Before you even consider specific variables like those, it’s important to understand the basic technology behind those numbers. While OLED displays and LED displays are often marketed side by side, they feature very different methods of providing video and backlighting. Also: The best last-minute tech gifts This variance plays a huge role in not just the quality of your picture, but also how big or heavy your display is. Read on to find out which of these technologies is best for which purpose, and to discover whether OLED or LED is better for your needs....

1. Introduction Many veteran journalists, but not only these, surely noticed that we are all of a sudden bombarded again from all-over with mentions of Watergate. Books like George Orwell’s 1984 are on display at bookstores and an air of danger to freedom of speech and freedom of the press is spreading slowly like a dark cloud over the Western Hemisphere, raising old fears. When an American serving president accuses a former president of surveillance; when he prevents central US media outlets access - so far always granted, and taken for granted - to press conferences he holds; and when he incessantly knocks and accuses the media of being the country’s enemy number one, it isn’t surprising that memories of President Nixon surface up more with every self-pitying tweet about SNL, and that even Republican Senators such as John McCain express fear for the future of democracy....

Coding Dojo bases its success on three pillars: Student potentialThe Coding Dojo curriculumLifetime support Coding Dojo looks for traits like curiosity, resilience, and dedication for the first pillar, student potential. The company claims these traits are more important than coding experience. For this reason, Coding Dojo’s bootcamps are open to applicants without any prior experience. Coding Dojo states thousands of hours of research on pedagogy, the labor force, and learning science went into building its curriculum – the second pillar....

The eye of the storm surfaced due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and now, we are seeing the ripple effect this economic disease has had on the financial world. The stock market is in disarray, the Great Resignation (and so-called Great Reshuffle) is underway, and closer to home, we feel the sting of rising food and energy prices, with a general surge in the cost of living. Inflation is a reduction in purchasing power over a period of time, caused by factors including the rising prices of goods or services....

“Fully vaccinated Australians will not require an exemption to Australia from the first of November. This is the first stage of our international reopening,” Minister for Health and Aged Care Greg Hunt said at a press briefing on Wednesday morning. Prior to the announcement, fully vaccinated people living in Australia needed to apply for a travel exemption through the Department of Home Affairs. Australian citizens and permanent residents who want to travel outbound from Australia will need to provide proof that they are fully vaccinated with a government-approved or recognised vaccine, with the second dose occurring at least seven days prior to travel....

Cortana isn’t a star feature on Windows 10 but it’s still in the background, powering Microsoft 365 services on apps across platforms such as iOS and Android. Now Outlook users with an iPhone or iPad can rely on Cortana’s voice capabilities to schedule meetings, search for emails, and read out a reply to an email. SEE: Top 10 iPad tips (free PDF) (TechRepublic) Outlook users can hold down the Google-like plus sign icon on iOS (and soon Android), and then tap the microphone icon to “Use Voice” to tell Cortana what to do in Outlook....

Enterprise Password Manager Compromised Last week, Click Studios, the Australian developer of Enterprise password manager Passwordstate, informed customers that cybercriminals had compromised the password manager’s update feature located on Click Studios’ website. Enterprise password managers allow employees to exchange passwords and other confidential information within the company. Click Studios issued an incident management advisory, explaining their findings. “Initial analysis indicates that a bad actor using sophisticated techniques compromised the In-Place Upgrade functionality....

Looking at the numbers, PayPal reported a net income of $1.47 billion. Non-GAAP earnings were $1.11 per share. Wall Street was looking for earnings of $1.08 per share on revenue of $6.24 billion. PayPal says it processed $310 billion in total payment volume during the quarter, a TPV growth of 26% year over year. The company added that it had 4.9 billion payment transactions in Q3. There were about 44 payment transactions per active account in Q3....

Backed by blue-chip investors and promoted relentlessly by its frequently bombastic CEO, Paytm was expected to clean house on its listing. In fact, it got pummelled. And it was no ordinary shellacking – Paytm became the worst performing IPO in Indian history. Its stock price debuted at Rs 2,150, fell 30% by the end of the day and since then has plummeted to a catastrophic Rs 522, around 75% below its opening....

Tech analyst firms have reported muted shipments in the third quarter of 2021, due primarily to problems with the semiconductor supply chain, which has also caused problems for car manufacturers and the broader tech industry. According to researcher IDC, supply chain issues are affecting shipments of PCs, which grew just 3.9% year-on-year in Q3 2021. SEE: Hunker down: The chip shortage and higher prices are set to linger for a while While that’s still growth in a category that was in decline for much of the 2010s due to booming smartphone sales, the growth was muted due to chip and other component shortages caused by the pandemic....

In a statement, the organization confirmed that 50,000 member records were compromised in the breach, but only some sets of personal data were exposed. Spirit Super said it quickly contained the security breach (update editorial team: statement currently not available online anymore). The incident is now being actively investigated, and all potentially affected members have been notified via SMS, email, or letter. The motive for the attack is still unclear, and the threat actor responsible for the phishing scam is unknown....

Python is now one of the most popular programming languages among developers and could soon overtake C++. But a much younger language, Julia – a possible alternative to Python – is catching on quickly, according to developer-focused analyst RedMonk. While developers have been using Python for nearly 30 years and is being spurred on by machine learning and data scientists, Julia has only been available since 2012 but is now showing up in numerous language popularity rankings....

Check this out: Extreme weather forecast? Essential gear for when the power goes out The Sport 25 is quite a bit bigger than other power banks of its capacity, but the ruggedization adds bulk, which is a trade-off I’m willing to make. 6700mAh/24.8Wh capacity5V/3A USB-C input and output5V/2.4A USB-AIP67 rated150 lumen flashlight with SOSRuggedized shellWeight: 187g4 LED battery level indicatorComes with 1m USB-A to USB-C cable and USB-C to microUSB adapter...

The Roomba i7+ blazes a trail of cleanliness wherever it goes, learning the layout of your home and automatically creating smart maps. This means that it will clean without bumping into things. It also works with Google Home and Alexa, so you can combine it with an enabled device for voice control instead of using the iRobot Home app. With the price now $763 instead of $1,000, you can afford to never vacuum again – and almost never empty out your vacuum bag either....

As Google explains, fuzz testing or ‘fuzzing’ is a means of testing the vulnerability of a piece of software by throwing arbitrary or invalid data at it to expose bugs and unknown errors. This adds an additional layer of security to Go’s code that will keep it protected as its functionality evolves – crucial as attacks on software continue to escalate both in frequency and complexity. SEE: Developer jobs and programming languages: What’s hot and what’s next “At Google we are committed to securing the online infrastructure and applications the world depends upon,” said Eric Brewer, VIP infrastructure at Google....

That’s a large task for a company with thousands of developers and many large Android apps, including Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, Portal, and its Quest VR headset. “Shifting away from Java, which we currently use for Android development, and over to Kotlin is not a trivial task,” notes Omer Strulovich, a software engineer at Facebook. Also: Salary freezes and a return to the office? Not for software developers The migration to Kotlin is underway, with Meta’s Android app repositories already consisting of 10 million lines of Kotlin code....

A public IP address is assigned to you by your internet service provider. It’s a unique alphanumeric string used by your router to identify you to websites and apps online. A private IP is assigned by your router to devices on your local area network. It helps the router relay information received from websites to the correct device. Private IP addresses needn’t be unique since and can be reused. Public and private IPs differ in the functions they perform and their uniqueness....

Swiss officials apprehended Klyushin earlier this year. According to U.S. Attorney Nathaniel Mendell, Klyushin and his four co-defendants “hacked U.S networks, stole inside information and cheated honest investors out of millions of dollars.” The accused placed trades for themselves as well for clients in exchange for a cut of their profits. Furthermore, Mendell added that one of the co-defendants, Ivan Ermakov, was previously charged with hacking the 2016 U.S. Presidential Elections....

That is if you live in the UK. If your local address is, for example, in the US, Netflix geoblocks you from watching its UK content. Before you give up, there’s an easy solution: Buy a subscription to a premium VPN service that unblocks Netflix UK. A reliable VPN hides your actual IP address by going through its vast UK server network. It connects to a server that bypasses Netflix’s geoblock, unlocking the Netflix UK catalog....

TikTok has Ties to Chinese Government The bill, looking to ban the use of TikTok by all federal employees on all federal government devices, was introduced to the house on March 12 by republican senators Josh Hawley and Rick Scott. The main reasoning for this move is that TikTok is owned by Chinese company ByteDance. Under Chinese law it is required to share user data with the government if they ask for it....