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Amazon gets a new chief executive this summer. The company's founder, Jeff Bezos, plans to step down from that role and transition into a new job -- executive chair of Amazon, the company announced Tuesday. The chief of Amazon's cloud computing division, Andy Jassy (above, pictured right), will become Amazon's new chief executive. Jassy served in ...
Canonical on Feb. 2 made available Ubuntu Core 20, a minimal, containerized version of Ubuntu 20.04 LTS for Internet of Things (IoT) devices and embedded systems This major version bolsters device security with secure boot, full disk encryption, and secure device recovery. Ubuntu Core builds on the Ubuntu application ecosystem to create ultra-secur...
Digital commerce transactions spiked in 2020 as consumers generated spending sprees from smartphones that produced 42 percent of all online shopping. As the pandemic continues to keep shoppers out of brick-and-mortar stores, new shopping behaviors continue to include smartphones to nudge products into consumers' digital shopping carts U.S. consumer...
Do you welcome physical fitness like a fish in water, or does it take a trip to the clothing store for larger sizes to get you moving? If you need a push, perhaps a new motivational tool called KrowdFit will be more to your liking. It pays you cash to put your fitness tracking devices on....
Search-as-a-service company Algolia on Monday announced its acquisition of Google DNI-funded machine learning (ML) startup MorphL to fuel Algolia's new artificial intelligence (AI) offering. The company hopes the new service will eliminate barriers to AI implementation and help businesses drive website conversion and personalization. The acquisiti...
GeckoLinux is a unique distribution that goes a long way towards unifying the often-confusing array of workstation choices available to business and mainstream consumers looking for an alternative to other computing platforms A relative newbie in the overcrowded world of Linux distributions, GeckoLinux debuted in December 2015. But it has made up f...
With the continuing pandemic further short-circuiting the global economy, businesses and consumers are finding more convenient ways of paying with their dwindling financial resources. The pandemic jump-started a shift to online buying. That, in turn, helped to accelerate the adoption of digital, contactless, and invisible payments This new cashless...
If you want to smooth over irate clients and offer more efficient customer services, consider conversational bots instead of a roomful of human company reps. Chatbots could be a better solution to engaging clients and relating to customers According to Myplanet CEO Jason Cottrell, chatbots will transform the way businesses schedule appointments, co...
The last thing George Kramb expected from years of walking surgeons through actual operations using medical machinery was to step into a role that helped guide patients worldwide through their own medical journeys Kramb (above, pictured left) and his partner, Patrick Frank, are listed on the "2021 Forbes 30 Under 30" list in recognition of their st...
Buying Linux-powered laptops should be easy, especially on big-name manufacturers' websites. But it isn't. You must employ workarounds to succeed or spend caches of money! That is why downloading free Linux distributions and installing the operating system onto existing computers is a typical avenue for adopting Linux. Some computer manufacturers s...
Cutting the cord has too long been an item on my to-do list. For those not yet familiar with the term, "cutting the cord" refers to the process of terminating a cable or satellite TV subscription and getting shows and movies by some other means. I finally did it and spent days afterward chiding myself for not making the change a long time ago This ...
An intense knack for technology throughout middle school and high school, where he repaired classmates' phones and gaming devices, set the stage for entrepreneurial success for Adam Zinker, founder and CEO of The Perfect Part. That passion -- and a family loan of $4,000 seed money -- drove his technology logistics company over the last nine years to become the sixth-largest eBay company in North America...
Two new Web browsing alternatives widen the field of browser choices for Linux users. The recent introduction of Microsoft Edge for Linux and the Dec. 8 release of Vivaldi version 3.5 offers the freedom to experience a Google-free vehicle to navigate the Internet I reviewed much earlier versions of Vivaldi several years ago. At that time, I was sea...
With the holidays approaching and the pandemic surging, clickwrap transaction platforms (CTPs) are emerging as a valuable tool to help businesses navigate the increased volume of online transactions. CTPs help companies secure transactions that are, or have moved, online. These business transactions are purpose-built for high volumes of agreements...
The antiX distro offers a solid operating system that many other Linux communities fail to deliver. It is unassuming but reliable and focuses on performance rather than prettiness That last element goes a long way to giving users distraction-free computing power. That does not mean antiX is not visually appealing. This distro has a no-nonsense appe...
The 2020 holiday season is upon us, and it should be prime time for shopping, but the pandemic has forced many consumers to tighten their purse strings. Besides trying to avoid crowds to dodge COVID-19, this year's digital holiday shoppers have to be wary of counterfeit sellers lurking within e-commerce stores It's projected that about one-third of...
The @ Company wants to give you a more secure and human-centric Internet built on providing you with true ownership and control of your personal data To that end, the company on Oct. 27 launched an app built on its new privacy protocol. This new standard will attempt to change how online vendors and companies wheel and deal with the personal infor...
The Linux Foundation today announced at KubeKon that it is hosting the Servo web engine, an open-source, high-performance browser engine. KubeKon is the Cloud Native Computing Foundation's flagship conference for adopters and technologists from leading open source and cloud-native communities. The conference is being held virtually this week.
The lack of standard practices in the DevOps communities is causing growing friction as security teams line up against developers. This internal friction leaves the software they develop and organizations that use the apps vulnerable to attacks and breaches A report released Sept. 30 by open source security and license management company WhiteSourc...
The grocery industry seems to have a foot in two worlds as it faces unique challenges of an accelerated transition to online retail during the pandemic. One is the realm of the traditional grocery marketplace in pre-COVID times, when the majority of consumers shopped in stores for groceries. The other is today's marketplace where shoppers flock on...
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