Moreover, your online activity might not be private. New Zealand is a member of the 5 Eyes Alliance (a group of countries exchanging information on their citizens). That means your data can be shared with other member states if requested. My team and I tested over 80 VPNs and found the best ones for New Zealand. They can easily bypass geoblocks (and offer you a New Zealand IP address) without compromising speed....
Is it the money? Is it the people you work with? The product you’re involved in? The deft management you’re graced with? I was moved to this very modern contemplation on hearing the views of Seth Patton, general manager of Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Viva. Writing in the Harvard Business Review with Brad Anderson, president of products and services at Quatrics, Patton mused on the state of work today. The delicate state of hybrid work that is....
(A screenshot from a Starbucks ad.) The ticket emerges and a voice says: “Take the ticket.” It’s a female voice, attempting to be as erotically alluring as possible. It’s a robot female voice, of course, and it always makes me wonder why this parking lot believes it should offer an erotic experience. Yet robot voices have become part of our lives. Who hasn’t thanked Siri at least once when she’s answered a question or found the very song we just asked for?...
The Acrobat-powered Microsoft Edge will start rolling out to Windows 10 and 11 devices from March 2023, at which point enterprise customers gain an “opt-in” and an “opt-out” option for managed devices via Intune policy. Also: Memory safe programming languages are on the rise. Here’s how developers should respond Users can’t revert to the legacy PDF engine after the update, with the rollout scheduled for completion by September 2023. Microsoft plans to remove the legacy PDF engine from Chromium-based Edge on March 31, 2024, at which point the opt-out policy for enterprise customers ends, and all instances of Edge will have the Acrobat engine, according to a blogpost....
The report sent Adobe shares down 4% in late trading. CEO Shantanu Narayen remarked the company “achieved record Q1 revenue as Creative Cloud, Document Cloud and Experience Cloud continue to be pivotal in driving the digital economy.” Added Narayen, “Adobe is committed to empowering individuals, transforming businesses and connecting communities.”" CFO Dan Durn the company’s Q1 results “reflect the company’s strong execution and resilience through unprecedented circumstances.” Added Durn, “Our momentum, product innovation and immense market opportunity position us for success in 2022 and beyond....
Where once supercomputers were only for scientific problems, the development of AI programs known as large language models, or LLMs, is prompting businesses to seek out the same horsepower the world’s top research laboratories have. For example, Nvidia, the standard bearer in chips for AI, in September announced a cloud computing facility dedicated to large language models that will be rentable as a service by enterprises. Monday, Cerebras Systems, the 6-year-old, Sunnyvale, Calif....
“We believe that large language models are under-hyped, not over-hyped,” said Cerebras co-founder and CEO Andrew Feldman in a press briefing. “We are just beginning to see the impact of them; there will be winners and new emergents in each of three layers in the ecosystem, in the hardware layer, the infrastructure layer, and the application layer.” Feldman predicted, “Next year you will see a sweeping rise in the impact of large language models in various parts of the economy....
Akamai announced on Tuesday that it is acquiring infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) platform provider Linode for about $900 million. Leighton said Linode is a very developer-friendly IaaS provider that makes it very easy to spin up a virtual machine or a container to build and run applications. “By combining that with Akamai, we’re the world’s leaders in content delivery and web security. We make your applications really fast and we protect them from all sorts of attacks....
AMD and Microsoft recently confirmed Windows 11 and PCs with some AMD processors were seeing performance problems, in particular when using games or other demanding workloads. As ZDNet reported last week, Microsoft rolled out a fix for the Windows 11 and AMD performance issues to Windows Insiders on the Beta and Release Preview channels with the Windows 11 build 22000.282. SEE: Windows 11 upgrade: Five questions to ask first Microsoft said the AMD fix for mainstream Windows 11 users was scheduled to arrive at the end of October and that same build has now arrived....
(A screenshot from an American Airlines video) Have you made plans – other than deciding to quit your job, that is? Wouldn’t it be wonderful to fly off somewhere with your loved ones, lie on a beach and forget the last couple of years ever happened? There is, though, one small obstacle: Airlines. You can’t be sure what they’re going to do, whether or when they’ll get you to your destination....
Charging devices with multiple ports are starting to become the norm. But those multiple port chargers need to be smart in order to efficiently and quickly charge whatever’s plugged into it. Anker’s latest technology combines the size and efficiency of Gallium Nitride (GaN) chargers with its own PowerIQ 4 technology. The result is GaNPrime. GaNPrime maxes out at 100W output to any one device. Using the built-in smarts, a GaNPrime charger can identify which connected device has the lowest battery level and charge that first, followed by the next lowest and so on....
USB-C today is fairly standard across the mobile spectrum, with Apple’s iPhone and AirPods being some of the final holdouts, although the charging cable itself uses USB-C instead of USB-A. Anker incorporates at least two USB-C ports on all six of its new GaNPrime products, and for the past month, we spent time with four of the products while charging on the road, at the office, and at home. Anker’s new product lineup provides various levels of power output and form factors for providing power to your devices in a manner that meets your needs....
ANEXT said Monday it would offer digital financial services to micro enterprises and SMBs in Singapore and the region, in particular, those that needed cross-border support for their global expansion. It offered a preview of its dual-currency deposit account service, which it said was secured with its proprietary technologies such as three-factor authentication verification, and embedded with features such as remote onboarding and daily interest. The digital bank is a subsidiary of Ant Group, which is Alibaba Group’s fintech business and one of four successful bidders that snagged a digital wholesale bank licence in Singapore....
(Disclaimer: I own a Polestar 2 and am a stockholder in PSNY). The Polestar 2 is unique among EVs because it was the first to launch with Google’s Android Automotive operating system. This is different from “Android Auto,” a smartphone app mirroring/projection system like CarPlay for vehicles that use different IVI (in-vehicle infotainment stacks). The Polestar and other Android Automotive-based cars run native Android apps, factored for vehicles, directly on a car’s central display unit....
Jane Horvath is a known advocate for the transparent and privacy-oriented brand image that drives Apple, such as when Apple made an appearance (following a brief disappearance the year before) at CES and defended the company’s use of encryption. What is Apple’s solution to counter unfair data collection? Jane Horvath stated, in a letter to the Ranking Digital Rights organization that Facebook will be aiming to monetize user profiles, going along with a new privacy feature that has caused advertising companies to object....
Following the unveiling at WWDC 2021, we now know which Macs are going to make the cut come the fall. And unlike older iPhones, iPads, and Apple Watch devices, just because your Mac runs the current version of macOS, that’s no guarantee, and some of the older Macs are headed for the recycling center come the fall. Here is the complete list of Macs that support the new macOS Monterey:...
The battery percentage indicator was sacrificed in iPhone X and later due to extra screen space consumed by Face ID module’s notch at the top of the screen adjacent to the status bar. Instead, users of these models had to swipe down to view battery percentage in Control Center. On devices without Face ID, such as iPhone 8, the battery percentage indicator has remained always visible next to the battery icon....
That’s how Europeans used to describe Americans. (Some still do.) It’s also how Intel has decided to describe the Apple faithful, those who live, breathe, and delight in the highly controlled environment of the Apple ecosystem. Below is a video showing four minutes of Apple fan people being simply shocked. They’re shown laptops that fold over, laptops that double up as tablets, laptops that look lovely and aren’t made by Apple....
Those are some of the observations drawn from a recently released report from experts convened by Stanford University and the newest installment out of the One-Hundred-Year Study on Artificial Intelligence (AI100), an exceptionally long-term effort to track and monitor AI as it progresses over the coming century. The AI100 standing committee is led by Peter Stone, a professor of computer science at The University of Texas at Austin, and executive director of Sony AI America, and the study panel that authored the report was chaired by Michael Littman, professor of computer science at Brown University....
The latest in the Satechi line is a new USB-C NVME and SATA SSD enclosure. The idea is simple. You buy the solid-state drive (SSD) enclosure, add a PCIe or NMVe M.2 drive, and away you go. There’s even a USB-C to USB-C included. No screwdrivers or tools needed to assemble. The enclosure is made of aluminum and is tough yet very stylish. There’s a USB-C port on one end, and on the other a switch to pop the internals out from the drive to fit the drive....
