Also: Want to gift someone a tablet? Here are 12 great options, starting at $89 Many ruggedized tablets are tested against MIL-STD-810 standards (U.S. military standards) for resisting moisture, dirt and debris, extreme temperatures, and drops and shocks. This means that you can rest assured that the delicate components inside your new tablet will be protected against damage, corrosion, and electrical shorts from water infiltration. We’ve rounded up the best rugged tablets that can be used anywhere from an outdoor work site to your kid’s bedroom (because we know tablets need to be durable when it comes to kids)....

If you shop around a little, you can get a stylish and functional device for under $100. We’ve shopped around for you and found the best deals on Android phones. If you’re prepared to compromise a bit, the bargain phones on our list will likely pack most or all the features you really need. Any of these great cheap smartphones – many from familiar brands – can be yours for under $100....

HARMAN and SBD Automotive, together with industry partners and stakeholders, is transforming the industry and media dialogue through the recently formed Experiences Per Mile Advisory Council. The purpose of the council is to align automakers, Tier-one suppliers, third-party providers, and other industry leaders, and to encourage collaboration regarding the changing value chains in the automotive industry that are being driven by the connected movement. The most recent focus for the EPM advisory council was the future of experience in EVs with two fundamental assumptions: Adoption of EVs will proliferate The charging infrastructure will catch up and meet the level of demand....

The best careers you can land with an IT degree include jobs in data science, cybersecurity, and software development — fast-growing fields where you can make a competitive entry-level salary. All these jobs, and this umbrella major, call for analytical, adaptable, creative-minded problem solvers. Read on to learn more about what to expect from an IT degree and what career paths earning one may open for you. 11 best jobs for IT majors While many jobs for IT majors have a positive outlook and substantial salary, some roles stand out....

“Whether it is about providing insights to our travelers, driving better personalized experiences for both our traveler needs as well as partner needs, everything – from our search, sort, our abilities to drive fraud and risk protection – is powered by AI and ML across the board,” says Expedia Group CTO Rathi Murthy. It turns out an AI-driven algorithm knows more about your travel preferences than a human ever could....

Also: CES 2023 tech you can actually buy now And though this is all fascinating to see and makes for catchy headlines, it’s the real-world innovations that we use every day that do it for me – and the most innovative televisions fall squarely in that category. Tried-and-true brands like LG and Roku made huge announcements during CES 2023, but there are up-and-coming brands squeezing their way into the cool crowd as well, like Displace with its wireless television....

Marc Hardgrove, CEO at TheHoth and SEO expert, has seen the changes first-hand. “A lot is going on at the Twitter offices now that Elon Musk has stepped in to save the network. The platform’s personality, uniqueness, and popularity have all suffered from many ups and downs, confusion, and controversy,” he tells me. “Choosing a trustworthy Twitter substitute is, therefore, the best course of action in this situation.” Indeed, Musk’s recent takeover and the ensuing controversy have led many users to look for another option for their social networking needs....

In a tight labor market, that’s a pertinent question for employers and employees. According to analyst IDC, 32% of European employees are looking to leave their current employer, signaling that the Great Resignation that began in 2021 is far from over. Microsoft, in its 2022 Work Index Trend report, found that 43% of employees are somewhat or extremely likely to consider changing jobs in the coming year, up from 41% in 2021....

Overall, the COVID-19 Subscription Impact Report found that 53.3% of companies have not seen a significant impact on their subscriber acquisition rates. Meanwhile, 22.5% of companies are seeing their subscription growth rate accelerate, 12.8% of companies are seeing slowing growth but are still growing, and the remaining 11.4% of companies are starting to see subscriber churn outpace their subscriber acquisition rates. Of the companies accelerating, slowing, and contracting, we found trends across industries:...

Despite warnings not to, many victims pay these ransoms, under the impression that it’s the quickest way to restore their network, particularly if the cyber criminals are also threatening to leak stolen data. But all this means is that the attack cycle continues, with ransomware groups using their ill-gotten gains to finance more ambitious attacks. Beyond this there’s another problem. Many of ransomware incidents are simply kept under wraps, so it’s hard to get a good picture of what’s really happening in the world....

Do you lurch into your home office every morning and think: “No more bloody project management/software engineering/electric car building/making the world a better place for me?” I only ask because a lot of people have been doing it lately. It’s less China’s Great Leap Forward, more America’s Great Leap Outward. Naturally, when it comes to tech companies, I usually assume money is the biggest motivator. New year, new job: The tech resignations are coming, so get ready...

The latest Report on Jobs, published by KPMG and the Recruitment and Employment Confederation (REC) and compiled by IHS Markit, found that the IT and Computing sector continued to lead growth in permanent job vacancies in December 2021. But while there were more full-time roles available in technology than the nine other sectors monitored by the report, vacancy growth is beginning to slow. This might suggest that the boom in demand for tech workers prompted by the pandemic is beginning to wane, with KPMG and REC finding that businesses are focusing their efforts on “hiring smarter, not faster”....

Over the past decade, I’ve seen a whole swathe of applications replaced by services that run in the browser, so much so that nowadays, most of my working day is spent in front of my browser of choice – Google Chrome. Also: 3 Chrome productivity extensions that won me over Problem is, the browser is a window to, well, the whole of the internet. And I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but there are a lot of distractions on the internet....

Detailed by cybersecurity researchers at Proofpoint, the job fraud campaigns attempt to lure people in with the promise of upfront payments for simple jobs that can be done while working from home. Nearly 4,000 of these email threats are being sent every day – most are sent to people in the United States, but Europeans and Australians have also been targeted. SEE: A winning strategy for cybersecurity (ZDNet special report) In over 95% of cases, the attackers are aiming at email accounts linked to universities and colleges, targeting students who are likely to be open to flexible and remote work opportunities....

Detailed by cybersecurity researchers at ThreatFabric, the campaigns involves FluBot malware – also known as Cabassous – and another Android banking trojan, Medusa. FluBot is one of the most notorious forms of Android malware, which steals passwords, bank details and other sensitive information from infected smartphones. SEE: A winning strategy for cybersecurity (ZDNet special report) It also gains access to contact books in order to spread itself to other victims via malicious SMS messages, which are often designed to look like an alert about a missed package delivery....

More: CES 2023 tech you can actually buy now On a base level, the unibody stylus supports Microsoft’s MPP 2.6 haptic feedback for a tactile writing experience, 4,096 pressure levels, and should last you up to 32 hours per charge. Those features are nothing new to productivity-centric styluses, but this next one surely is. The 14.5g Pen 2, with its graphite tip, can be used to write on both the MSI laptop display and a regular notepad....

The ongoing phishing campaign is using multiple links; clicking on them results in a series of redirections that lead victims to a Google reCAPTCHA page that leads to a bogus login page where Office 365 credentials are stolen. This particular attack relies on the email sales and marketing tool called ‘open redirects’, which has been abused in the past to redirect a visitor to a trustworthy destination to a malicious site....

Michael Atkinson, Pablo Ceniceros-Deleon, and Daryl Henry, 28, 21, and 24-years-old, respectively, deliberately targeted men believed to be homosexual in what the US Department of Justice (DoJ) calls “bias-motivated violence.” Grinder is a social networking and dating app for the LBTQI community. The trio, located in Texas, abused the app to find victims for crimes including kidnapping, carjacking, theft, and assault. US prosecutors say that as many as nine men around the Dallas area have been targeted in this way since late 2017....

DevOps will continue to evolve in the coming years as companies identify new IT challenges to be solved, particularly as they look to automation to optimize or even remove processes that stand in the way of business agility. That’s according to a new report from tech analyst firm Forrester, which says tech leaders need to prepare for “big-picture changes” as DevOps changes the face of business innovation and transformation. Read on for three key takeaways from Forrester’s Future Of DevOps report....

It’s quite possible that nothing has democratized tech like the open-source microcomputers you can get through Arduino or Raspberry Pi. Not only have they fueled a robust maker community, but they’ve also let the next generation get hands-on with hardware that can turn almost anything into a smart device. If you’re curious about what these machines can do, here’s the good news: Thanks to Deal Days, you can get a Complete Arduino Starter Kit along with hours of e-learning resources for less than $100 – no coupon required....