But if you want to use credit in the right way, you don’t have to forsake credit cards altogether – although that’s not a bad strategy if you know you’re prone to abusing them. Instead, adopt a few simple habits that will let you enjoy the benefits of credit cards without the dangerous downsides. Follow these tips to make credit your best friend (instead of your mortal enemy): [This article was first published on The Simple Dollar in 2020....

Not everyone can adjust to it, and not everyone really wants to. But resisting for the sake of it may not often be the right strategy. Since the COVID-19 pandemic began, there have been many tales of employers being a touch stunned at their inability to hire staff. Or keep staff. Or pay staff enough. Perhaps a recession will assuage some of their pain. In the meantime, however, I couldn’t help but be moved by the attempts of one business, a diner, to make itself seem more attractive....

São Paulo-based Experity offers consulting, implementation and support services for cloud-based platforms. Through strategic partners such as Salesforce, Adobe, Oracle, SAP and Microsoft, the company founded in 2003 supports companies in improving their relationship with customers. With the acquisition, approximately 420 consumer experience experts, cloud engineers, data scientists and consultants will join Accenture Interactive in Brazil. Accenture expects the new professionals to enhance its integrated offering of cloud-based customer experience solutions for companies and brands in consumer goods and natural resources segments....

For controls, you can press the earbud for two seconds to toggle ANC on or off, or switch to transparent mode. Tap three times to activate the voice assistant, twice to navigate through tracks, or once to play and pause music or answer a call. Unfortunately, you can not adjust the volume with these earphones. Pros Rich soundActive noise-cancelingAffordable Cons No volume adjustment You can toggle between ANC, ambient sound, and normal mode by tapping and holding the left earbud....

— Anonymous human writer in collaboration with poetry algorithm The output remains fairly mediocre, but it is getting good enough that some human readers will give the poems respectable marks in controlled evaluations. And some people will even be fooled into ascribing human authorship to machine poetry. While the essentials of the most sublime form of human writing escapes AI, the software is proficient enough to generate facsimiles that can pass a test....

Wing is an Alphabet subsidiary that develops drone technology designed for deliveries. According to Wing, it has been delivering goods on-demand using its drones from a range of participating businesses from the roof of Grand Plaza in Logan, Queensland since mid-August. Those participating businesses have included food and beverage retailers Sushi Hub, Boost Juice, and Chatime. Pharmacy TerryWhite Chemmart will also begin offering drone delivery services for its over-the-counter pharmaceuticals, personal care, general health, and beauty products....

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The bug in AWS Glue could allow an attacker using the service to create resources and access data of other AWS Glue customers, according to Orca Security. Orca researchers say it was due to an internal misconfiguration within AWS Glue, which AWS today confirmed it has since fixed. SEE: Cloud security: A business guide to essential tools and best practices Glue, which launched in 2017, is a managed serverless data integration service for connecting large databases, allowing developers to extract, transform and load (ETL) for machine-learning jobs....

Airline bookings are booming. Business travel is slowly coming back too, say the airlines. Except, the more I think about it, I believe that the airline business is back, but the travel part may still be something of a problem. You see, as airlines boast of recovery, they’re also cancelling quite a lot of flights. Or, as United Airlines recently announced, turning some non-stop flights into one-stops. Hotel? What hotel?...

“The things that are most important is that we are continuing to see really great growth both in revenue and in customers,” said Vuong, 64% revenue growth, 54% customer growth, and we’ve improved net retention rate to 123%." The company’s shares plummeted by almost 60% on Thursday as investors digested Amplitude cutting its forecast for this year’s revenue growth from 40% to a range of 35% to 40%. Amplitude provides tools to help product managers adjust product features and performance to improve user enagement....

Beyond that, the chipmaker said architecture work has begun on Celestial, its third-gen CPU, that will appeal to the ultra-enthusiast segment. Intel also said it is planning a new service to deliver access to Intel Arc GPUs for an “always-accessible, low-latency computing experience.” The service, currently called Project Endgame, should be available later this year. All told, Intel expects to ship more than 4 million discrete GPUs in 2022. Intel previously revealed that first-gen Arc consumer graphics products, code-named Alchemist, will have hardware-based ray tracing, use artificial intelligence to power super sampling, and have support for DirectX 12 Ultimate....

As Reuters first reported, the settlement was filed Monday night in federal court in San Jose, California, and it requires a judge’s approval. It specifically covers customers who bought MacBook, MacBook Air, and most MacBook Pro models between 2015 and 2019 in seven US states: California, Florida, Illinois, Michigan, New Jersey, New York, and Washington. SEE: The 10 best Windows laptops: Top notebooks, 2-in-1s, and ultraportables Apple introduced the “butterfly” keyboard design with less key travel in 2015, as part of its broader strategy to produce thinner keyboards and slim down its laptops....

The company’s reported after-tax profit came in at AU$319.5 million, above the AU$288 million recorded in the previous financial year. Total revenue increased by double digits with AU$11 billion reported following last year’s AU$9.79 billion. This was mostly achieved through the sales of its products, which contributed a whopping AU$9.5 billion to total revenue, leaving services accounting for the remaining AU$1.65 million. “During 2021, aspects of the group’s business continued to be affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, with many of the group’s retail stores, as well as channel partner points of sale, temporarily closed at various times, and a significant number of the group’s employees working remotely,” Apple stated....

Epic’s iOS developer account was suspended in August last year as a result of the company introducing a new payment system aimed at sidestepping Apple’s payment systems and 30% commission fees. The ban sparked the lawsuits Epic has raised against Apple, with the US lawsuit culminating in a mixed court ruling a fortnight ago. The mixed court ruling found Apple was justified in terminating Epic’s iOS developer account as it violated App Store guidelines....

Well, I’m going to suggest you lean forward and tense yourself. For this is the tale of a man who thought he had a little problem and then discovered it was far, far larger than he thought. How did I learn of this story? The main protagonist, my very good friend Bruce – I’ve withheld his name, hopefully for obvious reasons – kept texting me about it. And emailing. And screaming a little....

As ZDNET’s David Gewirtz recently noted, the 2019 Mac Pro desktop is now the last Intel-only machine in Apple’s line-up. It’s questionable how many people would buy it, but it’s also the only model that supports up to 1.5TB RAM with expansion slots. The 2022 new M1 Max or M1 Ultra Mac Studio offers up to 128GB of RAM while the 2021 Mac Mini features up to 16GB of RAM – and neither has expansion slots....

If you own an Apple Watch, you know that beyond counting your steps and putting notifications on your wrist, it’s a heck of a lot of fun to customize its look. Apple routinely releases new watch bands, and there’s a large number of third-party options as well. But what those third-party options don’t offer are watchfaces to match. However, Apple’s new bands are part of what the company is calling the International Collection....

If you’re a student, or just working with Apple tablets, the Apple Pencil is a must-have for your needs. The small yet handy device attaches magnetically to your iPad so you can take it with you on the go, and it’s compatible with the following Apple products: Apple iPad Pro 11" (2nd Generation 2020),Apple iPad Pro 12.9" (3rd Generation 2018)Apple iPad Pro 12.9" (4th Generation 2020) Apple iPad mini (6th Generation 2021)...

If you have an iPhone or iPad that’s still running iOS 12 – because that was the end of the line for your device – then Apple has released an emergency update that you need to download and install as soon as possible. Why? Because of the three security fixes contained in this update, two “may have been actively exploited.” In other words, the bad guys might already be using the vulnerabilities to compromise smartphones and tablets....

Each Apple Watch model was designed with specific users in mind. The Apple Watch SE, for example, is perfect for someone who doesn’t want to spend a lot on a smartwatch, or for a parent who wants to be able to get in touch with a child using Apple’s Family Setup feature. Review: Apple Watch Series 8 And then there’s the Apple Watch Series 8 and the Apple Watch Ultra....