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• Legacy apps are at risk with the September Patch Tuesday update

  17-09-2021 21:28
  
  This week's Patch Tuesday was an unusual update from Microsoft and we have added Windows, the Microsoft development platform, and Adobe Reader to our "Patch Now" schedule. These updates are driven by the zero-day patch (CVE-2021-40444) to the core Microsoft browser library MSHTML. In addition to leading to significant remote code execution worries, this update may also lead to unexpected behaviours in legacy applications that depend on or include this browser component. Be sure to assess your p
  
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• Should the brilliant new iPad mini go Pro?

  17-09-2021 18:52
  
  I imagine the A15 processor inside the iPad mini may deliver similar performance to what it can achieve inside the smaller iPhone. We don’t have the benchmark data to prove this assumption yet, but it's possible — assuming Apple hasn’t downclocked the chip.To read this article in full, please click here
  
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• Great R packages for data import, wrangling, and visualization

  17-09-2021 18:00
  
  The table below shows my favorite go-to R packages for data import, wrangling, visualization and analysis -- plus a few miscellaneous tasks tossed in. The package names in the table are clickable if you want more information. To find out more about a package once you've installed it, type help(package = "packagename") in your R console (of course substituting the actual package name ).My favorite R packages for data visualization and munging
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  Category
  Description
  Sample Use
  Author
  dplyr
  
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• Best-loved productivity tools of the rich and famous

  17-09-2021 13:00
  
  What’s that one productivity tool you simply couldn’t live without? For me, it’s Dragon NaturallySpeaking, the voice recognition package that, despite its many quirks and frustrations, has saved me countless hours of keyboard time over the past 15 years.This week I set out to find a NaturallySpeaking equivalent for other business professionals. I posted a simple question on Twitter and the sourcing site Qwoted: “What’s the one digital productivity tool you would ta
  
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• The problem with the Poly Studio E70 and X70

  17-09-2021 12:18
  
  I got a briefing this week on the impressive Poly E70 conference room camera and X70 (with built-in speakers). They are impressive pieces of hardware, but they only work with Zoom at the moment (though Teams certification is coming). And that lack of interoperability between conferencing platforms continues to make every device in this class a far riskier buy than they should be. In the context of this Poly announcement, let’s explore why conferencing services providers don’t u
  
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• The rise of tablets: Why we don't need laptops or phones anymore

  17-09-2021 12:15
  
  The tablet is a provocative beast.Make a big one, and people argue over whether it could replace a laptop. Make a small one, and some users want it to be a giant phone. These conversations have repeated themselves since then-CEO Steve Jobs announced Apple’s ground-breaking iPad in 2010.It was a pointless conversation at the time. Only the most dedicated tech nerds with specific kinds of work could even contemplate a stunt like replacing a phone or laptop with a tablet. Despite all the tal
  
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