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When it comes to the DIY home security systems, Scout Security and Frontpoint Security are two of our favorite on the market. In comparing Frontpoint security vs. Scout security, both offer professional monitoring and smart home integration, but both systems have different options that users need to consider before buying. *Data as of July 24, 2020 Pros: Mobile appCrash & Smash protectionSmart technology featuresEnvironmental monitoring Cons: Vague pricing & broad up-sellingVideo streaming service is extraLimited app integrationOutsourced monitoring service...

Featuring 15 programmable controls including six thumb buttons, you can program every button to cater to your needs. The Hero 25K DPI sensor allows for extremely precise control for those sniping moments or detailed design projects. This accuracy also stems from the Lightspeed wireless technology operating at a 1ms response time, too. Underneath the mouse, you’ll find Optical technology that uses LED lights to scan the surface underneath the mouse for that response time....

The demand for American Sign Language skills continues to rise because it is the form of communication most widely used among the Deaf and hard of hearing. Nearly 200 U.S. colleges and universities accept ASL to fulfill foreign language requirements for graduation. Now, you can invest in your education by learning ASL as well. During our Back to Education event, you get lifetime access to 100 hours of self-paced ASL training for only $39....

All of the courses are meant to give beginners a firm foundation in finance and accounting. The bundle includes a series of three courses on personal finance. The first is on setting goals, planning, and more. The second one explains how to create budgets and financial statements. The third gives you crucial information about financial institutions and their services. Complete novices will appreciate the way “Basics of Accounting” clearly explains accounting principles and concepts....

Whether you need a new website for your business or a portfolio for your job search, the quality of your site is crucial. If you plan on having any sort of online presence, be aware of how difficult or unreliable hosting services can be. Sometimes, it may seem like there’s an infinite number of things that can go wrong, and those issues don’t only occur on free or low-cost hosting platforms....

Learning new skills is the first step towards a new career or moving up the ladder you’re already on, and a lifetime membership to StackSkills Unlimited can help you do that. You will have access to over 1,000 courses on a wide range of subjects, many of which will help you develop the skills that qualify you for well-paid positions in the tech industry or business world. At least 50 new courses get added every month, and they all offer certificates of completion that will add polish to your resume....

This isn’t just any wireless Bluetooth speaker. No, indeed, this one amplifies audio from your mobile phone, tablet, laptop or desktop computer with high-quality 360° surround sound without any noise. You can also use other inputs, including AUX, USB, and TF cards. In fact, you can even plug in a mic for a sing-along whenever you like. The Bluetooth 4.2 technology it uses provides a wireless connectivity range of 10 meters....

As you read this, you may recognize how you inadvertently contributed to that statistic; maybe those bags of spinach or that old chicken that went uneaten come to mind. But considering almost a third of our food goes straight to the trash, how can we prevent food waste? I’m not here to finger-point or judge, I’ve been part of the problem as well. It’s like we decide to temporarily house food in our fridge rent-free on its journey between the store and the trash, throwing away our hard-earned money....

Google patched the bug in February but it was being exploited a month earlier. At the time, Google said it knew of reports that hackers were exploiting the Chrome bug CVE-2022-0609. The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) mandated federal agencies to patch the Chrome bug in February. Google’s Threat Analyst Group (TAG) says the exploit kit was being actively deployed from January 4, 2022. According to Google, the North Korean hacking groups who were using this exploit are linked to Lazarus, the North Korean hacking group accused of both the Sony Pictures hack and massive theft via an attack on the SWIFT international bank-messaging system....

Google and Jio first announced they were working together on an affordable smartphone last year, when Google invested $4.5 million in Jio Platforms. “Together we are excited to rethink, from the ground up, how millions of users in India can become owners of smartphones,” Google said at the time. The JioPhone Next will use a version of Android that was specifically designed for the device. It will include features such as Google Assistant, automatic read-aloud of screen text, language translation, and a smart camera, Google CEO Sundar Pichai said....

“Wouldn’t life be better if more things had a TL;DR?” Google CEO Sundar Pichai said during the keynote address at the Google I/O conference, referencing the abbreviation for a “too long; didn’t read” summary. The new feature would be useful, for example, for someone who has a 25-page document to read ahead of a meeting that’s just five minutes away, Pichai said. Using machine learning, the feature will automatically parse and pull out the main points from a document....

Below you’ll find everything Google has announced so far during the opening keynote. Google Translate gets new languages Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai took to the stage to kick off Google I/O with a joke by making sure his microphone wasn’t muted, after spending the last two years always starting his meetings on mute. Pichai then went into random product updates, giving highlights such as the number of air raid alerts Google has sent in Ukraine and noting that Google Translate is gaining 24 new languages....

Now, scientists at DeepMind in the U.K., which is owned by Google, want to take the benefits of the Transformer beyond text, to let it revolutionize other material including images, sounds and video, and spatial data of the kind a car records with LiDAR. The Perceiver, unveiled this week by DeepMind in a paper posted on arXiv, adapts the Transformer with some tweaks to let it consume all those types of input, and to perform on the various tasks, such as image recognition, for which separate kinds of neural networks are usually developed....

Continuous scrolling, as the name suggests, means that reaching the bottom of the results page just goes on and on instead of requiring a click a “See More” button to view the next page of results. Now, scrolling to the end on a mobile device loads more and more results automatically as you scroll down. According to Google’s data, most people click through four pages to find the information they’re looking for....

Google started quickly rolling out a number of new and improved features to its collaboration tools a couple of years ago when the Covid-19 pandemic made virtual work an imperative. Since then, Google has also stepped up efforts to integrate all of its tools. With all of its communication and collaboration products integrated into one suite, “we’re of course making major bets on Google Docs and Google Sheets as storage vehicles for all sorts of things,” Google’s Dave Citron said to reporters this week....

You can prepare returns by logging in online or downloading the software to your computer. If you prefer to have your tax return completed for you by a tax professional, H&R Block offers three options: meeting with a tax pro at one of the company’s 11,000 locations; dropping off your return at one of the offices; and filing virtually with a tax pro (available beginning January 2022). H&R Block at a glance The company offers four online filing options: Free Online, Deluxe, Premium, and Self-Employed....

Packers work by compressing or encrypting code to make that code unreadable and non-debuggable — resulting in ‘obfuscated’ code that is difficult for antivirus to detect. JavaScript packers aren’t a new threat. As Secureworks noted as far back as 2008, JavaScript packers became a popular alternative to JavaScript libraries because they were good at reducing the number of bytes downloaded on each page in order to support richer web applications of the time....

This isn’t the first time an audio company is releasing earbuds for sleeping; QuietOn, Bose, and SleepPhones have done it in the past – with varying success. Following suit, Soundcore’s version promises a four-point noise masking system, a lightweight build, a comfortable fit, and virtually unlimited audio. Soundcore says that the earbuds will block passive noises for a “truly quiet” night’s sleep. The ear wings and Twin Seal ear tips also seal the ear to block up to 35dB of noise in your surroundings....

You see, Hisense is not often on the list when it comes to the best of the best TVs or ones that are high-end. Instead, the company competes with the likes of TCL and Vizio for the mid-range crown. Naturally, it’s always interesting to see where these companies put their resources with their TVs, where they cut costs, and where they take risks. After testing the latest U8H model for a few weeks, it’s safe to say that Hisense is bringing high-quality imagery straight into your living room at the expense of a design and software experience that isn’t made for everyone....

A new report released by security experts at Home Security Heroes shows how a savvy AI tool can be used to crack common passwords in minutes or seconds. Also: How to write better ChatGPT prompts (and this applies to most other text-based AIs, too) To determine how long it would take to crack 15,600,000 common passwords via artificial intelligence, Home Security Heroes enlisted an AI tool known as PassGAN. A combination of the terms “password” and GAN (Generative Adversarial Network), PassGAN is able to master the art of password cracking not through the usual manual processes but by analyzing real passwords from actual leaks....