Almost everything went to plan on Monday as mission control in Houston set the stage for Orion’s return, powered by a lunar flyby burn, where it flew close enough to the Moon to use its gravity to “slingshot” back to Earth. Splashdown is scheduled to occur on Sunday 11 December. The powered flyby burn is Orion’s last major engine maneuver on this mission and used ESA’s service module for a burn that lasted 3 minutes and 27 seconds to change its velocity by about 655mph (961 feet per second)....

These are some takeaways from a recent survey of large organizations by Denodo, which finds changes in the roles of IT teams in their cloud modernization journeys. “Getting trained to support cloud needs” is now the top role for IT, now exceeding last year’s top role of “choosing the cloud provider.” This suggests that “IT is no longer the ‘hired hand’ of business,” the survey’s authors state. “IT is a friend of the business, building bridges between IT, the lines of business, and executive management....

Asustor Marketing Manager Jack Lu told ZDNet that the company is “going to release a recovery firmware for support engineers today for users whose NAS is hacked so they can use their NAS again.” “However, encrypted files can not be recovered unless users have backups,” Lu added. Asustor released a warning on Wednesday that the Deadbolt ransomware was being used in attacks affecting Asustor devices. It announced that the myasustor....

The big question: Is asynchronous communication the answer? Technology vendors seem to think there’s something to asynchronous video and messaging. Consider: Cisco’s Webex has tools to send asynchronous video and analytics that give you insights on whether you speak on meetings or not. Rule of thumb: If you don’t speak during meetings, chances are you don’t have to attend. Cisco’s Hybrid Work Index for October found that 48% of meeting participants didn’t speak....

Kicked off in 2016, The Flux Party set off with a claim to transform democracy in Australia, and would do so by having no policies. In the place of what politics is all about, other than power, Flux intended to use a blockchain-based smartphone app so that its membership would be able to vote on how its potential parliamentarians would vote. “Our only policy is parliamentary reform essentially,” founder Max Kaye told ZDNet in 2016....

Open finance aims to allow consumers to compare a broader range of financial products that extend beyond the banking sector. These sectors include insurance, superannuation, merchant acquiring, and non-bank lending service providers. Treasury believes implementing open finance will allow consumers to be informed when making decisions about which services to use from these sectors. It said many consumers currently base their decisions on “rules of thumb” or shortcuts, such as choosing a well-known institution or an institution with which they have an existing banking arrangement....

The Southern Launch facility is based in Whalers Way, at the tip of the Eyre Peninsula around 680 kilometres west of Adelaide, South Australia. Being granted a licence will now enable the company to establish its suborbital rocket testing facility. Initially, the Whalers Way site will support a test launch campaign for up to three suborbital rockets. Data from those launches will be collected to measure environmental impacts that will determine the site’s viability as a possible launch location for future suborbital and orbital launches....

I’ve been tweaking settings, streamlining the installation, installing extensions, deleting extensions, and I even paid for a service to try to make it more usable. The results were mixed, to say the least. What I needed was something that basically allowed me to use Google Chrome the way I was already using it – basically piling a bunch of tabs into it and adding more and more on top until I decided to declare tab bankruptcy – without eating up system resources....

Whether you’re looking to break into the lucrative tech industry or want to advance in the IT career you already have more quickly, you should know that experience will not always be enough to achieve your goals. There are a couple of other important factors that job seekers don’t always consider. One is that you have to know how to make a good impression in a tech job interview, and the other is that impressive certifications on your resume carry a lot of weight....

The critical Log4J bugs, collectively dubbed Log4Shell after their disclosure in December, jolted the tech industry and end-user organizations into mass remediation efforts that may have averted major attacks to date, but are expected to lurk in systems for years. At the time, AWS released several tools to help customers protect resources, such as new web application firewall rules, and updates to its Inspector tool to detect the vulnerability in EC2 VM instances....

The malware campaign has been detailed by cybersecurity researchers at Trend Micro who’ve dubbed it DawDropper and say it delivers four types of banking trojan – TeaBot, Octo, Hydra and Ermac – in what’s described as a dropper-as-a-service (DaaS) attack because the payload is only dropped after the app has been downloaded. Each of the four kinds of malware are designed to steal bank account information along with usernames and passwords....

That is where EvaSMART 2 comes in. Imagine an energy-efficient air conditioner made just for you that you can take anywhere. Instead of cooling a single room or the whole house, the cool will follow you wherever you take it. That’s what you get with the EvaSMART 2 intelligent portable air conditioner. It is on sale right now and the timing couldn’t be better. This portable air condition cools the air the same way nature does: it uses natural evaporate cooling to lower the temperature around you....

Of course, if you happen to already be familiar with Azure and just want an official certification to turbocharge your resume, the 1-hour “AZ-104 Azure Administrator Exam Certification” can make that happen. “AZ-104: Microsoft Azure Administrator Full Course” offers a comprehensive overview, and you can prep for the following certification with “AZ-204 Developing Solutions for Microsoft Azure Exam Prep”. Don’t be intimidated; the courses guide you through every step. With lifetime access, you don’t have to rush through the courses....

As a part of their Fourth of July sale, you can find steep discounts on major appliances, including refrigerators, stoves, and more. Plus, with qualifying purchases, you’ll get a free $100 Best Buy e-Gift Card if you spend $1,499 or more. Because Best Buy dropped the price on a bunch of appliances, we’re saving you some time. Below, you’ll find the best deals Best Buy is offering for their Fourth of July sale....

Not all service fee free banks are completely free, though. Some banks charge for going over your free transactions limit, overdrafting the account, making excess deposits, and other account actions. With this in mind, here are some of the best free business checking accounts available without minimum balance requirements or monthly service fees. How did we choose these products? To determine the best free business checking accounts for small business owners, we looked at banks in the United States, including local, regional, national and online banks and credit unions offering these types of checking accounts....

Selecting an internet provider in Phoenix can seem like a task with so few options, but that means making a selection that is right for you is all the more important. We’ve done a thorough review of the internet providers in Phoenix to help you with your selection. The 3 Best Internet Providers in Phoenix CenturyLink — Best for coverage areaCox Communications – Best for internet package optionsPhoenix Internet – Best for locally owned and operated...

Online executive MBA programs, increasingly common across the country, allow students to earn their degrees without leaving their jobs. Executive MBA graduates hold positions that include chief executive officers, chief financial officers, chief operating officers, directors of operations, and executive directors. Salaries for these positions average $121,000 per year, according to July 2022 Payscale data. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics projects an 8% job growth rate for top executives during 2020-2030....

Multinational organizations need to operate within complex tax and regulatory systems, and professionals must understand how foreign and domestic markets differ. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, globalization is one of the primary growth drivers for business occupations. They project the addition of more than 750,000 new business and financial jobs between 2020 and 2030, plus over 900,000 management occupations. On this page, we dive into the international business online master’s degree and rank the best programs available in the field....

Computer user support specialists provide technical assistance directly to end-users. Network administrators handle the operation of computer systems. Website developers design, build and maintain websites that virtually every organization needs to exist. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics projects job growth in all of these fields. Continue reading for information about educational options and career paths for network administrator associate degree-holders, along with what to expect as an online learner....

We recommend the following products to protect, integrate, and boost your Galaxy Z Fold 3 experience in your everyday life. Our favorite thing about this case is that you can wirelessly charge while the case is on. You can also still PowerShare, too, if you have bluetooth headphones. This means no more taking off your phone’s case each time you want to take advantage of wireless charging. Specifically made for the Samsung Galaxy Fold 3, this case looks and feels like it is a part of the phone’s original design....