If you’re looking to invest in a new Mac or iPad, you can possibly qualify for a $150 discount with Apple’s Education storefront. Here’s how. Note: For the sake of using an example without sounding repetitive, I will be using the Macbook Air with an M1 Chip to demonstrate the steps. The steps may vary slightly depending on if you choose a Mac or iPad. Is there a student or teacher verification requirement?...
When you are selected for pre-approval on a credit card, there isn’t a hard check on your credit score. That is to say, the credit issuer can receive enough information to determine if you are likely to be eligible without your credit score taking a dip. Counterintuitively, though, a pre-approval doesn’t guarantee approval. Still, you can sometimes see which cards you are more likely to be eligible for without risking a credit score loss....
Also: Can someone tell if I block their number? Luckily, Apple eventually realized that it should let its iPhone owners decide what they wanted on their home screens. Not only can you now hide infrequently-used apps, but you can even remove first-party Apple apps you’ll never use from your precious home screen pages – although you still can’t uninstall them completely. Despite how easy it is to do this, many users remain unaware it’s even an option....
Now, before I continue with this, you should know that development on the AfterStep window manager ended some time ago. That means it receives zero upgrades at this point. Even so, it’s still installable on Ubuntu Linux and functions exactly as it did back in the late ’90s when I first started using it. Why would you want to even try a desktop that is outdated and no longer in development?...
When that happens, you need to be able to kill those runaway processes. Now, most Linux desktop environments include a GUI tool that makes killing a process a simple matter of selecting the process and then selecting Kill (Figure 1). That’s all fine and good, but what happens when you can’t access the GUI because a runaway process is gobbling up your system memory)? That’s when you turn to the command line....
But here’s the thing: flowcharts are useful when you want them to be. I’m not talking about flowcharts as dictated by first year programming instructors, or flowcharts as mandated in a given management course. I’m talking about making flowcharts when you want to chart the flow of something, because you want to do it, or you think it might help you visualize something you want to get a better perspective on....
This can be a time-consuming effort when your phone number falls prey to a deluge of spam, so why would you bother with this? First and foremost, some of those attempts are not just spam but malicious attempts to compromise your device. Should you tap on a malicious link in a message, you could fall victim to ransomware, which could encrypt your data. Once that happens, you might not be able to retrieve that data until you pay the ransom....
One very simple example of that is the Linux hosts file. Do understand that the hosts file isn’t unique just to Linux. Windows and MacOS also make use of the hosts file. In fact, the MacOS hosts file is almost identical to that of Linux. What is the hosts file? The hosts file makes it easy to map IP addresses to domain names. Sound familiar? It should, as that’s exactly what DNS does today....
Figuring out how to write formulas to achieve the result you need can be a challenge, especially when you have a lot of data on a spreadsheet and need an intricate formula beyond calculating a sum. That is until ChatGPT arrived. Also: 5 ways to use ChatGPT to make your life easier ChatGPT and other AI chatbots can easily help you create Excel formulas for free and without signing up for a specialized website, like ExcelFormulaBot....
While smart notebooks are great, they often have page limits and add sneaky extra stylus or subscription costs. Instead, you can go completely paperless by using Google Drive, the free Google-powered storage service that comes with your Gmail. Having just graduated college, I’ll be the first to say that Google Drive has been a lifesaver. From the comfort of my laptop or phone, I was able to take notes for a majority of my classes, plan my week, and organize vital documents....
If you missed the event and want to watch what happened live, you still can. Also: S23 vs S22: What are the main differences? To find out how and what else you missed, keep reading. When was Samsung Unpacked 2023? The Samsung Unpacked Event took place on Feb. 1 at 10 am PT/1 pm ET. The event itself was held in San Francisco, California, which made this the first in-person Samsung Unpacked event since the pandemic....
Analysts were expecting earnings of 42 cents per share on revenue of $6.62 billion. Shares of HPE were down slightly after hours. Elsewhere on the balance sheet, HPE said compute revenue came to $3 billion, up 12% year over year. Storage revenue was $1.1 billion, up 5% year-over-year. Within that segment, Nimble revenue was up 17% and revenue from All Flash Array Storage products were up 20%. Meanwhile, High Performance Compute & Mission Critical Systems (HPC & MCS) revenue was $685 million, up 11% from the prior-year period....
The company’s Intelligent Edge segment was once again a star of this quarter’s revenue production, rising 11% from the prior-year period to contribute $901 million. High Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence, meanwhile, grew a more modest 4% to drive $790 million in Q2 revenues. More: HPE buys Determined AI, aims to meld model training with its HPC portfolio Despite the relatively minor spikes in segment and overall revenues, earnings shot up to $513 million on decreasing expenses and interest costs, more than doubling the $223 posted for the same period in the previous year and producing earnings per share of $0....
Also: I asked ChatGPT to write a WordPress plugin I needed. It did it in less than 5 minutes In an odd way, this fits more into the part of my exploration about how ChatGPT can become part of our productivity kit bag. In previous articles, I’ve discussed how easily ChatGPT can write useful, if simple code and how ChatGPT can help with technical problems (possibly using plagiarized source material – or at least inspired by human authors uncompensated for ChatGPT’s use)....
At the time, the exchange said its technology provider Nasdaq, as well as customers and independent specialist third parties, conducted extensive testing for over a year on the ASX Trade system, including four dress rehearsals, in preparation for sending it out in the wild. The tech used, it said, was the latest generation of a Nasdaq-developed trading system used around the world. Following the outage, the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) and the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) requested an independent review, and the ASX saw fit to hand this responsibility to IBM....
Owner and CEO Elon Musk had claimed earlier that “Twitter’s legacy Blue Verified is unfortunately deeply corrupted, so will sunset in a few months.” Going forward, blue checkmarks will be reserved for Twitter Blue active subscribers. Also: Why is Twitter turning millions of accounts into defenseless targets? Twitter Blue subscriptions are available with monthly or annual prices starting at $8/month or $84/year for web-based accounts. Android and iOS app Twitter Blue accounts are available for $11/month or $114....
You might remember trading cards had their heyday in the 80s and 90s, when the hobby – like everything else – was more analog. It wasn’t the most efficient or reliable market, but millions of people, young and old, valued trading cards enough to consider them an investment. While digital collectibles in the form of NFTs burst onto the scene and then melted away again (for now, at least), trading cards continue to generate interest – just consider YouTube celebrity Logan Paul wearing an ultra-rare card in the ring, or Derek Jeter opening his own trading-card marketplace....
According to TIME, the company has plans to spend $20 billion on a 1,000-acre site near Columbus, Ohio. The project includes two chip fabrication plants (or fabs) that would focus on research and development alongside manufacturing semiconductors amide the global shortage. The plants would create at least 3,000 jobs once it opens for operation in 2025. In addition, Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger told TIME that the option to expand up to 2,000 acres at the site and add six more fabs is on the table....
Following in the lineage of such predecessors as Skull Canyon, Hades Canyon and Ghost Canyon, the new Beast Canyon has just been released under the official name of NUC 11 Extreme Kit. As with its predecessors, the kit is based around the latest top-performing Intel Core processors housed in a small-form-factor chassis with room for a full-size graphics card, up to 64GB of RAM, and a number of storage options via a quartet of M....
All attendees of the 2022 Olympic Games in Beijing need to download and use the app, but Citizen Lab released a report on Monday that said a “simple but devastating flaw” allows the encryption protecting users’ voice audio and file transfers to be “trivially sidestepped.” According to Citizen Lab, passport details, demographic information, and medical/travel history in health customs forms are also vulnerable. Server responses can be spoofed, allowing an attacker to display fake instructions to users, according to the report....
