According to the Consumer Price Index Summary, other notable gains include the price of gas, up 11.2% for the year ended in June, and the price of food increased by 1%. In addition, according to real estate data firm Rent, the cost of renting a one-bedroom apartment increased by 25.5% in June compared to the same period last year, while the rent for a two-bedroom apartment increased by 26.8%. In addition, Wednesday’s BLS report stated that its energy index rose 7....

My primary ZDNet writing computer is an older Surface Book while my daily engineering computer is a Surface Pro 6. To connect these computers to the monitor, I simply swap the connection to my Microsoft Surface hub. With these Surface products, I enjoyed using two full size apps side-by-side to get work done. With the support for USB-C and my focus on mobile devices, I connected the Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra with Samsung DeX with a Bluetooth keyboard and mouse for a full PC experience....

Gelsinger revealed the planned investment at his keynote at Germany’s annual motor show, IAA Mobility in Munich. Auto industries in Europe and the US were sharply affected by the global chip shortage during the pandemic. “The world is well on its way to address the global chip shortage but it has shown the criticality of semiconductors and the impact of the global supply chain and the fragility of the supply chain,” Gelsinger told Germany’s auto industry....

Until now, there hasn’t been an easy way to gain access to a loved one’s account after they pass away. But with the release of iOS 15.2, Apple has added a feature that allows you to designate a friend or family member as a Legacy Contact. Should something happen to you in the future, your Legacy Contact(s) can easily access your account data, recovering your photos, notes, and similar items....

There’s a new App Privacy Report included in the update that shows how which apps are accessing your private data and how often that access is happening. For example, I can see that the Invoxia GPS app accessed my location 51 seconds ago, along with a long list of apps below it that access other parts of my private data. Another example is that the Mail app accessed my contacts six seconds ago, even though I wasn’t actively using the app....

The series of vulnerabilities have been discovered in Nexus Control Panel, which powers current models of Translogic’s pneumatic tube system (PTS) stations by Swisslog Healthcare. The tubes allow staff to send patient test samples and medication around the hospital and are a key part of providing care to patients. Dubbed PwnedPiper, the nine security vulnerabilities have been detailed by cybersecurity researchers at Armis ahead of a presentation on the findings at Black Hat USA....

Well, how secure are your passwords? There are a lot of hints and tips and tricks out there for creating and maintaining secure passwords. I’m pretty comfortable with tech and keeping my accounts secure, but I find most of these tips too complicated to follow. It’s better to keep things simple. And I’m going to simplify things for you. This is the 21st century, and people don’t need to create and remember their passwords....

Using the new JetBrains Gateway IDE launcher, the connection to the remote machine is via SSH and currently only supports Linux physical and virtual machines as servers. “The JetBrains Client runs locally and provides the user interface for the IDE backend. It’s based on the IntelliJ Platform and feels just like a full IntelliJ-based IDE – it has the same editor, code completion, navigation, inspections, and refactoring tools as a local IDE, but all of the files are hosted remotely and all of the language processing is done on the remote server,” the company said in a blog post....

In a blog post to cap off an almost two year saga, Ledger Donjon head of security research Jean-Baptiste Bédrune showed KPM was doing just that. “Kaspersky Password Manager used a complex method to generate its passwords. This method aimed to create passwords hard to break for standard password crackers. However, such method lowers the strength of the generated passwords against dedicated tools,” Bédrune wrote. One of the techniques used by KPM was to make letters that are not often used appear more frequently, which Bédrune said was probably an attempt to trick password cracking tools....

You can start off with the “Programming Fundamentals” course, which will teach you the basic tenets of programming. Then move on into Python specifically with “Introduction to Programming Using Python”. You will learn all of the most basic Python skills that you’ll need to move into more advanced courses. “Python Programming” will teach you more of the basic concepts of the language. Next up are two courses that cover the Python library....

This is a trend story that’s bound to impact consumer technology drastically. If augmented reality is going to outgrow its current awkward niche, the technology needs to get smaller and last longer on a single charge. That’s why micro-light emitting diodes (“μLED”) are such a big deal and are seen as a potential watershed. “Being in the semiconductor industry specializing on LEDs and microdisplays for all these years, we have created countless solutions that have advanced the state-of-the-art; from the fundamentals of heterojunction physics to advanced displays in the LCoS and OLED fields,” boast Atomistic founders Jonathan Sachs, PhD, and Jerry Woodall, PhD....

The device that Microsoft introduced is the 300e, a 2-in-1 system that includes pen support for the Windows version. However, Lenovo is also offering the 300e in a Chromebook edition for the same $279 starting price. The Chrome-running version lacks pen support and relies on a MediaTek MTK 8173C processor instead of the Intel Apollo Lake CPUs that the Windows 300e will ship with. Lenovo has an even cheaper option in the 100e, which has a traditional clam-shell design, an Intel Celeron N3350 processor, and a $219 price point whether you choose the Windows or Chromebook flavor....

Currently, the Lenovo ThinkBook 14s Yoga Gen 2 convertible laptop is on sale for $675.35, a saving of 35% ($363.65) from the device’s typical retail price of $1,039. This laptop is geared toward professional use and would suit those who need a solid workhorse. With so many of us now either working from home permanently or only traveling to the office a few times a week, it could be the right time to consider refreshing your gear – especially as this device can be used as either a traditional laptop, tablet, or tent....

Confused? As well as 14-inch laptops like my review model, there are also 16-inch versions. UK pricing is unclear at the time of writing, but in the US the 14-inch Lenovo Slim 7i starts at $1,199, while the 16-inch version starts at $1,599. Despite the ‘Yoga’ in its (UK) name, this is a conventional clamshell laptop, without a touch screen. The screen will rotate far enough to sit flat on a desk, but no further....

Unless you’re a Java developer, chances are you haven’t heard of Akka. It’s open-source middleware for building Java Virtual Machine (JVM) highly concurrent, distributed, and fault-tolerant systems. It offers Scala and Java APIs to developers to easily build scalable and fault-tolerant software that can scale from PC to cloud applications. You have heard of the companies that use it, however. They include Apple, Disney, GM, HPE, Starbucks, and Tesla. But, Jonas Bonér, the company’s CEO and project founder, claims those big companies haven’t been paying their fair share....

Here, we examine the relationship between these disciplines. We also look at how training in both areas can help professionals excel in the interdisciplinary and independent fields. The relationship between linguistics and computer science Linguistics and computer science both deal with languages. While linguistics examines conveyance, processing, and the evolution of natural languages, computer science applies the same questions to programming. Both fields deal with syntax, semantics, and instructions — and how people perceive them....

Paragon’s NTFS driver will make working with Windows’ NTFS drives in Linux an easier task – ending decades of difficulties with Microsoft’s proprietary file system that succeeded FAT. The addition of Paragon NTFS3 kernel driver follows a prompt from Torvalds in August to go for it and “actually submit” the code so it can be merged into the kernel, telling Paragon that it “should just make a git pull request for it....

Due to the increase in devastation from fires, firefighters are also facing greater health risks after battling against blazes. To help with this problem, the Linux Foundation has announced that it will host Pyrrha – a solution created by AI-platform Prometeo that uses artificial intelligence and the internet of things to guard the safety of firefighters. Prometeo won IBM’s 2019 Call for Code Global Challenge after designing their platform, which monitors and acts on firefighter health and safety in real-time and over the long term....

Under the arrangement, Macquarie can provide cloud and associated services – such as storage, network and security, cloud training, and cloud migration – to NSW government agencies and other eligible non-government bodies. For Macquarie specifically, the company said it plans to provide access to its sovereign cyber expertise and secure cloud, network, and data centre services. “NSW is fast becoming a world leader in cloud and cybersecurity, and we are proud to be providing government agencies with these services for more than 20 years....

Online shoppers across 14 global markets profiled in PayPal’s Borderless Commerce 2022 report currently tap their smartphones to make purchases, including 96% in China, 84% in Singapore, 81% in the UK, 78% in the US, 77% in Japan, and 69% in Australia. Conducted by Ipsos, the survey polled 14,000 respondents who made online purchases between December 2021 and January 2022. Across the board, 46% said they were more likely to buy from retailers that offered virtual or digital experiences....