Aside from being the greatest sports city in the world (probably unrelated: I am from a Chicago suburb), today we take a deeper look at why you may want to work and live in Chicago, Illinois. The below six reasons are the insights of entrepreneurs who have made the Windy City their home. 1) Cost of Living When you start to add in that the cost of living, salaries, and office space are 40-60 percent less than the coasts, it means that startups here only need to raise a fraction of the venture capital needed elsewhere....

Released on February 3, the report looks in detail at ransomware attacks that took place during all four quarters of 2021. The findings reiterate the need for businesses to have reputable – and, crucially, up to date – antivirus software installed. The study also concluded that the threat of discovery, exacerbated by high-profile takedowns of ransomware gangs widely covered in the media, was chipping away at the population of hackers and scammers prepared to risk jail time for a reward....

Image Credit: Flickr/Intel Free Press Let’s jump right in. With Sprout, HP is banking on a significant departure from keyboard and mouse control. For me, those things are necessary as everything keeps getting smarter and developing. The keyboard shows the computer will respond to me, as opposed to only having another computer respond. And, sometimes even M2M communication is plain creepy from a certain angle. It’s not taking away pieces of hardware; it’s adding a feature....

Led by Farzad Mostashari, the former National Coordinator for Health Information Technology at the US Department of Health and Human Services, Aledade is a small company that empowers doctors on the front lines of medicine that puts them in control of healthcare. More specifically, Aledade creates partnerships with physician offices where they provide analytics software that supports preventive care. By lowering physician costs through preventive care under Medicare guidelines, a savings is produced....

A huge number of tech companies have made layoffs in 2022, whilst others have taken advantage of video conferencing software and other remote collaboration tools to offer flexible working arrangements and retain the best talent. Those workers unfortunate enough to be shown the door have decided now is the right time to become their own boss, in spite of the difficult economic climate we’re currently living in. Survey Says: Go Your Own Way Out of the 4,188 respondents to Clarify Capital’s 2022 survey, 1,007 had started their own company post-layoff, PC Mag reports....

Through the lens of an economics textbook, your job is really simple. You have to maximize outputs with minimal inputs. But your job is so much more complicated than that, and if you are being honest with yourself, you’re failing brutally when it comes to truly maximizing your outputs. Let me explain. For most companies, the salaries, benefits, and bonuses that go to employees account for over half of all expenses....

The AirPort Time Capsule is Apple’s flagship wireless router, complete with built-in hard disk drives, enabling Time Machine support right out of the box. (It’s twin brother, the AirPort Extreme, is identical in every way, but it lacks internal hard disk drives, so if you want to use Time Machine over your local network, you’ll have to hook up an external hard disk drive to it’s USB2.0 port). The AirPort Time Capsule is wicked fast and makes the most out of my Fios connection, while its six-element beamforming antenna array blows through multiple walls to ensure my devices have a stable connection....

While we’re impressed with the $5,000 cheese grater that is the new Mac Pro (along with a $999 stand), it’s the new operating systems that are going to find themselves in the most hands and have the biggest impact on how we use our devices. We take a look at the new features, whether your existing Apple device will receive them, and when they’ll be available. iOS 13 – Privacy, Maps and Health Apple’s follow up to iOS 12 comes with something for everyone, with changes both big and small made to popular features, as well as the introduction of some brand new ones: Sign In with Apple – Probably one of the biggest announcements for iOS 13, this feature is Apple putting its money where its mouth is when it comes to our privacy....

In late 2017, Apple announced the iPhone X, a stellar device with cool new features like Face ID and portrait mode that was poised to revamp the now ten-year-old lineup. Along with that revamp, however, came the new naming convention, doing away with the standard numbering system we’d come to know and love. Since then, the tech giant has continued this practice, adding letters rather than numbers to denote newer models....

Apple Pay, Samsung Pay, Google Wallet, etc., have completely revolutionized how we pay for things. It’s clear that things aren’t going backwards any time soon, and the next step in this progression is upon us. Engineers at both Bank of America and Wells Fargo have been putting in long hours to finally bring Apple Pay to ATMs. According to reports from Wired and TechCrunch, these banks have been working on configuring out NFC-equipped ATMs for quite some time and are finally ready to roll them out....

Apple hasn’t sat on its laurels, and has issued several fixes. Yet still the problem won’t go away. It seems that the ‘butterfly’ design of recent MacBook keyboards should have spent a bit longer in the chrysalis. On the eve of its latest MacBook Pro release, the company has included some newer models into the program, including its very latest MacBook Pro, which even comes with an ‘improved’ keyboard....

After showing his English teacher the device in class, Ahmed told the Dallas Morning News that his teacher told him that “it look[ed] like a bomb.” Soon after, Ahmed’s teacher reported him to school officials and authorities, and five police officers arrested Ahmed and put him in a juvenile detention center. So, to clarify: after pursuing his curiosity for science, engineering a functional clock from scratch, and hoping to get additional encouragement from his educators, a kid was arrested because the educators at his school and the local cops mistook a teenager’s homemade clock for a bomb....

Thomas said she didn’t want to speak on behalf of SmartThings’ founders, but she did list many reasons why pairing up with the global corporation made sense for them, given the nascent and transformative market they’re operating in. “Samsung is the biggest player in the mobile market and mobile handsets, they have a huge electronics division which includes very large television and other electronics businesses, and they also have an extremely impressive digital appliances business....

From Microsoft’s carbon elimination efforts to Tesla’s reforestation plans, big tech has made plenty of public efforts to assure the world of its commitment to environmentalism. However, are these efforts merely for show, acting as avenues to quell the concerns of consumers and employees who believe they should be doing more? Whether or not the Bezos Earth Fund is merely a diversion tactic to avoid bad press remains to be seen, but either way, it’s a pretty expensive way to get out of hot water....

Although the process isn’t entirely seamless due to restrains from Instagram, users will be able to craft the content they want and select a time to share which in turn creates a reminder or push notification. Posts are still created on either the web platform or mobile app. According to Buffer Cofounder and COO Leo Widrich, this is how reminders work: Possibly more important than the scheduling reminders itself is the addition of analytics....

In the blog post, Szuchmacher brings up both Chicago’s and Los Angeles’s fast-growing startup ecosystems. In Chicago, thanks in part to incubators like 1871, the city has turned into one of the top places for startups. The same goes with Los Angeles, which has quickly become one of the fastest-growing tech regions in the country. The availability of Google Fiber in both regions could potentially push both ecosystems to the next level....

To corroborate his claims, Curry has launched a new iOS app, entitled Fit Men Cook, in which he shares over 100 of his most popular recipes. The app didn’t adapt the freemium business model, but the minute you download it, you understand why: what you get is a feature- and media-rich, vibrant iOS app, packed into an easy-to-understand, intuitive user interface. I especially loved that you don’t just get the recipe; you get important information such as calories, protein, carbohydrates, and fat content, so for the first time, you get 100% of the Apple-developed Health app....

Since the tool is powered by machine learning, it can run within the browser itself and won’t need to check in with Google to share your browsing data. It’s another example of how modern technology tries to sweep its more cumbersome elements out of sight of the average user, while continuing to shield them from invasive or malicious online snares in the process. Chrome’s New Updates Google already uses plenty of machine learning: That’s how it figures out relevant search results, or which emails to relay to your primary inbox and which to send to folders like Social or Promotions....

Some researchers disagree. Security specialists are suggesting that preventing systems from being vulnerable to spyware, adware, malware, viruses, and intrusion attempts in the first place is the correct action to take. Some subscribe to this theory for ethical reasons, believing that systems or software sold with “security holes” are really defective and incomplete. Others believe that it’s an additional money grab on the part of the security software industry. Extremists even believe that it stems from an age-old conspiracy that suggests that software providers often leave holes open purposely, so that they can charge consumers for software to fix it....

CyberTimez aims to do just that. CyberTimez’s big vision is to use the Internet of Things to be of service to others. Based in Leesburg, VA this young startup is working on three products that could one day dramatically change the way people with limited accessibility live their lives. CyberArmz enables physically impaired users to access cabinets, drawers and appliances using a voice-controlled wearable device. CyberEarz uses ‘reverse teleprompter’ technology to enable hearing impaired users to convert speech to text that is viewable on Google Glass....