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Globally, Google found that the most popular news searches this year involved Afghanistan, which dominated headlines for weeks in August as the US ended its 20-year involvement in the country. Stock advice about AMC and Gamestop also was in the top five news topics searched. Alec Baldwin and Pete Davidson topped the list of actors, while athletes like Tiger Woods and Simone Biles led the way in sports. Marvel films like Eternals, Black Widow, and Shang-Chi were the top searched movies....

The update, though minor, makes it possible for users to approve access to data in a Google Account a single-tap process that’s friendlier for smartphones. OAuth is a widely supported standard for giving apps access to account information. It has been abused by attackers in the past and forced Google to introduce stricter rules for developers who use it to connect to Google apps. Today, it requires all third-party apps use OAuth to request access to Google Account data....

Over half of companies said they had “a high degree of purchase regret” after making their largest technology-related purchase, according to a survey by analyst firm Gartner. The phase of buyers’ remorse apparently is most raw after making the purchase but before implementing the technology. Gartner surveyed 1,120 respondents in North America, Western Europe and Asia Pacific between November and December 2021. SEE: How to make meetings effective and useful: 6 ways to get actually get stuff done Gartner suggests the dynamics of buying and selling big-ticket technology items has changed, making it harder for vendors to identify the right people to talk to in a business....

The display of the Govee 6-ft LED strip light M1 at CES 2023 showcases the company’s first Matter-certified lighting product, making smart home users’ collective dreams come true. Just a few months ago, many of us in the smart home world saw Matter almost like a pipe dream, a great idea in theory but years away from our own homes. Now, with more companies becoming certified for Matter, we’ll see more implementations of the new connectivity standard....

On Tuesday, OpenAI unveiled GPT-4, a large multimodal model that accepts both text and image inputs and outputs text. Also: How to make ChatGPT provide sources and citations The distinction between GPT-3.5 and GPT-4 will be “subtle” in casual conversation. However, the new model will be way more capable in terms of reliability, creativity, and even intelligence. According to OpenAI, GPT-4 scored in the top 10% of a simulated bar exam, while GPT-3....

According to IBM’s annual X-Force Threat Intelligence Index, based on security incidents and threat data gathered over 2021, businesses are now being “imprisoned” by the active exploitation of vulnerabilities and the deployment of ransomware. The tech giant’s researchers say that phishing remains the most common attack vector for cyberattacks but there has also been a 33% increase in the use of vulnerabilities against unpatched systems. In total, vulnerability exploits are considered to be responsible for 44% of the reported, known ransomware attacks included in the report....

That’s the premise of Quris, an artificial intelligence company hoping to disrupt the pharmaceutical arena. The company just announced the final close of $28 million in seed funding to support its clinical prediction platform. The platform launched last year and has made quick progress: Quris is prepping a drug that addresses Fragile X syndrome (FXS), a common cause of Autism spectrum disorders, for clinical testing in 2022. According to a company statement about the drug: Quris’ funding is led by Welltech Ventures with participation from iAngels, GlenRock Capital, and others....

The definition of equitable is something that is fair to all parties. What sounds like a daunting task to many is merely a day in the life for this perpetually curious entrepreneur. “You have to start somewhere,” he begins. “Speaking in terms of what’s possible gets me energized and excited to start solving.” “Where you work, the way you work, your language, and how you spend your time is the beginning of equity,” he adds....

In short, how long does it take to get a business degree? Our guide walks through how much time you’ll spend earning an associate or bachelor’s degree in business. It also covers the many graduate options for business students, including master’s in business, MBA, and DBA programs. Business certificate Time to complete: 6-18 months A business certificate takes 6-18 months, depending on the student’s enrollment status and the number of credits required....

I guess I can understand why – changing the way you use your MacBook can change how much battery life it has left in seconds. Also: How to replace the battery in your MacBook or MacBook Pro But I must admit, getting an idea of how long the battery might last based on current workloads can be quite useful. As long as that figure is somewhere in the right ballpark....

All programming professionals, including data scientists, software engineers, and web developers, should maintain a portfolio. This guide offers advice on how to build a coding portfolio, what to include, what format to use, and how to most effectively feature your projects and highlight your skills. Do you really need a coding portfolio? Anyone looking for a job that involves programming or career advancement needs a coding portfolio. That includes computer systems analysts and engineers, database and network administrators, software quality assurance engineers, and web and software developers....

As consumer spending continues to rise, businesses will have to invest to compete. This will require working capital and cash flow to purchase the software and technologies needed to survive in the digital economy. For those businesses without large amounts of working capital or wealthy investors – like many small businesses and startups – it has brought up the idea of building business credit. Below, ZDNet has all the information you need on how to build business credit....

Americans spend over five hours a day on their smartphones. That’s over five hours of your phone potentially accessing, retrieving, and saving cache and cookies, which can negatively impact your iPhone’s storage space. What is cache? Cache is the temporary storage of some data, like parts of a website from the last time you visited it, for example. Browser cache is content from a website that is stored on your phone during a browser session to help the browser perform faster the next time you visit that page....

Instead of being a way of accessing company assets, the VPN is now a method of browsing with a level of privacy you cannot get otherwise. What a VPN does is mask your identity and encrypt your internet traffic. Essentially, a VPN makes it far more difficult for bad actors to access the data you transmit or discover where that traffic is coming from. Enable a VPN and your browser will appear to come from a different region or country....

It doesn’t take much in the way of computer savvy to delete the various cached files your browser is saving. The thing is, you just have to remember to do it. There are, of course, other cached files you might not know about. Or, there might be applications that save cached files and there’s no clear method of deleting those files. That’s when a tool like BleachBit comes in handy....

As someone who manages several WordPress sites, I’ve seen the good and the bad. This is especially so with plugins, which are a double-edged sword of problems. On one hand, without plugins, WordPress is pretty much limited to serving as a blogging platform. It’s when you start adding those plugins that the platform blossoms. On the other hand, plugins can cause you no end of trouble. To make matters worse, sometimes that trouble can be in the form of a rock and a hard place....

With a password manager in play, those passwords are encrypted and protected by a vault password. So, for anyone to view your passwords, they’d have to know your vault password first. And if you have two-factor authentication enabled on your password manager, it’s even harder for someone to break in and steal those credentials. On top of that, most password managers offer features like random password generators and auditing tools to help keep you abreast of breaches....

Also: How to nail the ‘Do you have any questions for me?’ part of the interview You might feel stumped on how to answer this question because it can be difficult to talk about yourself with no guidelines. But speaking confidently about your successes can be much easier when you prepare your answers in advance. Here are our best tips for formatting and nailing your response. Other ways that interviewers might ask this question The “tell me about yourself” interview question sometimes sounds different....

As the name implies, the functionality is all about templates. To get an idea of how this feature works, open your file manager and right-click any empty space. From the resulting pop-up menu, you’ll see an entry labeled something like New Document (depending on which file manager you use). In that menu, you might see an entry for a document or spreadsheet. If you click either of those, a new file will be created, from that template, in the current working directory....

I’ve had a bit of a love/hate relationship with screen protectors. Many are poorly made and a total pain to fit properly without dust getting trapped in the layer, not to mention creases and bubbles. Also: The best Apple Watch screen protectors But the screen is the main bit of your iPhone, and it takes up pretty much half of the surface of the iPhone. And scratches and chips are unsightly, and cracks eventually mean a costly screen replacement....