The tool in question is called cron and it allows you to schedule jobs for the Linux operating system. Also: Patch now: Serious Linux security hole uncovered Say, for example, you’ve written a simple backup script to back up everything in your Documents folder. It’s named backup.sh and looks something like this: You save that script in /usr/local/bin and give it the proper execution permissions with the command: Now, instead of running that backup script manually every day or week, you can use cron to make it automatic....

No, it not a car, and certainly not a TV. AR glasses. Must read: I just found my lost AirTag… you’ll never guess where it went And a lot of the pieces are already in place for this. For example, take Live Text in photos, with its associated visual look-up feature. Having the ability to pull text from real-world scenes and pull up data on what the user is looking at would be a cornerstone feature of any AR glasses....

Ninety-three percent of households with K-12 students participated in online learning in the summer of 2020. US Census Bureau data also showed that children from higher-income families were more likely to have access to — and use — online learning resources. When in-person classrooms closed, school administrators, teachers, and students faced lots of changes. Unfortunately, teachers found that equity issues facing their English language learners meant that these students were more likely to lack the required devices, internet access, or digital skills to access online learning....

Combined with users continuing to leave 12Mbps and 25Mbps plans, it has left 58% of the network now on 50Mbps plans. Over the September quarter, almost 45,000 lines moved off 12Mbps plans leaving 924,000 connections, 122,000 moved off 25Mbps with 945,000 now on that speed, 171,000 lines switched from Superfast leaving 389,000 active connections, and 24,700 dropped Ultrafast tiers for under 62,000 to remain. Almost 353,000 lines shifted to 50Mbps with the total number now at 4....

But last year, the Note mysteriously vanished from Samsung’s lineup. Why? According to Anisha Bhatia, senior analyst at GlobalData, it wasn’t because of decreased demand or changing priorities: It all came down to supply chain issues. “A combined Ultra and Note was widely expected after Note phones disappeared from Samsung’s line-up last year,” writes Bhatia. “Continued remote working has seen consumers rely heavily on their smartphones and expect more out of them....

On top of that, a lot of the software I depended on was nowhere to be found. This, of course, was way before the web browser became the primary tool for both productivity and entertainment. Also: The best Linux laptops Those days are long since gone. Now, Linux is incredibly easy to use and offers hundreds of thousands of applications that can be installed using package managers that make the process very user-friendly....

To understand what Apple is reportedly doing, it’s important to understand how things are done. Employment history master databases You’re undoubtedly familiar with credit reporting agencies. When you apply for a loan, money lenders outsource some of the verification and qualification work to the big three agencies (Equifax, Experian, and TransUnion). Credit agencies provide a central repository of information and – to lenders – a source of “truth” about your financial background....

The driver for composable architectures is based on organizations investing in total experience strategies. In order to drive innovation, these organizations must attract the right people, which is becoming increasingly difficult in this scarce talent landscape. Research reveals that many senior IT leaders are now measured on employee experience (46%), which is almost as high as those measured against customer experience (48%). In 2023, an increasing number of leading organizations will look at total experience (TX) as a means of improving the journeys of both customers and employees, particularly in the areas where they intersect....

That question is being put to the test in Southern California. The Chula Vista Police Department (CVPD), which has an active drone program, is teaming up with AirData UAV to transparency public drone flights. Mirroring the increased focus by police departments nationwide on effective public information campaigns, the hope for law enforcement officials is that easily accessible data, including flight and mission details, will help mollify a distrustful public. “Transparency and accountability are key components in the success of our drone program, which has been an invaluable tool in maintaining the safety of our officers and the public,” says Chief Roxana Kennedy, Chula Vista Police Department....

Last week, Microsoft added a few processors to the “qualified” list. But they also created a loophole via which those running PCs which Microsoft deem unqualified to get the Windows 11 release and run in an “unsupported state.” Unsupported in this case means these PCs may or may not receive security and driver updates via Windows Update. Microsoft officials have said they will continue to support Windows 10 until October 2025....

Akinrinade said she was inspired by the success of Clubhouse and Tik Tok, which prompted her to create her own platform that could “democratize access to mentorship.” “As a Black woman working in London’s largest diversity startup program One Tech, I’ve observed firsthand how lack of access to mentors contributes to systemic inequality,” Akinrinade explained to ZDNet. “In addition to this, I observed that would-be mentors on other platforms today have a clear problem: they have no way of engaging the many inbound requests they receive so they ignore them all unless they get a ‘warm intro,’ which is itself a crystallization of systemic inequality....

The thousand fleet milestone comes as AutoX is riding a wave of recent announcements. In July 2021, AutoX’s newest Gen5 system-equipped RoboTaxis started rolling off the production line. More recently, in January 2022, AutoX shared an inside look at its end-of-line, Level 4 fully driverless RoboTaxis dedicated production facility located near Shanghai, China, with a video. Since starting production, the RoboTaxi assembly line has been in full operation. Back 2020, capitalizing on a COVID-19 pandemic-induced emphasis on contactless services, the company made headlines with a dual-country approach to autonomy testing and market rollout, essentially cornering the RoboTaxi market in Shanghai while also winning a coveted permit to test its driverless cars without drivers in California, becoming just the third company to be awarded the permit....

At the end of 2021, Global X forecasts growth in industrial robots from 16 billion to 37 billion over the next 10 years, noting the importance of 2022 as a major adoption tipping point. What does that mean for humans? And given the longstanding fears of the impact of robots on employees, why hasn’t a bigger deal been made of this? Veo, which provides sensing and intelligence to four of the biggest robot companies in the world (FANUC, Yaskawa, ABB, and Kuka), came up with part of the answer when it surveyed 500+ manufacturers across the US, UK, and Japan in Q2....

“To regulate AI effectively, and to support the clarity of our proposed framework, we need a common understanding of what is meant by ‘artificial intelligence’,” the white paper states. Also: Tech leaders sign petition to halt AI boom “There is no general definition of AI that enjoys widespread consensus,” and, “that is why we have defined AI by reference to the two characteristics that generate the need for a bespoke regulatory response....

Besides the core of its network, Huawei was everywhere else, and the telco relied on the Chinese vendor for its radio network and transmission network. Everything from a mobile device up to the data centre used a single vendor. Given such reliance and the existing relationship, the telco intended to use Huawei when it began the move to offering 5G services. All that changed by the end of that month, however, as the situation had become untenable in the face of a government ban on Huawei and ZTE for supplying 5G services in Australia....

Computer science jobs without coding support their coding-centric counterparts, enriching the field. If you can’t program, don’t like it, or are in the process of learning, computer science jobs are still within your reach. We’ve noted when programming knowledge and skills might prove useful in the positions listed below, but these 11 computer science jobs generally don’t require coding knowledge or experience. 1. Computer support specialist Avg. annual salary: $55,510 Alternate job titles: Technical support specialist, help-desk technician, computer user support specialistEducation required: Some college or undergraduate degreeExperience required: Computer knowledge Computer support specialists answer questions, troubleshoot problems, and assist computer users and organizations....

Michael Porowski, a senior principal research analyst at Gartner, said the COVID-19 pandemic “spiked demand for optimized and ultrafast broadband connectivity to support work-from-home and bandwidth-hungry applications, such as streaming video, online gaming and social media applications.” “Business and customer demand is an influencing factor in this growth. As consumers return to the office, they will continue to upgrade or switch to gigabit fiber to the home service as connectivity has become an essential remote work service,” said Porowski....

Here are some of the key findings of the IT leadership 2021 survey: IT workloads have increased during the pandemic. 88% of IT leaders say workloads have increased in the past 12 months. 60% of IT leaders who said their workload increased have noted an increase of more than half. I believe the pandemic served as a 5-10 year accelerant for digital business transformation. The adoption of e-commerce is an example of 10 years of acceleration....

Pixels aren’t the tiny glowing dots on your computer screen (strictly speaking, we should call those display elements). Instead, they’re a sample of a visual field at a single point that has location and colour. Or more eloquently, they’re the invisible digital bits that represent what Alvy Ray Smith calls ‘digital light’ (the book’s original title) – the technology that lets you see digital text, drawings, photographs, videos, movies and TV shows, because they’re made visible by computation....

Also: Only a game? Sport isn’t just for spectators… it’s a platform Shail, throughout his history and on his way to becoming a thought leader – not just a business leader – in the RPA space, took chances, which is why I think you need to hear him on why taking what I call “intelligent risk” at scale and speedily is one of the best ways to attack a heavily competitive market....