Google’s take on the genre does fall more toward the simplistic side of the spectrum, spreading its capabilities across a relatively simple set of options and menus. However, being tied into the Google ecosystem makes Tasks a sneakily well-integrated solution for connecting your Gmail and Google Calendar content into a simple, powerful goal tracking system. Let’s take a closer look at Google Tasks, its Gmail integration, and how it performs at organizing business and personal tasks....

But when attempting to address important issues like diversity, equity, and inclusion, sometimes it’s hard to know where or how to start. To provide some inspiration, we asked tech company leaders: What is your current strategy for diversity and inclusion when it comes to recruitment and hiring? Here’s what five of them had to say. Their responses have been edited for length and clarity. Steven Walker, CEO of Spylix It’s one thing to say you value diverse recruiting strategies and teams, but it’s quite another to live those values daily....

If you’re a fan of golf but not the summer heat, your time has come in more ways than one. Not only is the TruGolf Mini an intuitive simulator that brings some of the greatest courses in the world right into your living room, but it’s also now on sale. No, not for Prime Days: Thanks to the Deal Days promo running on this very site, you can get the TruGolf Mini for a full 22% off through July 14 – no coupon required....

“We are in discussion with the telcos that provide your services … under the Telecommunications Act, section 313, there might be a possibility for the telcos to act as an authorised blocking agent – that is to say, it’s unwanted, I don’t want this to come to my computer, I don’t want this to come to my phone. It’s malicious,” Home Affairs secretary Mike Pezzullo told Senate Estimates on Monday evening....

If you don’t prefer either store, this Home Depot vs. Lowe’s Credit Card comparison can help you choose which card is best for you and your wallet. Features: Perks: 1 full year return policy (90 days for non-cardmembers).Everyday financing: 6 months no interest on purchases of $299 or more if paid in full within 6 months.Special financing: Up to 24 months on special promotions with minimum purchase requirements. Features:...

Let’s start with network. VPNs provide network connections, meaning they move data to and from your device. Private means they make that movement private, helping prevent hackers from seeing what you’re sending. And virtual means that you’re doing it all in software. You’re not running a new set of wires. Instead, you’re creating a software-based network connection that then moves data over the physical connection (whether that’s wireless or wired)....

Over the past seven years, the programme has targeted entrepreneurs, business owners, freelancers, and digital nomads. As of mid-February 2022, Estonia has almost 90,000 e-residents from 177 countries, who have started over 20,000 companies, 4,700 of which were founded in 2021. “I recently had a chat with someone from the council of Tartu, the second biggest city in Estonia. We were talking about numbers, and they pointed out that the number of Estonia’s e-residents will probably exceed Tartu’s population this year,” says Lauri Haav, managing director of Estonia’s e-Residency programme....

There are two easy ways to back up your iPhone: a cloud service, like iCloud or OneDrive, or your computer. Both methods have their pros and cons. The easier one may be backing up to a cloud service because it only requires one device: your phone. Backing up to the cloud, unfortunately, limits you to how much data you can store with that cloud. Using a computer to back up your phone won’t cost you a monthly iCloud membership, but your data is stored on a hard drive, which means it’s only safe while the computer is safe....

We’re going to use a built-in tool called Shortcuts. There’s a lot to shortcuts, and if you want to learn more, I suggest taking a look at this document as a starter. However, this quick tutorial will give you a taster of what Shortcuts can do. So, let’s get cracking. Must read: The best browser to replace Google Chrome on Windows, Mac, iPhone, and Android #1: Fire up Shortcuts. #2: Tap on the + at the top-right corner of the screen....

Also: How to convert your home’s old TV cable into powerful Ethernet lines However, as with all forms of software, sometimes signing up for a new VPN service or transitioning to a new PC can cause issues and errors to flare up with your VPN. If you’re unsure if a VPN is working correctly or experiencing connection failures, here are some tips on how to check and restart your VPN – as well as keep your connection secure....

I’ve been using LibreOffice for a long time and have found it to be as solid a tool as any on the market. Even better, it plays verywell with MS Office, so you can collaborate all you want and no one will know the difference. LibreOffice includes: Writer - for documentsCalc - for spreadsheetsImpress - for presentationsDraw - for drawingsFormula - for creating formulasBase - for databases LibreOffice includes a user-configurable interface, so you can configure it as a modern ribbon-like UI or a traditional menu-based UI (or some variation between the two)....

But it doesn’t have to be that way. Business leaders share their best-practice techniques for creating meetings that matter. 1. Set an objective Lee Cowie, CTO at Merlin Entertainments, says anyone calling a meeting needs to be really clear about why it’s happening and what’s it for. “Think about what you’re going to achieve from this meeting – what is your goal and be really specific and focused on what the purpose of the meeting is and the outcome that is expected....

First, you naturally have to make sure you’re using OneDrive to back up and sync your files. Both Windows 10 and 11 enable OneDrive by default, whether you want to use it or not. But if you do want it, it’s ready and waiting for you. Just make sure you sign in to set up your account and are syncing the necessary folders and files. Restore a file from the OneDrive Recycle Bin Okay, now let’s say you’ve deleted a file and need it back....

Of course, you could go through them, bookmarking what you need to and discarding the rest. But, there’s a faster, simpler way that lets you hang on to all of your precious tabs while categorizing them into easy-to-use groups. Best of all, it’s built right into Chrome. Let us show you how to use Chrome’s tab groups to get your hoard of browser tabs organized once and for all. How to use tab groups in Google Chrome Materials needed: Any PC (Windows or macOS) or Chromebook running a recent version of the Google Chrome browser...

Enable FancyZones Set up FancyZones In the Editor section, click the entry for Activation Shortcut if you wish to define a different shortcut to trigger the tool; otherwise, leave this as is. The next entry for Launch editor on the display determines where the layout editor appears when you launch it. Click its dropdown box if you wish to change the location (Figure 2). FancyZones lets you define the number of zones for each layout along with the padding and spacing so you can fully control how and where they appear on the screen....

The Macro Focus mode uses the 12 MP ultrawide lens, in combination with the Tensor Chip and AI to achieve this feat and I’ve been quite impressed with the results so far. I don’t have any other phone that is capable of getting so close up to a subject to even remotely pull off any sort of macro photography on par with what the Pixel 7 Pro offers. Also: Pixel 7 Pro: Finally!...

On Tuesday, researchers from SentinelLabs published a technical deep-dive on the bug, tracked as CVE-2021-3437 and issued with a CVSS score of 7.8. SentinelLabs says the high-severity flaw impacts “millions of devices worldwide,” including a wide variety of OMEN gaming laptops and desktops, as well as HP Pavilion and HP ENVY models. Found by SentinelLabs researcher Kasif Dekel, CVE-2021-3437 is a privilege escalation vulnerability in the HP OMEN Command Center....

In my colleague Jason Cipriani’s full review of the Pixel 7 Pro, he stated, “I can’t print the first thing that came out of my mouth after taking a 30x picture…” and that was my exact sentiment several times while walking around the zoo. Review: Newest Pixels zoom past Samsung on this one camera feature Things are getting wild While my youngest daughter was disappointed that she could barely catch a glimpse of the snow leopard lying down far far away behind a chain link fence, the Pixel 7 Pro, with the new 30x Super Res Zoom was able to capture the restfulness of the spotted cat....

On Wednesday, the tech giant said that the new service, IBM Security Services for SASE, will leverage technology provided through a partnership with cybersecurity firm Zscaler, announced in May. The new offering has been “designed to help accelerate organizations’ adoption of cloud-delivered security at the edge, closer to the users and devices that access corporate resources,” according to IBM, as well as to promote zero-trust network access (ZTNA) in the enterprise....

Using the IBM-developed AI Fairness 360 (AIF360) toolkit, which Big Blue contributed to a Linux Foundation project in 2020, IBM researchers studied the problem of bias in advertising and ways to mitigate the problem. Now, the company is releasing its free Advertising Toolkit for AI Fairness 360, an open-source tool with 75 fairness metrics and 13 algorithms to help identify and mitigate biases in discrete data sets. It also includes a playbook and sample code for ease of use....