According to a new report from analyst Gartner, businesses think that talent shortage is the biggest barrier to the adoption of 64% of new technologies. This means that in the majority of cases, IT leaders who want to deploy a new tool to boost business outcomes anticipate that the lack of suitable workers to implement the technology will be problematic at some point. Talent availability even overtook implementation costs or security risks as a top barrier to deploying a new technology....

After releasing what probably was the most comprehensive report on the State of AI in 2020, Air Street Capital and RAAIS founder Nathan Benaich and AI angel investor and UCL IIPP visiting professor Ian Hogarth are back for more. In what is becoming a valued yearly tradition, we caught up with Benaich and Hogarth to discuss topics that stood out for us in the report. MLOps, machine learning in production First off, there is overlap with the topics that Turck covered and Baer reported on, and for good reason....

Understandably, you’ve probably never heard of this two-year-old company before, as its sparse website makes the company almost look like it’s still in stealth. It’s not clear if Temporal has much of a paid client base; it lists a number of logos like Datadog, Netflix, Instacart, Qualtrics, Box and others, but they are users of the open source technology, not paying customers. If you dig down closely enough, you can actually find some real documentation....

This is the second such study. The first, 2020’s “Vulnerabilities in the Core,’ a preliminary report and Census II of open-source software, focused on the lower level critical operating system libraries and utilities. This new report aggregates data from over half a million observations of free and open-source (FOSS) libraries used in production applications at thousands of companies. The data for this report came from the Software Composition Analysis (SCA) scans of codebases of thousands of companies....

Then you can buy a decent power bank from companies such as Anker or Zendure and get a product that’ll cost you more money, but you know it’s going to work, work well, and give you years of service. If I need a power bank for my off-the-grid activities, this is when I turn to something more professional. V-mount batteries. Originally developed by Sony, the V-mount became a standard that’s now found on all sorts of non-Sony equipment, powering cameras, lighting, displays, microphones, and other devices....

If you’ve been sleeping on the Kindle Paperwhite Signature Edition, it’s the best Kindle on the market right now. I opted for it because, as a voracious reader, I need more space for all my books, both text and audio. It houses 32GB of storage in the 6.8-inch device. I can pair it with a pair of my favorite earbuds (also on sale) and listen to the latest releases, like Grady Hendrix’s How to Sell a Haunted House....

The purpose of enrolling or registering a device on a target company’s network was to avoid detection during later phishing attacks, according to Microsoft. Microsoft says “most” organizations that had enabled multi-factor authentication (MFA) for Office 365 were not impacted by phishing emails spread by attacker-controlled registered devices, but those that had not enabled MFA were all affected. SEE: A winning strategy for cybersecurity (ZDNet special report) The attack exploited instances where MFA was not enforced during the process of registering a new device with a company’s instance of Microsoft’s identity service, Azure Active Directory (Azure AD); or when enrolling a BYOD device to a mobile device management (MDM) platform like Microosft’s Intune....

SEE: Best cheap 5G phone 2022: No need to pay flagship prices for quality devices At Mobile World Congress (MWC), Bullitt Group is addressing a growing category – mobile internet hotspots – with a rugged 5G device called the Cat Q10. There’s a good number of mobile hotspots available, but few are 5G compatible, and fewer are durable and weatherproof, the company points out. The canonical use case is an outdoor space such as a building site, a farm, or a pop-up business, where the need is for fast and secure internet connectivity to a good number of devices via a battery-powered device that’s quick and easy to set up and carry around....

This soundbar not only features Dolby Atmos and DTS:X for theater-like quality sound that brings you a 3D surround sound audio experience from a single soundbar and a subwoofer, but it also uses Q Symphony technology. For those that are new to the Q Symphony feature, it perfectly synchronizes with your QLED TV and enhances the fully immersive audio. Aside from the Q Symphony, the speakers also use Acoustic Beam technology, too....

Scan and Secure is available on both Android and iOS, and users don’t have to have a Tile account or be part of the Tile Network to use it. They simply need the latest version of the Tile app. For the feature to work properly, users need to turn on Bluetooth, Location or Location Services, and Precise Location. The feature is designed so that users can choose when and where to scan for unwanted devices....

Think again! Hard drives are still alive and kicking, and companies such as Toshiba continue to push the envelope in terms of performance and data density. And this is exactly what the company is doing with their new 2TB P300 of hard drives featuring shingled magnetic recording (SMR) technology – a technology that has been in use since 2015 and makes use of overlapping data tracks to enable higher density on the data platters inside the drive....

NFTs have made blockchain technology hotter than ever before. And you can start from the ground up to train for one of the most in-demand roles in the tech industry today with “NFT Blockchain Decentralized App Development with Solidity & JavaScript 2022.” Former students have been very satisfied with the skills they learned, rating the class 4.6 stars out of 5. Instructor John Bura owns Mammoth Interactive, which has produced commercial games for XBOX 360, Android, iOS, and more, several of which have reached number 1 in Apple’s App Store....

Shells is an ingenious invention that allows you to unlock the full performance and experience of a desktop computer on any device. It’s not just limited to your tablet; you could use an old Chromebook, your TV, your smartphone, or practically anything else to launch a virtual desktop that’s ready to be used as a desktop computer. The entire system is powered by the cloud, allowing you to download, store, access, and edit your files on any device while using the performance of a desktop....

Most recently, Twitter announced that regular accounts will not show up on Twitter’s For You tab and that legacy approved accounts will begin to lose their checkmarks. Now Twitter is adding an incentive for subscribers: 50% fewer ads. Also: The best Twitter alternatives Back in November when Elon Musk first unveiled the plan for Twitter blue, he shared that subscribers would experience half as many ads via Twitter. Now, Twitter Blue’s page includes “half ads” as part of the subscription’s features....

The feature is currently only available to Twitter Blue subscribers on iOS, but Twitter has informed ZDNet that Android and web will follow as the company continues build on the feature. When users choose to use an NFT for their profile picture, it is displayed as a hexagonal-shaped image and will be viewable across all platforms to all Twitter users. “We see Twitter as the discovery platform for all things crypto, including NFTs....

“The attacker is claiming to have completely compromised Uber, showing screenshots where they’re full admin on AWS and GCP,” Sam Curry wrote in a tweet. The security engineer at Yuga Labs, who corresponded with the hacker, added: “This is a total compromise from what it looks like.” Uber since had shut down online access to its internal communications and engineering systems, while it investigated the breach, according a report by The New York Times (NYT), which broke the news....

That company is MacPaw, makers of software such as CleanMyMacX, ClearVPN, and Gemini II. In a statement on its website, the MacPaw’s founder and CEO, Oleksandr Kosovan, had this to say: With regards to the use of our products – nothing. We at MacPaw have been preparing for these circumstances and were already mainly working remotely to ensure no disruptions in the support and development of our products. “So in our day-to-day operations,” continued Kosovan, “nothing is going to change for you....

For its first half results to December 31, the company posted record revenue of AU$54.6 million, up 148% compared to last year. It also tripled earnings before interest, tax, depreciation, and amortisation (EBITDA) to AU$29.3 million which does not take into account shared based payments, acquisition, and restructuring costs. During November and December, Uniti picked up Telstra Velocity for AU$140 million, paid AU$9.25 million for Harbour ISP, and ended the saga to acquire Opticomm....

To address that threat, the federal government is tapping the startup QuSecure to supply it with post-quantum cybersecurity software. The contract is a big deal for the three-year-old startup, which just released its quantum orchestration platform, QuProtect, in May. Its product is designed to protect encrypted communications and data with quantum-resilience using quantum secure channels. So far, QuSecure notes, it’s the only post-quantum cybersecurity (PQC) vendor to receive a Phase III Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) contract....

Also: The best password managers for easily maintaining all your logins Instead, 53% believed fingerprint scans were more secure than passwords, while 47% chose facial recognition, revealed an Entrust Cybersecurity Institute study that polled 1,450 respondents across 12 global markets. These included France, the US, and the UK, as well as 400 respondents from four Asia-Pacific cities in Singapore, Australia, Japan, and Indonesia. Interestingly, 41% saw 4- or 6-digit PIN codes as more secure than passwords....