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You need a VPN to bypass geoblocks and access services from anywhere in the world (like Netflix US, Hulu, and BBC iPlayer). Plus, a VPN with servers in Sweden can help you access your accounts when traveling outside the country. The best VPNs also keep your data private with strict no-logs policies and strong security — ideal if you frequently use Sweden’s many public WiFi hotspots. My colleagues and I tested over 80 VPNs and found the best ones for Sweden to bypass geo-restrictions without compromising your speed....

Some VPNs perform better than others for watching channels like the BBC, ITV Hub, and Sky Sports from outside the UK. Among the 5 services that passed my tests, ExpressVPN stood out from its peers as the best choice for streaming UK TV because of its consistently reliable servers and speeds. If it’s your first time using ExpressVPN, it’s easy to navigate because of its user-friendly design. You can try it out risk-free before you commit....

Anthony is coauthor of the new book “Eat, Sleep, Innovate: How to Make Creativity an Everyday Habit Inside Your Organization”. His book is about innovation and how organizations can make innovation a day-to-day habit. Anthony is a prolific contributor to Harvard Business Publishing. He is the most published digital author on HBR.org and is Harvard Business Corporate Learning’s most in-demand subject matter expert. Anthony’s previous books are Dual Transformation; The First Mile: A Launch Manual for Getting Great Ideas Into the Market; Seeing What’s Next: Using the Theories of Innovation to Predict Industry Change (with Innosight co-founder and Harvard Professor Clayton Christensen); The Innovator’s Guide to Growth: Putting Disruptive Innovation to Work; The Silver Lining: An Innovation Playbook for Uncertain Times; The Little Black Book of Innovation: How It Works, How to Do It; and Building a Growth Factory....

Security researchers at Zimperium discovered the campaign, which adds a $15 charge per month for every victim. Over time, and with a widespread victim network, the campaign has become extremely lucrative. In fact, Zimperium’s researchers estimate that the stolen amount ranges in hundreds of millions. Google has removed all 470 malicious applications from the Play Store, and Zimperium claims the scam services are down. However, any device which still has an infected app could still pose a risk down the road....

The flavors of 5G The carrier frequencies that power 5G and earlier mobile networks can generally be divided into three categories: Low-band: Anything under 1GHz.Mid-band: Everything between 1GHz and 6GHz. This range is where C-Band lives (3.7GHz to 3.98GHz in the US). High-Band: Everything above 6GHz, including mmWave signals, which operate between 30GHz and 300GHz. 5G services currently offered by T-Mobile, AT&T, and Verizon Wireless operate across all three of these categories, although only T-Mobile uses any low-band 5G frequencies (600MHz, specifically)....

Vinod Kumar is the Head of Business Insights for Salesforce Commerce Cloud. As an early member of the Demandware team, the fastest-growing enterprise e-commerce platform that was acquired by Salesforce in 2016 to become Salesforce Commerce Cloud, Kumar has had courtside seats to the evolution of ecommerce. He led the roll-out of industry-first E-commerce Benchmarking that enabled Commerce Cloud customers to compare their business performance with an anonymized peer group of sites....

According to a study done by Verizon, 52% of personal data breaches included hacking, over 25% were malware related, and 32% were from phishing or social engineering. In more than 85% of those breaches, hackers were looking for money. So how do you protect yourself? VPNs are a great start, but steady credit and ID monitoring is a good idea too. That’s why I found you the top 9 best ID theft protection services....

Defenders of The Internet Victor Gevers, 44, is a senior security specialist who works as an innovation manager for the Dutch government, specializing in network, mobile and web application security. In his spare time, he also leads the independent not-for-profit organization GDI.foundation, a network of 38 volunteers that addresses security issues with responsible disclosures. Gevers and his foundation have already reported many thousands of data leaks and other vulnerabilities on the internet....

LEMF, the AFP explained, is an international term used to denote the transmission destination for lawfully intercepted communications and call-associated data. “Whilst the term ‘facility’ extends to the site where monitoring/recording equipment is located, this generally consists of computer infrastructure that will accept, acknowledge, store, process, and present intercepted products in compliance with international interception data exchange and standards protocols,” the AFP wrote in a statement of requirement (SOR). “The rapid advance of communications in IP networks has enabled multiple means of communication via SMS, email, messaging apps, and social media platforms....

It is the first win for the young AI startup in the energy sector. “The energy sector has historically been a monster consumer of compute, and they’ve generally been quiet about it,” said Cerebras co-founder and CEO Andrew Feldman in an interview with ZDNet. “The energy market is four times the size of the market that Google and all the rest play in – it’s unbelievably big,” he said, referring to the online advertising and shopping market....

Alibaba Cloud said Tuesday the investment, comprising funds and various resources, was part of its initiative to bolster the region’s digital talent pool, innovation, and infrastructure. The Chinese cloud vendor outlined three key programmes that focused on digital upskilling, developers, and tech startups. These included the launch of an initiative with Singapore’s School of Computer Science and Engineering and Nanyang Technological University’s NTU-Alibaba Singapore Joint Research Institute, to offer artificial intelligence (AI) courses under the university’s MiniMasters programme....

The company is claiming the three-week shopping event, which kicked off at the end of October, is its largest to date: There are more than 290,000 brands participating, and over 14 million deals offered on Tmall to 900-plus million consumers in China. These numbers include 2,000 Australian brands listed on Tmall and Tmall Global, around 80% of which entered China for the first time through the Chinese marketplaces, while New Zealand brands make up over 700 brands of the total....

The general public said Vogels still has a perception that “cloud is a few things that sit out there, somewhere,” he said. “And, maybe in the early days, when we launched the first two regions of AWS, that was the case.” “But now, there’s 24 regions around the world, 84 availability zones, hundreds of points of presence, pushing things to the edge in 5G access points, up in space – you know, cloud’s getting closer and closer to every individual,” said Vogels, referring to the overall scope of AWS infrastructure....

The Fire TV Stick is a Wi-Fi-enabled device that connects to your TV’s HDMI port to let you stream content from your favorite subscriptions, such as Netflix, HBO Max, and Hulu. Also: The top video streaming services compared Considering there are four to choose from with different features and prices, there’s sure to be one for all TV-watching needs. You should buy a Fire TV Stick Lite if… 1. You prefer a more affordable option 2....

The decision of whether to use proper Android profiles has been made deep in the bowels of various IT departments, determined by whether companies want to support work profiles or not – and if you ever switched employers, even if you had precious segmentation between personal and work, that could very well disappear. However, Google is slowly going to expand its support for Android work profiles. “Previously, the work profile was only available on managed devices....

After a series of funding rounds, today it’s Yugabyte’s turn to announce that it has closed $188 million in an oversubscribed Series C. This brings the company’s total funding to over $290 million and values Yugabyte at more than $1.3 billion. In other words, we have now have another NewSQL unicorn in Yugabyte. We connected with Yugabyte CEO Bill Cook and co-founder Karthik Ranganathan to discuss Yugabyte’s funding and growth, as well as database market trends....

Apple produced its first fraud prevention analysis last year, detailing it had prevented one million potentially bad apps from the App Store and protected customers from nearly $1.5 billion in potentially fraudulent transactions in 2020. In 2021, Apple rejected 34,500 apps for containing hidden or undocumented features, down from 48,000 in 2020. It also rejected 157,000 apps for being spam, copycats, or misleading to users, up from 150,000 in 2020....

Apple sent notifications to developers in China explaining their VPN app was removed from the Apple App Store. The apps included “content that is illegal in China, which is not in compliance with the App Store Review Guidelines,” the letter stated. VPNs are popular in China, allowing users to get around the country’s internet filter dubbed the Great Firewall. It blocks access from sites including Facebook, Twitter, New York Times, and more....

The $299 HomePod is available to order from Apple right now, with deliveries and in-store availability starting Feb. 3. You can get it in Midnight (black) or White. Inside the HomePod you’re looking at an S7 processor, the same one used in the Apple Watch Series 7. That chip is used for features like Apple’s room sensing technology that allows the HomePod to identify where it’s placed in a room (against a wall, in an open space, etc....

When it comes to health, Apple continues to add more features that provide peace of mind, should you be in a car accident, have any sort of irregular heartbeat, or even accidentally fall. Also: The best Apple Watches It’s that last feature, Fall Detection, I’m going to show you how to enable it. If you think it’s already turned on, I’ll show you where to double-check that it’s always monitoring for a fall, instead of only working during a workout – a lesson I learned while working on this very article....