Made by Rolling Square – the company behind the really cool inCharge X, 6-in-1 charging cable – Tau is designed to keep your smartphone charged up and your keys in one place. Tau is a tiny power bank key fob that magnetically attaches to a wall-mounted charger. In the morning, you grab your keys along with a fully-charged power bank. When you come back in the evening, you pop your keys back in the holder and charge up the power bank....

The apps, which delivered Joker malware, have been identified by cybersecurity researchers at Pradeo, who reported them to Google. The applications have now been removed from the Play Store. Users who downloaded the apps have been warned to immediately delete them to avoid falling victim to fraud. SEE: A winning strategy for cybersecurity (ZDNet special report) Three of the apps were published within the last month, while one was first published in November 2020 – although the researchers were unable to identify when it had been modified to deliver malware....

“Our research shows that most consumers prefer to buy smart home devices from a single vendor or brand, rather than mixing and matching from multiple brands,” Adam Wright, research manager at tech analyst IDC, tells ZDNET. “Part of this is driven by brand loyalty and trust – consumers that have a positive experience with a brand that provides smart home devices and services are more likely to trust that brand and seek out additional products and services from that brand rather than risk using a different brand that is unfamiliar....

On August 26, Marketo wrote that it had 4GB of stolen data and was selling it on its leak site. They provided samples of the data and claimed they had confidential customer information, company data, budget data, reports and other company documents, including project information. Initially, the group’s leak site said it had 280 bids on the data, but now, the leak site shows 70 bids for the data, including one bid today....

Jobs are plentiful for those skilled in information technology, but developing these skills takes time. There’s also the matter of proving those skills to a prospective employer, and that’s where professional certifications come in. The collection includes 13 exam prep courses taught by the expert instructors at CramWise, a privately-held company specializing in IT education. You can take the courses on any device in your own time, and the classes don’t just teach you everything you need to know about your new work environment....

It’s hard to imagine, but 15TB is actually more backup storage than you will get from OneDrive, Dropbox, and Google Drive combined. So you won’t have to worry about running out of space even if you have videos, graphics, music, and more, in addition to all those presentations you’ve been adding so much flair to. And you can rest assured that your data is safe because it’s protected by 256-bit AES encryption....

Mail Backup X’s Individual Edition works with all of the leading email platforms, including Microsoft Outlook, Gmail, Office 365, Microsoft Exchange, Thunderbird, Apple Mail, and more. You can save up to triple the amount of space you’re currently using by highly compressing your archives, but they can still be searched quickly, allowing you to view emails when you need to. You can have mirror backup for all of your messages using either a USB drive or a cloud platform like Google Drive, One Drive, or Dropbox....

So many of us use Microsoft software that we often take it for granted. But if you’re working in tech fields like IT administration or cloud services, then Windows OS isn’t just your gateway to email and cat videos – it’s your livelihood. With the proper training and a few key certifications, anyone can turn Microsoft specialization into a career. And it’s hard to find a better place to start than the Complete Microsoft 365, Windows, and Azure Bundle, now deeply discounted to $59....

Summer is finally here, so it’s time to gear up for travel. But as packed as your itinerary might be, you might find a few hours here and there to get your daily gaming fix in. The Nintendo Switch offers a brilliant mix of power and portability when you’re on the go. But the docking station? Not so much. You can remedy this with this lightweight multi-port docking station from UGR Tech, and it’s available for just $19....

The feature is meant to automate and eliminate the need for shoppers, after placing an order for a product online, to keep checking their inbox for the confirmation email and getting the tracking number to check the status of a delivery. At holiday season, inboxes are more likely to become filled with these confirmations. So, in the coming weeks, Gmail will begin showing delivery information in the inbox. If there is a tracking number, then it will display a summary card at the top of emails showing the status of the delivery....

Announced at the annual Qualcomm Snapdragon Tech Summit on Tuesday, the companies said that the collaboration will focus on the development of Vertex AI Neural Architecture Search (NAS), a managed service described by Google as search technology for generating, evaluating, and training model architectures for applications. The focus of the partnership is to make it possible to automate the creation of AI models and to reduce manual workloads. Once combined with Qualcomm’s Artificial Intelligence (AI) Engine, NAS will be used to “accelerate neural network development and differentiation” for Snapdragon mobile, ACPC, XR, the Snapdragon Ride automotive platform, and IoT initiatives, according to Qualcomm....

Google’s director of government affairs and public policy Lucinda Longcroft was repeatedly asked by the committee about YouTube displaying Clive Palmer’s United Australia Party (UAP) ads containing COVID-19 misinformation. At least nine UAP ads presented incomplete extracts of a Therapeutic Goods Administration’s (TGA) report on vaccinations to convey misleading COVID-19 information, according to committee deputy chair and Labor representative Tim Watts. Conceding the existence of these ads on YouTube, Longcroft told the committee that the platform’s COVID-19 misinformation policies are “robust, rapid, and effectively enforced” as it had issued one strike to the UAP for these ads, which removed the political party’s YouTube privileges for a week....

Android phone users interested in joining the open beta program can find instructions for signing up in the Android Messages Help Center. Google Messages, the company’s texting app, already supports end-to-end encryption for one-on-one text messages. Encryption “shouldn’t even be a thought – just an expectation and something anyone texting should not have to worry about,” Messages by Google group product manager Neena Budhiraja wrote in a blog post. Also: The 5 best encrypted messaging apps: Keep your chats private While announcing the new beta program, Google took the opportunity to once again shame its largest competitor in the mobile OS world, Apple, for supporting SMS instead of RCS....

Graphcore, which was founded five years ago and has $710 million in financing, didn’t take the top score in any of the MLPerf tests, but it reported results that are significant when compared with the other two in terms of number of chips used. Moreover, when leaving aside Google’s submission, which isn’t commercially available, Graphcore was the only competitor to enter into the top five commercially available results alongside Nvidia....

Whether or not you use a Google Android or Apple iOS smartphone, threat actors are constantly evolving their tactics to break into them. This includes everything from basic spam and malicious links sent over social media to malware capable of spying on you, compromising your banking apps, or deploying ransomware on your device. The top threats to Android and iOS smartphone security in 2022 Phishing and smishing Phishing occurs when attackers send you fake and fraudulent messages....

The Virtual Storage Platform (VSP) 5000 Series models, VSP E-Series, and Hitachi Content Platform offerings are now generally available with new cloud-based management tools, the company said. A little background: For years, Tokyo-based Hitachi was one of those corporations whose business customers were generally older-school users and not necessarily first-movers in new-gen IT. When the company spun out Hitachi Vantara in 2017, it was the result of the convergence of Hitachi Data Systems, Hitachi Insight Group and Pentaho around new-gen storage systems....

Now, other Windows PC makers are working on dual-screened laptops that offer different takes on Microsoft’s concept. Indeed, with a Core i9 processor and powerful Nvidia RTX discrete graphics processor, the ASUS ZenBook Pro Duo offers the kind of muscle one would expect in a modern workstation. It would merely be a capable clamshell, however, if it didn’t have the feature that other mobile PCs for creative pros lack: a second screen....

But for other IT, HR, and business executives that I’ve spoken with over the last several months, the focus now is much more on how to bridge the divide that is taking place. The divide between those that go back and those that remain remote. The concern is strategic: How to maintain a distinct culture of properly engaged workers. It’s also tactical: How to ensure a much more distributed workforce remains effective while also being equitably treated....

SEE: Hiring Kit: Python developer (TechRepublic Premium) Still, I could happily control my Hue lights from Cortana, though support for my Netatmo thermostats and Ikea Tradfri lights had to be through maker tools like IFTTT and workflow automation with webhook APIs like Power Automate or Zapier. But then Microsoft refocused Cortana on its commercial customers and announced that its Invoke Cortana integrations were due to be turned off early in 2021....

“I bet you could save a lot of money using that to charge up your iPhone!” I’d never thought about it, so I decided to run the numbers. Must read: Jackery Solar Generators: Well-built, tough, and deliver what’s promised The iPhone I’m using is an iPhone 11 Pro Max, and its battery has a capacity of 15.04 watt-hour. Now let’s assume some assumptions. First, the battery has a lifespan of 500 recharge cycles, which means that over that time, it has slurped in 7,500 wh (watt-hours of power), or 7....