Prime Day 2020 Apple deals: Best AirPods, iPad, and Apple Watch sales

The very best Apple device deals on Prime Day 2020.

If you’re looking for Apple deals online, good luck. The Cupertino company hardly ever reduces its prices, not even on Black Friday. But you can sometimes find retailers offering $25 off here or $50 off there, which isn’t much considering Apple’s devices usually cost hundreds if not thousands of dollars. But, hey, we’ll take what little savings we can, right?

Best Prime Day deals 2020: Cables, adaptors, chargers, and hubs

The very best deals on charging cables and more on Amazon.

Who doesn’t like a good deal? I’m all for saving money, so for me, Amazon Prime Day is a good time to pick up those essentials (or bits of kit you need to boost productivity) while at the same spending less. And with more and more people now working and learning from home, it seems that there are never enough cables, chargers, adapter, and hubs to go around.

Best Prime Day deals 2020: Smartphones and everything mobile

Who doesn’t like a good deal? I’m all for saving money, so for me, Amazon Prime Day is a good time to pick up those essentials (or bits of kit you need to boost productivity) while at the same spending less. And with more and more people now working and learning from home, it seems that there are never enough cables, chargers, adapter, and hubs to go around.

Surface Laptop Go: Microsoft’s smaller, cheaper portable PC is easy to recommend

The danger of making anything smaller and cheaper is that you run the risk of making it too small and too cheap. The newest member of the Surface family avoids both traps.

If Microsoft’s new Surface Laptop Go looks familiar, that’s no accident. It’s a smaller, cheaper version of its older cousin, the Surface Laptop, which is now in its third iteration.

This isn’t a laptop for an extreme power user. Instead, it’s aimed at more casual business and personal use cases, where a high-priced enterprise-class machine would be overkill.

Amazon’s Alexa is driving IT managers crazy

An extensive new study reveals what’s really worrying IT and security professionals. It also reveals a little of their (Deeply human) hypocrisy.

Everything they do carries with it a large portent of the future.

They perform research to back up their case, often coupled with a dramatic headline. 

This is a sample that just crossed my eyes. I mean, literally crossed my eyes: “IoT, Authentication and Cloud Services Drive Staggering Increase in PKI adoption and in Certificate Volume.” 

Phishing scams: The new hotspots for fraud gangs

While business email compromise groups used to operate from just a few locations, gangs are springing up in new locations.

Business email compromise (BEC) phishing scams are one of the most common forms of cybercrime – and new fraud gangs are appearing across the globe to trick firms into handing over money, according to an investigation by cybersecurity researchers.

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Microsoft’s VS Code comes to Raspberry Pi and Chromebook – new v1.50 update is out

Visual Studio Code is available for Linux Armv7 and Arm64 devices.

An official Microsoft build of the Visual Studio Code editor is now available for Linux Armv7 and Arm64 architecture devices, extending Microsoft’s popular cross-platform code editor to Chromebooks, the Raspberry Pi and rival Arm-based single-board Linux computers such as Odroid.   

IBM enters the esports fray with Overwatch League partnership

IBM Watson will have its day in the emerging technology, sports, and cloud entertainment industry.

IBM has announced its debut into the esports arena through a multi-year deal inked with the Overwatch League. 

Esports is roughly described as competitive videogaming, team-based play, and digital tournaments. The industry goes far beyond a casual, friendly gaming session between friends, however, as professional teams have now formed to face other groups worldwide.