The Xpods Pro True Wireless Earbuds + Charging Case offer rich acoustics, noise isolation, the latest Bluetooth technology, 25 hours of runtime and more. Get these earbuds during our site-wide Valentine’s Day Sale for only $49.49 (reg. $69) when you use the coupon code XPOD20. Your music and calls will have never sounded better. These smaller earbuds have a noise-isolating seal formed by clear customizable tips that lock in sound while keeping out the unwelcome distraction of ambient noises....

When companies hire or promote a network admin or cybersecurity specialist, they trust that person to maintain an engine that keeps that business running. Unfortunately, the margin for error doesn’t allow for much on-the-job training, so they need reassurance that the necessary skills are there. In short, they need industry certification, and so does any IT worker who wants to move up in the tech sector. While the certification exams for the leading trade associations aren’t easy, self-starters have one great way to make them a lot easier: The 2022 CompTIA & AWS, Cisco Certification Paths Bundle....

This iPad Mini 4 offers cellular data on top of WiFi and Bluetooth. It’s unlocked so that you can use a SIM card from your current carrier. It also has 128GB integrated storage, offering plenty of space to store bargain apps, games, photos, and videos. This is also the last iPad Mini to provide a headphone jack, if that’s important to you. Since this iPad Mini 4 comes with iOS 15 already installed, you can enjoy many of Apple’s latest digital features....

Microsoft says that not only is the number of Windows users continuing to increase, but the amount of time they’re spending on Windows computers is, as well. Obviously, the need for Windows professionals isn’t going away, and now anyone can become one even with no previous tech experience. Because you can now get an entire career’s worth of Microsoft training from The Complete Microsoft Windows, 365, & Teams Certification Training Bundle for just $59....

There’s no better way to start and continue advancing in a career than learning new skills and the StackSkills Unlimited: Lifetime Membership allows you to do that forever. It offers more than 1,000 courses on a wide variety of topics and a lot of them will help you to develop skills that can qualify you for some very highly-paid careers in business or the tech industry. Every month, a minimum of 50 new courses are added, each with certificates of completion to turbocharge your resume....

Right now, you can grab a 10TB of lifetime Degoo Premium cloud storage for $99.99, perfect if you’re a creative freelancer that requires vast storage capacity for your project files. And if you don’t have that much data to back up, you can get a 1TB Degoo Premium plan for just $49.99. One terabyte may not sound like much, but Degoo provides more storage capacity than Dropbox, Google One and OneDrive all put together....

The term “ghost job” refers to online job openings that stick around and are seemingly never filled. The reason why? The Wall Street Journal reported that sometimes the job never existed or a company never intended to hire anyone for the position. In a survey by Clarify Capital of over 1,000 managers, 68% of managers had an active job posting remain active for more than 30 days. The survey also found that there are reasons why companies purposefully post ghost jobs....

You can start with Java Programming for Complete Beginners in 250 Steps, which takes a hands-on approach to exploring all of the most important features of the language. This class is a crowd favorite, with former students rating it 4.5 out of 5 stars, probably because the instructors have so much experience with what they’re teaching. Simpliv is an e-learning platform with a wide variety of courses prepared by experts....

Just like Chromebooks, this uses Chrome OS, the cloud-centric, easy-to-manage, and fast operating system. With it, your once out-of-date PCs and Macs can get a new lease on life. If that sounds familiar, well, it should. ChromeOS Flex traces its ancestry to Neverware, a company that took ChromeOS’s open-source foundation, ChromiumOS, and turned it into an easy-to-use operating system, CloudReady. It enabled you to squeeze extra life out of old Windows PCs and Macs....

“It’s also a way to help extend the reach of the sustainability benefit of this product, beyond what those using Google Maps can, to the developer community,” Chris Phillips, head of GEO for Google, said to reporters ahead of Google’s Search On event. Eco-friendly routing was launched in Maps last year in the US and Canada. The feature gives drivers routes that may not necessarily be the shortest path from Point A to Point B but that should result in the least amount of carbon emissions....

And, just like people, you have to wonder what goes through those minds sometimes. Today’s patient on the purple chaise-longue is Google. It’s occasionally believed in marketing. More often, it’s believed in making absurd amounts of money from advertising. Yet here is Google launching what many believe is its most important piece of hardware ever – the Pixel 6. And here is Google releasing a witty, arresting phone ad – but not for the Pixel 6....

Placing the cameras diagonally opposite each other, as opposed to in a near little row, is hardly the stuff of consumer dreams. Perhaps, then, the tingling for Google’s Pixel 6 will have been intensified. Perhaps, too, Google realizes this. Because, in a peculiar enthusiasm for marketing, it’s suddenly dangling the prospect of a true surprise. You, surely, will be wondering all about the so-called Tensor chip that will be embedded in the Pixel 6....

Still, you should know that the Pixel Watch is not going to replace a Garmin or rugged sports watch for outdoor activities. Samsung’s Galaxy Watch 5 Pro is still the better choice for that target audience. The Pixel Watch is also not going to satisfy power users who want week-long battery life and advanced sports functions. Instead, it’s striving to be the “go-to” smartwatch for Android users, much like the Apple Watch is for the iPhone....

In a blog post, Google said the move was due to the version of Android which was first released in 2012 making up less than 1% of active devices and developers having to spend more time to support it. Jelly Bean spanned versions 4.1, 4.2, and 4.3, or in API level terms from 16 to 18. The search giant is recommending developers bump up the minimum API level for apps up to API level 19, or KitKat....

Now admins can upload custom prompts and greetings, and Google will immediately offer playback and automatic transcriptions so that users can track and manage uploads. The new feature adds another option to Google’s existing text-to-speech service when setting up a Google Voice automated attendant. SEE: Android 12: New feature allows you to control the UI with face gestures via phone’s camera Google’s text-to-speech service offers customers over 100 synthesised voices, extending Alphabet’s DeepMind AI research in the field – including DeepMind’s WaveNet neural network for generating human-like speech – into commerce through Google’s cloud neural networks....

Although two different open source projects, Grafana and Prometheus have long been joined at the hip. With Grafana as the visualization piece and Prometheus as the underlying time-series database, both have been typically used in tandem, forming a combo that competes with InfluxDB and Elastic, each of which also offers both pieces of the puzzle. For Grafana and Prometheus users, the catch until now was that each had different systems for setting alerts....

In addition to new hardware, Apple also quietly announced that iOS 16 and WatchOS 9 will officially roll out next week starting Monday, Sept. 12. Apple typically releases major updates around 10 am PT (1 p.m. ET), but that’s not a certainty. Also: Everything Apple announced at its Far Out event The iOS 16 update brings several new features to iPhones, including the ability to edit or delete iMessages within a certain time frame, a new lock screen complete with widgets, revamped notifications on the lock screen, and improvements to the Mail app....

Just 31% of consumers in the Asian market said they trusted AI, but 51% acknowledged it helped cut the time they spent choosing products, according to a study released Thursday by Hong Kong Consumer Council. The online survey polled 1,219 respondents aged 15 and above who had visited local and international online stores, 77% of whom made purchases or browsed online stores on a daily or weekly basis. While 75% said they were unfamiliar with AI, 41% said the technology addressed their needs accurately....

You might think everyone uses the function keys on a laptop keyboard, but they really don’t. You might think everyone opens their phone camera in the same way, but you really would be surprised. And then there’s Microsoft Teams. This is something I use regularly and think of in the same way I think of my TV. I switch it on. It works. Then I switch it off. During the meeting, I talk when required, switch my camera off when I need to scratch my nose or smooth my eyebrows, and think of it like any other video call....

But along with Giant Eagle, Whole Foods and other big names in the industry, one small startup in the Atlanta area is betting that a tech-first approach to grocery shopping will help them expand their business across the US. Nourish & Bloom was founded by Jilea and Jamie Hemmings, a husband-and-wife duo with a background in tech and the food industry. They opened their first store in Fayetteville, Georgia, earlier this year, delivering a “frictionless” shopping experience with a contactless checkout system powered by computer vision, as well as delivery robots that bring orders to nearby customers....