Schools can also offer students access to streaming 3D learning experiences on low-bandwidth devices through ASU Prep Learning Cloud. The technology was developed with and is powered by Google Cloud. ASU Prep Digital is an accredited online K-12 school that’s part of Arizona State University. Google Public Sector is a recently created division of Google. The division focuses on helping schools and governments with digital transformation. “We’re turning students into explorers by embedding learning into the digital formats that students love,” said David Sudarma, ASU Prep’s chief technology officer, in an announcement shared with ZDNet....

Cryptocurrency mining is by far the main malicious activity conducted by attackers after taking advantage of misconfigured instances hosted on GCP, making up 86% of all actions carried out after compromise. And in many cases, the attackers move extremely quickly after compromising an instance and installing cryptomining malware to free-ride off others’ CPU and GPU resources to turn a profit for themselves. “Analysis of the systems used to perform unauthorized cryptocurrency mining, where timeline information was available, revealed that in 58% of situations the cryptocurrency mining software was downloaded to the system within 22 seconds of being compromised,” Google says in its first Cloud Threat Intelligence report....

According to a post on the Google Workspace Update blog, Google Workspace customers will be able to add custom watermarks in a Google Doc and create their own background text identifiers. The “Watermark” tab in the “Insert” drop-down now lets you either choose an image as a watermark or type in your own in the new “Text” tab. “Text watermarks will repeat on every page on your document, making it useful for indicating file status, such as ‘Confidential’ or ‘Draft’ before sharing more broadly, no matter the application you use,” Google detailed in the blog post....

The tech giant said Google.org and Google employees are contributing $15 million in donations to aid relief efforts in Ukraine, with $5 million coming from the company’s employee matching campaign and another $5 million coming from grants. The company is also offering advertising credits for humanitarian and intergovernmental organizations working on aid and resettlement efforts. “We’ve launched an SOS alert on Search across Ukraine. When people search for refugee and evacuation information, they will see an alert pointing them to United Nations resources for refugees and asylum seekers....

On Wednesday, Google added new features to its flood and wildfire tracking services that expand the scope of who can use it and what it does. Google’s wildfire tracking system has already covered more than 30 big wildfire events in the US and Canada in real time, helping alert both community members and firefighting teams, with over seven million views, according to a blog post. Google has expanded its wildfire tracking systems to identify and track wildfires in real time and predict how they will evolve and spread....

The Alphabet ISP hasn’t revealed pricing yet, but the new plans will sit on top of its existing 1 Gig plan for $70 a month, and the 2 Gig plan at $100 a month. Both of those offer symmetrical download and upload speeds and come with 1 TB of free cloud storage. I’m happy with my 300 Mbps broadband service in Paris, but Google Fiber thinks its super-fast plans will be sought after by creatives, scientists working with lots of data, finance analysts, and households with a lot of people working or studying from home....

The new immersive view feature gives users a detailed, close-up look at places, including indoor locations like restaurants or event venues. With Google Maps information layered on top, a user can use the time slider to check out what an area looks like at different times of day and in various weather conditions. It can provide insight into how busy a place could be during certain times of the day or what nearby traffic looks like....

On Monday, head of solutions strategy Anoosh Saboori said that following a successful public preview announcement in October, the company has observed a “tremendous” reception from the market, as well as many “innovative use cases for the service.” Google CAS is a scalable service for managing and deploying private certificates via automation, as well as manage public key infrastructure (PKI). The tech giant says the platform was created to “address the unprecedented growth in certificates in the digital world” prompted by the popularity of cloud services, Internet of Things (IoT), containers, microservices, smart devices, and next-generation connectivity....

The funding round was led by Sequoia Capital, Coatue, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Lead Edge Capital and GIC. As part of the latest funding round Sequoia Capital partner Carl Eschenbach will join the company’s board alongside Coatue general partner David Schneider. Eschenbach is a former president of VMware and Schneider previously served as president of ServiceNow. Grafana Labs added a free tier in January and a month earlier became the first open source provider to enter a joint development and go to market deal with AWS....

A series of letters were sent to a total of six crypto mining companies: Riot Blockchain, Marathon Digital Holdings, Stronghold Digital Mining, Bitdeer, Bitfury Group, and Bit Digital. While the letters are personalized to each operation, their content is primarily the same list of queries: How much electricity is consumed by your operations and how much carbon is generated as a result?Do you have any special agreements in place with local power utility providers?...

Under the restructure, the Chinese internet giant has split its global and domestic e-commerce business into two separate units. During the restructure announcement, Alibaba said it would focus its investment on the “two strategic pillars” to better drive synergies across its consumer and wholesale commerce platforms in China as well as internationally. Starting this quarter, the company has updated its segment reporting to reflect this restructure, which now includes China commerce, international commerce, local consumer services, Cainaio, cloud, digital media and entertainment, and innovation initiatives and others....

In a statement, Poly Network – a “DeFi” platform that works across blockchains – said the unknown culprit behind the attack has so far returned $256 million in BSC, $1 million from Polygon and $3.3 million in Ethereum. Poly Network noted that there is still $269 million in Ethereum as well as $84 million in Polygon that needs to be returned. The company attributed the attack to a vulnerability that was exploited concerning contract calls....

At the same time, Jean-Louis Gassée left Apple to create a company called Be Inc., who developed BeOS, which focused on creating the fastest disk I/O, rendering, and kernel on the market. Instead of competing with Jobs’ other company, Apple bought NeXT and then modified the OS to become the new OS X and iPhone OS 1. But what happened to BeOS? It now lives on as the Haiku Project....

Also: Best under-desk treadmills you can buy Although I find it far more conducive to the way I work (as well as much better for my overall health), my legs do get tired. This is especially exaggerated when I’m training for a marathon. To ease that fatigue, I use a couple of different things, one of which is a small, curved, and padded balance board made by Fezibo. The Fezibo balance board does two things for me: It gives me some extra padding to help my feet, and it allows me to rock or balance as I stand to ease tension and help build core muscles....

SimpliSafe vs. Vivint *Data as of 07/22/20 Pros: Affordable and cost-effective home security option No contracts, so you can pause or cancel your service at any timeEasy setup doesn’t require any special toolsSecret alerts notify you without triggering an alarm Cons: Mixed reviews from customersOnly connects with a few smart home devicesNo mobile app access with the Standard plan Pros: Wide range of smart device products, including locks, a thermostat, and garage door openersMobile app access provides important alerts and controls even while you’re awayInteractive cameras let you see and hear what’s going on in your homeCar Guard alerts you to car thieves and tracks a stolen car Cons: Requires professional installation, which costs between $49 and $199Expensive plans that are nearly double the cost of SimpliSafeLong contracts for 42 or 60 months...

Danny Gonzalez, chief digital and innovation officer (CDIO) at London North Eastern Railway (LNER), says the answer is to place technology at the heart of everything your business does. “We firmly believe that digital is absolutely crucial,” he says. “We must deliver the experiences that meet or exceed customers’ expectations.” Delivering to that agenda is no easy task. Gonzalez says the rail journey is “absolutely full” of elements that can go wrong for a passenger, from buying a ticket, to getting to the train station, to experiencing delays on-board, and onto struggling to get away from the station when they reach their destination....

But it does have its limits. For one thing, while it has a TPM, its processor isn’t supported for Windows 11. So how do you squeeze more life out of a device that will drop out of support in a couple of years, as Microsoft winds down Windows 10? The answer is a simple one: run Linux on it. Of course, some things are easier said than done. Microsoft uses a lot of custom hardware in its Surface devices....

That’s because back then all I was working with was text and even that was limited to 25 lines with 80 columns per line. It’s a different story now. Today, I do video conferencing, watch 4K TV shows and movies, and pour gigabytes of data across the net. I really can use a Gbps connection. But what about you? Ready to look for another, better ISP or at least a better connection?...

In fact, one big area of focus for his team this year has been building the foundations for scalable machine learning. To tackle that challenge, Capital One has taken a threefold approach; Bose explained: “Building foundational platforms, ensuring it builds responsible and well-managed AIand hiring the right talent.” Here’s more of what Bose had to say on each of these themes: Building an adaptable, foundational platform “First, we need to build first-class machine learning platforms that can scale, and that can be adaptive to the recent trends – this space moves really fast....

More: Best Galaxy S23 features you should know When will Samsung release the Galaxy S23? Pre-orders are underway right now, and you can add the Galaxy S23 models to your cart at Samsung’s website, third-party retailers, and from carriers. However, you will have to wait until February 17 before they start shipping. You can also head over to a Samsung store near you to pick it up in person the same day they begin shipping....