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Google’s Nest Hub (formerly the Google Home Hub) is an impressive piece little smart display except for that one tidbit – it might be too little. It’s intuitive to use, and it’s ambient light adaptation works remarkably well, but the small size somewhat limits its primary function as a photo frame. That’s why Google announced the Nest Hub Max back in May, and now it seems we may finally have a release date: September 9....

The update notes for the new version of the Smart Lock app read “With this new update, you can now set up your phone’s built-in security key, the best second factor protection for your Google Account.” What this means is that, when you log into your Google accounts, you can confirm that it’s you via your iPhone without the use of a two-factor SMS or the like. In order to make this work, according to a Google cryptographer, the Smart Lock runs on the Secure Enclave, the separate processor inside most iPhones that handles biometric information such as your fingerprint or your face....

The fast developments in programming tools provide plenty of opportunities to create software for companies of different sizes, industries, and budgets. However, the added flexibility and diversity of tools — as well as the constantly changing landscape — also introduce their own set of challenges. Developers must be able to create their apps in ways that can adapt to the scale and changes that their organization, customers, and infrastructure undergo....

Hunt, also Microsoft Regional Director for security, announced last night that he’s making the website open-sourced so others can contribute to the project and make it easier to find your compromised credentials. He had first announced his intention of making this project available to other services last August. As a first step, Hunt and .NET foundation are making the pwned password module open-sourced. This page currently lets you check if any of your passwords (not attached with usernames) were part of a data leak....

The time has come: HBO Max, the latest competitor in the streaming wars, has launched. You can sign up for the 7-day free trial now and get started watching some classic films or some excellent TV shows. Here’s how you can get started on the new platform. — HBO Max (@hbomax) May 27, 2020 Read: How to tell HBO Max, Now, and Go apart Please note: I signed up for the Max free trial via the iOS app, because, as with any product on launch, the desktop version was a little broken the first time I tried to use it....

I discovered the app was live during a routine trip to get my car inspected — sitting in the Toyota waiting room isn’t a terribly enriching experience, so I consulted my phone. I immediately tried to download it and begin looking for Nifflers in the rubberized mat display, but I to wait until I got back to my home Wi-Fi connection before it would reliably run. The game’s story is, as all the pre-release footage implied — about a great Calamity in the Wizarding World that all magical folk must work together to combat....

The coming year is shaping up to be just as interesting. Here are some of the missions to keep an eye out for. Artemis 1 Artemis 1 is the first flight of the Nasa-led, international Artemis program to return astronauts to the Moon by 2024. This will consist of an uncrewed Orion spacecraft which will be sent on a three-week flight around the Moon. IT will reach a maximum distance from Earth of 450,000 km – the farthest into space that any spacecraft that can transport humans will have ever flown....

Ever wanted to make your WhatsApp messages look a little different? And by different I mean wacky and oddly formatted? Turns out there’s a way to format your texts with bolding, italics, strikethroughs, and good ol’ monospace. Didn’t know that was possible? Turns out it’s not exactly common knowledge — but now that I know how to do it, I can’t stop sending missives using WhatsApp’s formatting. Sure, you could use the formatting options built into your phone’s keyboard (on both iOS and Android, this is basically done by holding down your finger on the text you want to change), but you know… where’s the fun in that?...

Before we go any further, I’ve said this before, but it’s the single most important thing I want you to understand, so I’m going to keep saying it. In other words, it doesn’t matter how sophisticated the tech is. If the user experience isn’t right, the (probably considerable) investment you’ve made isn’t going to succeed. If your organization is, and remains, focussed on operating a process rather than delivering an outcome, you’ll struggle....

In our experience, corporate investors typically invest for strategic and synergistic as well as financial reasons, which often impacts their investment terms. So if you’re looking into this option on behalf of a tech startup, it’s important to know what to expect. So here are a few things to consider when looking for investment from large corporates: The degree of consent rights While both financial and corporate investors require consent rights, corporates often require different rights, such as consent rights over the investee company entering into contracts with competitors....

So why do we still experience video freeze, game lag spikes, and teleconference stutters? The problem is not speed, but other factors such as latency and loss, which are unrelated to speed. For more than three decades we have been conditioned to think of broadband in terms of Mbps. This made sense when we had dial-up internet, over which web pages took many seconds to load, and when DSL lines could not support more than one video stream at a time....

Fast forward to 2019, and the headphone landscape is far more diverse. Dynamic drivers have improved tremendously, planar magnetic headphones are commonplace, and there are more entries in the electrostatic market. To the dismay of our wallets, flagship headphones priced over $1,000 are now the norm, not the exception. Still, electrostatic headphones remain a relatively exclusive part of the hobby, which is why my interest was piqued when Hifiman offered to let me try its $2,500 Jade II headphone system....

The USB drive will show up directly into the files app, and you can directly import them into apps like Adobe Lightroom. Thankfully, the iPads will also support zipping and unzipping folders so you don’t have to uncompress files on your Mac or PC and then plug in the thumb drive. There’re no details on what’s the maximum size of a USB drive the iPadOS can handle, but we’ll update the post once we have the details....

Education doesn’t work the same way for everyone. In the US, for example, most public school systems have programs in place to identify so-called “gifted” children. Unfortunately, there’s no consensus in academia or government as to what exactly constitutes a “gifted child” or how they should be dealt with. In essence, it’s a free-for-all where programs are often invented at the institutional level and implemented without oversight. In some instances, children labeled as highest percentile learners are afforded access to tailored instruction....

Now, some countries have enshrined face mask use in law. They’ve also been made compulsory in Victoria and are recommended in several other states. One consequence of this is that facial recognition systems in place for security and crime prevention may no longer be able to fulfil their purpose. In Australia, most agencies are silent about the use of facial recognition. But documents leaked earlier this year revealed Australian Federal Police and state police in Queensland, Victoria and South Australia all use Clearview AI, a commercial facial recognition platform....

Among other things, the paper shows that 15 percent of all UK employees would hand over corporate information for £1,000 (about $1,260). This includes confidential market and sales information, as well as details about colleagues and customers. Shockingly, Deep Secure found that one in ten workers said they’d sell intellectual property, like product specifications and source code, for £250 (about $315) or less. The report takes pains to state that this isn’t hypothetical, but is rather an ongoing threat to organizations, with 59 percent of office workers claiming to have taken sensitive information from their workplaces without proper authorization....

Having recently (before the coronavirus) switched my role as a Product Marketing Lead for Finturi, permanently from on-site to a remote one, I thought I could share some advice for startups and employees on key things to do, to make such a transition successful. Key tips for startups: #1 Set up an employment agreement As a startup, if you want to transition a role from on-site to remote, then the first thing that you need to understand is how the employment agreement will be set up....

Domestic vacuum cleaners have had a strange trajectory. When they were first launched, they went through an amazing transformation that consistently improved their practicality and efficiency. That being said, since the digital revolution, not much has actually changed in the way of design and functionality — at least not until robotic vacuum cleaners came on the scene. The invention of fully autonomous robotic vacuum cleaners has been a game changer for many people and one of the real breakthroughs in the smart home revolution....

By the looks of his laptop, Robbert Van Els could be mistaken for a secret agent. His screen is an explosion of urgent files — a master control center for managing clandestine operatives. The man of mystery persona is typified by a side-sliding sports car winding through an onslaught of Word docs and Jpeg files. Just looking at his desktop can raise your blood pressure. But Van Els is not a secret agent....

I get a ton of emails every day, and not all of them are relevant to me. So when I check my inbox after every few hours, I need to quickly delete or archive emails that are not needed. Thankfully, Gmail’s swipe gestures on its mobile apps let me go through emails in no time. Here’s how you can use them: Open the Gmail app on your iOS or Android device....