Membership Rewards points vary in value, and can be deposited directly into Business Checking accounts. According to Amex, Business Checking members can deposit 10,000 points into their account and it will equate to $80. Business Checking members who are also Business Platinum cardholders, however, can deposit 10,000 points for a $100 value, and they can deposit up to 1,000,000 points in a calendar year. Following that limit, they will receive the standard conversion of 10,000 points for $80....

On Thursday, members of Anonymous announced on Twitter that they would be launching attacks against the Russian government. The hacktivists defaced some local government websites in Russia and temporarily took down others, including the website of Russian news outlet RT. The group claimed on Friday that it would leak login credentials for the Russian Ministry of Defense website. The actions came hours after Yegor Aushev, co-founder of a Kyiv-based cybersecurity company, told Reuters that he was asked by a senior Ukrainian Defense Ministry official to publish a call for help within the hacking community....

That’s perhaps inevitable, as the 2022 edition of the 13-inch MacBook Pro is, essentially, a speed bump that does little more than drop the new M2 chip into the same 13-inch laptop design that’s been in use for several years. And, in many respects, the MacBook Air is now the more attractive of the two laptops. The one real advantage of the MacBook Pro is that its fan-assisted cooling system allows its processor to run at full speed for longer than the passive cooling of the MacBook Air....

“Apple and Google have developed a vice-like grip over how we use mobile phones and we’re concerned that it’s causing millions of people across the UK to lose out,” said Andrea Coscelli, chief executive of the UK’s Competition and Market Authority (CMA). The CMA had provisionally found that Apple and Google were able to use their market dominance to create “largely self-contained ecosystems” through iOS and the App Store and Android and Google Play....

The recent survey of 400 IT leaders, commissioned by Insight and conducted by IDG, finds “modernization efforts to-date are already generating measurable improvements in service quality, user experience, and cost-efficiency,” the survey’s authors state. So what is “modernization” in a 2022 context? Just few years back, it meant pulling away from mainframes and midrange-class servers to Windows and Linux (and Unix). Then it became moving from Windows/Linux server collections to cloud-based services....

The report sent Arista shares up 8% in late trading. Despite the upbeat report and forecast, CEO Jayshree Ullal told analysts during the company’s conference call Monday evening that disruption of the global supply chain that is affecting its sales of network switches will continue into 2023. “And so despite the supply chain obstacles that we now expect to continue into 2023, we have emerged stronger,” Ullal told analysts. Some progress with suppliers in November yielded to further supply disruption as the Omicron variant of COVID-19 emerged, she said....

Also read: Microsoft’s cloud-connected on-prem database: SQL Server 2022 rolls out in private preview Open source database, the SQL Microsoft launched its Azure Database for MySQL and PostgreSQL services to general availability (GA) in 2018. When those services began their preview the year before, the notion that Microsoft itself would support open source platforms that compete with its own SQL Server platform was big news. It made sense, though; if it’s something Microsoft’s customers want, and it drives cloud compute and storage revenue, it’s in Microsoft’s interest....

It always worked perfectly well. If I had to take a trip abroad, I’d go to the AT&T website. I’d then buy an international data plan and believe that I wouldn’t use more than the number of GB specified. Your device isn’t eligible. Go away Why would I expect this time to be any different? Yet suddenly the AT&T site decided I’d become inferior. It told me that my device wasn’t eligible for the international plan....

Atlassian’s head of engineering Agnes Ro has experienced this first-hand. Ro has spent the last 15 years working at the software company – initially as a graduate developer, before rising up the ranks to oversee a team of 100 engineers for a department called Foundational Collaboration that sits within Atlassian’s cloud platform. Some of her key responsibilities include delivering common experiences and backend services for Atlassian products, such as rich text editors in JIRA and Confluence, as well as file and storage experiences....

Australia Post CIO Munro Farmer explained that the need to improve parcel tracking was driven by the increase in parcel shipments. “What we saw in 2020 was that four out of five Australian households – so almost 9 million households – were making an online purchase at some point during the year, and included in that number was more than 1.3 million households that purchased in 2020 that hadn’t bought online in 2019,” he said....

On the crypto front, simply because you managed to make money before last week’s crash hit off a decentralised system, does not mean the tax office is not owed something, much like selling property or shares, selling crypto or NFTs can mean tax is due. “Crypto is a popular type of asset and we expect to see more capital gains or capital losses reported in tax returns this year. Remember you can’t offset your crypto losses against your salary and wages,” ATO assistant commissioner Tim Loh said....

The third quarter report shows that 30,393 complaints were made between January and March 2021, 101 fewer complaints than last quarter and 4,004 less than the start of 2020-21 when there was an increase in complaints. On a year-on-year basis, there was a 6.1% drop in complaints. Communications Alliance CEO John Stanton said the drop in overall complaints was a sign of telcos improving their service level. “Everyone knows it is frustrating when it is hard to contact service providers in any industry to get an issue dealt with – so the evident strong improvement in telcos being reachable and available to deliver good customer service is very welcome,” he said....

Avaya also reported its third quarter financial results before the bell on Monday. The Santa Clara, Calif.-based company delivered net income of $43 million, or 43 cents per share. Non-GAAP earnings were 75 cents a share on revenue of $732 million, up 2% from a year ago. Wall Street was expecting the company to report earnings of 70 cents per share on revenue of $729.8 million. Elsewhere on the balance sheet, Avaya said its software and services products accounted for 88% of revenue, with recurring revenue contributing 64%....

Meanwhile, the new SageMaker Training Compiler automatically compiles a user’s Python training code and generates GPU kernels specifically for their model. The training code will use less memory and compute, training models faster. AWS says it can speed up training by up to 50%. AWS also rolled out a preview of SageMaker Serverless Inference, a new inference option that lets users deploy ML models for inference without having to configure or manage the underlying infrastructure....

You will never have to worry about data loss again. With a Degoo Mega Backup Plan, you can start at a full 15TB of storage that provides automatic backups. With more capacity than Dropbox, Google Drive, and OneDrive combined, you won’t ever need to worry about running out of space, either. You can store and protect music, photos, graphics, videos, and more behind 256-bit AES encryption. The service is unbelievably user-friendly....

The Robocar is touted as being able to independently drive with the same capability as a human driver. While that description would classify it as being a Level 5 autonomy vehicle, which is meant to represent a fully autonomous vehicle that can go anywhere and at any time, Baidu did not make that claim at its tech conference. There are currently no Level 5 autonomous vehicles out in the market, with most robotaxi services currently using cars with a Level 4 autonomy....

Now, thanks to lines like Samsung’s Odyssey series, curves are once again trendy, and not just for ultrawides. A new class of large, widescreen monitors with severe curves is growing in popularity. These desk-filling displays offer the same screen real estate as multi-monitor setups while bringing new levels of immersion with their wraparound designs. Today we’re looking at BenQ’s take on this genre, the 31.5-inch Mobiuz 1000R Curved Gaming Monitor....

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, architecture and engineering occupations are projected to add nearly 150,000 new jobs by 2030, while computer and information technology occupations are projected to grow by more than 660,000 new jobs. With knowledge and skills in both fields, computer engineering graduates are well-positioned to enter the workforce. We’ve ranked the top computer engineering bachelor’s degrees for 2022. Scroll down to find out the online computer engineering program that’s best for you....

The Bureau of Labor Statistics projects the addition of more than 73,000 human resources specialists and nearly 15,000 human resources managers between 2020 and 2030. With that in mind, a human resources degree from one of the following top-ranked online colleges can help graduates access this growing field. Top 5 online schools for human resources 25 best online human resources degrees To create the list of programs below, we collected publicly available information from the most reputable sources....

Mark Zuckerberg’s big bet on the metaverse will likely keep attention in this direction for a long time to come as the technology enters its consumer judgment day. Meanwhile, the business case for VR, especially in areas like employee training, has helped make up for sluggish consumer adoption, and that trend is expected to continue. What’s clear is there’s a lot of development happening and a lot of content being produced for VR, and for gamers and hobbyists, there has never been a better time to give the technology a look....