Next Generation Business Applications Are Scalable Composable And Intelligent

Scalable, Composable, Connected and Industry Specific Applications According to Gartner, a composable business means creating an organization made from interchangeable building blocks. Next generation business applications must also be made from interchangeable blocks. The idea of composable business, according to Gartner, operates on four basic principles: 1. More speed through discovery, 2. Greater agility through modularity, 3. Better leadership through orchestration, 4. Resilience through autonomy. According to Gartner, the three building blocks of composable business are: Next generation business applications are composable and connected....

February 24, 2023 · 5 min · 934 words · Emmett Perales

Nortonlifelock Sees Second Straight Quarter Of Double Digit Growth

Norton’s revenues for the third quarter of FY 2022, which ended December 31, 2021, was $702 million, a 10% jump over the $639 million posted for the year-ago quarter. Net income grew even more steeply, rising 16% to reach $202 million, or $0.34 per share, compared to the $178 million, or $0.30 per share posted for the third quarter of FY 2021. Both figures were spurred on by $752 million in new books, which represented a 10% rise and pushed the company’s direct customer count up by 2....

February 24, 2023 · 2 min · 299 words · Cynthia Matus

Notion App Tips And Hacks And How To Make Columns

How to make columns One of my favorite features in Notion is the ability to make columns. This helps you organize information and make it easier to find. Let’s say, for example, you have a page with some bookmarks, like this: Let’s say I wanted to group the Mac-related bookmarks in one column and the Apple Fitness-related bookmarks in another. To do so, just drag from the left of the Notion block you want to move to the right of the block where you want the column to be....

February 24, 2023 · 4 min · 641 words · Jennifer Vaughan

Nsw Confirms Ivote System Will Be Scrapped For Next Year S State Election

The decision comes after an unknown number of voters were unable to cast a vote during local elections at the end of last year due to the iVote online voting system suffering a failure for a portion of the voting period. An NSWEC investigation into the local election bungle found the system failure impacted the outcomes of three local elections. The NSWEC had already shelved the iVote system for “extensive reconfiguration and testing” to resolve the issues encountered during local elections, but the latest move indicates the system will not be used until at least March 25 next year....

February 24, 2023 · 3 min · 513 words · Larry Maughan

Nsw Government Ai Projects Face Ethics Assessment Under New Assurance Framework

The framework, which was developed by the NSW Advisory Committee led by NSW chief data scientist Ian Oppermann, has been designed to ensure AI-based government projects are safe, ethical, and can be integrated with future technologies. It also assists agencies with risk mitigation strategies and establish clear governance and accountability measures. “From diagnosing sepsis in hospital patients to identifying drivers illegally using mobile phones while driving, the NSW government is already using AI to improve the lives of NSW residents,” Oppermann said....

February 24, 2023 · 3 min · 572 words · Gary Johnson

Nsw Transport Taps Into Ai And Data Analytics To Improve Road Safety

The 2018-2020 National Road Safety Action Plan sets out targets that require 90% of travel on national highways and 80% on state highways to meet a three-star or better safety standard. Up until now, assessing the standards of roads have relied on collecting video survey footage and manual recording methods. TfNSW has now teamed up with iMove Cooperative Research Centre (CRC), the University of Technology Sydney, the International Road Assessment Programme (iRAP), and geospatial data firm Anditi, to develop a faster and more automated method to extract raw road data....

February 24, 2023 · 3 min · 479 words · Amber Vandesande

Numworks Graphing Calculator Yes Calculators Are Still A Thing And This Runs Python

Let’s talk about calculators for a moment. There was a time when they were the coolest things in the world. I remember spending my entire’s summer earnings (plus a loan from my parents) on a TI-59. Raise your hand (or say something in the comments below) if you had a TI-59. For a kid in engineering school in 1980, the TI-59 was the coolest thing. It was programmable. Ooh! Ah!...

February 24, 2023 · 5 min · 954 words · Jenny Matthey

Nyc School Platform Outage Complicating Covid 19 Tracing Efforts

Illuminate Education, which owns popular school management platforms Skedula and PupilPath, said it is still in the process of restoring service after a “security incident” that began on January 8. Scott Virkler, chief operating officer of Illuminate Education, told ZDNet that their priority is “to restore service as soon as possible and do everything in our power to help users.” “We launched an investigation with the help of third-party experts, and that is still ongoing,” Virkler said, declining to answer other questions....

February 24, 2023 · 3 min · 600 words · Keith Whelan

Online Workers Are Creating New Tools To Improve Their Working Conditions Will It Work

At times, she laughs, she is even making more money than her husband. That is not to say that the “good work” came easily. Some savvy Googling and a few Reddit channels got things moving, but she still remembers starting off with “crappy stuff”. “I compare it to a video game,” says Brittany, who did not want her full name reported. “At first you have to do what’s called grinding to get the good gear and stuff....

February 24, 2023 · 16 min · 3392 words · Sharon Jolly

Openmandriva Puts On A Master Class Of Linux Beauty And User Friendliness

Are they using GNOME, Xfce, KDE Plasma, Cinnamon, Mate, Enlightenment, or Pantheon… and what do they do with that desktop to make it stand out from other distributions using the same interface? Furthermore, what does a particular distribution do to make it a worthy contender for new users? Also: Thinking about switching to Linux? 6 things you need to know That, my friends, has become one of the single most important aspects of any Linux distribution aimed at gaining a wider audience....

February 24, 2023 · 6 min · 1160 words · Dorothy Nelson

Opensea Suffers Data Breach Users Emails Leaked

In a blog post, OpenSea warned that everyone who has shared their emails with the company should assume the breach affects them—including people who subscribe to its newsletter. The company urged its users to be vigilant for potential phishing attacks. Details of the OpenSea Data Breach According to OpenSea, an employee of its email delivery vendor, Customer.io, is the source of the breach. The employee reportedly abused their access to download OpenSea users’ email addresses, and share them with an unauthorized third party....

February 24, 2023 · 2 min · 420 words · Sarah Cross

Palmsolo S Star Wars Office Product Boxes Drawers Of Phones And Multiple Screens

This extended commuting time on trains provides me with the opportunity to thoroughly test new mobile technology. In March, the commute stopped as our engineering firm went fully remote in response to the coronavirus pandemic. I continue to test out new mobile technology and as you can see in the images boxes continue to stack up. My home office provides a separation between my engineering work and my freelance writing with many Star Wars items occupying the walls and shelves of my office....

February 24, 2023 · 3 min · 600 words · Mark Johnson

Panasonic Toughbook G2 Review Rugged Compact And Configurable

Aimed at field workers, warehouse staff, first responders, military personnel and others who operate in challenging environments, the Toughbook G2 is a modular device, allowing it to be configured for specific use cases. Naturally, it’s also extremely robust, with the certifications to prove it, so that this tablet should withstand whatever abuse comes its way. And as usual with Panasonic’s Toughbooks, there’s an extensive selection of accessories, including docking stations, vehicle docks, straps and cases, most of which are backwards-compatible with the older G1 and G20....

February 24, 2023 · 7 min · 1463 words · William Hill

Physics Explains Why There Is No Information On Social Media

That is not an accident – it is by design. Social media apps are communications channels, but communications of a particular kind. They are designed to transmit an aggregate signal of all the things people are saying, and in so doing, boost advertising revenue. To do so, social media seeks to minimize what is known as entropy, which is basically equivalent to minimizing information. It all goes back to physics....

February 24, 2023 · 10 min · 2061 words · Sally Hogan

Pixel 7 And Pixel 7 Pro Hands On The Start Of Google S Walled Garden

Once the keynote ended, those in attendance were given a chance to go hands-on with the new phones and wearable – and so I did. In a demo area like this, it’s hard to get a lot of quality time with any new products. Everyone’s trying to do the same thing; get a quick feel for whichever device is in front of them without feeling pressured to hurry up and move on to the next thing....

February 24, 2023 · 5 min · 889 words · Edward Henriksen

Police Are Sending Messages To 70 000 People Who May Have Fallen Victim To Phone Scammers

The messages are being sent by the Metropolitan Police as part of the UK’s biggest ever anti-fraud crackdown, following an international operation to shut down a cyber-criminal service. The operation was led by the Met and involving law enforcement agencies in Europe, Australia, the US, Ukraine, and Canada, resulting in the arrest of 142 suspected cyber criminals. Those arrested are suspected of being involved in conducting scams where they posed as representatives from banks – including Barclays, Santander, HSBC, Lloyds, Halifax, First Direct, Natwest, Nationwide and TSB – and tricked victims into handing over money, or one-time passcodes to access bank accounts....

February 24, 2023 · 3 min · 618 words · Henry Walker

Police Just Launched An E Commerce Fraud Crackdown Here S How To Protect Yourself From Scammers

The month-long operation took place in October and saw 19 countries involved in targeting criminal networks that were using stolen credit card information to order high-value goods from online shops. Law enforcement raided locations where goods bought using stolen credit card details had been delivered, arresting the suspects and confiscating the fraudulently acquired items, according to Europe’s law enforcement coordination agency Europol. The action was coordinated by Europol’s European Cybercrime Centre (EC3) and the Merchant Risk Council, the non-profit membership association for eCommerce payments and fraud prevention....

February 24, 2023 · 4 min · 764 words · Kira Harrison

Poly Partners With Clipr To Address Zoom Fatigue

In a company statement, Poly said it will initially use the platform “internally for its own recorded video assets, including global sales meetings.” Poly will also offer CLIPr to its own customer base as an extension of their audio and video solutions. CLIPr said it uses AI and machine learning “to index video content to help people save time and reduce video fatigue.” Poly will be incorporating CLIPr’s VAM platform as a way to increase productivity, and the platform will help “manage and extract important moments of recorded video content” that will be searchable and interactive....

February 24, 2023 · 2 min · 294 words · Jamel Helland

Potentially The First Death Directly Related To A Ransomware Attack

Nothing is a better example of how terrible ransomware can be than the recent news of a new lawsuit concerning a 2019 ransomware attack on a healthcare institution in the United States. The Wall Street Journal first covered this news on September 30th, 2021 regarding the case of a ransomware attack allegedly resulting in a baby’s death at Springhill Memorial Hospital, a hospital in Alabama, U.S. Ransomware is Increasingly Targetting Healthcare Ransomware attacks become a special kind of evil when their focus shifts to public health -the healthcare sector....

February 24, 2023 · 4 min · 702 words · Katherine Rowell

Prepare For A Remote Career Abroad With This 49 Skills And Language Learning Bundle

The best way to advance in your career is to gain new skills, and a StackSkills Unlimited membership makes learning them accessible. Comprising half of this bundle, StackSkills Unlimited provides access to over 1,000 courses that will help you develop marketable skills to qualify you for roles in business or tech. At least 50 new courses are added each month, each with its own certificate of completion that endorses your newly minted skills....

February 24, 2023 · 2 min · 257 words · Levi Smith