In its long history, Microsoft has never been afraid to go full Nigel Tufnel. Throughout the first three decades of Windows, Microsoft cranked up its Hype Machine™ every two or three years to get the buying public excited about a new Windows version. Sometimes that hype served as a power washer to wipe away the stains of a previous, unloved version, like Windows 7 successfully cleaning up the mess left by Windows Vista....
But what if you only have a Mac? Are you out of luck? Are all those Windows users with their PCs sneering and laughing at you for buying a Mac? Don’t worry, because you have one of the best platforms for running Windows 11 on! All you need is the Windows 11 ISO, and Parallels Desktop 17. To get the ISO, head over to Microsoft’s Windows Insider Preview Downloads page....
But it went further than that. The 1TB and 2TB versions of the iPad Pro – hardware that costs as much as many Macs – were kitted out with a whopping 16GB of RAM. That’s more RAM than some Macs have. [See: Apple iPad Pro] What’s the deal with that? I’d hoped that the WWDC 2021 keynote would shed some light on this. Perhaps a release of Final Cut Pro for the iPad Pro, or some new AR trickery, or something like virtualization support....
The Xiaomi gaming monitor will give you 34 inches of immersive gameplay, with wide quad HD gameplay on the 178-degree curvature of the monitor. It’s a 21:9 ultrawide screen that has a refresh rate of 144Hz, so you can play your favorite games and enjoy a beautiful picture sans ghosting. You’ll get a 1500R for the screen curvature, too. Alternately, because of the HD screen, you can pair it with a Roku and stream your favorite shows in your dorm room with an ultrawide screen of top-notch quality....
It’s hard to imagine anyone keeping a five-year-old smartphone for heavy use these days, but laptops? That’s another story completely. There are many older models out there that are just as effective today as they were when they came out. That’s why refurbished laptops make a great choice for budget-conscious buyers, and we’re featuring several of the best picks from around the web on our Deals page. One of the top selections: This Microsoft Surface Laptop, certified refurbished at a price that’s more than $200 off the original MSRP....
WaterField launched its new Essentials Collection in August, with four new lightweight bags, handcrafted in the US and more affordably priced than its flagship options. The Essential Messenger Laptop Bag is available for $179 in four accent color options: black, green, blue, and red. You can also purchase a cross-stabilizing strap for $10, which was not a part of my testing sample. Tour the Essential Messenger Laptop Bag WaterField sent along the WaterField Essential Messenger Laptop Bag with the green top accent color....
Launched two years ago, Zoom Phone is an enterprise-focused communications platform that complements Zoom Meetings, Zoom Chat, Zoom Rooms, and Zoom Video Webinars. Available on the Zoom Pro tier and as a bolt-on, the cloud service can be used for domestic calls for central telephone management, call routing, and contact center operations. With the latest update, Zoom said Zoom Phone has been bolstered with stricter caller ID verification compliance. Specifically, Zoom said its caller ID attestation is now using the STIR (Secure Telephony Identity Revisited)/SHAKEN (Secure Handling of Asserted information using toKENs) framework, an industry standard that’s designed to prevent scammers and robocallers from spoofing someone’s phone number....
The announcement by Zoom Group product manager, Natasha Walia, at Zoomtopia 2022 on Tuesday was accompanied by a video demonstration, which showed a woman getting into her Model Y and using the Tesla touchscreen to make make a video call over Zoom. No specific details were given about exactly how the the Zoom integration will work, or when Tesla owners can expect Zoom to be available in their cars. Whether Zoom will work on Wi-Fi or will need the Premium Connectivity add-on to function is also unknown....
The MacBook Air Cyber Monday deal is the one I personally bought. The sleek, light laptop was the perfect gift for a family member to begin with, and $200 off sweetened the deal. I read the review ZDNET’s Robin Harris wrote about the MacBook Air after a year of using it, and I liked that he wrote about high functionality for the price. More: MacBook Air (Late 2020) review: M1 chip gives Apple’s veteran ultraportable a shot in the arm The MacBook Air has up to 18 hours of battery life and an Apple M1 chip for faster performance with less power usage....
The 3D printer is perfect for beginners who want to learn how to work with 3D printing, and it’s also great for older kids and teens who are interested in creating 3D works. Designed with educational needs in mind, it ships fully assembled, so all you have to do is plug it in and set up the Wi-Fi connection and you’ll be ready to start printing. It also comes with a free mobile app so you can adjust the settings as needed, too....
Personally, I use all three – each for its own purpose. Today, my main productivity computer is a Mac, mostly because I use a few software tools that only run on Macs. I use my Windows machine to run my CNC and for applications that don’t run well on Macs. When I had time for gaming, I also used a Windows machine for those Triple-A gaming titles that only work well on PCs....
Database migrations happen all the time, and there’s no shortage of advice on how to conduct them. But Facebook’s detailed blog post yielded valuable lessons, which we’ll get into in more detail here. It was a massive, multiyear project, especially because Facebook has such a large array of MySQL instances. First off, what was all the fuss about? There’s little question that MySQL represents a major generational upgrade to this platform....
This attack didn’t originate from compromised low-bandwidth Internet of Things devices like many other DDoS or junk traffic attacks on websites, but rather from cloud service providers, according to Cloudflare. That it came from cloud provider infrastructure suggests the attackers hijacked higher-bandwidth virtual machines and servers, the firm suggests. SEE: Don’t let your cloud cybersecurity choices leave the door open for hackers This attack was over HTTPS, the secure version of the web, similar to a DDoS attack it mitigated in April....
Of the total, ABS reported that 6.1 million forms were submitted online through the Census digital service and the remainder was via post. The peak period online was at 8.06pm when the ABS received about 141 submissions per second. No interruptions, excessive wait times, or security breaches were reported by the ABS, according to Assistant Treasurer Michael Sukkar. “I want to thank the millions of Australians who have played their part in making the 2021 Census a success so far, and we want to continue to see the numbers ticking up and the forms coming in,” he said....
Now, Chromebooks are integral to the lives of millions of students and professionals. Google and a few partners (including Acer) have now decided to see if they can use the same reliance on cloud-based services to create Chromebooks for gaming. Services like Nvidia’s GeForce Now and Microsoft’s Xbox Game Pass make this possible by shifting the heavy lifting to a remote server. Acer’s Chromebook 516 GE aims to be the ideal device for those cloud services by providing inexpensive hardware and excellent connectivity (Wi-Fi 6E, 2....
AUPDNS has already inspected 10 billion queries, and blocked 1 million connections to malicious domains, Assistant Minister for Defence Andrew Hastie said on Thursday. “A single malicious connection could result in a government network being vulnerable to attack or compromise, so it’s vital we do everything we can to prevent cybercriminals from gaining a foothold,” he said. “Currently AUPDNS is protecting over 200,000 users, and this number is growing”. The blocklist functionality was developed with Nominet Cyber....
In an update about the cyberattack that initially forced them to remove all connections to their central data center, the company said business operations are back up and running but the “number of so-called fraudulent calls and mails has generally increased.” “The forensic investigation has meanwhile confirmed that data was extracted from our servers before our systems were taken offline on December 9. We are currently investigating what type of data was extracted and will proactively provide further information as soon as possible....
Think earbuds, and most people will think Apple’s AirPods or AirPods Pro. But they’re not for everyone. People who aren’t in the Apple ecosystem, or those who don’t want to pay the sort of money that Apple is asking for these products, still deserve decent earbuds. Well, you might have noticed that there are a lot of sales going on, making it a great time to pick up a quality set of earbuds for a lot less than you normally pay....
An offshoot from Deepmind, another AI subsidiary of Alphabet, the idea for Isomorphic Labs came after Deepmind’s AI system AlphaFold 2 solved a 50-year old protein folding challenge by predicting the 3D structure of a protein directly from its amino acid sequence to atomic-level accuracy. Following this breakthrough, Deepmind and Isomorphic Labs founder and CEO Demis Hassabis said he now believes AI techniques and methods have become powerful and sophisticated enough to be applied to real-world problems, including scientific discovery itself....
“The surprisingly manual and bespoke process of teaching robots how to do things, which hasn’t changed much over the last few decades, is currently a cap on their potential to help more businesses,” Wendy Tan-White, Intrinsic’s CEO, wrote in a blog post. “Specialist programmers can spend hundreds of hours hard coding robots to perform specific jobs, like welding two pieces of metal, or gluing together an electronics case. And many dexterous and delicate tasks, like inserting plugs or moving cords, remain unfeasible for robots because they lack the sensors or software needed to understand their physical surroundings....
