All of these issues can be avoided by acquiring one of the many purpose-built key light solutions designed specifically to brighten your appearance on camera. That plethora includes compact models, lots of super-bright units, and tons of highly adjustable key lights that get your unique skin tone just right. But, there are very few entries that offer all of those things in one package, and even fewer that do it for under $100....

Earlier this month, Airtable announced it’s now worth $11 billion after its latest funding round. The company’s “code-for-everyone-else approach allows professionals who aren’t fluent in coding languages such as Java or Python, and don’t have their desk buried deep within the stack, to play a part in rethinking and remaking the consumer and client digital experience,” reports Riley de León of CNBC. “The low-code movement has attracted an even higher level of attention as a result of the pandemic, during which organizations from hospitals to government entities and corporations have had to develop online offerings at a faster pace than ever expected and for new use cases....

Gartner sees organizations using low-code technologies – which require less developer skill and knowledge of programming languages – being used to speed up application delivery and build customized automation workflows. The analyst expects strong growth across the broad spectrum of low-code technologies, with the largest category being low-code application platforms (LCAP). It forecasts LCAP market revenues to grow 25% in 2023 to $9.9 billion. Also: Low-code is not a cure for overworked IT departments just yet Among Gartner’s list of LCAP vendors are OutSystems, Appian, Microsoft Power Platform, Salesforce Platform, Oracle Express, Mendix, Soho, Pega, ServiceNow, and others....

Targeted for deployment at Marina at Keppel Bay, the new suite of services would be delivered on M1’s 5G Standalone network, said the companies in a joint statement Wednesday. M1 and Keppel Land are part of the Keppel Group. Vessel owners at the bay would be able to tap 5G to “elevate” their waterfront lifestyle and yacht experience, as well as enhance work processes for berth operations, said M1 and Keppel....

Complete novices should start with “Arduino Complete Course 2021 with 30+ Projects & Robots” or “Arduino Simulation & Block Coding”, which will show you how to work with various Arduino boards without having to buy and how to use simulations. Once you have at least a little Arduino experience, “Arduino OOP (Object Oriented Programming)” features a step-by-step project, and “Arduino for Beginners: Complete Course” is a crowd favorite, rated 4....

During the company’s earnings call this week, Kempczinski said McDonald’s digital system-wide sales across the top six markets were nearly $8 billion in the first-half of 2021, a 70% increase versus last year. The CEO explained that over the last few years, McDonald’s has added more service channels for delivery, curbside pickup kiosks, and table service. But the crown jewel of McDonald’s digital offerings is the global mobile app, which Kempczinski said “evolved our customer experience from the physical world to the digital world....

Vasu Jakkal, Microsoft’s corporate vice president of security, compliance, identity and management, said women and people “with more diverse perspectives” were desperately needed in the cybersecurity industry to help address the evolving threat landscape and take pressure off of overburdened IT teams. By bridging the gender gap in cybersecurity, where a lack of female representation is fuelling unequal pay and a lack of support for women, organizations can swiftly bridge organizational skill gaps as well as diversify operational thinking, which brings its own benefits in innovation and profitability, Jakkal said....

The June 20, 2022 out-of-band (OOB) updates for Windows 11 (BKB5016138) and Windows 10 (KB5016139) fix an issue that emerged with Arm devices after the June 2022 Patch Tuesday update, which prevented some users from signing into applications including VPN connections, Microsoft Teams, and Microsoft Outlook. As the issue only affects Windows devices that use Arm processors, PCs and laptops using other processors won’t receive it. The updates are cumulative, meaning that if users haven’t yet installed the June 14 security update, Microsoft recommends installing the OOB update instead....

Microsoft will provide specifics about how it intends to incorporate Clear Software’s technology into its line-up at a later date, officials said. Clear Software, based in Zionsville, Ind., was founded by former Deloitte and Accenture consultants with ERP implementation expertise.

Tony Redmond, Office 365 expert and owner and principal of Redmond & Associates Consulting, notes in his post about the Teams enterprise/consumer federation that this feature covers chat, not calling or file exchanging, between Teams business and consumer users. Up until this feature rolls out, any attempt to chat between Teams enterprise and Teams consumer results in email, rather than an immediate chat, Redmond adds. Microsoft added the ability for Teams users to chat and/or call with Skype consumer users in 2020....

Let me repeat that: Windows 365 will enable you to run your Windows desktop, apps, data, etc., etc. on Linux. That’s the Linux desktop they’re talking about. Also: The best parts of Windows 11 are already in Windows 10. Here’s how to enable them Ever since I started running Linux back in the early ’90s, I’ve heard over and over again that people couldn’t possibly run a Linux desktop because it doesn’t run this Windows application or that Windows program....

Simons said Microsoft chose the name “Entra” because “it indicates an entry-way to new world of doing business.” It’s not meant to be a gate with restrictive access, he added. Microsoft is making Entra, and a new admin portal associated with it, available today. In terms of pricing, customers who want Entra will continue to pay per user per month for Azure AD; per active user per month for external identities; and per resource for permissions, Simons said....

Visual Studio 2022 also includes a number of edits and debug improvements. It also provides Hot Reload, which allows developers to edit their source code while their apps are running in Visual Studio 2022 and from the .NET CLI. , It also has Live Preview capabilities and cross-platform testing on Linux, among other new and improved features. Visual Studio 2022 is available for immediate download. The release notes for Visual Studio 2022 v....

Microsoft has been building WSL, including its own custom Linux kernel, for several years now. At first, WSL and WSL2 were an optional component within Windows, but last October Microsoft made the preview WSL available in the Microsoft Store as a separate app. The Store version could deliver users – mostly developers and IT pros – faster updates and features independently of updates to Windows. WSL is popular among developers: Stack Overflow’s 2022 developer survey revealed WSL was used by 15% of developers, behind 31% using macOS, and 40% using a Linux distro, and 62% using Windows....

The Teams app aims to help teachers quickly assess students’ fluency at reading through video and audio recordings. It could be a handy online tool for teachers delivering remote education for the first time, as well as for those who provided remote learning before the pandemic. The app lets teachers upload a single reading fluency passage for the whole class, or provide different passages to suit students at various reading levels....

In October 2021, St. Louis Post-Dispatch reporter Josh Renaud published a story documenting the exposure of Social Security numbers belonging to teachers, administrators, and counselors caused by security flaws in the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education’s website. Over 100,000 SSNs were reportedly exposed. Renaud discovered the issue in a search function on the website and all it took to find SSNs was to press F12 and view the website’s HTML through the developer console....

For the six months to the end of 2020, NBN reported a 25% increase in revenue to AU$2.26 billion, which it said was thanks to 660,000 premises joining the network and increased demand for higher speed plans. Revenue from business customers was also up by a quarter compared to this time last year, and was reported as AU$397 million. Average revenue per residential user remained flat over the past year at AU$45 each month....

LibertyX enables you to buy bitcoin with cash and debit cards via a network that covers local stores, standalone ATMs and various retailers. Also: The best POS system: Get the right one for your business NCR acquires fintech SaaS company Terafina NCR said that LibertyX’s tools will be part of its offerings for banks, retailers and restaurants. NCR’s digital wallet and mobile apps will also provide LibertyX capabilities. NCR is pushing forward with a pivot to a subscription and recurring revenue model....

The agreement will integrate T-Mobile 5G into the Sarcos Guardian XT highly dexterous mobile industrial robot. “We are proud to collaborate with T-Mobile and we’ve made great progress leveraging their 5G network to enable the remote viewing management system,” said Scott Hopper, Executive Vice President of Corporate and Business Development, Sarcos Robotics. “This is a significant first step and we’re eager to continue the development toward full 5G wireless connectivity that will unlock a variety of new capabilities, including remote teleoperation, as we prepare for commercial availability....