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9 Ruthless and Radical Time Management Tips

The key to effectively managing your time and schedule? Sometimes, you need radical and even a little ruthless time management tips. Despite creating a time management plan, you’re probably unable to achieve your goals because you’re too flexible and undemanding. Remember, you only have 24 hours in a day. And it’s not like you can’t magically

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Toyota says the vehicle data of 2.15M users in Japan, or almost all of its cloud service customers, has been public since November 2013 due to a human error (Reuters)

Reuters: Toyota says the vehicle data of 2.15M users in Japan, or almost all of its cloud service customers, has been public since November 2013 due to a human error  —  Toyota Motor Corp (7203.T) said on Friday the vehicle data of 2.15 million users in Japan, or almost the entire customer base …

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Google’s Dart 3 and Flutter 3.10 bring big changes

Google has launched Dart 3, a major update to the programming language, and the accompanying Flutter 3.10 UI toolkit for mobile, web, and desktop applications, with design and macOS/iOS enhancements. In addition to sound null safety and new language features, Dart 3 previews WebAssembly (Wasm) compilation. Updates to both Dart and Flutter were announced May

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How finops affects cloud usage and repatriation

A 2022 study carried out by TechTarget’s Enterprise Strategy Group found that 62% of firms use third-party cloud-cost estimation tools. This included software to compare potential costs of different public cloud providers. The impact of these finops tools was clear in the study. Just under half (49%) reported that finops tools have led their organizations

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Oppo closes its chip design unit Zeku due to global economic uncertainty; Zeku developed the MariSilicon X image-processing chip used in Oppo’s flagship devices (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg: Oppo closes its chip design unit Zeku due to global economic uncertainty; Zeku developed the MariSilicon X image-processing chip used in Oppo’s flagship devices  —  Oppo, China’s biggest domestic smartphone maker, is closing its chip design business as the global smartphone market extends a prolonged decline.

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The UK extradites Autonomy co-founder Mike Lynch to the US to face fraud charges over HP’s $11B acquisition of the software company in 2011 (Reuters)

Reuters: The UK extradites Autonomy co-founder Mike Lynch to the US to face fraud charges over HP’s $11B acquisition of the software company in 2011  —  Mike Lynch, co-founder of UK software firm Autonomy, has been extradited to the United States to face criminal charges in a near decade-long legal battle …

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These smart lights can also monitor your home

WiZ’s new home monitoring service uses light bulbs and cameras to protect your space. | Image: Signify WiZ is launching a new home monitoring feature that leverages the smart lighting company’s existing motion-sensing Wi-Fi smart bulbs. Paired with a new $70 indoor security camera, WiZ Home Monitoring can alert you to potential intruders in your

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Laser Projector Built from an Old Hard Drive

Spinning hard drives are being phased out of most consumer-grade computers in favor of faster technology like solid-state drives and their various interfaces. But there’s still millions of them in circulation that will eventually get pulled from service — so what do we do with them? If you’ve got one that would otherwise be going

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A profile of Swedish politician and EU Home Affairs commissioner Ylva Johansson, who has become a divisive figure during the debate over CSAM and privacy (Morgan Meaker/Wired)

Morgan Meaker / Wired: A profile of Swedish politician and EU Home Affairs commissioner Ylva Johansson, who has become a divisive figure during the debate over CSAM and privacy  —  Ylva Johansson is on a personal mission to make the internet safer for children.  Her opponents say her plans would wreck online privacy.

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