This 4K ULED TV brings Quantum Dot Wide Color Gamut to your TV, providing bright and more accurate colors into your picture – and over a billion colors to boot. It can brighten up to 600 nits and offers 48 local dimming zones to enhance both dark and bright scenes during your movies and shows. Under the settings, you can use a dedicated FilmMaker mode that will allow you to see movies as they were meant to be seen, disabling motion smoothing and enabling correct aspect ratios, colors, and frame rates....

Also: Live blog: The best early Cyber Monday deals 2022 in real time The Chrome OS-powered device sports an 11.6-inch display that lends itself to a lighter and more portable footprint. Under the hood are an Intel Celeron N4020 processor, 4G of RAM, and 64GB of storage, which should deliver just enough power and memory for casual use cases like web surfing, streaming movies, responding to emails, and even taking Zoom calls via browser....

BMC said in a statement that the acquisition of StreamWeaver improves their AIOps capabilities with a “broad set of out-of-the-box data integrations built on a complementary, modern microservices-based architecture.” According to BMC, StreamWeaver’s tools allow customers to achieve better incident and risk predictions, improved automated remediation and increased support for DevOps and ServiceOps. BMC chief product officer Ali Siddiqui said both companies can help organizations apply AI to use their data more efficiently and uncover insights to make critical decisions quickly....

Now, however – especially after the pandemic jolted forward digital communications – building a company culture requires the right digital tools and experiences. Also: Hybrid workers don’t want to return to the office. But soon, they might have to “The question is, what tools can I put in place?” Box CEO Aaron Levie said to ZDNET, ahead of the annual BoxWorks conference. “What styles of work can I enable that will best accomplish the kind of cultural values we’re trying to create?...

The president at the Brazilian Federation of Banks (FEBRABAN), Isaac Sidney, and the Minister of Justice and Public Security, Anderson Torres, have started negotiations for the creation of the National Cybercrime Strategy. The topic was discussed at a meeting at the association’s headquarters in São Paulo on Friday (6). According to FEBRABAN, the discussions around the new plan to tackle cybercrime will be informed by the experiences of the National Strategy Against Corruption and Money Laundering, which is led by the Ministry of Justice and has been in place since 2003....

According to the Data Paradox study carried out by Forrester Consulting and commissioned by Dell with 4000 executives in 45 countries, including Brazil, 73% of respondents believe data is essential to their business, but only 28% have the resources to process it appropriately. The survey results suggest that instead of offering a competitive advantage, the explosion in the volume, speed and variety of generated data has created a raft of challenges for Brazilian organizations....

Private 4G or 5G refers to a mobile cellular network that is technically the same as a public 4G/5G network but which allows the owner to provide priority access or licensing for its wireless spectrum. Cellular is much more reliable than Wi-Fi at this point because it’s always on, plus there aren’t all that many 5G devices in use yet. Finally, many operational technology devices – such as beacons and sensors – do not require high bandwidth but certainly need always-on connectivity....

CAST AI is a two-year old startup making the types of bold claims that service providers typically offer; in this case, it claims that it can cut your cloud compute bills in half. In a previous life, the cofounders headed Zenedge, a cloud-based cybersecurity firm eventually acquired by Oracle. Like any born-in-the-cloud company, it was seeking a better way to contain its monthly cloud computing bills. And so, in the cofounders’ next act, this was the problem they trained their sights on....

Other methods of censorship in Thailand are: A ban on any anti-government coverage by independent media Blocking webpages and political blogs Social media censorship Increased surveillance of internet use Many journalists, activists, and individual users wish to circumvent censorship and be better protected against government surveillance. Using a VPN, like NordVPN, can help you get your online freedom back. If you wish to be better protected online or get access to censored content, you might want to use a VPN (Virtual Private Network)....

Internet access is ubiquitous for most U.S citizens. In a country of over 326 million people, about 90 percent have access to the internet, through home or mobile broadband. If you want to protect yourself against surveillance by the government, you can always use a VPN. A Virtual Private Network will hide your IP and let you navigate the web anonymously. ExpressVPN is one of the best VPNs on the market....

Visible’s new free trial service adds a second line of service to your phone using an eSIM, providing you with a phone number and Visible service that you can use to call, text, or browse the web. You have 15 days to test Visible’s network before the trial expires. At that point, you can either sign up for service and keep your new number or port your existing number to Visible....

Chase and IHG announced Tuesday that, on March 24, 2022, sweeping changes are coming to the IHG Rewards Club Traveler Credit Card and the IHG Rewards Club Premier Credit Card. Both cards are getting a slight name change, higher rewards, and a handful of new perks. In addition, The IHG Premier Business Card will be released on the same date. IHG properties include popular hotels like Holiday Inn, Crowne Plaza, Hotel Indigo, Kimpton Hotels, InterContinental Hotels and Resorts, and more....

Michal Kosinski, associate professor of organizational behavior at Stanford University, put several versions of ChatGPT through theory of mind (ToM) tasks designed to test a child’s ability to “impute unobservable mental states to others”. In humans, this would involve looking at a scenario involving another person and understanding what’s going on inside their head. Also: 6 things ChatGPT can’t do (and another 20 it refuses to do) The November 2022 version of ChatGPT (trained on GPT-3....

Even though, at times, decisions are made by panic-stricken CEOs with petrified PR people screaming in their ears. Still, occasionally there’s a certain glory to the straight-facedness of corporate logic. This brings me to the delight that is Chick-fil-A. Would you like jam with your chicken? In recent times, the chicken chain has grappled with exponential success, not always with complete aplomb. One area where it’s had significant problems is when Chick-fil-A causes vast traffic jams....

In releasing the five-year roadmap, China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology on Tuesday said operating income from the country’s robotics industry was projected to grow an average of 20% between 2021 and 2025. This sector expanded at an average annual growth rate of 15% between 2016 and 2020, with operating income passing 100 billion yuan ($15.69 billion) for the first time last year. China’s manufacturing robot density last year clocked at 246 units per 10,000 people, which was almost double the global average, according to the ministry....

One deal ZDNET has found is for an Acer 11.6" convertible Chromebook laptop. Typically, you would expect to pay $249, but Target has reduced the price to $99 for a limited time, saving you 60% based on the usual RRP. The Acer Chromebook, now under $100, will suit you if you need a Chromebook but are looking to keep the price point as low as possible. This device operates on ChromeOS and comes with an 11....

1. Assume responsibility for new business areas There was a big trend a couple of years ago for CIOs to add new responsibilities to their job titles: as well as information, it became commonplace to see tech chiefs assume responsibility for technology, digital, and product. Some of these new areas of authority allowed CIOs to respond to the rise of CDOs (both chief digital and data officers). The past two years have helped CIOs prove their value to the business....

The company announced plans to go private in a $5.3 billion deal with Clayton, Dubilier & Rice (CD&R) and KKR on June 1. Cloudera to be acquired, turned private by CD&R, KKR in $5.3 billion dealWhat’s next for Cloudera? Cloudera said going private will help it develop its hybrid and multi-cloud strategy for its Cloudera Data Platform (CDP). In a statement, Cloudera also said Arun Murthy, chief product officer, will leave the company effective immediately....

On February 11, a researcher took to Twitter to say they found a “potentially market-nuking” vulnerability that needed to be addressed as soon as possible. Coinbase said it received a report through HackerOne from the researcher that same day and worked quickly to patch the bug. The issue involved a specific flaw in an API for Retail Advanced Trading, and Coinbase engineers eventually were able to reproduce the bug. They disabled all new trades by placing the Retail Advanced Trading platform in cancel-only mode before validating and releasing a patch....

We also need “a broader societal discussion about privacy”, he said. Speaking at a seminar organised by the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI) on Thursday, Pezzullo described the surveillance law reforms now under way as more of a rebuild, not just a renovation. “I’d like to get to a point if we can design the legislation almost as if we are… not just renovating an existing structure, but literally clearing a site, levelling it, understanding what’s in the ground, what all the different conditions are in relation to that site, and building the new structure together,” he said....