They want customers to have it, as long as those customers pay a lot more money for it. Airlines do, though, have more exalted priorities. These tend to involve making as much money as possible. This comes with the uncomfortable notion that customers can be cooped up with little legroom on seats thinner than a politician’s scope of thought. Last week saw the Aircraft Interiors Expo in Hamburg. This is where the wise, the clever, and the never-embarrassed meet to see if they can find new, more profitable ways of putting more people in narrow tubes....

“A healthy online public sphere requires political will,” ASPI’s latest report [PDF], Influence for hire: The Asia-Pacific’s online shadow economy, says. “Transparency about government funding of public messaging when in office would allow citizens and civil society to engage with trust in the digital public sphere. “Political representatives should commit to not using networks of inauthentic, fake, or repurposed social media accounts to manipulate political discourse.” But it isn’t just political, with ASPI recommending for platforms to take on some of the accountability....

The report, Bridging the gap [PDF], ranked gender pay gap reporting systems across 11 indicators in Australia, France, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, and the UK. Those indicators included transparency levels around gender pay gap, mandated action plans, enforcement and penalties, whether there is sufficient government guidance and support, and is there accountability enforced through such reports and assessments. Based on that ranking system, both Australia and the UK scored four out of 11....

The transformation of Avaya has been well underway for several years. It had evolved its business model to subscription-based, cut a deal with RingCentral for a cloud communications solution, and built a communications platform as a service (CPaaS) platform. Last year the company launched its cloud contact center product and most recently announced its Experience Builders program to build an ecosystem of “experience creators” that use Avaya’s platform. The proof of its success in this transition was highlighted in the keynote delivered by Avaya’s CEO, Jim Chirico....

Google is trialling new carriage-level Maps ‘crowdedness prediction’ technology in New York and Sydney, where it will attempt to show the real-time state of each carriage. The feature relies on data from agencies like Long Island Rail Road and Transport for New South, and more cities will gain the feature soon, according to Google. SEE: 5G smartphones: A cheat sheet (free PDF) (TechRepublic) It’s also expanding transit crowdedness predictions in Google Maps to over 10,000 transit agencies in 100 countries....

Web development is a growing field in which a newcomer may find roles ranging from full-stack development to web design to digital project management. The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that positions in web development and digital design are expected to grow 13% by 2030 and pay a median salary of $77,200. Read on to learn more about how an affordable online certificate in web development can lead to a lucrative web development career....

Many feature affordable tuition and generous credit transfer policies for coursework, work experience, and military service. Online colleges in Kansas can prepare you for careers in the state’s key industries, including advanced manufacturing, aerospace and defense, corporate and professional services, energy and natural resources, and logistics and distribution. SEE: How to get college credit for work experience Top 5 online schools in Kansas: Quick facts The 9 best online colleges in Kansas Many lists of online programs exist on the internet, but you can trust ZDNet’s ranking methodology to provide curated, accurate, and independently researched data....

Earning a doctorate in sports management provides learners with the skills to rise to the top of the sports management field. Sports management professionals work in interscholastic and intercollegiate athletics, professional sport organizations, and at health, fitness, and recreation facilities. With sports and recreation an important part of our daily lives, sports management professionals thrive as coaches, personal managers and agents, and educators. To find out about the top sports management doctoral degrees in 2022, check out the information below....

Now, however, welcome to 2021. You know the story. COVID-19, lockdowns, shelter-in-place, vaccine battles, mask wars, the rise of work-from-home, offices deserted in favor of newly remote workers. To say life is unpredictable is an epic understatement. For many companies, especially those that had already gone through their own digital transformation, business was pretty much as usual. Their teams communicate via Slack or Teams, set up Zoom meetings four times a day, and create email chains and threads that can make you question the meaning of life....

On top of 2K HD video, this video doorbell features two-way audio, night vision, and human detection, and is compatible with Alexa and Google Assistant. But the biggest plus of this video doorbell is that you don’t have to pay for a monthly subscription to use it. The footage is stored locally in the HomeBase, so you can avoid having to pay recurrent fees. The HomeBase 2, which is included with the dual-cam doorbell in this deal, works as a chime, since this doorbell is battery-operated and can’t work with your existing chime....

Well, Black Shark is back for another swim. This time, the 5 Pro is equipped with a new Snapdragon and Android 12 at its core. There are some other minor updates to the new model, including its design and battery size, but that’s about it. (I mean, what do you expect from two phones that launched three months apart?) So, is the Black Shark 5 Pro worth picking up if you’re a gamer at heart?...

The BlackBerry Research & Intelligence team found that Zebra2104 provided entry points to ransomware groups like MountLocker and Phobos as well as the StrongPity APT. The access was provided to a number of companies in Australia and Turkey that had been compromised. The StrongPity APT targeted Turkish businesses in the healthcare space as well as smaller companies. BlackBerry said that from their research, they believe the access broker “has a lot of manpower or they’ve set up some large ‘hidden in plain sight’ traps across the internet....

For $99, the Blink Wired Floodlight Camera is wired into your home’s existing electrical wiring for power. It then records 1080p video with live view, and has two-way audio capabilities. Availability for the Blink Wired Floodlight Camera wasn’t announced outside of a vague statement that it’ll be “available in the coming months.” However, you can keep an eye on amazon.com/blink. The Blink Mini Pan-Tilt isn’t a camera, specifically; instead, it’s a motorized mount for the Blink Mini indoor cam....

Appealing to a generation that grew up on bottled water, Melbourne student entrepreneurs Alex Chen, Caleb Ha, Hwi So and William Yau, say the solution is not to kill off bottled water but to create more of it. If that fact alone didn’t make their proposition controversial enough – they also want to give it away for free. They believe the problems with bottled water are the environmental impact and the cost to consumers....

Couple this with the growing adoption of the blockchain, and it’s little wonder that money experts are predicting more companies to jump aboard the Bitcoin bandwagon in the coming years. Gartner, for example, forecasts that as many as one in five large enterprises will use digital currencies by 2024, either in the form of stored value or collateral or for actual payments. Avivah Litan, VP analyst in the Gartner IT practice, says mainstream acceptance of cryptocurrencies on traditional payment platforms such as PayPal, Visa and Mastercard – as well as the growing interest in central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) among major financial institutions – will push organizations to incorporate digital currencies into their applications....

But all that changed with the release in early 2020 of the new Microsoft Edge (same name, new logo), which is now widely available on every major desktop and mobile platform. Because it’s built on the same open source Chromium Project code base that Google uses for Chrome, it’s almost a perfect clone of Chrome for things that matter, like rendering web pages and working with third-party code. It’s … really good....

At the risk of falling into romantic opining, great gear is also increasingly hard to find. How many things have you purchased recently that you expect to be giving you good service in a decade? Two decades? That high-handed preface is leading to an equally high-handed thesis: I found a cargo bike that solves a major conveyance problem for me and my family. It is from an OG brand, technically refined, completely rugged, and absurdly tailored to our particular use case....

While counsel for the Commonwealth and those for the applicants all appeared for the 10:00am AEDT online hearing, within minutes, counsel for the applicants, Bernard Quinn QC, asked Justice Bernard Murphy for indulgence until 11:00am, allowing the parties to continue discussions. “Last Wednesday I informed the court that discussions were ongoing … those discussions have continued over the weekend and have been very productive,” Quinn said. “Discussions are still occurring....

Offering further information, the Digital Transformation Agency disclosed the three providers are Australian Data Centres (ADC), Canberra Data Centres (CDC), and Macquarie Telecom’s Canberra Campus. The DTA said the trio of providers have been certified against the requirements defined in the Hosting Certification Framework, which it has administered since March 2019. “The DTA is working with other providers who have requested certification and will make further announcements in due course,” a DTA spokesperson told ZDNet....

Not only will the collar help you track down a lost dog, but Invoxia also added several features that will monitor several of your dog’s health metrics. For example, the Smart Dog Collar can measure the dog’s heart rate and measure respiratory rate. Invoxia uses a series of radar sensors and artificial intelligence in order to take the readings. Those readings are then synced to the companion app, along with statistics about your dog’s daily activity such as walking, running, scratching, eating, drinking, barking, and resting....