MacBook Pro. iPad Pro. iPhone Pro. AirPods Pro. That “Pro” word doesn’t just add a greater level of prestige to the device in question, but it also allows Apple to add dollars to the price tag. Sure, the buyer also gets more – for example, the “Pro” iPhones have better cameras, longer battery life, advanced features such as ProMotion, and a design that uses different materials – but let’s not lose sight of the fact that the main reason for adding a “Pro” version of a device is to allow Apple a new product with some serious marketing artillery behind it....

Nandy is joining Okta after more than 15 years at Google, where he most recently oversaw critical parts of its core ad business as Vice President of Engineering. Prior to that, he held a number of other senior leadership roles and helped build Google’s measurement and analytics offerings. The new hire comes at a busy time for the cloud-based identity management firm. In the first half of this year, Okta expanded into new markets and accelerated its growth in others....

The company will give you cash money, after answering a few questions in the app, so you can be on your way to unloading your home without the tedium of weeks or months of dealing with brokers and buyers. It’s all about increasing the liquidity of homes and bringing the residential real estate market online. The market is only 1% “penetrated” as far as online sales, according to the company....

Microsoft officials said there will be more Windows 11 SE devices coming later this year, including models from Fujitsu and Positivo. Windows 11 SE is a simplified version of Windows 11, customized for the K-12 education market, and is designed to help Microsoft and its partners try to better compete with Chromebooks. Windows 11 SE is not the same as Windows 10 in S Mode. However, the types of apps Windows 11 SE users can install and run natively will be limited to six categories: Content-filtering apps, test-taking apps, accessibility apps, classroom communication apps, diagnostics/management/connectivity, and supportability apps and browsers....

Philips’ will offer three different types of lights in the outdoor Hue lineup, and they will be available in both the Philips Hue white and Philips Hue white and color ambiance ranges. Philips Hue Lily Philips Hue Calla Luminaries To get you started, Philips will sell its outdoor spot Lily base unit pack for $279. The Calla bollard will retail for $129.99 as a base unit pack. The Philips Hue white range luminaries start at $29....

In delivering a speech to the Australian Repair Summit on Friday, Lindwall said a labelling scheme could help consumers better understand the life of a potential product, after being unable to find any clear evidence that manufacturers deliberately design products to fail early. “There might be merit in some labelling scheme to help consumers understand how easy it is for their product to be repaired and its durability,” he said....

Python has been snapping at the heels of Java and C for the past few years on the 20-year-old Tiobe index and recently knocked Java off the second spot to rival C. Tiobe, a software testing company, bases its rankings on searches for programming languages on popular websites and search engines. The Tiobe index is updated monthly, and it doesn’t align with other language popularity rankings. For example, the electrical engineering magazine IEEE Spectrum has ranked Python as the most popular language since at least 2020, followed by Java, C, and JavaScript, while developer analyst RedMonk has JavaScript in top place, followed by Python and Java, and places C at tenth....

Most recently, the company just launched a “quantum computing challenge” – a call for talent designed to encourage external organizations to come up with solutions that will help the car manufacturer make the best use of quantum technologies. “It’s a search for hidden gems,” Oliver Wick, technology scout at BMW Research and Technology, tells ZDNet. “It’s a clear message to the world that BMW is working on quantum, and if you have innovative algorithms or great hardware, then please come to us and we can check if we could use it for BMW....

The ransomwhe.re site has been created by Jack Cable, a security researcher who works with the Krebs Stamos Group cyber consultancy and the US Defense Digital Service. The Ransomwhere site is an open, crowdsourced ransomware payment tracker, offering a breakdown of victim payments in bitcoin to wallets linked to a dozen major ransomware variants. The payment figures can be broken down by ‘all time’, this year, this month, and this week....

A collaborative research project by Czech Technical University in Prague, plus cybersecurity companies GoSecure and SecureWorks, analyzed the activities of people on the fringes of cybercrime, those behind projects like building the websites that end up being used for phishing attacks, affiliate schemes to drive traffic towards compromised or fake websites or writing the code that ends up in malware. The people behind these projects are doing it because it’s an easy way to make money....

I used the Roku Express for a few years to bundle my TV streaming services. It’s really easy to set up, and you can begin streaming in as little as 20 minutes after you create your account. In addition to all of the streaming services you can add to the homepage, you can also watch 275 live channels, including news coverage live like CBS. You’ll never have to pay for any streaming services you’re not subscribed to, so if you want to subscribe to Netflix and bundle Hulu with Disney+, you can, and you’ll only be charged by the companies - never the Roku Express....

NEXTA, a free Belarusian news service based in Warsaw, Poland, released a purported Russian internet policy document. This stated that by Friday, March 11, all Russian websites must be switched to the Russian Domain Name System (DNS) service. DNS is the internet’s master address list. It translates from human-readable internet addresses, such as zdnet.com, to an Internet Protocol (IP) address. By forcing all Russian connections to use the Russian DNS zones, people in Russia could only reach sites recognized in the Russian DNS....

The tech giant said its UFS 4.0 storage is the industry’s “highest performing” UFS 4.0 memory unit, and is based on Samsung’s 7th-generation V-NAND. Samsung’s UFS 4.0 modules are packaged with a maximum dimension of 11mm x 13mm x 1mm, and will come in a several capacities up to 1TB. It expects to begin mass production in Q3 2022. SEE: The best Android phones: Better than the iPhone? UFS 4....

Deciding between the Z Flip 4 or the Z Fold 4 seems like a somewhat straightforward decision. However, the Watch 5 and Watch 5 Pro are very similar, with just a few key differences between the two wearables. So how do you decide which one is right for you? I’ll break it down below. Specifications You should get the Galaxy Watch 5 if you… 1. Like a more subdued design The Watch 5 comes in two different sizes, both of which feature an aluminum housing and a sapphire crystal glass display....

The operating income figure is Samsung’s second-best to date, with the company crediting favourable market conditions in the memory market and robust sales from its foundry and display businesses. The sales figure was also Samsung’s highest to date for a quarter, thanks to sales increases across the board in all its businesses, including smartphones, the South Korean tech giant said. Its chip business contributed the lion’s share in operating income of 10 trillion won, which was over half of the total....

Cipriani: Happy Holidays, Perlow. Have you started shopping yet? Perlow: Shopping? Do you mean like going out in public and going to the mall? Heck no. I’m sitting on my rear end in my living room noshing on air-dried cheese snacks, chicharrones, and Chex Mix and binging on TV shows. Also See: Apple TV 4K Perlow: You have no idea how much I value the AirTags, and in addition to my daily carry bag I’ve even installed one in my wallet/credit card clip so that I can track it....

SAP SuccessFactors chief product officer Meg Bear said delivering individualization at scale requires a powerful data platform that extends across multiple systems. SwoopTalent’s AI platform was built to manage data from different HR systems and workflows, combining and analyzing information that helps business leaders make more informed personnel decisions. “By making workforce data more reliable and accessible, we can help our customers gain powerful insights about their people to effectively upskill, reskill and redeploy talent and future-proof their business,” Bear said....

As someone who uses the Sculpt daily, it’s a great option for those with wrist pain. It comes with a built-in ergonomic wrist rest that helps keep your wrist at a natural angle and reduces pain. It works, too – my wrist pain was eliminated when I began using this keyboard. If you need some extra lift to your keyboard setup, you can add a magnetic attachment that will bolster the domed keyboard....

With all the malware and ransomware, not to mention simple flaws that could cause a system to crash, it’s become necessary to keep machines up to date – regularly updating both operating system and applications software. When that software can no longer be updated, it’s time to toss the machine. But should it be? I just finished upgrading my small fleet of older Macs. I pulled one iMac and four Mac minis out of service....

Here’s the progress we’ve made so far, according to the Linux Foundation in its new The State of Software Bill of Materials and Cybersecurity Readiness report. The Linux Foundation, OpenSSF, SPDX, and OpenChain have been working on securing the software supply chain long before President Joe Biden signed an executive order to boost the federal government’s cyber defense. This order says open-source software must try to provide a Software Bill of Materials (SBOM)....