How to turn off Bixby Home

Bixby Home is woken up with a press of the dedicated Bixby button on the Galaxy S8 or Galaxy Note 8’s side, or by swiping in from the left of the home screen. Thus turning off Bixby Home is a two-stage process: 1. Deactivate the Bixby Home button 2. Deactivate the Bixby Home screen To turn … Read more

Modern slavery in the UK is inflicting misery under our noses every day

 ‘Traffickers charge their victims tens of thousands of pounds, and lure them on false promises of good employment and accommodation.’ Photograph: Wednesday 20 September 2017 15.59 BSTLast modified on Wednesday 20 September 2017 17.55 BST Anew global report on slavery has estimated there are more than 40 million people trapped in slavery worldwide. Many of us will have rarely thought about … Read more

Hitachi Vantara Unveils New Turnkey IoT Appliance, Powered by Lumada Software

Hitachi Vantara, a wholly owned subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd. (TSE:6501), today unveiled a new appliance for internet of things (IoT) deployments: Hitachi IoT Appliance, powered by Lumada, Hitachi’s IoT platform. Delivered as a turnkey system, the appliance’s “hyperconverged meets microservices” architecture combines Hitachi’s best-in-class storage and compute with industry-leading networking technologies and comes fully integrated with … Read more

Debunking Myths: Don’t Count Out Traditional Advertising Channels–Embrace Them

To digital media marketing proponents, it sounds like a sacrilegious statement, but it’s true — and a significant amount of online media marketing can be a colossal waste of money. The widespread belief that web and social media ads are giving a higher ROI than the “old-fashioned” TV, press, and radio advertising is a costly … Read more

Forty million victims of modern slavery in 2016: report

Women and girls are disproportionately affected by modern slavery, 71 percent of the overall total, a study says. Global child labour remained concentrated primarily in agriculture in 2016, the report said [File: AP] Forty million people around the world, mostly women and girls, were victims of modern slavery last year, according to a new report. … Read more

Life after working for the least popular president in modern history

Former White House press secretary Sean Spicer’s most marketable skill is marketing. Before his job with the Trump administration, he was the communications director for the Republican Party, a position that made him responsible for how the party presented itself to the world. From Jan. 20 until this summer, that was sort of his position for … Read more

Traditional Mindanao weaves on exhibit in San Francisco

SAN FRANCISCO — The Hinabi Project (THP) from September 18 to November 24 will exhibit a unique collection of textile work from the island of Mindanao, curated in the historic Craftsman The Mills Building & Tower in this city. This work comes from the Mindanao weaving communities of Bagobo, B’laan, Higaonon, Magindanao, Mandaya, Maranao, T’boli, … Read more

Bamboo Flooring Industry Size, Statistics and 2022 Forecasts Analysis

This is a professional and in-depth study on the current state of the Bamboo Flooring industry. In this report, the global Bamboo Flooring market is valued at USD XX million in 2016 and is expected to reach USD XX million by the end of 2022, growing at a CAGR of XX% between 2016 and 2022. … Read more

SECURITY NEWS THIS WEEK: FEDS GIVE KASPERSKY SECURITY PRODUCTS THE BOOT

APPLE FINALLY ANNOUNCED the iPhone X this week, complete with a facial recognition system that Apple calls FaceID. Preliminary impressions are that FaceID will be difficult to trick, and should be secure for the average user, but researchers are eager to test its robustness. Consumer facial recognition has been around, but not yet at this scale, inviting … Read more