It’s an exciting time that may seem a bit overwhelming. Knowing what to do before going to college can take away the stress you may feel about starting school. It can also ensure you’re prepared, informed, and ready to start your first year on the right foot. Here are 16 personal, financial, and academic tasks to finish before you go to college. 1. Research and think about possible majors. Some students start college knowing their major, but many do not have a major during their first year or two in school....

The company’s Zoho One business operating system has had more than 40,000 customers since its launch in 2017. Zoho said it saw more adoption during the COVID-19 pandemic as smaller companies went digital. Zoho One’s customer base has doubled since 2019. Zoho One is a set of integrated applications that runs $37 per employee. Applications include CRM, marketing, customer support, communications tools, email hosting, collaboration and finance systems. Zoho One is arguably one of the best deals going in SMB software....

You don’t have to believe me. Linus Torvalds himself picked out the Dell XPS 13 for his Linux laptop. Why? I’ll let the features speak for themselves. For starters, the high-end model in the new line is powered by an 2.7Ghz four-core Intel i7-7500U Kaby Lake chip backed by 16GB of RAM and a 512GB solid state drive. Kaby Lake is Intel’s newest, best processor. It’s built-in Intel HD Graphics 620 is the fastest, most-powerful graphics engine in Intel’s history....

That’s a real opportunity for new talent entering the workforce or for professionals looking to make a mid-career shift. Part of the allure is the broad applicability of automation, machine learning, and artificial intelligence technologies to a variety of sectors that heretofore haven’t had much automation adoption. The chance to work on the leading edge of automation technologies and problem solve how they might be adapted to new use cases can be thrilling, particularly coming from IT and engineering fields that have now become more routinized after the profound shifts of previous decades....

With a new season typically comes new tech product releases, and you might be tempted to move on from your old devices and acquire some new ones. But before you decide to buy new ones, consider cleaning and revamping your current devices. Also: 5 ways to keep your smartphone working like new, for longer With the help of Catherine Hiley, a mobile expert at Uswitch, ZDNET is helping you welcome the spring season and transform your personal tech devices....

The convergence of humans and machines is thoroughly explored by Paul Daugherty and H. James Wilson, both with Accenture, in their forthcoming book, “Radically Human: How New Technology is Transforming Business and Shaping Our Future.” The technology leader of the 2020s needs to take an activist role in building the relationship between people and technology. “The convergence between business and technology means it’s highly likely that the first time a customer interacts with a near-human AI agent, puts on a pair of virtual reality goggles, or learns about blockchain, it will be linked to a company’s cutting-edge offering,” they write....

After having been used for about 16 hours a day, every day for years, that large screen monitor started to get pretty dim, and developed dark spots in various areas on the display. We recently saw a pretty good pre-holiday deal, so we decided to pick up its replacement: a TCL Roku display. Also: TVs we love: The screens that ZDNet writers binge-watch on I’ve pretty much standardized on TCL Roku TVs throughout the house....

The AOMEI Partition Assistant offers a user-friendly interface with a wide range of tools that will simplify managing the partition of your disks. You can create, split, resize, merge and move partitions with no data loss, which will allow you to maximize the use of your disk space. It has many new features, such as Gutmann wiping methods, disk conversion between GPT and MBR, added Fill sectors with random data, and much more....

Belsky said Photoshop and Illustrator would be extended to the web so that projects could be accessed anywhere. “With just a URL, you can invite anyone to view and comment on your Photoshop or Illustrator file - and the reviewers don’t need to download any software or have a Creative Cloud subscription. And Creative Cloud subscribers can make light edits to Photoshop or Illustrator files right in their browser. The journey of bringing Creative Cloud to the web starts now with Photoshop on the Web in public beta, while Illustrator on the Web is debuting in private beta,” Belsky said....

The culprit, based in Sydney, conspired with another individual from the US to steal the log-ins and passwords of streaming service customers and then sold them online at a cheaper rate. The AFP began investigating the matter in May 2018, after it was tipped by the FBI about a now-defunct account generator website called WickedGen.com. WickedGen was a website that sold stolen account details for online subscription services, including Netflix, Spotify, and Hulu....

For a couple of generations of scientists contemplating AI, the question of whether “true” or “human” intelligence could be achieved was always an important part of the work. AI may now be at a turning point where such questions matter less and less to most people. The emergence of something called industrial AI in recent years may signal an end to such lofty preoccupations. AI has more capability today than at any time in the 66 years since the term AI was first coined by computer scientist John McCarthy....

G square and Vetamer Capital Management also joined the round, alongside existing investors 1835i Ventures (formerly ANZi), DST Global, Salesforce Ventures, and Sequoia Capital China. In a statement, Airwallex said it plans to use the additional funds to further its global expansion plans, which entail scaling up its presence globally and growing its sales and commercial teams, and developing new products and services. “From the start, our vision has been to build a global financial operating system that will allow modern businesses to operate without borders,” co-founder and CEO Jack Zhang said....

The move makes sense given the competition from other smart home players. Samsung leverages its devices, TVs and appliances to create a smart home technology stack. Apple has HomeKit and devices to connect. Google has its own connective smart home tissue. Simply put, the Fire TV lineup is about ecosystem as much as entertainment.

Global fintech investments dropped from $111.2 billion in the second half of last year, with 2,980 deals inked in the first half of 2022, according to KPMG’s latest Pulse of Fintech report. The figures comprised venture capital, private equity, and merger and acquisition (M&A) deals. The Americas drew in $39.4 billion of overall investments, down from $59.7 billion in the second half of last year, while EMEA raked in $26....

The Bill is currently awaiting to be signed by South Korean President Moon Jae-In before it goes into effect. The new law is an amendment to South Korea’s Telecommunications Business Act, and will ban app store marketplaces from unreasonably delaying the approval of apps or deleting them from the marketplace. The Bill will also ban app marketplaces from forcing developers to use their in-app purchase systems, with developers in South Korea now able to choose alternatives or create their own marketplaces while still being allowed to operate in existing app stores....

More specifically, that number that you can see if you head over to Settings > Battery > Battery Health. If your iPhone is new, then you expect this figure to be at 100%. And you probably expect this number to tick down as your iPhone – and the battery it contains – gets older. But what if I told you that number was meaningless? What if I went further and said that there’s nothing that you can do to keep your battery at 100% ?...

The bug comes down to the MacOS Big Sur installer not checking if the Mac has the required free space available to carry out an upgrade. The upgrade runs into problems, and if that isn’t bad enough, if the user’s Mac was encrypted using FileVault, then the user is locked out of their data. Pretty scary stuff. Check this out: Apple: Please stop this nonsense The bug has been explored extensively by Mr....

We know that an iPhone 14 and an Apple Watch Series 8 are pretty much guaranteed to land this fall, but we’re also expecting to see an updated iPad Pro and iPad Air, as well as a whole batch of Macs. And if you bought a new Mac in the past couple of years, even one powered by Apple Silicon, then get ready for it to start to feel old as Apple pushes out new chips....

While this article is pitting Apple’s latest with Garmin’s best GPS sports watch, the Enduro 2, I’ve reviewed enough of Garmin’s less expensive but very capable watches to recommend them for your consideration, too. For now, and from specs and features alone, here are the clear and distinct reasons to purchase one wearable over the other. More: Apple Watch Ultra: Everything you need to know about Apple’s rugged watch...

Orion separated from the SLS upper stage a few hours after liftoff and commenced an 18-minute trans-lunar injection burn that propelled it to the Moon. Once separated, it began flying with the European Space Agency’s (ESA) service module. At 9:32am on Wednesday, November 16, flight controllers in the Mission Control Center at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston conducted the first outbound trajectory correction burn using ESA’s service module. “The burn tested Orion’s main engine for the first time and adjusted the spacecraft’s course toward the Moon,” NASA notes in a blogpost....