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Apple Will Recalibrate iPhone 11 Batteries To Fix Performance and Capacity Issues

The Verge

Apple will try to fix battery drain and reduced performance issues that have affected some iPhone 11 devices by recalibrating their batteries in an upcoming update (via MacRumors). According to an Apple support document, the process will happen when you update an iPhone 11, 11 Pro, or 11 Pro Max to the upcoming iOS 14.5.

The Untapped Power of IT Automation: 7 Processes You Should Be Automating (But Aren't)

BetterCloud

There’s a lot of untapped potential in automation—and IT will lead the way in making the most of it. But how? In this guide, we’ll explore some of the less obvious, but extremely powerful ways that you can leverage automation across your SaaS-powered organization.

Containerize All the Things! Arm v9 Takes Security Seriously

Ars Technica

On Tuesday afternoon, Arm held a Vision Day event at which it teased details about its upcoming Arm v9 architecture. The short version: expect a massively altered security landscape, along with improvements to vector math (which in turn means improvements in AI/ML and Digital Signal Processing, among other applications).

Cisco Is Bringing Individual and Team Insights to Webex Video Calls

VentureBeat

Starting this summer, Cisco’s Webex will begin to serve up insights for video calls to a select group of users for individuals, teams, and organizations. Examples include engagement insights, like how often you had your video on or showed up on time and the people or teams within an organization that you speak with most often.

Microsoft’s ‘Find My Device’ Is the PC Management Tool You Didn’t Know You Needed

PCWorld

Microsoft’s “Find My Device” feature is so much more than a simple device locator that it’s like calling a “car” nothing more than just four tires and a steering wheel. The online service is a powerful PC manager in its own right, and arguably more effective in that regard than Windows itself.

How to Use the LEN Function in Microsoft Excel

How-To Geek

The LEN function is a simple calculation function that counts all the characters in a given text string, including numbers, letters, special characters, and spaces. The function name (LEN) is shorthand for length, as the function output provides the total length of a text string as a number.

How Will You Adjust Your Office Technology for a Hybrid Work Environment?

SaaSOps Community

There's a good conversation happening in the community about how our technology requirements might change now that companies are moving to a hybrid work environment. Do you have any new or surprising tech needs now that we're all living the WFH life? Chime in by clicking the link above.

Add and Manage Four New Types of Citations in Google Docs

Google Workspace Updates

Now you can add these four new citation source types in Google Docs: Film, TV Series, TV Episode, Miscellaneous. This will make writing academic papers easier, since you won’t have to copy citations from other tools. The four new citation source types come in addition to the types you already have available.

Update Design for the Admin Console Home Page

Google Workspace Updates

Google is making some updates to the home page in the Admin console. It hopes this design will make it quicker to navigate around the Admin console, easier to find items you need to manage, and simpler to understand how Google Workspace is deployed within your organization.