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| | | Apple’s WWDC 2018: iOS 12, macOS, and What Else to Expect | | The Verge | It’s that time of year again. The days are long, the sun is shining, and Apple is getting ready to take the stage at its annual developer conference to unveil a look at the future of its iOS, macOS, tvOS, and watchOS operating systems. That’s right, WWDC 2018 is here, and it all kicks off on Monday, June 4th at the San Jose Convention Center. The rumor mill has been almost uncharacteristically quiet about Apple’s upcoming announcements this year, but here’s what's expected to show up. | | Ticketfly Takes Its Websites Offline As It Scrambles to Recover from Hack | | The Verge | Events ticketing company Ticketfly has been compromised by a digital attack, according to an announcement on Twitter. The hacker, who called themselves IsHaKdZ, replaced Ticketfly’s website with a picture of Guy Fawkes and a warning that read “Your Security Down im Not Sorry.” The hacker also left a yandex.com email account and cautioned that they had access to a database titled “backstage,” which holds client information for all of the venues, promoters, and festivals that utilize Ticketfly’s services. | | Microsoft's Latest Windows 10 'Redstone 5' Test Build Makes Remote Server Admin Tools Available on Demand | | ZDNet | Microsoft is adding a new feature to its latest Windows 10 "Redstone 5" build that potentially will make IT pros who rely on Remote Server Administration Tools (RSAT) a lot happier. | | Google, KPMG Partner on GDPR Solution to Keep You Compliant in the Cloud | | TechRepublic | To better help customers remain compliant with the the EU's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), Google Cloud has partnered with KPMG to release an assessment tool to their customers. While the May 25 deadline for compliance with the EU's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) has come and gone, that doesn't mean that every company met it—especially those outside the EU that serve EU customers. The Google and KPMG tool's three-phase solution could potentially help these firms accelerate their compliance initiatives while maintaining string data analytics. |
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| | | How to Become a Successful Technical Speaker | | Hacker Noon | Daniela Petruzalek, a software developer at ThoughtWorks, just gave her first TEDx talk. She's been giving monthly talks to the tech community for the past year and a half. "It may seem that public speaking is something natural to me… but it is not! The truth is that I'm naturally an introvert and for most of my life just the thought about speaking in public would scare the hell out of me," she writes. Here's how she became more comfortable with public speaking, and her top tips for giving awesome technical talks. |
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| | | Why No One Answers Their Phone Anymore | | The Atlantic | "No one picks up the phone anymore. Even many businesses do everything they can to avoid picking up the phone. Of the 50 or so calls I received in the last month, I might have picked up four or five times. The reflex of answering—built so deeply into people who grew up in 20th-century telephonic culture—is gone," writes Alexis Madrigal. Here's why. |
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| | | New Insights in Google Docs Activity Dashboard | | G Suite Updates | Google is introducing new features to provide more insight and help you collaborate through Activity dashboard in Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides. This will help make the data in Activity dashboard more actionable (since users can quickly email file collaborators) and more useful (since users can see viewing patterns over time). | | Making It Even Easier to Join Meetings from More Third-Party Clients | | G Suite Updates | Now, whenever someone uses G Suite Sync for Microsoft Outlook, Google Sync, or a third-party Android client that relies on Calendar Provider to access an event on Google Calendar, Google will add automatically generated text to the event’s description. This text will include instructions on how to join the event through Meet or Hangouts. | | New to Microsoft 365 in May—Empowering and Securing Users | | Microsoft 365 Blog | In May, Microsoft introduced a number of new capabilities to help individuals produce accessible content, work together in real-time, and create a secure and compliant workplace. Here’s a look at all the new features and enhancements. | | Take an Integration Vacation | | Zendesk Blog | Here are all of the great new Zendesk integrations for May. |
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