The CHIPS Act won’t solve the chip shortage
In a 64-33 vote on Wednesday, the Senate finally passed the CHIPS Act, a $52 billion package that aims to boost semiconductor manufacturing in the United States. The House is likely to approve the...
Porn Showed Up on Legit News Sites Thanks to Internet Rot
This week, Venmo took a long overdue step toward privacy by eliminating its global social feed in its latest redesign. That's good! Now you can no longer witness an endless stream of complete strangers...
A Cut Cable Knocked Out Virginia’s Voter Registration Site
This week the New York Post published a story centered on information stolen from a laptop that purportedly belonged to Hunter Biden, and that has a high likelihood of being part a disinformation operation....
13 Great Deals on Headphones, Wireless Earbuds, and Gaming Headsets
Arguably, the best time to get new audio gear is … well, Black Friday and Cyber Monday. However, just because the shopping event to end all shopping events (and our collective sanity) is over,...
Visual Studio Code editor moves forward on language detection
With the latest release of its Visual Studio Code editor, Microsoft is highlighting capabilities such as automatic language detection, now enabled by default.Visual Studio Code 1.60, also known as the August 2021 version of...
What you need to know about Biden’s free rapid test program
The White House’s long-awaited website for ordering free Covid-19 rapid tests is finally live. The new page, covidtests.gov, arrives amid a shortage of rapid tests and a surge in Covid-19 cases fueled by the...
Employee-monitoring technology: Productivity vs privacy – INTHEBLACK
Is your employee-monitoring technology crossing the line between tracking productivity and violating employee privacy?
At a glance
Employee-monitoring software goes well beyond timesheet applications that track attendance and billable hours.
Such software can also monitor which applications...
Research Roundup: How Technology Is Transforming Work – HBR.org Daily
From AI recruiting tools to industrial automation and robotic assistants, new digital technologies are transforming the modern workplace. Many of these systems promise to improve efficiency, productivity, and well-being — but how are they...
9 Best Password Managers (2023): Features, Pricing, and Tips
1Password does have a few extras that might make it better for some though. If you frequently travel across national borders, you’ll appreciate my favorite 1Password feature: Travel Mode. This mode lets you delete...
3 must-haves for your multicloud architecture
Most cloud architects are finding that their world is suddenly heterogenous. Where once we could focus on a single public cloud provider, today we have as many as four in the mix. The patterns...
