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Large swings in economic factors directly impact small businesses’ daily operations, making it more challenging for them to absorb the impact, plan for the future, and continue to show growth. Small business owners are worried. This sentiment, confirmed in the new State of Small Business report by Veem, found that 49% of small business owners anticipate the US will face a recession by the end of this year. “There is high anxiety at the moment about the amount of uncertainty coming in the second half of the year,” Veem CEO, Marwan Forzley, told ZDNet....

March is here, and to usher in the new month we’ve put together some recommendations for the best Netflix releases this weekend. While there’s only one major new Netflix Original, true-life drama The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind, Netflix is always adding older movies and there are two great ones that just arrived. February was a busy month for Netflix, with the release of hit comic book adaptation The Umbrella Academy, time-looping mystery Russian Doll, and Steven Soderbergh’s sports drama High Flying Bird....

The streaming giant has placed the two thumbs up buttons alongside the thumbs down and thumbs up buttons. The new button can be used by the viewers when they really liked the show on the app. According to Netflix, the feature was highly requested by the users. With the help of a new update, the app personalizes the content according to the user’s taste. Two Thumbs Up Button Rolling Out On Netflix If you like a particular movie or TV show on Netflix, the app will show you movies by similar cast or makers....

Of all the things Apple covered during its highly anticipated WWDC 2019 conference, few expected it to directly address the issue of privacy. It’s developed a new, secure way to log into platforms and services — without sharing your personal info with these entities at all. This radical shift in thinking casts a long shadow over the rest of Silicon Valley, where companies and platforms like Facebook and Google rely on harvested user data to make massive profits year after year....

This spring’s cutting-edge iPad Pros come with an enormous upgrade in the tiny form of an M1 processor. Thanks to these chips, Macs will respond as quickly as iPhones and iPads, waking up the moment you open the lid. Apple says these new iPads will be 50% faster for the CPU and 40% faster for the GPU than its predecessors. That’s an enormous boost in power; it’s like the computer equivalent of Steve Rogers turning into Captain America....

As Apple’s October 4th event approaches, two of Apple’s announcements have been revealed in Apple’s internal inventory system. The first is a new iPod touch. Three new iPod touch models have appeared in the system with the codename N81A. N81 is the codename for the fourth-generation black iPod touch, so the A likely represents the string of the three new white models. A device that we first revealed proof of plans for with a white fourth generation iPod touch front-plate....

New Mutants should be incorporated into the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Josh Boone’s superhero horror film has been in development hell for several years now, in part as a consequence of the Disney/Fox acquisition. But New Mutants is finally releasing in April, and a new trailer has dropped in advance of the theatrical release. But New Mutants is not part of the MCU. Neither Disney nor Marvel Studios had input into the New Mutants cast, director, or even its overall story....

A series of new patents spotted by Patently Apple refer to the Apple Pencil working with an iPhone, as well as illustrating it being used with additional stock iOS apps like iMovie. A comment by Tim Cook back in September seemed to suggest that Apple is already testing the Apple Pencil with an iPhone … If you’ve ever seen what can be created with that pencil on an iPad or an iPhone, it’s really unbelievable....

We passed up the New York Times iPhone story earlier because it didn’t really contain any new product information. We’ve been hearing early October for awhile now in terms of when the iPhone gets released. Therefore, the announcement in ‘weeks’ isn’t news either. Neither is the 8MP camera which I was on hand to hear Sony CEO Howard Stringer reveal earlier this year. Nor the A5 processor which isn’t even a small stretch....

NBN said the credit would cover July and be allocated on each retailers’ share of total national overage. It added it would waive charges for ISPs breaching CVC utilisation conditions for the final week of July. The company reiterated it was still introducing its Superfast Plus rebate to lower the price to get users onto 250Mbps and 1Gbps plans. After lockdowns were imposed in NSW and Victoria, NBN said it saw peak bandwidth of almost 20....

The acquisition also is NCS’ largest, to date, and will triple its local headcount to 1,300, said NCS in a statement Tuesday. Australia’s largest privately-owned IT services company, Dialog has presence across seven cities in the country, including Sydney, Melbourne, Canberra, and Brisbane. Its portfolio spans managed application services, IT consulting, and application development. NCS CEO Ng Kuo Pin said the size of the acquisition demonstrated the company’s commitment to grow its business outside of Singapore, in particular, Australia, where parent company Singtel already had a strong presence....

In this case, XDA Developer forum member ycavan managed to get ndows 7 running on an Asus ZenFone 2. There’s even a video showing how it works, though note that there’s no audio. Unlike a majority of other Android phones, the Asus ZenFone 2 utilizes an Intel-based Atom processor. ycavan cited the reason for the hack was because he was curious about “running ndows at near native speeds.” It’s definitely not perfect—there is no Direct 3D support, for instance—but it works, even if the ZenFone 2’s 5....

To find the new section on its website, open any browser and log in to your Netflix account. Then click on the Just for Kids tab. If you’ve already setup Netflix on your Apple TV, launch Netflix and you’ll see the Just for Kids section. Browse through kids’ favorite Characters, Netflix Suggestions, Holidays or search the entire Just for Kids section. In Characters on the Apple TV you can let your kids browse through movies and shows from popular characters....

Netflix has been releasing a slew of promotional material lately, letting fans know that they are serious about their commitment to produce a lot more original content in the upcoming years. In the past few days, we’ve seen trailers for Netflix-produced films spanning all genres, like sci-fi romance The Discovery and adventure thriller Okja. All in all, it looks like Netflix will see a huge influx of original film content this year, and the company is only looking to make more – they’re even hunting for a Hollywood-seasoned producer to oversee movie operations....

On all TCP/IP networks, every device requires a unique IP address. This quickly presented a challenge considering the shortage of IP addresses in the IPv4 scheme. Network Address Translation (NAT) has provided a sustainable solution for organizations that do not have the ability to acquire the necessary IP addresses for devices within their local area network (LAN). NAT is the process where a network device, usually a perimeter router or firewall, maps a public, routable IP address to a private IP address used on the LAN....

We have been telling you about an iPad-only newspaper created by News Corp. being in the works for sometime and today the Guardian claims the project will be unveiled later this month with some interesting new information. This newspaper project will be called The Daily and will be a newspaper that is only available on the iPad as well as other tablets in the future. That means no web or print version....

The Nexus 5 is currently available for purchase only from the Play Store, with retail units going up for sale across major retailers sometime soon. The press release from Google also mentioned that the handset would be coming to T-Mobile and Sprint in the United States. Now, Sprint has gone ahead and announced that it would start selling the Nexus 5 from November 8th for $ 149 on-contract, after a $49 mail-in rebate....

Earlier this month, Android 7.1.1 started making its way to more devices than the Google Pixel lineup. Unfortunately, any Nexus 6 owners out there have been left out in the cold, with no update to show for the wait. The reason why has now been revealed, along with a future release date for the software. Google has confirmed that they discovered a “last minute bug,” which required repairs before the software could be released to owners out in the wild....

Netflix will produce a Big Mouth spinoff entitled Human Resources, as revealed at New York Comic-Con. The upcoming series aligns with the streaming service’s existing partnership with Brutus Pink - a production company formed by Kelly Galuska and Big Mouth’s co-creators: Nick Kroll, Andrew Goldberg, Mark Levin, and Jennifer Flackett. Big Mouth follows a group of New York teenagers who grapple with their sexual feelings and insecurities. The surrealistic animated series is based on the childhood experiences of the aforementioned Kroll and Goldberg, with the former voicing one of the primary leads, Nick Birch....

Will Netflix release Queen Sono season 2? Created by comedian Kagiso Lediga, the six-episode Queen Sono season 1 marks the first African original series for the streaming service, and stars Quantico actress Pearl Thusi as a government spy. The ground-breaking series originally debuted in February 2020. Queen Sono season 1 on Netflix follows the titular protagonist (Thusi) as she deals with personal and professional conflict. At work, Queen senses that the Special Operations Group Chief Director, Sid (Sechaba Morojele), may have ulterior motives while pursuing leads....