If you found yourself working later in the day or a little past working hours yesterday, you may have run into a problem with your Office 365 services. That’s because of a massive outage that affected several services, including Microsoft Teams, Outlook, Azure, Exchange, SharePoint, OneDrive, Dynamics 365 and other applications. Down Detector, a website […]
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Google CEO: Hybrid Work is the Future
Google CEO Sundar Pichai says the company is leaning into a hybrid work strategy that prioritizes culture and collaboration.
Organizations around the world have embraced remote or hybrid work with varying degrees of adoption. Some are beginning to bring their employees back to the office in full, some are doing so in phases until the COVID-19 pandemic is behind us, and others like Google are offering a more hybrid approach. Sundar Pichai, CEO of […]
LG Releases Two New Affordable Digital Display Products
LG Business Solutions has released two new series of 4K UHD digital signage displays designed to lower the entry barrier for commercial signage.
LG Business Solutions has released two new series of 4K UHD digital signage displays designed to lower the entry barrier for commercial use of digital signage. The new products – the UL3G and US340C – come in a dozen different sizes ranging from 43 inches to 86 inches, the company said in a press release. […]
Ring’s Indoor Security Drone Could Also See Use in Commercial Spaces
Ring Always Home Cam, an indoor security drone, flies predetermined paths set by users and will be made available in 2021.
Amazon’s recent media event lifted the curtain on a few products, but one which caught the most attention is an autonomous indoor security drone called the Ring Always Home Cam. The lightweight, boxy device — with compact dimensions, 5″x 7″x7″ — is designed to fly predetermined paths set by users, thereby providing greater visibility when […]
Belgium Hospital Digital Signage Project Features 500+ Screens: Here’s How They’re Securely Connected
This critical hospital digital signage solution features 500 securely connected 32-inch Philips MediaSuite and 19-inch Philips Heartline Professional TVs.
Nicknamed the ‘Capital of Europe’, Belgium is home to 209 hospitals and one of the world’s most diverse populations (up by a million since 2005), with more than 180 nationalities and 108 spoken languages in the country. With tens of thousands of daily hospital visitors and admissions, 64,000 beds and an average stay of approximately […]
Bose Releases Noise-Cancelling Headphones 700 UC in U.S., Latin America
Bose's new Noise Cancelling Headphones 700 UC are certified for Microsoft Teams and compatible with both Zoom and Google Meet.
Bose Professional this week announced their Noise Cancelling Headphones 700 UC are now shipping in the U.S. and Latin America and will also be available in Asia and Europe in September and October, respectively. Certified for Microsoft Teams and compatible with both Zoom and Google Meet, the NCH 700 UC “equip users for better collaboration […]
Report: Election Vendor’s Internal Systems Hacked
According to Reuters, a company that provides software for elections told its customers that its internal systems have been hacked.
For the last few months during the COVID-19 pandemic and leading up to the 2020 U.S. president election, cybersecurity experts are being extremely vigilant and are warning of increasing attacks against federal agencies and enterprises. And now, according to Reuters, election vendors are being targeted. Tyler Technologies, a company that makes products used by U.S. […]
Some Schools Are Reporting Large Numbers of COVID Violations: Can Tech Help?
Texas State Teachers Association reports over 3,700 safety violations across nearly 200 districts. Do tech managers have a role in preventing them?
Our sister site Campus Safety cites a recent report which found that many Texas schools are not following state coronavirus safety guidelines. The Texas State Teachers Association (TSTA) distributed a survey and found more than 650 of its members from 135 districts reported issues in 12 categories, including inadequate ventilation, lack of personal protective equipment (PPE) and cleaning […]
Microsoft to Exclusively License OpenAI’s GPT-3 Model
Microsoft is partnering with artificial intelligence research firm OpenAI to exclusively license the groundbreaking autoregressive language model GPT-3.
Microsoft is partnering with artificial intelligence research firm OpenAI to exclusively license the firm’s autoregressive language model GPT-3. In a blog on Microsoft’s official website, Microsoft’s Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer Kevin Scott said the company will leverage the technical innovation to develop and deliver advanced AI solutions for Microsoft customers and create […]
Zoom Adds Multi-Video Pinning, Accessibility Features
Zoom announced several new accessibility features designed to make it easier for non-English speakers or people with disabilities to use the platform.
Zoom is releasing new features that give users more control over how they see other meeting participants during video meetings along with keyboard shortcuts and other accessibility features. According to a company blog, Zoom now allows users to pin multiple videos to keep them in place, regardless of who is currently speaking. This is designed […]
