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Azure SQL is the family of SQL cloud databases providing flexible deployment options for a wide variety of application patterns and control requirements.
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Historically, booting a Raspberry Pi required an SD card. However, if you follow [tynick’s] instructions, you can get a Pi 4 to boot from the USB port. Combine it with a small solid state disk drive, and you’ll get great performance, according to his post.
The caveat is this depends on a beta bootloader and, of course, you’ll still have to boot from an SD card at least once to load that bootloader. If you were deploying something serious, you’d probably want to make sure the bootloader is suitable for your needs.
In fact, most of the work here is doing the prep work. You have to grab the new bootloader and flash it. You also have to make some changes to get the boot code to check the USB port. You also install the operating system image on the SSD just like you would an SD card.
After that, it is easy to copy the boot files to the USB drive and you are ready to go. This would be a great use for an old SSD if you pair it with a USB adapter.
According to the post, the SSD is about ten times faster than the SD card, so the performance boost is significant. Of course, some of this depends on the USB adapter, and [tynick] recommends a particular one that seems to work well.
The Pi 4 is already fast, especially with a 64-bit OS. If you don’t like the SSD bootloader, you can do a similar trick to boot from the network.
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How do you make monitors that stand out when the features are often interchangeable? Build in technology that helps after you shut them off, apparently. HP has unveiled a string of E-Series monitors that are billed as the first ergonomic display with…
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Arm today will unveil its Cortex-A78 CPU core, lined up for next-gen phones, tablets, and laptops, and go off roadmap with its Cortex-X1.…
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Microsoft Edge is currently the rising star of Microsoft. If you are already using this Chromium-based browser then you might know that with newly added […]
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The content below is taken from the original ( Microsoft Releases the Source Code You Wanted Almost 30 Years Ago), to continue reading please visit the site. Remember to respect the Author & Copyright.
In the late 1970s and early 1980s, if you had a personal computer there was a fair chance it either booted into some version of Microsoft Basic or you could load and run Basic. There were other versions, of course, especially for very small computers, but the gold standard for home computer Basic was Microsoft’s version, known then as GW-Basic. Now you can get the once-coveted Microsoft Basic source code for the 8086/8088 directly from Microsoft in the state you would have found it in 1983. They put up a read only GW-BASIC repository, presumably to stop a flood of feature requests for GPU acceleration.
You might wonder why they would do this? It is certainly educational, especially if you are interested in assembly language. For historical reasons, you might want to get a copy you could modify, too, for your latest retrocomputer project.
There are a few tidbits of interest. Some of the source is marked that it was translated. Apparently, Microsoft had a master implementation for some processor — real or imagined — and could translate from that code to 8088, Z-80, 6502, or any other processor they wanted to target.
From what we understand, GW-Basic was identical to IBM’s BASICA, but didn’t require certain IBM PC ROMs to operate. Of course, BASICA, itself, came from MBASIC, Microsoft’s CP/M language that originated with Altair Basic. A long lineage that influenced personal computers for many years. On a side note, there’s debate on what the GW stands for. Gee-Whiz is a popular vote, but it could stand for ‘Gates, William’, Greg Whitten (an early Microsoft employee), or Gates-Whitten. The source code doesn’t appear to answer that question.
We did enjoy the 1975 copyright message, though:
ORIGINALLY WRITTEN ON THE PDP-10 FROM FEBRUARY 9 TO APRIL 9 1975 BILL GATES WROTE A LOT OF STUFF. PAUL ALLEN WROTE A LOT OF OTHER STUFF AND FAST CODE. MONTE DAVIDOFF WROTE THE MATH PACKAGE (F4I.MAC).
It wasn’t long ago that Microsoft released some old versions of MSDOS. If you have the urge to write some Basic, you might pass on GW-Basic and try QB64, instead.
GW-Basic Disk and Manual photo by [Palatinatian] CC-SA-4.0.
The content below is taken from the original ( 6 Ways AI Can Improve Content Creation), to continue reading please visit the site. Remember to respect the Author & Copyright.
Have you ever thought about how common artificial intelligence is? Or how close are we to all-powerful AI “supercomputers”? Gartnerreports that 37% of companies implemented AI in some form in 2019. So, there is a pretty good chance you’re already using AI without even knowing it. AI can be as simple as Gmail filters sorting your emails into different categories, or Amazon’s predictive recommendations popping up as you search. But what exactly is AI, and how can you use it to help improve your content creation?
In this article, we’ll dive into the world of AI and how it can improve content creation. If you’re interested in diving deeper into AI, check out Cloud Academy’s course, Building a Chatbot on Azure. You’ll learn how to automate content creation tasks by using chatbots to answer typical questions about specific products and services.
Artificial intelligence (AI) is defined as the ability of a computer to emulate human intelligence processes through learning and automation. Modern AI-powered computers perform various tasks and assist us in almost every area of our lives.
While there are still many misconceptions about AI, it’s important to understand that it’s not a threat to human employees. Oppositely, AI-powered technology can significantly improve your job as it proves to increase productivity and optimize processes.
As AI advances, computers are now able to perform many tasks, including the ability to:
Impressive, right? Now that computers can talk to us and score higher than us in tests, there are also ways they can help us optimize business activities and improve content efforts.
There are many ways you can use artificial intelligence to automate the content creation process. Major media and news outlets, like The Washington Post, Forbes, The Guardian, and Reuters, use the help of “the robot reporters” to speed up and automate content creation.
In fact, it’s possible that some of the tools you’re using for your business, like a chatbot or a logo maker, are AI-powered. In this article, we’ll discover different ways you can incorporate AI to help your content creation.
Artificial intelligence isn’t quite in a place where robots can write entire articles for your company’s blog. At least not yet. In the meantime, one way to use AI is by creating small data-specific content pieces, like tweets, news updates, and reports with the help of the natural language generation technology.
Not really sure what natural language generation (NLG) is? Simply put, it’s when an algorithm translates complex data into human language. In its essence, NGL software automatically generates narratives to describe structured data in a matter of milliseconds. You can use NGL software to write product descriptions and tailor customer satisfaction reports.
The Washington Post’s “robot reporter,” called Heliograf, is a great example. Heliograf is an automated storytelling technology that covers D.C.-area high school football games based on the data submitted by football coaches. This technology allows in-house journalists to focus on in-depth reporting of the “bigger” games while keeping the local community informed.
Did you know that 74% of marketersreport an increase in customer engagement due to targeted personalization? The good news is that artificial intelligence can help your personalization and customer engagement, too. For example, you can employ AI-powered software to create personalized email marketing campaigns. They’ll manage subject line and email body personalization addressing recipients by their name or organization. AI can help your widely-distributed general email feel more personal, boosting customer engagement.
Also, you can use AI to create highly-personalized apps. Under Armor’shealth tracking app, called “Record,” is a wonderful example. The app uses the AI-powered algorithm to create workout and nutrition recommendations based on your personal data.
Also, you can use AI to track the performance of your social media content. Many marketers develop their content distribution strategies based solely on customer demographics. You can take this approach to the next level using the AI-powered software. Instead of tracking demographics only, collect and analyze customer locations, behaviors, and values. That’ll help you create super-personalized and targeted content to improve your social media campaign.
Thanks to artificial intelligence, there are now tools that can help your keyword research and topic generation. AI can give you precious insight into what your customers are really interested in.
Many keyword research tools allow you to find keywords showing their search volume, number of results, organic competition, difficulty score, search demand, and other metrics. Using keyword research tools will speed up your writing process and help you create more customer-specific content.
There are many blog post idea generators out there to help you develop and expand your topics. Answer the Publicis one of such tools. When you enter your keyword, let’s say “artificial intelligence,” you can see the most popular questions asked by real users. As simple as a few clicks, you get data and ideas to help you expand and develop your topic.
A new studyshows that 90% of consumers report that user-generated content holds more influence over their buying decisions than other forms of marketing. AI can help you gather brand-related content posted by your customers on social media. This became possible due to the visual recognition technology that can analyze images and identify your products. You can use this data not only for marketing but also to get a better perspective on what works for your audience and community. Additionally, it increases your brand visibility and online presence.
AI-powered chatbots can help you communicate with your customers better and enable them to self-create branded content. The first part is pretty obvious. We all know how to use chatbotsfor navigating customers and acting as customer service reps.
When it comes to user-generated content, chatbots can facilitate your customers to create more of it. For example, Whole Foods launchedan innovative chatbot for Facebook’s Messenger. Besides helping to navigate Whole Foods locations, the chatbot offers healthy and wholesome recipes. All you need to do is answer a series of questions (you can even use emojis to describe products) and let the chatbot do the rest.
Alternatively, you can use chatbots to promote content sharing within your clients. Spotify’s chatbotis a great example of this strategy in real life. Subscribers can not only ask about their accounts and discover newly released music, but they can also choose songs their friends might be interested in. Then, they can easily share these recommendations with their friends within the platform.
The rapid growth of AI-powered software is predicted to change content creation as it exists now. According to experts, AI will be able to complete any intellectual task humans can perform by the year of 2050.
But what can AI do now? AI-powered computes have learned to provide organizations with data, story templates, fresh blog ideas, and user-generated content. A combination of machine learning and customer data has the impact you need to take your content creation efforts to the next level. That’s why it is so important to analyze data at the first stages of your content creation process. Also, your content efforts can massively benefit from AI as it helps you create more personalized and targeted content.
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Andrew Conroy has released a configuration tool for James Peacock’s KeyMapper module, allowing you to more easily set up your key mappings if you are either using a keyboard that doesn’t provide all of the keys you need, or if you want some keys to act as mouse buttons – particularly useful for some laptops, […]
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Cybersecurity is emerging as a top concern for individuals and organizations across the world. To address this, Microsoft recently urged companies to conduct cybersecurity awareness […]
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The content below is taken from the original ( Improving VDI Performance with MSIX App Attach), to continue reading please visit the site. Remember to respect the Author & Copyright.
MSIX is a new installer technology for Windows that first appeared in Windows 10 version 1809 and it was later backported to Windows 10 versions 1709 and 1803. It replaces Windows Installer (MSI) and the APPX packaging format previously used for Store apps.
MSIX works with all Win32, WPF, Windows Forms, and Universal Windows Platform (Store) applications. It provides modern features like robust updating, a managed security model with flexible capabilities, containerization, support for the Microsoft Store, enterprise management, and custom distribution models.
For more information on MSIX, see Improve Windows Enterprise Application Deployment Reliability and Security using MSIX and MSIX Core Coming to Windows 7 and 8.1 in December, Plus New Features on the Horizon on Petri.
MSIX App Attach is a complimentary feature for Windows Server Remote Desktop Services (RDS) and Windows Virtual Desktop (WVD) that Microsoft has been working on since at least 2019. Currently in public preview, App Attach performs a function like User Profile Disk (UPD) and FSLogix Profile Containers, except for applications.
Both UPD and FSLogix Profile Containers store user profiles in a single.VHDX file that is mounted automatically when users log on to a remote desktop session. While there are other ways to store user profiles separately from the operating system, like roaming profiles, UPD and Profile Containers solve several problems associated with roaming profiles and folder redirection:
MSIX App Attach borrows the ideas behind UPD and Profile Containers and applies them to applications. Apps are stored in a central location in MSIX format and are then attached to the operating system as users log on to remote desktops.
When an application is attached to Windows, it looks and feels exactly like a locally installed app to the user and the operating system. If in the past RDS admins configured golden images containing sets of apps for users, App Attach splits apps and the OS so that apps can be deployed to users and maintained separately.
Windows Virtual Desktop Applications Groups can be used to deploy apps to users without creating new OS images. And if you are using FSLogix Profile Containers as well, user profiles and apps can be managed completely separately from Windows.
To use the public preview, you need to use a version of Windows 10 Enterprise on build 19041 or later. The MSIX Packaging Tool is also required if you don’t have an app already in MSIX format. Attaching and detaching apps is performed using PowerShell scripts. The scripts can be triggered manually or run automatically as startup, logon, logoff, and shutdown scripts.
There are four phases that are performed when using MSIX App Attach to deploy apps to remote desktops:
The staging phase mounts the required virtual hard disk to Windows. And the registering phase adds the app to Windows, so it appears as an installed application. The deregister and destage phases are for removing MSIX App Attach apps.
For more detailed instructions on using the MSIX App Attach (preview), see Microsoft’s website here.
MSIX App Attach was due to come out of preview along with the spring update release of Windows Virtual Desktop and Windows 10 version 2004. But at the time of writing, there’s no indication of whether it will be ready for production use by the end of May.
For more information on the spring update for Windows Virtual Desktop, check out Windows Virtual Desktop Now Backed by Azure Resource Manager on Petri.
Regardless of whether MSIX App Attach will be out of preview by the time Windows 10 version 2004 launches at the end of May, we can likely expect it to be generally available in 2020. And it comes at a good time. Along with other announcements from Microsoft, like improvements to how Teams audiovisuals are handled in WVD to improve performance, MSIX App Attach will help remote desktop users be more productive and IT departments better manage their virtual desktop infrastructures.
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Get ready for a fantastic new offer from the VMware Learning Zone , the digital learning center from VMware. The digital library contains over 1300… Read more at VMblog.com.
The content below is taken from the original ( Combat account takeovers and hijacking with reCAPTCHA Enterprise), to continue reading please visit the site. Remember to respect the Author & Copyright.
As more enterprises are requiring customers to create accounts to do things like access services or make a purchase, attackers have increased their focus on account takeovers. These attackers are highly motivated and can be extremely evasive when trying to avoid detection during campaigns. For example, bad actors often attempt to hide their activities by acting during normal traffic times to blend in with genuine customer activity.
reCAPTCHA Enterprise can help protect your websites from fraudulent activity like this. Last week, we talked about how reCAPTCHA Enterprise can help keep your end users safe against a variety of attacks, including fraudulent transactions, scraping, synthetic accounts, and account takeovers. Today, we’re going to take a deeper look at how reCAPTCHA Enterprise can help you combat account takeovers and hijacking.
Account takeovers and hijacking are when a bad actor uses a stolen or leaked credential to login and take over a legitimate user’s account. Account takeovers happen when an attacker uses someone else’s login credentials, successfully gets into his or her account, and then starts to perform fraud, such as the transferring of money or gift card and purchase fraud.
How do these bad actors obtain stolen credentials? There are a number of ways, but the easiest is simply to purchase them from the dark web or other sources. This can be done extremely inexpensively, and in the last several years, billions of account records have been leaked from breaches. With exponential growth anticipated for credentials available after a data breach, that number will only continue to increase.
When a malicious actor has a large set of these stolen or purchased credentials, it’s not financially feasible for them to manually attempt to login to an account. So, they rely on automated credential stuffing attacks to login and verify the accounts before they manually perform fraud on the accounts.
This process of validating stolen credentials typically requires three parts:
a list of potential credentials and accounts
a distributed botnet (large swaths of infected “zombie” machines)
some type of automation software or toolkit to orchestrate the attacking botnet
Since these credentials have a long list of potential username and password combinations, attackers usually use a botnet to see which logins are correct. Botnets generally attack through proxy servers or ephemeral addresses that can be hard to blacklist or block, which also allows attackers to quickly change where the attacks are originating from. Determined attackers will pivot and attempt to evade detection as quickly as possible if they realize they’ve been noticed.
Account takeover and hijacking attacks have been on the rise over the last years, and they are very costly to the organizations that are targeted. According to a study by Javelin Strategy & Research, billions of dollars are spent each year cleaning up and containing the stolen accounts to try to combat fraudulent activity.
Due to the growing sophistication of attacks, it has become increasingly difficult for security teams to manage the line between letting valid customers in and keeping out fraudulent attackers and bots. reCAPTCHA Enterprise is here to help.
reCAPTCHA Enterprise is a frictionless fraud detection service that leverages our experience from more than a decade of defending the internet with reCAPTCHA and data for our network of four million sites. A simple JavaScript snippet enables reCAPTCHA Enterprise to verify that requests on your webpages are coming from real humans. This is done through behavioral analysis that uses site-specific training and models. reCAPTCHA Enterprise will detect malicious requests and give you actionable insights to help protect your enterprise.
reCAPTCHA Enterprise gives you the granularity and flexibility to help protect your webpages in the way that makes the most sense to your business. Our enterprise API provides risk scores for an interaction with your site. With 1.0 being a likely good interaction and 0.0 likely being an abusive one, you can decide which action to take based on that score. This means there’s no one-size-fits-all approach to managing your risk, you can have different levels of protection for different web pages. For example, a suspected fraudulent request on a login page could force a two-factor authorization challenge, while you could just block the request on a less valuable webpage.
Using reCAPTCHA Enterprise, you can train your site specific model by sending reCAPTCHA IDs back to Google labeled as false positives or false negatives. SDKs are available for both iOS and Android to provide the same controls for your mobile applications.
The danger of bot-led account takeover and hijacking attacks are on the rise, costing organizations large amounts of money and consuming the time of valuable internal resources in security, legal, and fraud teams. reCAPTCHA Enterprise can help detect these botnets and give you the insights you need to block the requests while allowing real users into your website and their account.
To learn more about how you can help protect your enterprise from account takeovers and hijacking, visit our documentation. To get started with reCAPTCHA today, contact sales.
The content below is taken from the original ( Microsoft is Finally Building a Native Package Manager in Windows), to continue reading please visit the site. Remember to respect the Author & Copyright.
If you read the headline and thought that this was some sort of an elaborate joke, this is not a drill. After years of developers asking Microsoft to build a package manager into Windows, those requests are finally being answered.
Announced at Build 2020, the company is releasing a preview of the Windows Package Manager. For those not familiar, a packet manager makes it easier to automate the process of getting software on to your machine using a CLI (command-line interface).
Starting today, you can use Windows Packet Manager which is being hosted on GitHub. In addition, the company is also making the tool open source which means that it is easy to contribute applications to the manager if you find that a feature is missing.
Windows Packet Manager being used to install VSCode
With this release, you can install any application that has a valid manifest, including local applications. You can also search for available packages and display information about it the package with the following commands: install, search, show. And there are other basic features including adding third-party repositories and the ability to help with manifest creation and validation (hash and validate).
If you want to try it out today, you can head over to the GitHub for the client, if you are on any of the Insider rings, you may already have it, and the last option is to email [email protected] with your MSA.
One of the reasons that Microsoft decided not to contribute to other solutions is security. The company says that they are automatically checking each manifest with SmartScreen, static analysis, SHA256 hash validation, and a few other processes to help keep malicious software out of its repository.
As for support, every version of Windows 10 released after 1709 can use the new tool. The company says Windows Package Manager will be delivered with the Desktop App Installer when it ships version 1.0.
One other feature is that in the near future, the new tool will be able to grab applications from the Windows Store. The company isn’t saying anything yet about the future of the store but simply that this tool will work with that repository at a later date.
Considering how long we have waited for a native package manager in Windows, this may be one of the biggest announcements for IT Pros at Build. And knowing that you can start using it today, while other announcements are significant, this release has an immediate impact for anyone who is managing a Windows environment.
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Two new extensions for Visual Studio Code are now available that make it easier to work with Azure—Azure Virtual Machines and Azure Resource Groups.
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Recorded on May 15th
We discuss WCG’s new project Open Pandemics, the new BOINC project Ibercivis@Home, GPUGrid, the BOINC Pentathalon, and how BOINC could develop a business side.
Listen on the web: https://boinc.network
Listen on LBRY: https://lbry.tv/@BOINCNetwork:c
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BOINC Radio is a participatory podcast hosted on the BOINC Network Discord server. This means you, listener, help guide the direction of each episode!
Every Friday at 4pm EST your friendly hosts bring topics for everyone to discuss. Topics can range from BOINC, science, and distributed computing news to network theory to interesting anecdotes.
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The content below is taken from the original ( MusicBrainz Docker composes with Solr 7), to continue reading please visit the site. Remember to respect the Author & Copyright.
The MusicBrainz virtual machine is dead, long live the MusicBrainz Docker Compose project. In fact, the virtual machine has been running it for years. Mostly because the data loaded with the virtual machine was too soon obsolete, it doesn’t seem worth it anymore. Plus, new search indexes are much larger than before, and using Docker Compose directly is much more versatile.
The MusicBrainz Docker Compose project has been deeply revamped since two years ago and now ships the new search server based on Solr 7. It can be used for mirroring the MusicBrainz website and database, testing your own app with a local MusicBrainz web service, or developing the MusicBrainz Server itself. Check out the release notes!
Thanks to everyone who reported issues and contributed patches for two years!
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Over the last year or so, we’ve seen an explosion in the popularity of cyberdecks — those highly portable and occasionally wearable computers that would make William Gibson proud. A lot of the cyberdecks we see are based on NUCs or the Raspberry Pi and are essentially post-apocalyptic DIY laptops. But what if you want to play with microcontrollers on the go? Do you really need traditional computing power?
If you build [kmatch98]’s adorable cyberDÛCK, the answer is no. This duck can edit and run CircuitPython files anywhere without a separate computer, as long as you have some kind of USB keyboard. It has a text editor for writing Python scripts the regular way as well as a REPL for running commands on the fly.
One of the biggest hurdles in portable microcontrollering is getting HID access so you can communicate with a keyboard. Flip open cyberDÛCK and you’ll find two ItsyBitsy M4s — one being used as the USB host, and the other controls the display and is meant to be programmed. To get the keyboard input across, [kmatch98] adapted a MicroPython editor to take input from UART. Waddle past the break to check out the sprite demo, and stick around to see [kmatch98] discuss the duck in detail.
We understand if you can’t wait to make one of these yourself. In the meantime, did you know you can code CircuitPython directly from your phone?
The content below is taken from the original ( A simple, secure way for teams to meet and work: G Suite Essentials is here), to continue reading please visit the site. Remember to respect the Author & Copyright.
Video meetings have never been more important than they are right now. They’re how we get work done and, increasingly, how we socialize and stay connected with loved ones. It’s why we recently made Google Meet, a service we originally built for secure business meetings, free and available to everyone with a Google Account.
Over the past weeks we’ve heard from organizations of all sizes that Meet is helping them stay connected, whether it’s CEOs hosting town halls, sales teams working with clients, or employees holding one-on-one virtual coffee chats. Netflix, a long-time G Suite customer, told us they used Meet to make the shift to remote work, which led them to trust Meet for the important task of holding their earnings call from various executives’ homes in April. Our team worked with Netflix to understand their needs and provide best practices for using G Suite to help them stay connected during COVID-19.
Many companies and organizations have complex needs like this. Some might need to stream a large meeting to thousands of employees, and others might need to record a video training session for those unable to attend. So for organizations, we have launched G Suite Essentials. It includes our most advanced video meeting capabilities, but it’s more than just video conferencing.
In times like these, you also need to be able to work with your team in real time, as if you were standing at a whiteboard or marking up a document together. That’s why G Suite Essentials also includes the professional-grade versions of Google Drive, Docs, Sheets, and Slides. These pro capabilities, for example, include “shared drives”—one home for all of a team’s content—and Drive File Stream, which gives you access to large amounts of content while consuming minimal hard drive space. All these features and apps are tightly integrated, so it’s easy to present to a video conference and collaborate on a doc, simultaneously.
Our approach to security is to make our products safe by default, and we have designed G Suite Essentials to operate on a secure foundation, providing the protections needed to help keep your organization safe, your data secure, and your information private. The enterprise security functionality includes data loss prevention (DLP), Security Center, Vault, and more. And all this comes with 24×7 customer support.
Finally, we know many organizations and businesses aren’t looking to make big changes to the way they work at this time. That’s why we designed G Suite Essentials to integrate with the tools you already use, like Microsoft Office, Slack, and Salesforce. For example, if you send a link to a Drive file from Outlook, Drive automatically checks to ensure that the recipient has access to that file. It will let you know if a coworker is about to make conflicting changes to a Word, PowerPoint, or Excel file. And an integration with the Outlook calendar makes scheduling Meet video conferences a breeze.
G Suite Essentials is free through Sept. 30. Signing up is simple—all you need is your work email address to get started, and there’s no need for IT to do a thing.
We hope G Suite Essentials makes it possible to keep teams connected and productive no matter where they are.
If your organization needs access to Gmail or Google Calendar, considersigning up for G Suite Basic, Business, or Enterprise. Schools, universities, and educators should considerG Suite for Education.
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VMware technologies form the cornerstone of many customer’s enterprise IT environments, and those same enterprises are eager to run their VMware environments in the cloud to scale quickly and benefit from cloud services.
Last summer, we announced support for customers to run VMware workloads on Google Cloud, and we have made significant progress since then. In the fall we acquired CloudSimple to provide customers a fully integrated VMware-based solution, and today we’re proud to announce another significant milestone—Google Cloud VMware Engine, an integrated first-party offering with end-to-end support to migrate and run your VMware environment in Google Cloud. This fully managed service is expected to be generally available this quarter out of two US regions, expanding into additional Google Cloud regions globally in the second half of the year.
The service delivers a fully managed VMware Cloud Foundation stack—VMware vSphere, vCenter, vSAN, NSX-T, and HCX for cloud migration—in a dedicated environment on Google Cloud’s highly performant and reliable infrastructure to support enterprise production workloads. With this service, you can migrate or extend your on-premises workloads to Google Cloud in minutes by connecting to a dedicated VMware environment directly through the Google Cloud Console. This allows you to seamlessly migrate to the cloud without the cost or complexity of refactoring applications, and run and manage workloads consistently with your on-premises environment. By running your VMware workloads on Google Cloud, you reduce your operational burden while benefiting from scale and agility, and maintain continuity with your existing tools, policies, and processes.
Importantly, you can quickly meet your business needs by creating a VMware SDDC environment on Google Cloud in a matter of minutes, enabling you to scale business critical applications on-demand. The service is VMware Cloud Verified, the highest level of validation for VMware-based cloud services, to help enable compatibility and operational continuity across on-premises and cloud environments.
“VMware and Google Cloud are working together to help power customers’ multi-cloud strategies, and the new Google Cloud VMware Engine will enable our mutual customers to drive digital transformation and business resiliency using the same VMware Cloud Foundation running in their data centers today,” said Ajay Patel, senior vice president and general manager, cloud provider software business unit at VMware. “Google Cloud VMware Engine enables organizations to quickly deploy their VMware environment in Google Cloud, delivering scale, agility and access to cloud-native services while leveraging the familiarity and investment in VMware tools and training.”
Google Cloud VMware Engine is built on Google Cloud’s highly performant, scalable infrastructure with fully redundant and dedicated 100Gbps networking, providing 99.99% availability to meet the needs of your most demanding enterprise workloads. Cloud networking services such as Interconnect and VPN ease access from your on-premises environments to the cloud and high-bandwidth connectivity to cloud services optimize for performance and flexibility while minimizing costs and operational overhead. End-to-end, one stop support is integrated to provide a seamless experience across this service and the rest of Google Cloud.
Google Cloud VMware Engine is designed to minimize your operational burden, so you can focus on your business. We take care of the lifecycle of the VMware software stack and manage all related infrastructure and upgrades. Customers can continue to leverage IT management tools and third-party services consistent with their on-premises environment. We’re partnering closely with leading storage, backup, and disaster recovery providers such as NetApp, Actifio, Veeam, Zerto, Cohesity, and Dell Technologies to ensure support for third-party solutions, ease the migration journey, and enable business continuity.
In addition to the ease of migration, you can benefit from full access to innovative Google Cloud services such as BigQuery, Cloud Operations, Cloud Storage, Anthos, and Cloud AI. Billing, identity management, and access control are also fully integrated into Google Cloud to unify the experience with other Google Cloud products and services. As you look to migrate and modernize workloads over time, these cloud-native services allow you to streamline management, surface new data insights, and deliver new and innovative services to your customers.
Over the past few months, we’ve engaged with numerous customers through our early access program. Customers have experienced first-hand the rapid and simple migration that Google Cloud VMware Engine enables as they look to extend or migrate workloads into the cloud. Capital markets infrastructure provider Deutsche Börse Group was impressed by the ease and simplicity of migrating VMware workloads to Google Cloud.
“As one of the world’s largest market infrastructure providers, implementing innovative and resilient solutions for financial markets is key when it comes to maintaining efficient, stable and most important secure operations,” says Dr. Christoph Böhm, Member of the Executive Board and Chief Information Officer, Deutsche Börse Group. “As a long-term VMware customer we are keen to extend our large landscape towards hyperscaling options, keeping existing control planes and lifecycle management stable. Google Cloud VMware Engine allows us now to quickly extend our VMware environment to Google Cloud, one of Deutsche Börse’s public cloud partners, increasing our business agility and building even higher levels of resiliency. The steps we have gone through so far together are hugely encouraging, giving us innovative and flexible ways in running hybrid cloud scenarios.”
QAD, a leading ERP software provider, is also excited about the benefits of running VMware on Google Cloud. “With Google Cloud VMware Engine, we are able to quickly extend our VMware-based platform to Google Cloud to meet our goal of being rapid, agile and effective,” says Scott Lawson, Director, IT Architecture at QAD. “As a leading ERP software provider, partnering with Google Cloud and VMware allows us to reduce our operational burden, improve our disaster recovery capabilities to ensure consistent availability for our customers, and benefit from native Google Cloud services to continuously innovate.”
We’re proud to partner closely with regional and global system integrators to simplify and enable the success of our mutual customers’ cloud migration journey. Our partners such as Deloitte, Atos, and WWT are committed to building cloud services to help customers adopt Google Cloud VMware Engine and accelerate their digital transformation through native Google Cloud services.
Partners can play an essential role to accelerate migration and help you achieve faster time-to-value. “As customers look to simplify their cloud migration journey, we’re committed to build cloud services to help customers benefit from the increased agility and efficiency of running VMware workloads on Google Cloud,” said Bob Black, Dell Technologies Global Lead Alliance Principal, Deloitte Consulting LLP. “By combining Google Cloud’s technology and Deloitte’s business transformation experience, we can enable our joint customers to accelerate their cloud migration, unify operations, and benefit from innovative Google Cloud services as they look to modernize applications.”
Partners also see Google Cloud VMware Engine as a key offering to help customers accelerate their cloud journey. “Running VMware workloads on Google Cloud is a priority for many enterprise customers as they look to benefit from the scale and agility of the cloud while maintaining consistency across hybrid and multi cloud environments,” said Peter Cutts, SVP, Digital Transformation Officer, Atos Cloud Enterprise Solutions. “We are excited for the opportunity to reinforce our partnership with Google Cloud by combining all the value Atos brings to VMware and Google to provide a differentiated experience while enabling customers to benefit from turnkey offerings including cloud native services such as BigQuery, AI & machine learning.”
“As a Google Cloud Premier Partner, we are excited about the addition of Google Cloud VMware Engine to the ever-growing list of services already driving value to our mutual customers,” said Michael Taylor, Chief Technology Officer, World Wide Technology. Technology. “Hybrid cloud strategies continue to be a focal point for our customers and this offering substantially accelerates the timeframe for organizations to move their workloads to the cloud and modernize their infrastructure.
Google Cloud VMware Engine is expected to be generally available to customers this quarter in the North Virginia (us-east4) and Los Angeles (us-west2) regions. We plan for the service to be available globally in eight additional regions—London, Frankfurt, Tokyo, Sydney, Montréal, São Paulo, Singapore, and Netherlands—in the second half of the calendar year.
We are excited for this milestone and committed to delivering an optimum platform to run your VMware workloads alongside Google Cloud services to solve business problems and innovate in new areas.
You can find more information including product features and resources on our website. We also invite you to join us for our upcoming webinar where we will provide a more detailed overview of the service, dive into key use cases, and discuss how you can accelerate your cloud migration journey. We look forward to connecting with you.
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Scener, a browser extension that allows users to co-watch Netflix — similar to the newly popular Netflix Party Chrome add-on — is expanding to support HBO NOW and HBO GO. The additions come alongside a full relaunch of Scener, which is reinventing its product for the coronavirus era as a virtual movie theater experience where up to 20 viewers can watch together over video, audio, or text chat in a dedicated sidebar.
In the near future, the company says it will also roll out a “1-to-many” version of its virtual theater experience that will allow people to host even more synchronous viewers, similar to an Instagram Live, but synced to the underlying subscription video content service.
While some co-watching experiences are illegal — Twitch, for example, has been sued for allowing its creators to stream live sports games to their viewers. Video chat services like Skype and FaceTime have for years been utilized as workarounds to the problem of not being able to watch U.S. content from overseas. But Scener works with content partners to ensure it has the appropriate deals in place to offer its product legally.
HBO confirmed to TechCrunch it has been working with Scener to allow HBO NOW and HBO GO subscribers to watch content through the web extension in a way that preserves its IP, but would not comment on deal specifics.
Scener also couldn’t confirm if its permission to stream HBO content would extend to WarnerMedia’s new HBO MAX service, due to launch on May 27, 2020.
However, Scener’s technology should be able to support any streaming service, as long as the service offered a way to way to stream the video content through the Chrome browser. To use Scener as a private virtual theater, the browser extension simply asks the user to grant it permission to the sites in question.
Setting up the virtual theater experience itself is easy. There isn’t complicated software to install, beyond the extension. Friends can then join in either via a theater code or by clicking an invite link you send.
Originally a part of RealNetworks, Scener in 2018 had first developed a Chrome extension that allowed users to record commentary video tracks that could be played asynchronously alongside content on Netflix, Hulu and YouTube. This resulted in something akin to a “Mystery Science Theater 3000”-like experience, if you’re familiar with that show.
After spinning out from RealNetworks, Scener in 2019 created a product that instead synchronized co-watching of Netflix content with video chat. It had also been working to develop mobile prototypes with other content providers. But the COVID-19 pandemic refocused Scener’s efforts on its Chrome extension as usage of the product on the desktop surged 15x as the U.S. went under quarantine.
The new version, arriving today, is a complete rebuilt of that product, says Scener co-founder and COO Joe Braidwood. And it’s also just the beginning of what Scener has in store, he promises.
“It’s core to our vision as a business to support more [subscription video-on-demand] services in the near future, and we’re also in talks with some [ad-supported video-on-demand] providers,” he told TechCrunch.
The company didn’t announce what other deals may be in the works, but its extension is asking permission to read and change data on Hulu.com and DisneyPlus.com, in addition to HBO websites. Scener could not comment on this, saying only that it’s currently focused on making the best co-watching experience for HBO NOW and HBO GO programming. Without further confirmation, it’s hard to say if the Disney/Hulu deal (Disney is the majority owner of Hulu) is wishing thinking on Scener’s part or a work-in-progress. Time will tell.
Scener has raised $1.6 million in funding since spinning out from RealNetworks. It generates revenue by way of its partnerships with streaming services to create engaging social experiences around its content, as is the case with today’s HBO deal. WarnerMedia confirmed it does not have a financial stake in Scener.
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Alon Gilady, CEO of RenovAI, told me his startup is trying to solve the problem that many of us face when we’re moving into a new home — we aren’t interior designers, but we can’t afford to hire real designers, either.
Apparently Gilady’s co-founder and vice president of products, Alon Chelben, products Alon Chelben had this issue himself when he moved into a new apartment and tried to use DIY design applications, only to be disappointed by the “very ugly” results.
“He thought to himself, ‘I cannot design,’ ” design,’” Gilady said. “From that idea, we realized that there’s an opportunity here.”
While there are other online design services, Gilady said most of them are focused on creating 3D visualizations, or on connecting customers with a human designers.
RenovAI (which is part of the current class of startups at Alchemist Accelerator) can also create visualizations, but its focus is on building AI tools that understand the principles of good design. And while the team started out by thinking of the consumer problem, they decided that the best path to market was by working with retailers.
RenovAI’s products can design an entire space based on a customer’s specifications and taste. There’s also RenovAI Scout, which recommends a specific product based on your taste and current room design; and Complete the Look, which recommends items that complement what you’re already buying.
But what does it mean for an AI to understand good design? Gilady said the team has trained its algorithms on “thousands of different floor plans” to understand the rules of how a room should be laid out, and also broken down design into 16 different “substyles.”
“Our picture recommendation engine goes through the images to understand the relations between the items, the color, the palette, the texture and material,” he said. “It does a statistical analysis to understand how things are matching each other, how to create the design rules of every substyle.”
RenovAI already has pilots with online furniture retailers like Made.com and Mobly. And Gilady said that there’s plenty of opportunity for growth, even during the COVID-19 pandemic, as since plenty of people are stuck at home and wanting to make improvements.
“I think more and more retailers and mom-and-pop shops are paying more attention to online,” he said. “[They know] that if they offer a more fun and seamless experience online, in the long run, it’s a bigger opportunity and we can reach more customers.”
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A new version of RPCEmu has been released, offering an easy way to get up and running if you haven’t used RPCEmu before – and if you wish, to try out RISC OS Direct without needing a Raspberry Pi. As with any release, version 0.9.3 of the emulator includes a number of changes – and […]
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blowing out candles on a cakeVideo humming ‘Happy Birthday to me’ Did the reminder on your smartphone go off over the weekend? It’s been 35 years since the first Arm processor was powered up.…
