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• Conducting customer research remotely: Tips, tricks, and resources

  14-04-2020 23:23 via zdnet.com
  
  Conducting research remotely has benefits.
  
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• Meet the iPhone SE2 and iCouch: Apple's service bundle for the pandemic

  14-04-2020 23:07 via zdnet.com
  
  While Netflix, Amazon, and HBO have excellent content, they'd have a difficultly competing with a service like this from Apple.
  
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• How Verizon Media's networking team is handling COVID-19 supply chain challenges

  14-04-2020 22:59 via zdnet.com
  
  "We had to create a DR plan for the DR plan," Verizon Media's Chief Network Architect said of the unprecedented global disruptions caused by the pandemic.
  
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• iDrive Cloud Backup deal: Pay $3.48 for 5TB and save 95% the first year

  14-04-2020 22:00 via zdnet.com
  
  Looking for a personal or sole-proprietorship backup? Then this iDrive deal demands a look.
  
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• Microsoft April 2020 Patch Tuesday comes with fixes for three zero-days

  14-04-2020 20:59 via zdnet.com
  
  Microsoft fixes another 113 bugs this month after patching a whopping 115 last month.
  
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• Microsoft April 2020 Patch Tuesday comes with fixes for four zero-days

  14-04-2020 20:59 via zdnet.com
  
  Microsoft fixes another 113 bugs this month after patching a whopping 115 last month.
  
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• OnePlus 8 and 8 Pro: How to buy and where to find the best deals

  14-04-2020 20:52 via zdnet.com
  
  The best OnePlus 8 and 8 Pro deals from OnePlus, Verizon, T-Mobile, and Amazon.
  
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• Coronavirus: Apple tracks changes in travel behaviour

  14-04-2020 20:07 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Firm offers tool that tracks how many people are walking, driving and using public transport.
  
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• Microsoft pushes back end of support date for Windows 10 1809

  14-04-2020 20:03 via zdnet.com
  
  Microsoft is giving Windows 10 1809 users a reprieve on when they'll receive their final security updates. It also is postponing end of support for Windows Server 1809, SharePoint Server 2010 and more, all due to effects of the coronavirus.
  
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• Exclusive: Google removes 49 Chrome extensions caught stealing crypto-wallet keys

  14-04-2020 20:00 via zdnet.com
  
  The Chrome extensions were mimicking cryptocurrency wallet apps like Ledger, MyEtherWallet, Trezor, Electrum, and others, but, in reality, they were stealing users' private keys and mnemonic phrases.
  
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• The best VPN services for your home office or any remote connection

  14-04-2020 19:50 via zdnet.com
  
  VPNs aren't essential only for securing your unencrypted Wi-Fi connections in coffee shops and airports. Every remote worker should consider a VPN to stay safe online. Here are your top choices and how to get set up.
  
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• The best email hosting services: G Suite and Microsoft 365 are not your only options

  14-04-2020 19:32 via zdnet.com
  
  Are you a small business or home office worker ready to graduate from free email offerings, present a professional address, and exert some control over your business communications? Then you'll want to sign up with an email hosting provider.
  
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• Jason Squared podcast and video series on ZDNet

  14-04-2020 19:12 via zdnet.com
  
  ZDNet's Jason Cipriani and Jason Perlow discuss and debate all things current in the business tech space.
  
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• Accenture and Verizon announce B2B platform to match laid off workers with open positions

  14-04-2020 18:41 via zdnet.com
  
  Human resource officers built the service to help the 16 million people unemployed due to the coronavirus.
  
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• .NET for Apache Spark brings enterprise coders and big data pros to the same table

  14-04-2020 18:20 via zdnet.com
  
  A year ago, Microsoft enabled .NET developers to work with Apache Spark using C# or F#, instead of Python or Scala. More functionality and performance enhancements have since been layered on. The result shows how software world demarcations can be transcended.
  
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• GitHub offers new free tier for private development

  14-04-2020 18:20 via zdnet.com
  
  GitHub Free now offers an unlimited number of collaborators free access to private repositories.
  
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• Does anybody really need a £900 OnePlus phone?

  14-04-2020 18:09
  
  The OnePlus 8 Pro arrives with the specs it needs to match Apple and Samsung and the price tag that follows. Has OnePlus lost its way?
  
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• Coronavirus contact tracing apps: What are the privacy concerns?

  14-04-2020 17:55 via zdnet.com
  
  Special smartphone apps could help to reduce the spread of COVID-19, but such moves could also have profound implications for individual privacy in the long term.
  
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• Coronavirus: 20 suspected phone mast attacks over Easter

  14-04-2020 17:55 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Vodafone says one of the "deluded" attacks was on a mast serving Birmingham's Nightingale hospital.
  
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• OnePlus goes mainstream as OnePlus 8, OnePlus 8 Pro gain Verizon, Amazon distribution starting at $699

  14-04-2020 17:51 via zdnet.com
  
  The addition of Verizon and Amazon as retail partners in addition to T-Mobile is going to give OnePlus' latest devices more distribution and exposure with tech buyers.
  
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• SoftBank reports first loss in 15 years due to bad investments and coronavirus

  14-04-2020 16:51 via zdnet.com
  
  SoftBank's Technology Vision Fund has become a heavy burden due to high-risk investments.
  
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• How Apple and Google coronavirus contact tracing will work

  14-04-2020 16:04 via zdnet.com
  
  Here's how our iPhones and Android smartphones will track us in an attempt to work out if you've been exposed to COVID-19.
  
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• Russian state hackers behind San Francisco airport hack

  14-04-2020 15:46 via zdnet.com
  
  ESET says a Russian hacker group known as Energetic Bear (DragonFly) is behind a hack of two of the airport's websites.
  
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• Pivot, not panic: How startups are coping with the coronavirus crisis

  14-04-2020 15:38 via zdnet.com
  
  For early-stage businesses, the global pandemic has brought about a load of new financial challenges. But entrepreneurs are using their own inventiveness to respond and adapt.
  
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• Scale, distribution, and occupying Mars: COVID-19 is a catalyst

  14-04-2020 15:37 via zdnet.com
  
  While our major industries and institutions are still using centralization and consolidation to achieve economies of scale, our most important technologies are increasingly tended in the opposite direction, toward decentralization and distribution. Innovators and entrepreneurs are beginning to see new opportunity areas emerge in this gap, and we expect that CEOs will begin to see that growth.
  
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• Cisco announces $2.5B financing program for customers and partners during COVID-19

  14-04-2020 15:34 via zdnet.com
  
  The program features a 90-day payment holiday that allows customers to defer 95% of the cost of a new product or technology until 2021.
  
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• Samsung Galaxy users: Windows 10 now lets you drag and drop up to 100 files

  14-04-2020 15:28 via zdnet.com
  
  But some Android users are complaining they can't find the version of Link to Windows that supports the feature.
  
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• AMD launches new series of Epyc processors for the enterprise

  14-04-2020 15:00 via zdnet.com
  
  The new 7F7Fx2 processors are optimized for database, commercial HPC and hyperconverged infrastructure workloads.
  
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• AliveCor uses remote medicine to provide critical heart rhythm testing to COVID-19 patients

  14-04-2020 15:00 via zdnet.com
  
  A Bluetooth device the size of a stick of chewing gum can detect early signs of deadly heart arrhythmia which can be a side effect from the use of Hydroxychloroquine and Azithromycin medications in COVID-19 patients.
  
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• Adobe releases AI-powered product recommendations tool in Magento Commerce

  14-04-2020 15:00 via zdnet.com
  
  The tool allows merchants to analyze shopper behavior in order to generate highly personalized recommendations, which can be added to relevant store pages via widgets and flexible APIs.
  
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• Zoom security: Your meetings will be safe and secure if you do these 10 things

  14-04-2020 14:49 via zdnet.com
  
  Is Zoom video conferencing safe to use or isn't it? That all depends on how well you follow these best practices.
  
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• Make sure your Zoom meetings are safe by doing these 10 things

  14-04-2020 14:49 via zdnet.com
  
  This is how you can make sure your Zoom meetings are safe and as secure as possible.
  
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• New Microsoft Teams features: Video to show 9 people on screen with more coming soon

  14-04-2020 14:34 via zdnet.com
  
  Microsoft Teams users can now see up to nine participants on screen in a video call.
  
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• VMware rolls out updates for app development and cloud management

  14-04-2020 14:00 via zdnet.com
  
  VMware announced a series of updates to the new Tanzu portfolio for app development, as well as the availability of the vRealize Operations Cloud.
  
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• A closer look at Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics

  14-04-2020 14:00 via zdnet.com
  
  How is Azure bridging the data warehouse and data lake experience, and where should they go with it?
  
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• HP Neverstop Laser MFP 1202nw review: Refillable laser printer offers lower TCO for SMBs and home workers

  14-04-2020 13:48 via zdnet.com
  
  HP's Neverstop multifunction laser printers ditch toner cartridges in favour of a refillable system, offering impressively low running costs. However, there are some missing features, even on the top-end model.
  
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• Raspberry Pi sales jump: Here's why the tiny computer's in demand in coronavirus crisis

  14-04-2020 13:47 via zdnet.com
  
  Lockdown means more home and education use, plus the Pi finds a place in the battle to save coronavirus patients.
  
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• Huawei: 5G U-turn would be a bad idea

  14-04-2020 13:46 via zdnet.com
  
  Chinese tech giant warns of "groundless criticism" of its involvement with new networks.
  
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• Professor X: RoboTaxi "gigafactory" to collect petabytes of urban info

  14-04-2020 13:00 via zdnet.com
  
  A massive RoboTaxi data center is the hub for an enterprising experiment masterminded by a man known as Professor X.
  
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• New Relic launches AIOps suite

  14-04-2020 12:55 via zdnet.com
  
  New Relic AI augments existing incident management teams and workflows.
  
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• Turn fire into electricity with the BioLite CampStove 2

  14-04-2020 12:21 via zdnet.com
  
  Turn bits of twigs and wood you find in nature into fire to boil water and cook food, and also electricity to charge up your smartphone.
  
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• Developers: Getting ahead is about more than programming languages

  14-04-2020 12:15 via zdnet.com
  
  Three tech chiefs give their best-practice tips tor up-and-coming professionals who want to climb the IT leadership ladder.
  
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• The Costs of Connection, book review: A wider view of surveillance capitalism

  14-04-2020 10:58 via zdnet.com
  
  The rush to monetise and profit from data is comparable to the land grabs perpetrated by colonialists of the past, argue Nick Couldry and Ulises A. Mejias.
  
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• Account details for 4 million Quidd users shared on hacking forum

  14-04-2020 08:54 via zdnet.com
  
  Users of Quidd​, an online marketplace for trading stickers, cards, toys, and other collectibles, are advised to change account passwords as soon as possible.
  
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• Telstra extends unlimited home broadband offer until the end of June

  14-04-2020 08:05 via zdnet.com
  With the aim of supporting customers through COVID-19.
  
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• This economist has a radical plan to solve wealth inequality

  14-04-2020 07:00
  
  French economist Thomas Piketty says inequality is a political choice. The solution? Wealth taxes well beyond anything dreamed up by Bernie Sanders
  
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• Improbable’s simulation tech could help us build better pandemic models

  14-04-2020 07:00
  
  The British unicorn’s simulation technology can build video games. Can it help us understand the coronavirus crisis?
  
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• Coronavirus is totally screwing up our sleep – here’s how to fix that

  14-04-2020 07:00
  
  The stress of living under lockdown is playing havoc with our sleep, and things could stay that way for a long time
  
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• NSW government to deliver COVID-19 test results via SMS

  14-04-2020 05:52 via zdnet.com
  
  Automated results would be delivered within six hours of testing.
  
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• Potential data breaches make up 14% of Commonwealth incidents reported to ACSC

  14-04-2020 05:08 via zdnet.com
  
  ACSC responded to 427 cyber incidents against Commonwealth entities in 2019, with 65% of them being self-reported.
  
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