Also: How to convert your home’s old TV cable into powerful Ethernet lines Although they both serve the common purpose of connecting your devices to the internet, they have distinct and complementary functions. A modem connects your home network to your internet service provider (ISP), while a router allows all your wired and wireless devices to use that connection simultaneously and communicate with each other. Which is best for you?...
The summit included representatives from the US, Australia, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Czech Republic, the Dominican Republic, Estonia, European Union, France, Germany, India, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Kenya, Lithuania, Mexico, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Nigeria, Poland, South Korea, Romania, Singapore, South Africa, Sweden, Switzerland, Ukraine, UAE, and the United Kingdom. All of the countries agreed that ransomware is an “escalating global security threat with serious economic and security consequences.” The countries reiterated that ransomware requires a “shared response” because of how complex and global the issue is....
The study carried out by not-for-profit global trade body the Mobile Ecosystem Forum (MEF) has found that 66% of Brazilian professionals are using their own devices for work. This represents a rise of 5 percentage points in relation to the previous edition of the study published at the end of 2019. Of the professionals using their personal devices in a professional setting, 75% are not being subsidized by their employers, the research has found....
Conducted since 2010, the TIC Educação survey investigates school communities – students, teachers, directors of studies and principals – to map access to, as well as use and appropriation of, information and communication technologies in public and private schools. The research covered 3678 schools nationwide and also analyzed aspects of technology used in education during the COVID-19 pandemic. According to the research, 84% of students in urban areas in Brazil don’t have connectivity at home or access to equipment such as desktops, laptops or tablets....
However, before we get to those details, let’s recap just what the 2022 edition of the Edge Plus brings to Motorola’s flagship lineup. Inside the Motorola Edge Plus is Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 processor, 8GB or 12GB of memory, up to 512GB of storage, and a 4,800mAh battery. Its OLED display measures 6.7-inches, with a resolution of 2400x1080. On the backside of the Edge Plus is a triple camera array that boasts a 50MP camera for ultra-wide angle photos, a 50MP main camera and a 2MP depth camera....
The announcement was made by Aussie Broadband stating it was taking part in the program, and has 9,000 eligible customers on FttN and FttC technologies. “We’ve been taking part in trials over the past few months, and we’re keen to participate in NBN’s new fibre upgrade scheme,” Aussie Broadband managing director Phil Britt said. “Eligible FttC customers will be able to apply for the Fibre Connect program from the end of May....
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According to Python developers at Netflix, the language is used through the “full content lifecycle,” from security tools to its recommendation algorithms to its proprietary content distribution network (CDN) Open Connect, which ensures that content is streamed from network devices that are as close as possible to end users. Python is one of the most popular languages today and is widely used for data analysis, machine learning, DevOps, and web development....
At the end of October, cybersecurity researchers from Cleafy found the malware, which does not appear to belong to any known family. Now dubbed SharkBot, the Android malware has been traced in attacks focused on stealing funds from vulnerable handsets running on the Google Android operating system. So far, infections have been found in the UK, Italy, and the United States. It is believed that SharkBot is likely a private botnet and is still in the early stages of development....
The Santa Clara, Calif.-based company reported Q4 non-GAAP earnings of $1.32 per share on revenue of $7.64 billion, up 53% from a year earlier. Wall Street was expecting to see earnings of $1.23 per share with $7.42 billion in revenue. This is the first earnings report released since NVIDIA announced it would no longer be acquiring Arm from SoftBank. The controversial deal fell apart last week “because of significant regulatory challenges preventing the consummation of the transaction, despite good faith efforts by the parties,” according to NVIDIA and SoftBank....
While the federal government already has its Trusted Digital Identity Framework in place, the framework is only applicable to federal government entities and not applicable to states and territories or the private sector. The Bill, if passed, would create another framework that allows state and territory governments and the private sector to facilitate online transactions requiring a digital identity, which the DTA hopes will reduce friction and delay in online environments....
The review comes just shy of a year after the news media bargaining code came into effect. The code, among other things, requires tech giants – Google and Facebook in the first instance – to bargain with news media businesses for remuneration to display news articles. Where an agreement between news media businesses and digital platforms cannot be reached, the code sets out an arbitration process to determine the remuneration payable by a digital platform....
T-Mobile and its more-established 5G network once again proved the big winner in this latest report. The magenta-flavored carrier took top honors for 5G download speeds for the sixth consecutive time, growing its lead over AT&T and Verizon by achieving an average download speed of 171Mbps, more than doubling the 72.8Mbps reported for Verizon Wireless and crushing AT&T’s 53.6Mbps average. While T-Mobile’s lead remains secure for now, both Verizon and AT&T continue to see the benefits of adding the C-Band spectrum to their networks....
If you have more data in your iCloud Drive storage than you have space on your Mac’s internal SSD, you stand a good chance of losing files, even if you back up with Time Machine. Also: How to easily back up your Mac onto a USB drive (and feel like James Bond doing it) Why is that? What is actually happening to your data? Strap in. We’re going for a ride....
If you’re wondering why your powerful computer has become noticeably more sluggish lately though nothing seems to be broken, it could be because your giant hard drive is a big disorganized mess. Your text, music, video files, and more are scattered all over the place. Creating partitions is an easy fix, but not all partitioning tools are created equal. If you’re going that route, anyway, you may as well get a partitioning software that provides a brilliant yet simple way to protect your data, optimize your disk usage, and boost your system speed and hard drive performance....
The company noted that it chose the location to meet growing demand in the area for cloud services among both private and public sector customers. The site will also allow it to tap into the Nordic market’s growing technological advancement, which, Oracle noted, has consistently placed it near the top of the European Union’s Digital Economy and Society Index (DESI) in the areas of “human capital, broadband connectivity and the integration of digital technologies by businesses and digital public services....
On Thursday, WebsitePlanet, together with researcher Jeremiah Fowler, revealed the discovery of an online database belonging to CVS Health. The database was not password-protected and had no form of authentication in place to prevent unauthorized entry. Upon examination of the database, the team found over one billion records that were connected to the US healthcare and pharmaceutical giant, which owns brands including CVS Pharmacy and Aetna. The database, 204GB in size, contained event and configuration data including production records of visitor IDs, session IDs, device access information – such as whether visitors to the firm’s domains used an iPhone or Android handset – as well as what the team calls a “blueprint” of how the logging system operated from the backend....
You see, open source is more successful than ever. Even Microsoft has seen the error of its way and now supports both Linux and open source. That’s the good news. The bad news is because of its success, patent trolls – also known as Patent Assertion Entities (PAE) – are attacking its beneficiaries more than ever. The recent UnifiedPatents, Defending Open Source: An 2022 Litigation Update, report shows patent troll attacks on open-source projects are on track for a 100% increase over 2021....
“Python is very important to Meta,” said the PSF, noting that PyTorch is built on Python, accelerating the path from ML research and prototyping to production within Meta and across the open-source ML ecosystem. Cinder is Meta’s performance-oriented version of Python that allows Instagram to run at global scale, while Pyre is a performant type-checker used by thousands of Python developers in Meta. Meta’s investment in PSF will “provide critical support to the PSF and fund a second year of the successful Developer-in-Residence program,” the PSF said in a blogpost....
The decision to bring forward the flights follows the federal and New South Wales governments confirming last week that international borders would reopen from November 1. “These decisions – combined with plans by states and territories to reopen domestic borders – support all Qantas and Jetstar workers based in Australia and New Zealand who are currently stood down to return to work by early December 2021. This includes around 5,000 employees linked to domestic flying and around 6,000 linked to international flying,” Qantas CEO Alan Joyce said....
