The term “ghost job” refers to online job openings that stick around and are seemingly never filled. The reason why? The Wall Street Journal reported that sometimes the job never existed or a company never intended to hire anyone for the position. In a survey by Clarify Capital of over 1,000 managers, 68% of managers had an active job posting remain active for more than 30 days. The survey also found that there are reasons why companies purposefully post ghost jobs....

You can start with Java Programming for Complete Beginners in 250 Steps, which takes a hands-on approach to exploring all of the most important features of the language. This class is a crowd favorite, with former students rating it 4.5 out of 5 stars, probably because the instructors have so much experience with what they’re teaching. Simpliv is an e-learning platform with a wide variety of courses prepared by experts....

Just like Chromebooks, this uses Chrome OS, the cloud-centric, easy-to-manage, and fast operating system. With it, your once out-of-date PCs and Macs can get a new lease on life. If that sounds familiar, well, it should. ChromeOS Flex traces its ancestry to Neverware, a company that took ChromeOS’s open-source foundation, ChromiumOS, and turned it into an easy-to-use operating system, CloudReady. It enabled you to squeeze extra life out of old Windows PCs and Macs....

“It’s also a way to help extend the reach of the sustainability benefit of this product, beyond what those using Google Maps can, to the developer community,” Chris Phillips, head of GEO for Google, said to reporters ahead of Google’s Search On event. Eco-friendly routing was launched in Maps last year in the US and Canada. The feature gives drivers routes that may not necessarily be the shortest path from Point A to Point B but that should result in the least amount of carbon emissions....

And, just like people, you have to wonder what goes through those minds sometimes. Today’s patient on the purple chaise-longue is Google. It’s occasionally believed in marketing. More often, it’s believed in making absurd amounts of money from advertising. Yet here is Google launching what many believe is its most important piece of hardware ever – the Pixel 6. And here is Google releasing a witty, arresting phone ad – but not for the Pixel 6....

Placing the cameras diagonally opposite each other, as opposed to in a near little row, is hardly the stuff of consumer dreams. Perhaps, then, the tingling for Google’s Pixel 6 will have been intensified. Perhaps, too, Google realizes this. Because, in a peculiar enthusiasm for marketing, it’s suddenly dangling the prospect of a true surprise. You, surely, will be wondering all about the so-called Tensor chip that will be embedded in the Pixel 6....

Still, you should know that the Pixel Watch is not going to replace a Garmin or rugged sports watch for outdoor activities. Samsung’s Galaxy Watch 5 Pro is still the better choice for that target audience. The Pixel Watch is also not going to satisfy power users who want week-long battery life and advanced sports functions. Instead, it’s striving to be the “go-to” smartwatch for Android users, much like the Apple Watch is for the iPhone....

In a blog post, Google said the move was due to the version of Android which was first released in 2012 making up less than 1% of active devices and developers having to spend more time to support it. Jelly Bean spanned versions 4.1, 4.2, and 4.3, or in API level terms from 16 to 18. The search giant is recommending developers bump up the minimum API level for apps up to API level 19, or KitKat....

Now admins can upload custom prompts and greetings, and Google will immediately offer playback and automatic transcriptions so that users can track and manage uploads. The new feature adds another option to Google’s existing text-to-speech service when setting up a Google Voice automated attendant. SEE: Android 12: New feature allows you to control the UI with face gestures via phone’s camera Google’s text-to-speech service offers customers over 100 synthesised voices, extending Alphabet’s DeepMind AI research in the field – including DeepMind’s WaveNet neural network for generating human-like speech – into commerce through Google’s cloud neural networks....

Although two different open source projects, Grafana and Prometheus have long been joined at the hip. With Grafana as the visualization piece and Prometheus as the underlying time-series database, both have been typically used in tandem, forming a combo that competes with InfluxDB and Elastic, each of which also offers both pieces of the puzzle. For Grafana and Prometheus users, the catch until now was that each had different systems for setting alerts....

In addition to new hardware, Apple also quietly announced that iOS 16 and WatchOS 9 will officially roll out next week starting Monday, Sept. 12. Apple typically releases major updates around 10 am PT (1 p.m. ET), but that’s not a certainty. Also: Everything Apple announced at its Far Out event The iOS 16 update brings several new features to iPhones, including the ability to edit or delete iMessages within a certain time frame, a new lock screen complete with widgets, revamped notifications on the lock screen, and improvements to the Mail app....

Just 31% of consumers in the Asian market said they trusted AI, but 51% acknowledged it helped cut the time they spent choosing products, according to a study released Thursday by Hong Kong Consumer Council. The online survey polled 1,219 respondents aged 15 and above who had visited local and international online stores, 77% of whom made purchases or browsed online stores on a daily or weekly basis. While 75% said they were unfamiliar with AI, 41% said the technology addressed their needs accurately....

You might think everyone uses the function keys on a laptop keyboard, but they really don’t. You might think everyone opens their phone camera in the same way, but you really would be surprised. And then there’s Microsoft Teams. This is something I use regularly and think of in the same way I think of my TV. I switch it on. It works. Then I switch it off. During the meeting, I talk when required, switch my camera off when I need to scratch my nose or smooth my eyebrows, and think of it like any other video call....

But along with Giant Eagle, Whole Foods and other big names in the industry, one small startup in the Atlanta area is betting that a tech-first approach to grocery shopping will help them expand their business across the US. Nourish & Bloom was founded by Jilea and Jamie Hemmings, a husband-and-wife duo with a background in tech and the food industry. They opened their first store in Fayetteville, Georgia, earlier this year, delivering a “frictionless” shopping experience with a contactless checkout system powered by computer vision, as well as delivery robots that bring orders to nearby customers....

Avaya has been a mainstay at the event for years and historically has been effective in highlighting its technology and innovation through customer use cases. We are still in the early stages of the metaverse, so there aren’t many real-life examples. In fact, most IT leaders I talk to are interested in futuristic technology but are not sure of how to use it or what some practical business use cases are....

However, there is no denying that the female technology (femtech) sector, which has long been underfunded and overlooked, is having a real moment. Increasingly, mobile health solutions, telehealth, and wearable devices are being made readily available to address everything from menstrual care, fertility, pregnancy care, to menopause and geriatric care, and general health and wellness. Frost and Sullivan predicts the global femtech market revenue will increase at a compound growth annual rate of nearly 13% and reach $1....

This context menu changes based on the file or folder you’re working with. For example, if you right-click an image, you can quickly convert it to a different image format (say, from png to jpg) without having to first open an image editor or create a PDF from the file. With a PDF file, you can automatically open it with Markup enabled (so you can annotate the file). On a video file, you can rotate it or trim it....

Fortunately, Android has a pretty nifty feature baked in that can be a real assist for ageing eyes. That feature gives you the ability to increase or decrease the display size on your device. Now, obviously, this isn’t going to increase the physical display size. Instead, what it does is change the resolution of your device so that on-screen fonts and other elements will appear either larger or smaller (depending on how you adjust them)....

Summer learning loss, also known as the “summer slide,” refers to the loss of academic skills that children experience over summer vacation due to a lack of educational stimuli. The phenomenon leads to children often starting the fall school year at a lower instructional level than they finished the previous year. Research shows that, on average, most children lose one month of learning over the summer break, and children from lower-income families may experience an even higher level of learning loss....

Karen Mangia, vice president of customer and market insights and a member of the Salesforce’s Work From Home Task Force, and I have co-authored several articles on how you can reach your full potential and deliver peak performance while working from home. The path towards achieving high-performance work at home starts with how you design and architect your surroundings, followed by how you practice and refine the art and science of public speaking and presentation skills....