioner services for patients living in hotspots as declared by the chief medical officer. The new items will enable doctors to provide longer telephone consultations, lasting 20 minutes or more. “The move is in response to the current COVID-19 situation in NSW and the prospect of a prolonged hotspot declaration in Greater Sydney,” a statement from Minister for Health Greg Hunt said....

Cybersecurity researchers at Proofpoint say advanced persistent threat (APT) groups working on behalf of Russian, Chinese and Indian interests are using rich text format (RTF) template injections. While the use of RTF text file attachments in phishing emails isn’t new, the technique being used by hackers is easier to deploy and more effective because it’s harder for antivirus software to detect – and many organisations won’t block RTF files by default because they’re part of everyday business operations....

The SMS messages urge victims to download Android applications related to official Iranian services, such as the Iranian Electronic Judicial Services. The first messages typically claim that a complaint has been filed against the victim and that an application needs to be downloaded in order to respond. Once downloaded, the applications allow hackers to access the victim’s personal messages. Victims are asked to enter credit card information in order to cover a service fee, giving attackers access to card information that can then be used....

Thanksgiving is around the corner, and that usually means feasts with lots of cooking. If you plan on stopping by the grocery store to buy dinner ingredients, Google recommends you visit the store on any Tuesday at 9 AM. During that time, grocery stores are typically the least busy in the US. If you can’t make Tuesday, you may want to skip grocery shopping on Sunday at 1 PM, since that is the busiest time for grocery store shopping....

Tax brackets aren’t that difficult to understand, particularly if you can visualize a multi-tiered water fountain in your head. Let’s dive in. 2021 income tax brackets Source: Internal Revenue Service Expressed like this, tax brackets are easy to misunderstand. The most common misunderstanding is that these represent how much you’ll pay on all of your income. If your total income puts you in a particular tax bracket, that is not the percentage you pay on all of your income....

Knowing the domain names of the websites you visit, or servers that apps access on your behalf, is valuable intelligence. DNS traffic is especially valuable because it reflects what users are doing in real time. “The names you asked for, and when you ask for them, say an awful lot about you,” Huston said in his presentation to the APNIC 52 conference on Wednesday. “The network betrays you. You’re leaving big, filthy, muddy footprints on the carpet, mate....

The next most important success factor for work is how you manage your time – pause, ponder and prioritize your time. Now, as a manager, the awesome privilege of managing a remote team requires a new playbook and mindset that can guide your team’s collective ability to reach their full potential. Effectively managing your remote teams requires a new mindset and behaviors. For business leaders, effectively managing remote teams starts with an understanding and a commitment toward building healthy relationships for all stakeholders....