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| | | | | Google Fiber’s Two Gigabit Broadband Is Almost Ready | | Engadget | Google Fiber is about to start testing a new 2 Gbps internet service in two cities with the plan to launch it widely in 2021, the company announced. The plan will cost $100 per month, or $30 more than the current 1 Gbps service. | | How to Leverage a Remotely Working Organization (Webinar) | | Tableau | Today's the day! Join Shaun Chaudhary, Director of Data & Analytics at BetterCloud, to hear the major conclusions from their analysis and how you can plan ahead for a world in which remote work becomes the new normal. | | How Microsoft Is Looking to MetaOS to Make Microsoft 365 a ‘Whole Life’ Experience | | ZDNet | Microsoft's highest level MetaOS pitch is that it is focused on people and not tied to specific devices. It wants to create a single mobile platform that provides a consistent set of work and play services, including messaging, voice and video, digital payments, gaming, and customized document and news feeds. | | Facebook Employees Will Soon Be Wearing AR Research Glasses Around Town | | Fast Company | Roughly 100 Facebook employees will soon be wearing augmented reality research glasses at work, at home, and in public in the San Francisco Bay Area and in Seattle. The employees are gathering data about how the glasses perceive the world and what kind of privacy considerations they may need to make people feel comfortable around them. |
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| | | How to Get Data Breach Alerts from Mozilla’s Firefox Monitor | | How-To Geek | While Mozilla continues to explore subscription-based services aimed at privacy, such as the Mozilla VPN, a number of tools are integrated into the browser for free. We’ll go over how to use one of Firefox’s built-in security tools: A data breach monitoring service called Firefox Monitor. | | How to Prep Your Devices for iOS 14 and watchOS 7 Today | | Lifehacker | It’s time for Apple’s latest operating systems for iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, and Apple TV to release to the masses. There are a few things you might want to do while you wait to get your various devices prepped and ready for their updates. |
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| | | Folder Sharing in Shared Drives Now Generally Available | | G Suite Updates | Shared drives empower teams and organizations to store, access, and collaborate on files. With this launch, you can share a specific folder with other users, or upgrade member access to provide users with additional permissions on specific folders within shared drives. |
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