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AAWireless/ZDNET While the AAWireless Android Auto dongle has been available for years now, it’s still one of the most highly recommended adapters on the market. The 4,000+ ratings of over four stars on Amazon are a testament to its quality. How the dongle works is fairly straightforward: You plug it (instead of your phone) into your car and then connect your phone to the adapter wirelessly, effectively giving you the same Android Auto capabilities but…

There’s been a lot of talk over the past few years about a shortage of skilled cybersecurity talent, but from where we sit at the NYC DOE Division of Information and Instructional Technology (DIIT), we see budding security pros all around us. As cybersecurity leaders of the DIIT, we work with 1,800 schools and approximately 1 million students across NYC to ensure secure internet access and offer innovative solutions in education technology. As part of…

Zero Trust architecture was created to solve the limitations of legacy security architectures. It’s the opposite of a firewall and VPN architecture, where once on the corporate network everyone and everything is trusted. A Zero Trust platform ensures applications and data are not visible to the public internet and users are only provided least privilege access, preventing lateral movement and protecting against ransomware attacks. Recent critical vulnerabilities in VPNs and firewalls have exposed the risks…

Nikada/Getty Images Every year around this time, well-regarded analyst group Gartner releases its list of top 10 strategic technology trends for the upcoming year. Last year, among the 10 trends it identified for 2024 was AI-augmented development, and we’ve certainly spent a lot of time here on ZDNET discussing AI and programming. Also: The best AI for coding, and a bunch that failed miserably Now, just in time for its Orlando gathering of expense-account-wielding senior executives…

Juj Winn/Getty Images The US presidential race is in full swing, but not everyone has equal access to the ballot box. With Election Day fast approaching, Lyft is trying to help. Last week, Lyft announced the launch of its Voting Access Program, the company’s “largest voting initiative,” to help millions of Americans get to the polls this coming Election Day, Nov. 5. The program aims to “make sure every single American has the opportunity to have their…

Manuel Breva Colmeiro/Getty Images Linux has many tricks up its sleeve, which helps make it one of the most powerful and flexible operating systems on the planet.  Take, for instance, the ability to schedule commands. Say you need to print something, but someone has been using the printer all morning and is showing no signs of letting up. You need to make sure the file in question is printed, but don’t trust your memory. This…

Gartner is sharing its annual look at the hot technologies enterprise customers should be watching out for in the coming years. AI, security, energy-efficient computing, robotics, and virtual computing interactions are among the research firm’s top 10 strategic technology trends, which were unveiled at Gartner’s annual IT Symposium/XPO in Orlando. 1. Agentic AI For starters, Gartner is expecting a proliferation of “agentic AI,” which refers to intelligent software entities that use AI techniques to complete…

Kerry Wan/ZDNET These days, a TV is much more than something you use to watch movies and shows. The latest smart TVs can turn your living room into a true entertainment hub, allowing you to stream music, content, and shows from thousands of apps, view photos and videos from mobile devices, browse the web, and even remotely access your desktop PC or make video calls for work.   Also: The best TVs: Expert tested  But…

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Kerry Wan/ZDNET Behind every new smartphone feature is a powerful chipset that brings it to life. With the industry shift toward on-device AI, a need for an even more advanced and capable system-on-a-chip (SoC) has emerged, and Qualcomm’s latest iteration aims to meet this.  On Monday, at Qualcomm’s Snapdragon Summit, the company unveiled its newest mobile platform, the Snapdragon 8 Elite, which it claims is the most powerful and fastest processor in the world. The…