Service level agreements (SLAs) first became popular with fixed-line telecom companies in the late 1980s. For the last 20 years, billboards with five nines (99.999%) have peppered every interstate in major US metros. But are numbers of nines in an SLA the right metrics for how reliability should be communicated within an organization and externally
Read MoreLast year in Nova Scotia, after 3-year-old Dylan Ehler vanished, online sleuths descended on Facebook groups to help find him. Then they lost their way.
Read MoreOne of the earliest products Xiaomi introduced as part of its ecosystem expansion was a home security camera. The feature-packed camera was an easy sell in the then-nascent category and it certainly didn’t hurt that the camera was much lower priced compared to the competition. Since then, the market has expanded significantly. From budget-focused options
Read MoreJack Nicas / New York Times: Brazil’s Jair Bolsonaro temporarily bans social media companies from removing accounts and content that violate their rules, ahead of a presidential election — The new rules in Brazil appear to be the first national policy that restricts how tech companies can control their sites, analysts say.
Read MoreTim Hardwick / MacRumors: UK network Three joins EE and Vodafone in adding a £2/day charge for EU roaming starting May 2022; O2 will offer free EU roaming as an add-on for some plans — Three has become the latest UK mobile network to reintroduce EU roaming fees, in another post-Brexit setback for customers traveling
Read MoreBMW’s two concept e-bikes envision geofencing to limit speeds inside cities. | Image: BMW BMW recently showed off not one, but two e-bike concepts. The announcements are sprinkled with tons of gee-whiz claims that are easy to make when something only lives on paper, not roads. But one idea stood out to me as a
Read MoreWhat you need to know The MORIK Secret AirTag Leather Luggage Tag means youll never lose your luggage again. The leather tag can hide an AirTag, or keep it in plain sight — whichever you prefer. Three colors are available and you can buy one now. Losing luggage is no fun but you don’t need
Read MoreNeuroglee Therapeutics, a startup developing digital therapeutics for people with neurodegenerative diseases, has raised a $10 million Series A led by Openspace Ventures and EDBI. The funding will be used to launch virtual neurology clinics and to support Neuroglee’s move to Boston. Other participants included Ramen Singh, the former chief executive officer of Mundipharma; Biofourmis
Read MoreWhat you need to know Artbox is an app for storing all the artwork your kids create. The app now has a Mac version so you can always save, and see, what your kids have been creating. Now your kids’ artwork is everywhere. Artbox is a popular app for saving all of the artwork kids
Read MoreApple’s Milanese Loop and Leather Loop are quite hard to find… What you need to know A new Apple Watch Series 7 is expected to debut next week. Ahead of launch several Apple Watch straps are unavailable. It comes as rumors indicate the display size of the watch may change, as well as the bands
Read MoreSeveral new gaming features are coming to your Mac. When macOS Monterey arrives on Mac this fall, they’ll be several new gaming features making a debut. Though none of these are significant, they’re each worth checking out nonetheless and look great on the best Macs. Apple occasionally offers updates to iOS, iPadOS, watchOS, tvOS, and
Read MoreImage: Google Google Photos now lets you order prints of specific photographs and get them shipped to homes in the US for as little as $0.18 plus shipping, the company has announced. Although it’s previously been possible to print individual photos through Google Photos, until now you’ve had to pick them up from a local
Read MoreModular smartphones are incredibly cool, but the design philosophy never really caught on. Sure, brands like Fairphone, LG, and Motorola have launched products to market, and even Google at one point dipped a cautious toe into the pool. But if a company launched a modular phone today, would you buy it? That’s a question we
Read More“Imagine an alternate timeline where everyone just gets you” What you need to know Twitter is testing a brand new feature. Communities will connect you to people who want to talk about the same things you do. Communities will have rules and moderators. A new Twitter feature called Communities is now being tested on the
Read MoreAs we approach the fall, there’s a lot of talk about a rumored Apple Watch Series 7. While we don’t know anything official about the next-gen model yet, it’s safe to assume it will be similarly priced to today’s top-of-the-line Apple Watch Series 6. If you’re the type of person that would rather score a
Read MoreJosh Ye / South China Morning Post: Sources: China has temporarily suspended approvals for all new online games, revealing the move in a meeting with Tencent and NetEase — Sources said the decision to freeze new video game approvals was revealed at a meeting between Chinese authorities and industry giants Tencent and NetEase …
Read MoreAnn-Marie Alcántara / Wall Street Journal: Tinder launches an Explore section, letting users find matches based on over 15 interests, initially in the US, UK, Australia, and New Zealand — The tab will let users match with others based on interests, expanding beyond age, location and sexuality — Match Group Inc.’s Tinder …
Read MoreTwo UK tech figures are to row across the Atlantic Ocean to raise money for a charity that funds social entrepreneurs from minority backgrounds. Guy Rigby, founder and now Chair of the Entrepreneurial Services Group at Smith & Williamson, and entrepreneur, investor David Murray will raise money for UnLtd which has supported over 15,000 social
Read MoreWhat do you get when you cross a day job as a Medical Histopathologist with an interest in 3D printing and programming? You get a fully-baked Open Source microscope, specifically the Portable Upgradeable Modular Affordable (or PUMA), that’s what. And this is no toy microscope. By combining a sprinkle of off-the-shelf electronics available from pretty
Read MoreCredit: Realme Realme has announced the first tablet in BBK Electronics’ ecosystem. The Realme Pad is an affordable Android 11 tablet with a 7,100mAh battery. It has both Wi-Fi and LTE variants. BBK Electronics, the parent company of smartphone brands like OnePlus, Oppo, and Realme, finally has a tablet in the market. Called the Realme
Read MoreLawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer: Hackers leak a list of ~500K Fortinet VPN login names and passwords; a source in the IT security industry says at least some of the leaked credentials are valid — A threat actor has leaked a list of almost 500,000 Fortinet VPN login names and passwords that were allegedly scraped from
Read MoreMicrosoft has entered a “multi-year strategic alliance” with Oyo to work with the Indian startup to co-develop “next-generation” travel and hospitality products and tech. Thursday’s announcement confirms a late July TechCrunch report. TechCrunch had reported that Microsoft was in talks to invest in Oyo and was exploring ways to provide its technologies to the Indian
Read MorePhoto by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Microsoft is starting to test the ability for TV remotes to navigate around the Xbox dashboard. A new version of the Xbox dashboard for Xbox Series S / X consoles is being tested with selected Xbox Insiders, and it enables new HDMI-CEC features that let ordinary TV remote
Read MoreIt comes following a string of public employee complaints from within… What you need to know Apple is beset by employee complaints regarding working conditions, pay, and their treatment. A group of shareholders and activists are trying to change that. They want Apple to publish a report into the risks posed by Apple’s non-disclosure agreements,
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