I’ve been a fan of Flytrex since the company delivered a beer by drone way back in 2015. Since then, the Israeli drone delivery enterprise has expanded its business-to-consumer model, although growth has been largely constrained by the need for special waivers from the FAA to fly beyond the visual line of sight. That, in turn, has led to a patchwork of testbeds but no single dominant player in the commercial drone delivery game....

Earbud comfort and sleeping positions are both extremely personal. The Nighbuds rest in your ears rather than fitting deeply, with a tiny finger protruding from the silicon bud cover that hooks into the curves of your ear to keep them secure. There’s a good choice of both bud and finger size, so most people will find one that fits well (which might be different for each ear). However, that may not be enough to stop them falling off during the night or just slipping out enough to get turned off automatically to save batteries (a setting you can change if fiddling around to get them back in and turned on again wakes you up all over again)....

Mother’s Day is coming up fast, and you don’t want to get caught at the last minute settling for something lame. Sure, you might enjoy getting a folding travel drone as a gift, but it’s probably safer to go with something with a bit more widespread appeal. Not only can you offer a special gift every mother will love, but your coupon code SHIP4FREE gets you free shipping on some of our best gift recommendations....

As a savvy, technical person, you may be thinking of ways to make money in the metaverse. Well, with help from the 2022 Metaverse & AR Developer Bundle, you can. This nine-course bundle includes training from some of the web’s top business instructors and e-learning platforms, including entrepreneur and network marketer Sorin Constantin (4.0/5 instructor rating) and Zenva Academy (4.5/5 rating). Zenva is trusted by more than one million students and developers – a pioneer in metaverse education....

LendingTree released the results of its survey on Thursday, revealing that 30% of Americans saw an increase in credit card debt over the last two years, driven primarily by inflation and loss of income. In the study, conducted with data from 1,249 consumers, 48% of consumers indicated that inflation led to the increase in credit card debt, while 34% said income loss was the largest driving factor. The study also found that 30% of consumers were able to increase their credit score during the same two-year period....

For the period ending March 31, the Australian arm of Chinese PC maker continued with strong hardware sales, which helped it gain AU$942 million in revenue, while the remainder of achieved through activities including the provisioning of service and extended warranty. Specifically, revenue accrued from notebooks made up just over half of total revenue, coming in at AU$531 million, followed by desktop at AU$105 million. Chromebooks accounted for AU$55.7 million, visuals AU$71 million, and tablets generated AU$56....

The platform’s CEO, Ryan Roslansky, announced the policy change in a LinkedIn post, citing some new learnings from the past months suggesting that employees wish to decide where they work for themselves. Roslansky pointed to the firm’s impressive performance in the last quarter, which saw LinkedIn join Microsoft’s list of $10 billion-dollar businesses, in what he described as a testament to the success of new ways of working. LinkedIn employees, as a result, can now expect to decide where they would like to log into work....

Also: The best laptops: Does Apple take the crown? A company called Litebook has released a new Linux laptop that is priced to compete with Chromebooks – if not as cheap as the $89 Pinebook. That’s because the Pinebook is bare-boned when it comes to specs, using an ARM CPU, 2GB of RAM, and 16GB of built-in storage. The Litebook, on the other hand, uses an Intel Celeron processor (the N3150), twice as much memory, and a 512GB hard drive....

Hinton’s insight led to breakthroughs in the practical performance of AI programs on tests such as the ImageNet image recognition task. The subsequent fifteen years have been called the deep learning revolution. A report put out last week by Stanford University, in conjunction with multiple institutions, argues that the dominance of the deep learning approach may fade in coming years, as it runs out of answers for tough questions of building AI....

The US Department of Justice says Maksim Berezan, a 37-year-old from Estonia, took part in at least 13 ransomware attacks, including seven against American businesses, which cost victims over $53 million in losses. Berezan was an active member of an online forum designed for Russian-speaking cyber criminals to gather and exchange their criminal knowledge, tools, and services, the DoJ said. SEE: Cybersecurity: Let’s get tactical (ZDNet special report) Berezan was arrested in Latvia in November 2020 and extradited to the US where he pleaded guilty in April 2021 to conspiracy to commit wire fraud affecting a financial institution and conspiracy to commit access device fraud and computer intrusions....

As a market, gaming chairs have become something of a slow-motion explosion. A genre of furniture that used to consist of a handful of recognizable brands has expanded to add new entrants that were well-known from the office furniture world and a slew of new startups, all vying for the right to hold up your butt while gaming. Today we’re looking at an entry from Mavix, the M9. This chair, which sits at the top of the company’s current lineup, skips the racing seat aesthetic in favor of a minimalist, ergonomic take on the category....

Maybe you’ve even wanted to give them a treat because you know they’re being so cute while you’re gone. Also: The best robot litter boxes Well, now you can. Rocki, a three-in-one pet companion robot, comes equipped with a 1080p HD camera, treat dispenser, laser pointer attachment, and feather attachment so you can keep an eye on your pets, and even interact with them when you’re away. To use Rocki, you’ll download the Rocki Robot app and connect your robot to your internet connection to begin playing with your pet or pets....

The lawsuit is the first of its kind as Meta, formerly known as Facebook, had previously never faced criminal charges. The circumstances behind this lawsuit are also uncommon as it is a criminal proceeding arising from a private individual suing a corporation. Due to these circumstances, Forrest needed to get the approval of Commonwealth Attorney-General Michaelia Cash before he could go ahead with the lawsuit. The attorney general has been contacted for comment....

Micron sees supply-chain shortages ’easing throughout 2022' Among the key points about Micron’s new SSD portfolio: The Micron 7400 SSD includes power loss protection. A 2.5-inch U.3 data center SSDs in 15mm and 7mm thick versions. Three sizes of the new E1.S Enterprise and Data Center SSD Form Factor. Capacities ranging from 400GB to 7.68TB. Ability for one and three drive writes per day for intensive applications. The Micron 7400 SSD more than doubles IOPs per watt over the previous generation....

Officials declined to explain exactly when or how they planned to do this. However, in a blog post about the future of the Windows Insider program published on February 3, there’s a line that says: “We will deliver updates to features and experiences in builds from the Dev and Beta Channels by releasing Feature, Web, and Online Service Experience Packs on top of these builds too.” Microsoft officials already announced that Windows 11 (and Windows 10) will be getting only one feature update per year going forward....

Microsoft has warned that one cyber-criminal gang has used an unpatched Exchange Server to gain entry to a target organization to deploy the notorious BlackCat/ALPHV ransomware. The company provides a case study of one cyber-criminal gang using Exchange Server flaws in BlackCat ransomware attacks as well as an overview of multiple ransomware gangs that previously used other ransomware. SEE: Cloud computing dominates. But security is now the biggest challenge The FBI in April warned that BlackCat ransomware had compromised at least 60 organizations worldwide since March 2022....

The news surrounding HoloLens lately has not been positive. Microsoft has encountered issues in getting its augmented reality technology to work well enough to satisfy the U.S. Army – with which it has a contract worth $22 billion for headsets using some of the HoloLens technology. Microsoft’s decision to focus HoloLens on the enterprise market, not the consumer one, reportedly has caused rifts inside the team and led, at least in part, to hundreds of those working on HoloLens to leave Microsoft and join other AR/VR companies....

Microsoft also is introducing a few personal expression tools that are meant to be part of the Viva community experience: Storyline, Stories and Video Clip. Storyline and Stories build on top of OneDrive for Business and Microsoft Stream video service. Storylines are meant to create posts with links, files, photos and videos and will be available to users in Viva Connections, Outlook, Teams and Yammer. The feeds of these posts will be available via a new Storylines tab....

A number of people on the MLX team who worked on Family Safety, Microsoft’s parental-control service, are posting that their jobs were eliminated, but I hear (at least for now) the Family Safety product is not being dropped. In fact, Microsoft designated Family Safety as an “inbox app” for Windows 11 earlier this year. The MLX job cuts follow the company’s decision to curb hiring in its Office and Windows divisions and cut 1% of its 180,000-plus person workforce in July....

The AI model has 105 layers, 530 billion parameters, and operates on chunky supercomputer hardware like Selene. By comparison, the vaunted GPT-3 has 175 billion parameters. “Each model replica spans 280 NVIDIA A100 GPUs, with 8-way tensor-slicing within a node, and 35-way pipeline parallelism across nodes,” the pair said in a blog post. The model was trained on 15 datasets that contained 339 billion tokens, and was capable of showing how larger models need less training to operate well....