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Cockroach Labs is announcing this week the beta version of a new serverless offering that will become available alongside its provisioned cloud service and self-hosted edition (which can be on-premises or in a cloud). This is a first step for the Cockroach DB in starting a free edition and pay as you go pricing. Serverless enables them to lower entry pricing. There are several goals with Cockroach Serverless. The first is providing a lower entry point, where customers do not have to commit to any minimum number of nodes or clusters. For developers, making life simpler by eliminating the need to capacity plan and provision nodes. Specifically, CockroachDB Serverless will autoscale, and the company claims that clusters can be spun up or down in under 10 milliseconds. Beyond autoscaling, the service will have automated failover as the data is replicated across three AZs -- for now within the same region. In contrast to the existing provisioned and self-hosted editions, serverless … [Read more...] about Cockroach DB introduces a serverless tier

Zoho is giving its Zoho One suite 5 new apps, 3 new services and platform upgrades covering analytics, data preparation, work graphs and tools for easier e-commerce and mobile application building. The company's Zoho One business operating system has had more than 40,000 customers since its launch in 2017 . Zoho said it saw more adoption during the COVID-19 pandemic as smaller companies went digital. Zoho One's customer base has doubled since 2019 . Zoho One is a set of integrated applications that runs $37 per employee. Applications include CRM, marketing, customer support, communications tools, email hosting, collaboration and finance systems. Zoho One is arguably one of the best deals going in SMB software. New additions to Zoho One include: Embedded and conversational business intelligence powered by its Zoho's Zia Insights engine. There are more than 1,500 pre-built analytics reports and dashboards. Data preparation embedded into Zoho One. DataPrep uses … [Read more...] about Zoho One gets analytics, UI, platform, app enhancements

Windows 11: Everything you need to know Watch Now Microsoft has confirmed that a bug is affecting Windows 11, which might demand admin credentials in order to print jobs if the print server and print client are in different time zones. The issue might cause Windows to prompt the would-be printer for administrative credentials on every attempt to print in that scenario. This issue is likely to be more specific to enterprise environments, given the conditions required for Windows to trigger the credential prompt – but it could be somewhat inconvenient. "The affected environments described in this issue are not commonly used by devices designed for home use. The printing environments affected by this issue are more commonly found in enterprises and organizations," Microsoft notes in its Windows release health known issues section . See also: Microsoft's Windows 11: How to get it now (or later) . Microsoft this month confirmed three separate printing … [Read more...] about Microsoft confirms Windows 11 printer problem, says a fix is coming

Microsoft is worried about remote working. Here's why Watch Now Microsoft is rolling out a faster way for Teams users to switch between Gallery, Together Mode, Focus Mode and more to suit the flow of video meetings. The company has released its new Teams 'View Switcher' to public preview, allowing users to click from an always-available menu of different views. Located at the top left of the screen, the view switcher icon allows for quick switching between Gallery, Large gallery, Together mode, Gallery at top, Focus, and Full screen. SEE: BYOD security warning: You can't do everything securely with just personal devices It was one of a host of new and upcoming Teams features announced at Microsoft Ignite 2021 in March . Via Windows Central , different views were previously available to choose from in the ellipsis 'overflow' menu in the meeting toolbar. The view switcher makes it easier to switch views and control how to view meeting content or … [Read more...] about Microsoft Teams: This new feature could make your meetings easier to watch

Alibaba Cloud says it has built its own server chip, touting it to be compatible with the latest Armv9 architecture. The Chinese tech giant also plans to develop its own servers that will be designed for "general purpose" and "specialised AI computing". Custom-built by its chip development unit T-Head, the new 5nm server chip is powered by 128 Arm cores with 3.2GHz top-clock speed, according to Alibaba. Called Yitian 710, each processor has 60 billion integrated transistors and encompasses eight DDR5 channels and 96-lane PCIe 5.0, the Chinese tech vendor said in a statement Tuesday. It added that the new chip was the first server processor to be compatible with Arm's v9 architecture .  It also would be deployed within Alibaba's data centres. Alibaba Cloud's president and head of Alibaba DAMO Academy, Jeff Zhang, said: "Customising our own server chips is consistent with our ongoing efforts towards boosting our computing capabilities with better performance and improved energy … [Read more...] about Alibaba Cloud to build own servers with new in-house chip

The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) chief scientist Bronwyn Fox has described that there is a language barrier between Australia's industry and the university sectors, which has impacted the country's commercialisation levels and ultimately potential innovations. "How can we incentivise mobility across the industry and the university sector … because at the moment, the university sector is very unfriendly to anyone who has an industry CV and who doesn't have a track record of a million publications," said Fox, speaking on a panel during the virtual Collaborate Innovate 2021 event on Tuesday. "We need to change the system so that we can embrace those people back into the university sector, and CSIRO is already starting to do that." Fox, who is two weeks into her new role, noted the need for both parties to "speak the same language". "We need to understand each other's KPIs, and we need to align our values and develop really respectful … [Read more...] about Lost in translation: Language barrier is hurting commercialisation in Australia

Instagram is kicking off a week of product reveals with the announcement of “Collabs,” a new feature that lets two users jointly share ownership of a single feed post or Reel. Tomorrow, it’s following this up by testing a new way to add a nonprofit fundraiser to a post, and finally on Thursday it’s rolling out the ability to create photo and video posts on desktop, as well as launching new music-focused effects for Reels. The new Collabs feature effectively allows two accounts to co-author a post or Reel. The post or Reel will appear jointly to each user’s followers and will share the same comment thread, as well as view and like counts. Collabs are enabled from the tagging screen, after which the second account will have to accept the invite. The service is also rolling out the ability for users to post photos and videos from desktop browsers on Thursday, following a limited test earlier this year . This might sound like a very basic feature to only now be coming to desktop, but … [Read more...] about Instagram will let users co-author posts and share likes

Microsoft travaillerait sur un correctif urgent afin de résoudre un problème d'impression majeur sous Windows 11 . En effet, certains utilisateurs se plaignent actuellement de ne plus pouvoir imprimer le moindre document, sans que ne leur soit réclamé au préalable de s’identifier en tant qu’administrateur de l’appareil. Ce bug affecte un large éventail de versions de l’OS Windows, tant pour les clients que pour les serveurs. Notamment Windows 11 et Windows 10, ainsi que Windows Server 2022, Windows Server 20H2 et toutes éditions antérieures. Toutefois, selon Microsoft, l’anomalie se manifesterait uniquement dans les environnements où le client d'impression et le serveur d'impression répondent à des fuseaux horaires différents. Une particularité qui épargne la quasi-totalité des propriétaires particuliers d’une licence Windows (fort heureusement). Mais qui pourrait toucher tout de même un certain nombre d’entreprises et d’associations. Configuration requise pour Windows 11 … [Read more...] about Ce nouveau bug Windows 11 vous empêche d’imprimer vos documents… si vous n’êtes pas administrateur

L'un des meilleurs écrans gaming 1440p de LG est aujourd’hui en stock chez Amazon, à son meilleur prix. Vous devrez cependant faire vite, car il s’agit d’une offre limitée qui s'achèvera le 24 octobre prochain. L’offre LG du jour : LG UltraGear 27GN850-B de 27 pouces : 429,99 € 299,99 € chez Amazon Cette dernière promotion Amazon ramène le brillant LG 27GN850-B à son prix le plus bas. Un rabais précieux si vous êtes à la recherche d'un moniteur de jeu 1440p/144Hz. D’autant qu’il s’accompagne d’une réduction de -33% sur l’abonnement Xbox Game Pass de trois mois. Voir l'offre Compatible G-Sync et Free-Sync, le LG 27GN850-B peut aussi se vanter d’être élégant, grâce à sa conception sans bordure sur trois côtés. Il se veut aisément ajustable et s’incline pour vous fournir le meilleur angle de vision. Vous ne trouvez pas le moniteur gaming qui vous convient ? Voici quelques-unes des meilleures offres en cours sur une sélection contenant plusieurs de nos écrans … [Read more...] about Ce moniteur gaming LG 1440p est maintenant disponible à un prix record

C'est finalement arrivé : Apple a sorti les nouvelles puces M1 Pro et M1 Max, près d'un an après la révélation de M1 en novembre 2020. Alors que la première tentative d'Apple de fabriquer son propre chipset pour ordinateurs portables s’avérait super impressionnante, ces nouvelles itérations ont définitivement attiré notre attention et même plus que l’an dernier. Si les affirmations de la société concernant les performances des M1 Pro et M1 Max parviennent à êtres vérifiées en pratique - et il est un peu trop tôt pour se prononcer -, les créatifs devraient trouver ici des compagnons audacieux pour supporter les tâches intensives de montage vidéo ou d’édition photo - sans les obliger à se rabattre sur des PC portables gaming haut de gamme, comme le Razer Blade 15. Quels sont les meilleurs Mac et MacBook de 2021 ? macOS 12 : que vous réserve le nouvel OS de votre ordinateur portable ? Restez dans l'écosystème Apple : voici les meilleurs iPhone | meilleurs iPad | … [Read more...] about Avec la puce Apple M1 Max, les PC portables gamer paraissent obsolètes