In other words, the pandemic has hastened a trend long in the making. Some of it has to do with the rise of the freelance worker. Nearly 50% of millennials are freelancers, and employers are limited in how and when they require contract employees to be on-site. But the wind has been blowing this way for some time, and the pandemic has now forced companies with both freelance and stable on-site workforces to reevaluate their stance on remote work....

Your contribution to Sidewalk is a small portion of your internet bandwidth – 80Kbps, capped to a maximum of 500MB a month. In return, you get access to Sidewalk, and if your internet goes down, or you have a device that’s in a location where it has a poor connection, your devices get to tap into that shared bandwidth in order that your devices can continue to send you notifications....

Puzzles are often a gentle, cerebral endeavor that you can work through alone or in a group. But MSCHF has imagined a new puzzle that gives you that same challenge with a new layer: The 2 Million Dollar Puzzle offers the chance to win up to $1 million when you finish and scan your puzzle. During this Memorial Day Sale, you can get one ($30), two ($56), three ($80), or four ($100) 2 Million Dollar Puzzles....

We went back and forth for a while, trying to get sharing to work. It’s relatively easy to fix, but there’s one step that’s not intuitively obvious. First, I’ll discuss what we tried, and then I’ll show you the simple (but somewhat inconvenient) step to making it all work. Most likely, if you can’t see the green Share Screen button, the host doesn’t have screen sharing enabled. This isn’t done per meeting but instead is part of the host’s settings....

ZoomInfo said that by adding Chorus’ technology to its platform, it will gain middle-of-the-funnel intelligence that bolsters ZoomInfo’s existing top-of-the-funnel strength. “For example, the combined company will expand visibility into companies’ buying committees by identifying and recommending other key contacts involved in the buying decision or referenced by participants in conversations,” ZoomInfo said in a press release. “As Chorus recognizes meeting invitees and participants and listens for their sentiments, motivations, and concerns, ZoomInfo will further enrich the profile of each member with detailed contact and company intelligence....

While it can cover software and hardware integration, computer science also focuses on software’s problem-solving capabilities. The field encompasses subdisciplines including programming, operating systems, and artificial intelligence. Online computer science degree graduates may find jobs in many industries. Demand for professionals with strong programming and computing skills is growing. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics projects more than 667,600 new information technology jobs between 2020 and 2030. Read on to discover the best online degrees in computer science available, plus our guide to this versatile degree....

Water resistance: IP67Finding Range: Up to 400 ft.Battery: Up to one year This Bluetooth tracking tile was picked over competitors based on its effective range, quality, and cost. It can still be challenging to keep track of physical possessions in the digital age. With the Tile Pro, you can chip your bag, purse, or other gear and never worry about losing or misplacing it. Consider the ZDNet review of the best Bluetooth trackers for a broader look at these devices....

The Series C funding round included the participation of ICONIQ Growth, Tiger Global, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Backbone Angels, and Accel, which led the Canadian company’s series A and B rounds. Celebrities like Ryan Reynolds, Scarlett Johansson, Robert Downey Jr., Matthew McConaughey, Chris Evans, Rita Wilson, Ashton Kutcher, Trevor Noah, Justin Timberlake, and Pharrell Williams also participated in the series C round. Executives like Robert Iger and LinkedIn’s Jeff Weiner invested in the company as well....

Anthony is coauthor of the new book “Eat, Sleep, Innovate: How to Make Creativity an Everyday Habit Inside Your Organization”. His book is about innovation and how organizations can make innovation a day-to-day habit. Anthony is a prolific contributor to Harvard Business Publishing. He is the most published digital author on HBR.org and is Harvard Business Corporate Learning’s most in-demand subject matter expert. Anthony’s previous books are Dual Transformation; The First Mile: A Launch Manual for Getting Great Ideas Into the Market; Seeing What’s Next: Using the Theories of Innovation to Predict Industry Change (with Innosight co-founder and Harvard Professor Clayton Christensen); The Innovator’s Guide to Growth: Putting Disruptive Innovation to Work; The Silver Lining: An Innovation Playbook for Uncertain Times; The Little Black Book of Innovation: How It Works, How to Do It; and Building a Growth Factory....

The flavors of 5G The carrier frequencies that power 5G and earlier mobile networks can generally be divided into three categories: Low-band: Anything under 1GHz.Mid-band: Everything between 1GHz and 6GHz. This range is where C-Band lives (3.7GHz to 3.98GHz in the US). High-Band: Everything above 6GHz, including mmWave signals, which operate between 30GHz and 300GHz. 5G services currently offered by T-Mobile, AT&T, and Verizon Wireless operate across all three of these categories, although only T-Mobile uses any low-band 5G frequencies (600MHz, specifically)....

Vinod Kumar is the Head of Business Insights for Salesforce Commerce Cloud. As an early member of the Demandware team, the fastest-growing enterprise e-commerce platform that was acquired by Salesforce in 2016 to become Salesforce Commerce Cloud, Kumar has had courtside seats to the evolution of ecommerce. He led the roll-out of industry-first E-commerce Benchmarking that enabled Commerce Cloud customers to compare their business performance with an anonymized peer group of sites....

LEMF, the AFP explained, is an international term used to denote the transmission destination for lawfully intercepted communications and call-associated data. “Whilst the term ‘facility’ extends to the site where monitoring/recording equipment is located, this generally consists of computer infrastructure that will accept, acknowledge, store, process, and present intercepted products in compliance with international interception data exchange and standards protocols,” the AFP wrote in a statement of requirement (SOR). “The rapid advance of communications in IP networks has enabled multiple means of communication via SMS, email, messaging apps, and social media platforms....

It is the first win for the young AI startup in the energy sector. “The energy sector has historically been a monster consumer of compute, and they’ve generally been quiet about it,” said Cerebras co-founder and CEO Andrew Feldman in an interview with ZDNet. “The energy market is four times the size of the market that Google and all the rest play in – it’s unbelievably big,” he said, referring to the online advertising and shopping market....

Alibaba Cloud said Tuesday the investment, comprising funds and various resources, was part of its initiative to bolster the region’s digital talent pool, innovation, and infrastructure. The Chinese cloud vendor outlined three key programmes that focused on digital upskilling, developers, and tech startups. These included the launch of an initiative with Singapore’s School of Computer Science and Engineering and Nanyang Technological University’s NTU-Alibaba Singapore Joint Research Institute, to offer artificial intelligence (AI) courses under the university’s MiniMasters programme....

The company is claiming the three-week shopping event, which kicked off at the end of October, is its largest to date: There are more than 290,000 brands participating, and over 14 million deals offered on Tmall to 900-plus million consumers in China. These numbers include 2,000 Australian brands listed on Tmall and Tmall Global, around 80% of which entered China for the first time through the Chinese marketplaces, while New Zealand brands make up over 700 brands of the total....

The general public said Vogels still has a perception that “cloud is a few things that sit out there, somewhere,” he said. “And, maybe in the early days, when we launched the first two regions of AWS, that was the case.” “But now, there’s 24 regions around the world, 84 availability zones, hundreds of points of presence, pushing things to the edge in 5G access points, up in space – you know, cloud’s getting closer and closer to every individual,” said Vogels, referring to the overall scope of AWS infrastructure....

The Fire TV Stick is a Wi-Fi-enabled device that connects to your TV’s HDMI port to let you stream content from your favorite subscriptions, such as Netflix, HBO Max, and Hulu. Also: The top video streaming services compared Considering there are four to choose from with different features and prices, there’s sure to be one for all TV-watching needs. You should buy a Fire TV Stick Lite if… 1. You prefer a more affordable option 2....

The decision of whether to use proper Android profiles has been made deep in the bowels of various IT departments, determined by whether companies want to support work profiles or not – and if you ever switched employers, even if you had precious segmentation between personal and work, that could very well disappear. However, Google is slowly going to expand its support for Android work profiles. “Previously, the work profile was only available on managed devices....

After a series of funding rounds, today it’s Yugabyte’s turn to announce that it has closed $188 million in an oversubscribed Series C. This brings the company’s total funding to over $290 million and values Yugabyte at more than $1.3 billion. In other words, we have now have another NewSQL unicorn in Yugabyte. We connected with Yugabyte CEO Bill Cook and co-founder Karthik Ranganathan to discuss Yugabyte’s funding and growth, as well as database market trends....

Apple produced its first fraud prevention analysis last year, detailing it had prevented one million potentially bad apps from the App Store and protected customers from nearly $1.5 billion in potentially fraudulent transactions in 2020. In 2021, Apple rejected 34,500 apps for containing hidden or undocumented features, down from 48,000 in 2020. It also rejected 157,000 apps for being spam, copycats, or misleading to users, up from 150,000 in 2020....