Earlier this month, Google announced it will spend a cool £730m ($1bn) on its office space in central London. The tech giant also expects its headcount to increase from 6,400 to 10,000, with Google UK boss, Ronan Harris, telling the BBC that the company is keen to see a return to office life and people behind desks. Harris said the new Google workspaces would be reimagined for new hybrid and flexible-working preferences....

The larger of the two devices, the Pixel 7 Pro, has a triple camera module compared to the dual cameras on the Pixel 7, and looks similar to the Pixel 6 Pro. The Pixel 6 series was powered by Google’s own Tensor processor, signaling that it was looking to differentiate the phones from other Android devices, which are mostly equipped with Qualcomm’s SoCs. An updated Tensor chip is expected to power the Pixel 7 series....

Google’s Rick Osterloh, SVP of devices and services, was joined by other executives who walked viewers of the event through Google Tensor, Pixel 6 and the features users can expect. Here’s everything Google announced on Tuesday. Android 12 is live Google didn’t announce it during the event, but instead used a blog post to announce that Android 12 is officially out and available for Pixel owners. Google’s Android hardware partners will release the update on their own schedule, ranging anywhere from a few days after Google’s official release to several months or longer....

According to Google, the high-severity flaw, which is tracked as CVE-2022-4135, is due to a memory-related “heap buffer overflow in GPU”. “Google is aware that an exploit for CVE-2022-4135 exists in the wild,” Google says in its advisory. The issue was was reported on 22 November by Clement Lecigne, a researcher with Google’s Threat Analysis Group. Also: Ransomware: Why it’s still a big threat, and where the gangs are going next Google is rolling out the fix in the coming days or weeks via the Stable channel release of Chrome, which has now been updated to 107....

Globally, Google found that the most popular news searches this year involved Afghanistan, which dominated headlines for weeks in August as the US ended its 20-year involvement in the country. Stock advice about AMC and Gamestop also was in the top five news topics searched. Alec Baldwin and Pete Davidson topped the list of actors, while athletes like Tiger Woods and Simone Biles led the way in sports. Marvel films like Eternals, Black Widow, and Shang-Chi were the top searched movies....

The update, though minor, makes it possible for users to approve access to data in a Google Account a single-tap process that’s friendlier for smartphones. OAuth is a widely supported standard for giving apps access to account information. It has been abused by attackers in the past and forced Google to introduce stricter rules for developers who use it to connect to Google apps. Today, it requires all third-party apps use OAuth to request access to Google Account data....

Over half of companies said they had “a high degree of purchase regret” after making their largest technology-related purchase, according to a survey by analyst firm Gartner. The phase of buyers’ remorse apparently is most raw after making the purchase but before implementing the technology. Gartner surveyed 1,120 respondents in North America, Western Europe and Asia Pacific between November and December 2021. SEE: How to make meetings effective and useful: 6 ways to get actually get stuff done Gartner suggests the dynamics of buying and selling big-ticket technology items has changed, making it harder for vendors to identify the right people to talk to in a business....

The display of the Govee 6-ft LED strip light M1 at CES 2023 showcases the company’s first Matter-certified lighting product, making smart home users’ collective dreams come true. Just a few months ago, many of us in the smart home world saw Matter almost like a pipe dream, a great idea in theory but years away from our own homes. Now, with more companies becoming certified for Matter, we’ll see more implementations of the new connectivity standard....

On Tuesday, OpenAI unveiled GPT-4, a large multimodal model that accepts both text and image inputs and outputs text. Also: How to make ChatGPT provide sources and citations The distinction between GPT-3.5 and GPT-4 will be “subtle” in casual conversation. However, the new model will be way more capable in terms of reliability, creativity, and even intelligence. According to OpenAI, GPT-4 scored in the top 10% of a simulated bar exam, while GPT-3....

According to IBM’s annual X-Force Threat Intelligence Index, based on security incidents and threat data gathered over 2021, businesses are now being “imprisoned” by the active exploitation of vulnerabilities and the deployment of ransomware. The tech giant’s researchers say that phishing remains the most common attack vector for cyberattacks but there has also been a 33% increase in the use of vulnerabilities against unpatched systems. In total, vulnerability exploits are considered to be responsible for 44% of the reported, known ransomware attacks included in the report....

That’s the premise of Quris, an artificial intelligence company hoping to disrupt the pharmaceutical arena. The company just announced the final close of $28 million in seed funding to support its clinical prediction platform. The platform launched last year and has made quick progress: Quris is prepping a drug that addresses Fragile X syndrome (FXS), a common cause of Autism spectrum disorders, for clinical testing in 2022. According to a company statement about the drug: Quris’ funding is led by Welltech Ventures with participation from iAngels, GlenRock Capital, and others....

The definition of equitable is something that is fair to all parties. What sounds like a daunting task to many is merely a day in the life for this perpetually curious entrepreneur. “You have to start somewhere,” he begins. “Speaking in terms of what’s possible gets me energized and excited to start solving.” “Where you work, the way you work, your language, and how you spend your time is the beginning of equity,” he adds....

In short, how long does it take to get a business degree? Our guide walks through how much time you’ll spend earning an associate or bachelor’s degree in business. It also covers the many graduate options for business students, including master’s in business, MBA, and DBA programs. Business certificate Time to complete: 6-18 months A business certificate takes 6-18 months, depending on the student’s enrollment status and the number of credits required....

I guess I can understand why – changing the way you use your MacBook can change how much battery life it has left in seconds. Also: How to replace the battery in your MacBook or MacBook Pro But I must admit, getting an idea of how long the battery might last based on current workloads can be quite useful. As long as that figure is somewhere in the right ballpark....

All programming professionals, including data scientists, software engineers, and web developers, should maintain a portfolio. This guide offers advice on how to build a coding portfolio, what to include, what format to use, and how to most effectively feature your projects and highlight your skills. Do you really need a coding portfolio? Anyone looking for a job that involves programming or career advancement needs a coding portfolio. That includes computer systems analysts and engineers, database and network administrators, software quality assurance engineers, and web and software developers....

As consumer spending continues to rise, businesses will have to invest to compete. This will require working capital and cash flow to purchase the software and technologies needed to survive in the digital economy. For those businesses without large amounts of working capital or wealthy investors – like many small businesses and startups – it has brought up the idea of building business credit. Below, ZDNet has all the information you need on how to build business credit....

Americans spend over five hours a day on their smartphones. That’s over five hours of your phone potentially accessing, retrieving, and saving cache and cookies, which can negatively impact your iPhone’s storage space. What is cache? Cache is the temporary storage of some data, like parts of a website from the last time you visited it, for example. Browser cache is content from a website that is stored on your phone during a browser session to help the browser perform faster the next time you visit that page....

Instead of being a way of accessing company assets, the VPN is now a method of browsing with a level of privacy you cannot get otherwise. What a VPN does is mask your identity and encrypt your internet traffic. Essentially, a VPN makes it far more difficult for bad actors to access the data you transmit or discover where that traffic is coming from. Enable a VPN and your browser will appear to come from a different region or country....

It doesn’t take much in the way of computer savvy to delete the various cached files your browser is saving. The thing is, you just have to remember to do it. There are, of course, other cached files you might not know about. Or, there might be applications that save cached files and there’s no clear method of deleting those files. That’s when a tool like BleachBit comes in handy....

As someone who manages several WordPress sites, I’ve seen the good and the bad. This is especially so with plugins, which are a double-edged sword of problems. On one hand, without plugins, WordPress is pretty much limited to serving as a blogging platform. It’s when you start adding those plugins that the platform blossoms. On the other hand, plugins can cause you no end of trouble. To make matters worse, sometimes that trouble can be in the form of a rock and a hard place....