Female employees account for just 23 per cent of the tech industry workforce, and a new national campaign has been launched today to try and balance that number out. The New Zealand Technology Industry Association is aiming to reach female school and university students, and dispel the well-entrenched stereotype that technology is exclusively a “boys’Read more
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The quest for power is eternal. Phones, our tethers to both the virtual and IRL world, almost never have enough juice to last an entire day. Our lives are turning into endless hunts for places to charge. Even charging at home can be difficult, particularly if you share your space with other people and useRead more
Your website serves as the digital storefront for your business. If it doesn’t look appealing, load quickly or even have a mobile version, customers are going to keep walking. Many small business owners rely on their website to bring in a steady stream of leads and educate potential customers on what they offer.
However, when it comes to designing and developing a website, most of those same small business owners think they can’t have all the bells and whistles that larger businesses have. But that’s not true. Why? Meet WordPress.
Another round of viral attacks apparently masquerading as ransomware brought operations across industries to a halt last week. And the targets were anyone from multinational shipping corporations to even Chernobyl, of all places.
A phishing scam is when malicious emails target a company’s customers by pretending to be from a legitimate email address. They will typically use the company name, but with an extra word or character slipped in.
The country’s largest insurer is sending fake phishing emails to its own staff to test them on their ability to identify scams. Its 3500 staff are sent a phishing email once a month and those who click on links are then sent an instant reminder to undertake cyber security training. “We started with something quite simple.”
What the Google started at last year’s I/O conference, where it announced the Daydream mobile virtual reality platform and headset, is now complete with the announcement of Google’s new, standalone (no smartphone needed) VR headset project that uses inside out tracking it calls WorldSense.
Netscape Navigator may have started many people surfing the web some 21 years ago but nowadays Google Chrome is king of the waves. Celebrating its ninth birthday in September 2017, Google’s gateway to the web launched back in 2008 and was the first mainstream browser to combine the address bar and search box – and soRead more
Original source article by Kari Megeed We all love our gadgets – they make life so much easier for us and allow us to do so many things that we could never have imagined, but they also create many problems… 1. Your phone running out of battery so ridiculously quickly. This one is probably everyone’sRead more
Uber has pulled its self-driving cars from the roads after an accident which left one of the vehicles on its side. Pictures posted online showed the car on its right side on an Arizona street, next to another badly damaged vehicle. The car – a Volvo SUV – was in self-driving mode at the time of the crash, on Friday, Uber said. No one was hurt.
