Regular readers will have seen most, if not all of these, gadgets in my Hardware 2.0 blog. They have all earned their place on my desk or in my bag through weeks and months of problem-free use. Most of my kit is equally at home in an office, in a home office, on a hotel room table, or on your lap in a car, train, or plane. Below, I’ve refined the list even further, distilling it down into “the best of the best” gear I use....
The question of Windows clipboard’s limits came up for one user who had a lot of data to move in this way. Raymon Chen, a Windows veteran, has helped answer the question. Basically, if you have struck a clipboard-related error that you think is because Windows clipboard itself reached its limit, you’re wrong. “There is no pre-set maximum size for clipboard data,” explains Chen in a blogpost. “You are limited only by available memory and address space....
On Wednesday, the Chinese PC maker reported net income spiked by 119% to $466 million while group revenue lifted 27% from $13.3 million to just shy of $17 million during Q1. For the same period, pre-tax income was $650 million, up 96% year on year. “The accelerated digital and intelligent transformation has created significant market opportunities globally. Lenovo is successfully seizing these as we transform from a device company to a services and solutions provider....
There will also be a new tool called Juniper Support Insights which use AI to provide “holistic visibility and insights across the entire Junos portfolio.” Jeff Aaron, VP of enterprise marketing at Juniper, said that while it is relatively easy to support new standards like Wi-Fi 6E in hardware and to onboard a small number of IoT devices using pre-shared keys, Juniper is applying the benefits of its Mist AI and the modern microservices cloud to these environments to deliver performance, agility, ease and scale....
Historically, SASE deployments had been tied to SD-WAN because customers required a different security model to protect a wide-area network that utilizes internet transport instead of private IP services, such as MPLS. SD-WAN deployments stalled when people were sent to work from home as companies started to rethink branch-office connectivity. Also: How Juniper is using AI in SD-WAN to differentiate itself SASE enables businesses to give home workers business-grade security This is when SASE purchasing shifted from secondary to primary....
First reported by Bloomberg, the Kaspersky addition marks the first time a Russian company has been added to the list. Prior to the latest update to the entity list, the list comprised only of Chinese companies. Companies placed on the entity list are banned from buying parts and components from US companies without government approval. The FCC said it placed the three companies onto the list as it found they all posed national security risks....
Glassdoor said the average salary for a big data engineer in the US is more than $100,000, and the average is nearly $115,000 for a machine learning engineer. It will come as no surprise that there is an expanding demand for big data engineers, data analysts, data architects, and data scientists for many reasons. One of the biggest is the explosion of machine learning applications in everyday life. Big data, a field that finds ways to analyze and use highly complex or large data sets, and machine learning, a part of artificial intelligence that studies computer algorithms, are both booming....
Customers who use the telco’s network were unable to access the internet for around 40 minutes at around 11am on Monday. Users were unable to use credit cards, trade stocks, or access online apps during that time period. Some large commercial websites were also shut down during the outage. General access to the internet has since been restored for KT users in most areas of the country. A KT spokesperson said the telco’s network was shut down due to a large-scale DDoS attack....
Total novices can begin with “CompTIA IT Fundamentals+ (FC0-U61),” which starts with computer basics and ends by providing you with entry-level IT skills. But if you are the least bit experienced with computers, go straight to “CompTIA A+ (220-1001/220-1002),” which prepares you for a certification that qualifies you for well-paid tech positions all by itself. Project managers can train for their certification with “CompTIA Project+ (PK0-004).” It’s a crowd favorite, with an excellent rating of 4....
While the LG Gram 16 (2022) has a hefty price tag, this does include a 16-inch +View monitor which retails for £299.98 when sold separately. At the moment, you can’t uncouple this pairing at the point of purchase. My review kit came with the monitor and its required USB-C connecting cable. The +View monitor’s 16:10 aspect ratio and 2,560-by-1,600 resolution matches the laptop’s screen precisely, and I found them easy to work with in tandem....
Debian 11 follows the 2019 release of Debian 10 ‘buster’. As ZDNet’s Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols has noted, every Debian release is a big deal, with support coming from its user community rather than a company, as with SuSE Linux Enterprise (SLES). Debian is also the core operating system for other Linux distributions such as Canonical’s Ubuntu and Raspberry Pi OS. Debian 11 will get five years of support and is based on the Linux kernel 5....
The latest version, Linux Mint 21.1, Vera, is better than ever. If you don’t know it, let me introduce you. Also: 2022 was secretly the year of Chromebooks. Here’s why Linux Mint 21.1 is a comprehensive desktop operating system that includes everything you need for home and office work. It comes with LibreOffice 7.3.7 for office productivity, Firefox 108.0.1 for web browsing, Thunderbird 102.4.2 for email and calendering, and GIMP 2....
We now live in a global society, affected by events and enjoying entertainment from places near and far. Music lovers will be excited by the ability to hear tunes from foreign locations precisely the way the locals do. And news from around the world is too important to wait for or ignore. But now, you can get local and international news and music you want with an Elite Mini AM/FM/Shortwave Radio with Digital Tuner....
We could all stand to develop better habits when it comes to time management, and that’s exactly what the designers of Rize had in mind. With this time tracker, you can see quick improvement in your daily work habits so that you can get more done and free up more time for the things you actually want to do. And if that sounds appealing, it only gets better: Right now, you can get a 3-year subscription to Rize for $99....
More maddening than a cyclist who blows through a red light. More maddening than watermelon that tastes only of water. Yes, it’s even more maddening than watching any sort of political-news TV. For this is something that’s been happening all across America for far too long. You walk into a McDonald’s and the ice cream machine is kaput. Lifeless. Nonfunctional. Or just plain dirty and no one wants to clean it....
The clarification was posted after the company’s comments made headlines across some media outlets, with German Economy Minister Robert Habeck and French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire reportedly clapping back at Meta’s “threat” by saying they would be okay with Facebook not having a presence in Europe. In Meta’s annual 10-K filing [PDF] to US regulators, the company wrote: “If a new transatlantic data transfer framework is not adopted … we will likely be unable to offer a number of our most significant products and services, including Facebook and Instagram, in Europe....
The genre of multi-modality, as these neural networks are called, is seeing a flurry of activity in which different data, such as image, text, and speech audio, are passed through the same algorithm to produce a score on different tests such as image recognition, natural language understanding, or speech detection. And these ambidextrous networks are racking up scores on benchmark tests of AI. The latest achievement is what’s called “data2vec,” developed by researchers at the AI division of Meta (parent of Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp)....
Spotted by Thurrott, the app has now appeared on the Microsoft Store, offering Windows 11 users who have an HDR display a straightforward display-tuning tool for adjusting both HDR and SDR (standard dynamic range). “Calibrate your HDR (high dynamic range) display for a better experience with HDR content on your Windows 11 PC. The Windows HDR Calibration app helps you improve color accuracy and consistency. It also lets you customize how vividly colors will appear for both HDR and SDR (standard dynamic range) content when HDR is turned on,” Microsoft says on the support page....
Two years ago, Microsoft invested $1 billion in OpenAI, which, in return, committed to using Azure and codeveloping with Microsoft new Azure AI supercomputing technologies. Earlier this year, Microsoft announced plans to make coding “in plain English” easier by integrating OpenAI’s GPT-3 AI model with Microsoft’s PowerFx low code language.
The Microsoft work productivity software still works if you bought a license in the past 13 years, but Office 2013, Office 2010, and Office 2007 won’t get patches anymore or already don’t. Microsoft wants to know how many Windows PCs are still running these old versions from before the days of cloud productivity apps and is doing it via an optional Windows update which launched last month. “This update is intended to help Microsoft identify the number of users who are running out-of-support (or soon to be out-of-support) versions of Office, including Office 2013, Office 2010, and Office 2007,” Microsoft says in a document detailing its update KB502175....
