Month: March 2022
Apple’s newest subscription service is an IT management package for small businesses
The Business Essentials subscription service that Apple announced and introduced in a limited beta late last year is now available for any small business. This is Apple’s vertical integration of device management and cloud storage under the Business Manager platform that companies already use to buy and manage their Apple…
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Google unveils another step in its much-needed privacy boost
Audio player loading… Google has announced that its Privacy Sandbox proposal is one step closer to becoming reality as the company is preparing its next stage of trials which will focus on ads relevance and measurement. For those unfamiliar, the search giant first unveiled its Federated Learning of Cohorts (FLoC)…
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The Amazon Bessemer union election is going into overtime
The votes for the union drive at Amazon’s warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama, have been counted, but the final result is so close that it will depend on a court hearing yet to come. The vote count announced on Thursday was 993 against and 875 in favor, with 59 ballots counted…
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Uber’s annual product event will focus on travel, sustainability
Uber will hold its annual product event on May 16th, during which the company will showcase new products, updates, and features focused on travel and sustainability. It will be Uber’s second product event, after last year’s “Go/Get 2021” gathering presented a host of pandemic-themed announcements, including the ability to book…
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AWS instances will now automatically recover your files in event of a failure
Audio player loading… Picking up right where you left off in the event of a failure will now be possible for those running Elastic Computing Cloud (EC2) instances on AWS. Previously, if customers wanted to set an EC2 instance to recover automatically, they could only do so by setting up…
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Apple fixes iOS battery drain bug with 15.4.1 update
Apple has released iOS and iPadOS 15.4.1, an update that fixes some accessibility bugs, improves security, and fixes a battery drain bug that plagued some people’s phones and iPads after they updated to iOS 15.4. It’s unclear how widespread the issue was (nobody on The Verge’s staff reported notable battery…
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