For some, just a quick Our Father and Hail Mary will do. For others, uttering the whole rosary for ten hours a day won’t assuage the ire of a disappointed customer. Please, then, let me introduce you to Phil Grace. He’s the managing partner of MarketSignal.ai. He’s also a private equity investor. So he’s keen to have a working phone at all times. Grace contacted me in a state of, I judged from his words, exasperation....

The new units pack a Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 chipwith the company’s 7th Gen AI Engine, Cortex-X2 CPU Architecture, and built-in 5G support. Honor claims this will provide 20% faster CPU performance and 30% increased GPU performance over the previous generation. Both the Honor Magic4 and Magic4 Pro will include 8GB of RAM and 256GB of internal storage. All of this hardware will be further enhanced by Honor’s “Turbo Engines,” a framework of software features designed to optimize the included hardware across functions such as gaming, power consumption, AI processing and more....

Cryptocurrency, blockchain, and NFTs have undergone numerous hype cycles and investment rounds already. Despite travails, the industry has steadily grown year after year, even as significant parts of it are currently undergoing one of the largest downturns to date. But these cycles now appear inevitable in a world where exponential technologies tend to accelerate and magnify major events. The question now is if Web3 has become important to the enterprise....

The New York Times reports that British authorities arrested a couple for allegedly flying drones that forced Gatwick Airport to cancel or divert more than 1,000 flights over three days right before Christmas, which disrupted travel for an estimated 140,000 people. [UPDATE: The couple was released without charge, according to BBC.] In recent years, drones have also caused problems around the world by delivering contraband to prisons, crashing into crowds during a baseball game, and carrying drugs over international borders....

While everyone is trying to decide just how powerful AI is and whether or not it will replace their job, there are examples of AI tools that, if used in the right context, provide an invaluable service. Also: How to use ChatGPT Google’s mobile app Socratic is a perfect example. Students can use the app to scan questions with their phone’s camera, and a few seconds later get an answer....

The good news is that if you have bad credit, you’re not stuck with it forever. With our help, and some time, you can improve your credit score fast and with little trouble. Here’s how. Also: The 5 best credit cards for good credit Your credit score consists of a three-digit value to convey your financial responsibility. It shows lenders and financial institutions how well you can make timely payments....

That’s $81.4 billion in 90 days. Over $900 million a day. Nearly $38 million an hour. $628,000 a minute. More than $10,000 a second. That’s a lot of money. But how much product did Apple have to sell to pull that sort of revenue in? Must read: Don’t buy these Apple products: July 2021 edition Apple doesn’t give us information on units sold any more – which is a shame, but we can make some educated guess....

But coordinating all of them can be naggingly frustrating. Now there are apps to connect those items and make the process much more efficient. One of them is ServiceTitan, a cloud-based software platform maker that describes its main product as an “operating system for the trades.” It’s a cloud-based SaaS company built to enable trades businesses, and it competes in the same market as Jobber, Housecall Pro, and Salesforce Field Service....

Even more good news: This high-responsibility role is more attainable than you may think. A software engineer designs, builds, and maintains computer applications. They may oversee a team of software developers writing code. Software engineering careers generally start with specialized education, professional certification, and training. However, there is no single “right” pathway you need to follow to enter this dynamic career field. Read on for our primer on what software engineers do, what niches they specialize in, and how to become one....

Now, I’m pretty sure that the AirTag will tell me when it needs its battery replaced, but I’m the sort of person who’d much rather deal with this on my own terms than wait for the battery to get to the point it’s dead, and then I go and lose my keys. You can check the state of your AirTag’s battery by going into the Find My app on your iPhone or iPad, tapping on Items, finding your tag and tapping on it....

One option is the open-source Firefox browser, which offers customizations that you’ll find in the default Chrome browser. One such customization makes it possible for you to decide what you see on your home page. You can make the homepage as busy or empty as you like. So, if you want to be able to open Firefox and immediately be treated with recent bookmarks, recently visited, Pocket, shortcuts, and Sponsored shortcuts (which are ads), you can enable any or all that you like....

If you’re one of those users, you’ll quickly find Mastodon is a completely different animal than Twitter. Oh, sure, it looks and feels like a similar social networking service (with posts, DMs, follows, and more) but the big difference is that Mastodon is more geared toward specific “topics.” There are also region-specific Mastodons. Also: Ditching Twitter? Here’s how to get started on Mastodon For example, there’s a Mastodon for open-source software....

Our guide will show you how to get a Moroccan IP address from anywhere in the world using a VPN. We’ll also give you tips on what to consider when choosing the best VPN for you. Table of Contents How a VPN Can Get You a Moroccan IP Address What Else Can a VPN Do for You? How to Choose the Best VPN for You The Best VPNs to Get a Moroccan IP Address...

If you’re looking to invest in a new Mac or iPad, you can possibly qualify for a $150 discount with Apple’s Education storefront. Here’s how. Note: For the sake of using an example without sounding repetitive, I will be using the Macbook Air with an M1 Chip to demonstrate the steps. The steps may vary slightly depending on if you choose a Mac or iPad. Is there a student or teacher verification requirement?...

When you are selected for pre-approval on a credit card, there isn’t a hard check on your credit score. That is to say, the credit issuer can receive enough information to determine if you are likely to be eligible without your credit score taking a dip. Counterintuitively, though, a pre-approval doesn’t guarantee approval. Still, you can sometimes see which cards you are more likely to be eligible for without risking a credit score loss....

Also: Can someone tell if I block their number? Luckily, Apple eventually realized that it should let its iPhone owners decide what they wanted on their home screens. Not only can you now hide infrequently-used apps, but you can even remove first-party Apple apps you’ll never use from your precious home screen pages – although you still can’t uninstall them completely. Despite how easy it is to do this, many users remain unaware it’s even an option....

Now, before I continue with this, you should know that development on the AfterStep window manager ended some time ago. That means it receives zero upgrades at this point. Even so, it’s still installable on Ubuntu Linux and functions exactly as it did back in the late ’90s when I first started using it. Why would you want to even try a desktop that is outdated and no longer in development?...

When that happens, you need to be able to kill those runaway processes. Now, most Linux desktop environments include a GUI tool that makes killing a process a simple matter of selecting the process and then selecting Kill (Figure 1). That’s all fine and good, but what happens when you can’t access the GUI because a runaway process is gobbling up your system memory)? That’s when you turn to the command line....

But here’s the thing: flowcharts are useful when you want them to be. I’m not talking about flowcharts as dictated by first year programming instructors, or flowcharts as mandated in a given management course. I’m talking about making flowcharts when you want to chart the flow of something, because you want to do it, or you think it might help you visualize something you want to get a better perspective on....

This can be a time-consuming effort when your phone number falls prey to a deluge of spam, so why would you bother with this? First and foremost, some of those attempts are not just spam but malicious attempts to compromise your device. Should you tap on a malicious link in a message, you could fall victim to ransomware, which could encrypt your data. Once that happens, you might not be able to retrieve that data until you pay the ransom....