Getting good webdev instruction is easy (learn from home, no commute) and relatively inexpensive. There are also a high number of providers from which to choose; some courses are free of charge, some have a free intro period, and most of them have flexibility in how long you need to take the courses. Here’s a listing of the best web development course providers now available. For students who want to specialize in both areas, Treehouse’s Full Stack JavaScript web development course can get someone job-ready in five months, the company claims....

The new Apple Watch is aimed at well-heeled extreme sports types and will feature a screen that measures almost two-inches diagonally, according to a report by Bloomberg. It’s expected to have a screen with 7% more screen area than the largest Apple Watch 7. Apple historically has unveiled new versions of the Apple Watch in September, alongside new iPhone models. This September, it’s expected to launch the standard Apple Watch 8 with the same dimensions as the Apple Watch 7, the rugged sports Watch, new budget Watch SE models, and four iPhone 14 models....

When ZDNET reviewed Dell’s XPS 15 in 2020, we described it as setting “a new high bar’ for 15.6-inch laptops,” while the 2021 model was dubbed “the standard against which other laptops are measured.” Clearly, it still carries a premium price tag, even with $700 shaved off the list price, but you’re getting a top-notch configuration that will suit a wide range of demanding professionals. Key specs include an Intel Core i9-12900HK processor, 15....

Ahead of the Black Friday sales event, ZDNET has found a great deal on a Wemax Go projector with a 40-inch portable screen. The Watch from Anywhere bundle, available on StackSocial, normally retails for approximately $680. However, for a limited time you can enjoy 70% off, bringing the price down to $199. The Wemax Go projector is a compact, high-quality projector that utilizes ALPD laser technology, also known as fluorescent laser technology, for improved picture projection – taking the place of legacy lamp and LED-based projection....

Under the deal, a unit of Digital Colony Management will acquire Boingo Wireless for $14 a share in cash. Boingo closed Friday at $11.40. Digital Colony Management is paying a 23% premium for Boingo Wireless. The transaction is expected to close in the second quarter. Digital Colony’s portfolio includes a bevy of global digital infrastructure firms. Separately, Boingo Wireless reported its 2020 financial results, which have been hampered by the COVID-19 pandemic....

Although Microsoft Excel is one of the most used software programs in the world, even experienced users rarely know all the ins and outs of its functions. Since one of the program’s best features is the ability to automate tasks, you can save a great deal of time in your workday by becoming more proficient with it. Fortunately, you can now become an Excel power user with The All-In-One 2022 Microsoft Excel Certification Bundle....

Box is a content cloud company. Digital business transformation is powered by content. In order for companies to deliver value at the speed of need, they must develop a strong content management and collaboration capabilities. The new currencies in a digital and decentralized economy are speed, personalization, and intelligence. Today, 67% of Fortune 500 companies use Box to power their business transformation journey. Box had a huge role to play during the pandemic as people realized they needed to access their content from anywhere and from any device....

“There’s so much data that’s lying around in everything that we are doing, and now the amount of data that is getting generated is so much. But how do you get meaningful insights out of this data?” Kavitha Prasad, Intel’s vice president and general manager of Datacenter, AI, and cloud execution and strategy, told ZDNet. s “It’s beyond humanly possible right now to sit down with the data and figure out not just what the data is saying, but the interrelationship between the different sets of data that is getting collected, and to figure out what business insights are hidden behind this data....

But it’s also expensive and designed specifically for Apple users. How about a folding wireless charger for the rest of us? One that doesn’t cost the earth and can even charge three devices simultaneously. Here’s a decent-quality GMCell three-in-one wireless folding travel charger for $40. Also: How to add your driver’s license to the Apple Wallet app (and why you should) Tech specs: Input: 9V/2A 9V/3APhone output: 5W/7.5W/10W/15WAirPods output: 3W (support 2-3 generations)Apple Watch output: 2....

Before signing up for a standardized test, make sure you understand the admission requirements at your schools. Read on to research your options for going to college without standardized test scores. Updates to the SAT and ACT for 2022-23 Are you taking the SAT or ACT for the 2022-23 school year? Make sure you understand changes to the tests — and consider whether you need standardized test scores to get into college....

In particular, Internet of Things (IoT) developers will find a lot to like in Ubuntu 22.10. As Mark Shuttleworth, Canonical CEO, said in a statement, “Connected devices are an exciting area of innovation that also create new digital risks in the home and the business. We are focused on enabling a new generation of easy-to-use and highly secure IoT so that these developers will find a number of quality-of-life improvements for embedded devices and remote development in Ubuntu 22....

In addition to new handsets, HMD Global also announced that Dish Wireless and Consumer Cellular will carry Nokia phones this year. The Nokia G400 is the only 5G-capable device out of the group. It’s priced at $250 and will be available for customers who use TracFone Wireless, Dish Wireless, Consumer Cellular, T-Mobile, and Metro by T-Mobile. See also: The best cheap 5G phones in 2022: Flagship quality at affordable prices There will also be four different 4G smartphones....

This three-part bundle includes non-expiring licenses to PCmover Professional, DiskImage, and SafeErase. Working in conjunction, this trio will make moving machines or systems more straightforward and safer than ever. For additional security, DiskImage gives you a perfect digital image of all your applications, files, and settings to ensure nothing can go wrong in the migration process. The hardware-independent program makes it easy to recover damaged or lost files due to corrupted systems, viruses, hackers, or other malware....

“Courts will likely find that ChatGPT and other LLMs are information content providers,” wrote Perault, referring to the “large language models” that power ChatGPT and many similar natural language AI programs. Also: What is ChatGPT and why does it matter? Everything to know “The result is that the companies that deploy these generative AI tools – like OpenAI, Microsoft, and Google – will be precluded from using Section 230 in cases arising from AI-generated content,” Perault predicted, referring to Section 230 of title 47 of the US Code, a section added to the Communications Decency Act, part of the Telecommunications Act of 1996 passed by Congress....

Data integration may not sound as deliciously intriguing as AI or machine learning tidbits sprinkled on vanilla apps. Still, it is the bread and butter of many, the enabler of all cool things using data, and a premium use case for concepts underpinning AI, we argued back then. The key concepts we advocated for then have been widely recognized and adopted today in their knowledge graph and data fabric guise: federation and semantics....

Enterprises are benefitting from public clouds while keeping some workloads on-premises, but connecting these two environments is still a challenge for them, said Joseph Yang, HPE’s Singapore managing director. He noted that because hyperscalers are no longer just cloud infrastructure providers, offering various application services as well as APIs, it has become easy for business customers to build and roll out applications on public clouds. However, these are largely proprietary, making it difficult to navigate applications developed to run on one cloud in an on-premise environment....

1. The APR on your credit card doesn’t give you the full picture Most of us know that our credit cards come with a quoted interest rate, and that’s the amount of interest our balance would generate over the course of a year if we didn’t pay it off at all. This is called the APR. At first glance, then, you might expect that a $1,000 credit card with a 29....

Published on Tuesday, the report [PDF], Unlocking the innovation potential of Australian companies, identifies some of the current barriers to commercialisation include low levels of cross-sector commercialisation, lack of comprehensive innovation strategy, culture misalignment, and talent and skills capability mismatches. The report said several BCA members consulted described Australia’s research translation and commercialisation landscape as “fragmented, uncoordinated, and lacking in sufficient scale”. “They emphasised a lack of consistent and ambitious national strategy and planning as a barrier to industry achieving greater commercial outputs from science and technology,” it said....

The Ecovacs Deebot X1 OMNI is a multi-purpose sweeping and mopping robot vacuum and cleaning station, and a 2022 CES Innovation Awards honoree. The X1 OMNI will vacuum, mop, empty, fill and clean itself. Furthermore, this robot cleaner has really innovated with its YIKO technology. This uses natural language processing (NLP) technology that will operate using direct speech and commands without a third-party smart device. OMNI’s YIKO is the first robot I have seen to date that uses this technology and I have reviewed 49 robot vacuums for ZDNet since June 2018....

AlphaFold 2, as it’s called, was described at the time only in brief terms, in a blog post by DeepMind and in a paper abstract provided by DeepMind for the competition in which they submitted the program, the Critical Assessment of Techniques for Protein Structure Prediction biannual competition. Last week, DeepMind finally revealed just how it’s done, offering up not only a blog post but also a 16-page summary paper written by DeepMind’s John Jumper and colleagues in Nature magazine, a 62-page collection of supplementary material, and a code library on GitHub....