Thanks to the hinge, you can rotate the viewing angle of your iPhone as it sits on your nightstand or desk. And because the MagSafe magnetic connection is strong, you can place your phone in a horizontal or vertical orientation – handy if you’re watching a video or using FaceTime. The pad rotates at a total of 70 degrees. I used a Forté over the weekend and rather liked it....

Dubbed Uber One, the offering provides a continual 5% discount on rides, deliveries, and order pickups, with unlimited $0 delivery fees on eligible delivery orders over $15 and grocery orders over $30. Should any of these discounted deliveries arrive later than Uber’s estimated delivery time, subscribers will also receive a $5 credit for future use on rides or deliveries. While this is a nice backup, the company clearly expects it to be an infrequent requirement since it is also guaranteeing that Uber One requests will be fulfilled by “top-rated drivers” backed by “elevated member support....

Among other things, the investigation will examine whether Meta provides and promotes its social media platform Instagram to children and teens, despite knowing that such use is associated with physical and mental health harms. It will also target the techniques used by Meta to increase the frequency and duration of engagement by teens, and the alleged result harms caused by such extended engagement. Involved in the investigation are attorneys-general from California, Florida, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Nebraska, New Jersey, Tennessee, and Vermont....

According to new survey data from Citrix, 74% of employees believe their company should compensate them for rising fuel and utility costs, while 45% feel their salaries should be increased to accommodate this. The survey of 500 US office workers found that 92% of knowledge workers are concerned about rising commuting costs and are looking for their employers to step in and help. More than half (57%) of employees want to work from home more often to help them save on commuting costs....

You can jump right in with “Applications & Penetration Testing: Fast Start” to find out all about the main aspects of ethical hacking. Or you might prefer to begin with the crowd favorite, “Ethical Hacking with Metasploit: Exploit & Post Exploit”, which takes you from novice to expert as a white hat hacker. Former students have given this course an impressive 4.8 out of 5 stars rating. However, that’s not completely surprising since Oak Academy was created by elite tech experts and specializes in critical skillsets for cybersecurity, game development, mobile app monetization, and more....

So, it’s no surprise that Wayfair has its own credit card, simplifying shopping with easy ordering and quick shipping. If you love shopping at Wayfair or are simply looking for a new credit card, this is what you need to know about the Wayfair Credit Card. At a Glance The Wayfair Credit Card is issued specifically for Wayfair purchases.The Wayfair Credit Card doesn’t include the benefits of the Wayfair Mastercard....

The Protection of Information (Entry Registration Information Relating to COVID-19 and Other Infectious Diseases) Bill covers information obtained through contact registers and the SafeWA check-in app. The state currently lacks protections for such information, with WA Police having used it to investigate “two serious crimes”. “The system was introduced in the middle of the global pandemic and while access to this information was lawful, the WA Government’s intention was for contact registers to only be used for contact tracing purposes,” the government said....

Also: You might be using the wrong microSD cards At first blush it might seem that all SD cards and microSD cards are the same, but a closer will show that they are not. If you look at the front of any SD or microSD card, you’ll see a whole bunch of symbols and specs, and being able to decipher these will tell you a lot about the card’s performance....

Business analysts engage with senior decision makers about potential changes or improvements to systems and services. What does a business analyst do? These data-savvy professionals use facts and figures to assess processes, determine business requirements and deliver advice to senior stakeholders. IT business analysts need to identify opportunities for digital transformation and then use data to show how technology can create value for the business. Barbara Munnelly, managing consultant at recruiter Harvey Nash, provides a concise description of their position in the organisation: “Business analysts typically sit in a role that provides a conduit between a company’s technology team and the rest of the business....

Victims are left with few choices; they can either regain access to their encrypted network by paying a ransom to the criminals behind the ransomware attack, restore data the from their backups, or hope that there is a decryption key freely available. Or they start again from scratch. Some ransomware infections start with someone inside an organisation clicking on what looks like an innocent attachment that, when opened, downloads the malicious payload and encrypts the network....

Now that it’s become all too clear that many of you will be joining in working from home for the long haul, here are my thoughts on equipment to consider to make the most of your home office. We’ll do this by taking a tour of my home office, the gear I’m using, and the equipment I wish I was using. Yes, just like you, I can’t buy the latest and greatest every year....

Forms, which Microsoft set free for consumers in 2020, isn’t going away. But on Teams, the Forms app is being replaced with a new app called “Polls” via Microsoft Forms, with a Teams-branded icon. Microsoft says in its July Teams update blogpost that the Polls app will make it easier to find and add polls to chats and meetings. SEE: Want a happy team at work? Make sure you don’t forget this vital ingredient The Polls user interface allows users to re-position the list of suggested polls from the bottom to the side of the pane....

And then there were two. Two supported Microsoft desktop operating systems, that is. As of Jan. 10, 2023, Microsoft will stop issuing security updates for Windows 8.1. (Support for Windows 8 ended seven years earlier, in January 2016.) The Windows 7 Extended Security Update (ESU) program also ends on that date; customers who had paid the ESU subscription price got a three-year extension from the official January 2020 end-of-support date for Windows 7, but the door slams shut once and for all at the start of 2023....

The purchase of Five9 will give Zoom more heft in the enterprise and a way into the $24 billion contact center market. However, there are some huge players in that space already. Cisco, Avaya, NICE, Genesys, AWS and Twilio are all rivals in some way. Oppenheimer analyst Ittai Kidron said in a research note: Indeed, Zoom CEO Eric Yuan said Five9 is a natural fit that will help make it a broader customer engagement and communications platform....

Fivetran’s claim to fame was being designed for the cloud. It is a cloud-based data transformation service that performs ELT (extract/load/transform) – that is, where the data transformation is performed inside the database. The going notion is that cloud storage and compute cycles are sufficiently inexpensive to move all data transformation in-database, thereby simplifying the architecture, reducing overhead, and taking advantage of the cloud’s sheer scale. HVR on the other hand emerged as a challenger to high-performance, highly scaled, real-time enterprise change data capture such as Oracle GoldenGates or Striim....

“The availability of Windows 11 has been increased and we are leveraging our latest generation machine-learning model to offer the upgrade to an expanded set of eligible devices,” Microsoft says on the Windows 11 health dashboard. While Windows 11 is restricted to eligible devices that meet its hardware requirements, Microsoft is recommending people with machines that fit the profile to do it so they can “take advantage of the latest features and advanced protections from security threats”....

The support clock started ticking Tuesday for Windows 11 22H2, with Enterprise and Education edition customers getting 36 months of support for this release and Home and Pro users getting 24 months. As Microsoft has been doing for the past couple of years, it is making this update to Windows available via a phased approach. “Seekers” who want to install it manually using Windows Update will get it first, and machines most likely to encounter no compatibility issues will get the update next....

What better time to invest in a battery power station, the modern answer to the noisy, smelly, dangerous gasoline generator. Think of a battery power station as a big power bank. You charge up your power station while the power is on (or use a solar panel if the weather permits), and then use that stored power when you need it. The bigger your power station, the more power you can store....

Or has it driven you to levels of despair last experienced when, well, you last flew on an airline? Too often, it seems that airlines promise to deliver heightened levels of service and only end up delivering heightened levels of angst and grief. Oddly, though, one major airline has taken a large step toward – perhaps – relaxing your furrowed brow. A smidgen, at least. You see, Southwest Airlines, which prides itself on smiles and jokes – a little difficult when you’re cancelling tens of thousands of flights – just veered toward even cheerier customer service....

However, in the vast majority of the human-machine partnerships already in existence, the human partner is one or more invisible microtask workers being paid tiny amounts to label images, remotely take over a faltering delivery drone, or transcribe bits of text. We have seen these workers’ lives documented before – for example, in Mary L. Gray and Siddharth Suri’s 2019 book Ghost Workers, Sarah T. Roberts’ 2019 book Behind the Screen, and Kate Crawford’s recent book on the extractive nature of the AI industry, Atlas of AI....