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While researching and testing each Hisense TV featured on this list, I and other ZDNET experts kept these criteria in mind: Price: No two budgets are created equal. And just because you’re working with a limited budget, that shouldn’t mean you need to sacrifice features or accessibility. Conversely, just because you are able to spend more shouldn’t mean you need to settle for a TV that’s bloated with features you’ll never use. Each TV on…

Forrester’s bottom line? “Because of the long term planning and all of the potential policy changes, I wouldn’t change my data center plans that much,” Nguyen said. Confusion reigns Every day it seems, the tariff situation becomes muddier. For example, according to a fact sheet released Wednesday, the White House has temporarily exempted semiconductors from tariffs, but not the aluminum used to build the servers and racks that house them. Furthermore, Scott Bickley, advisory fellow…

Roland W. Kunz/Getty Images LONDON — When I met up with my open-source buddy Dustin Kirkland, VP of engineering at Chainguard, at KubeCon Europe, he said he had me to thank for his company’s new Linux distribution, Chainguard OS.  Why? In my May 2024 story about kernel security, I’d said all distros had been doing Linux security wrong. (That was the conclusion of a CIQ study, Linux stable kernel maintainer Greg Kroah-Hartman, and top Linux developer…

Screenshot by Lance Whitney/ZDNET I often use the free Intel Unison app to sync my iPhone with Windows 11. This handy tool allows me to send and receive text messages, make and answer phone calls, view notifications, and transfer photos and other files directly from my PC. Now, Intel is putting the kibosh on this helpful app, which means I’ll have to turn to a different program to handle the same tasks. As spotted by…

jetcityimage/Getty Images Tired of ever-increasing phone bills? Don’t feel like shopping for a new carrier when your payment increases — again? Verizon has an answer. The wireless carrier said today that it’s introducing an “industry-leading guarantee: a 3-year price lock.” Under this promotion, myPlan and myHome network plan customers, both current and new, will have their rates locked in for the next three years. About half of the company’s customers are on myPlan, meaning this…

Kerry Wan/ZDNET I’d like to think I’m not the only one drowning in a sea of open browser tabs. Multitasking is real. And these days, is it even browsing if your screen isn’t covered in layers of overlapping windows? Also: Is ChatGPT Plus worth your $20? Here’s how it compares to Free and Pro plans While I wouldn’t place myself on the extreme end of the multitasking spectrum — my tab names are still legible…

“With CPQ more seamlessly embedded into the sales and order management capabilities, sellers can increase productivity by exponentially reducing time towards building sales quotes and recording opportunities in the system. But also, as the system learns, it can also recommend the right products and services to add to a particular deal or help in generating cross-sell and upsell revenue potential,” said Martin Schneider, vice president and principal analyst at Constellation Research. “Logik.ai users who do…

Using Gen AI in mainframe modernization Industry research backs the ides that generative AI can address gaps in the mainframe modernization process. According to a recent report on mainframe trends by Information Services Group (ISG), the use of gen AI can accelerate migrations and mitigate the risks associated with mainframe modernizations: “In most mainframe migrations to the cloud, more than 70 percent of the time is spent on testing. GenAI significantly accelerates this process by…

The Altair 8800, the first commercially successful personal computing device. Boston Globe/Getty Images Have I told you the story about Bill Gates and me in those early days of personal computing? To be clear: Bill Gates is older than I am. In 1975, as Bill was leaving Harvard to start Microsoft, I had just skipped my last year of high school and started college. I was the youngest student in engineering school that first year…