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A powerful server doesn't have to be expensive – that's essentially what Scan wants to convey to prospective customers. Specifically designed for the SMB market, this 3XS offering is engineered to be compact and as quiet as possible. The UK-based vendor provides real-time tracking at every stage of the server build process (the servers are built to order, and production includes a 24 hour burn test and 88 point QC check ). Each comes with a three-year onsite warranty; what's more, you get a free recovery USB stick with diagnostic utilities. … [Read more...] about Best small business servers of 2021

As the COVID-19 immunization programs gather pace in the next few months, it seems certain that more innovations will arise to facilitate critical links in the vaccine's supply chain – from manufacturing and transportation, to storage, distribution and the last mile. As often during the past year, the global health crisis has triggered a technological revolution, but this time in a field that is often overlooked: the critically important, but mind-bendingly complex channels that vaccine jabs go through before they are administered.  … [Read more...] about From blockchain to big data and IoT, tech is trying to speed up vaccine supply chains

You can still see examples of the loud, gamer aesthetics in models like the new MSI GE76 Raider Dragon Edition Tiamat, or the Lenovo Legion 5 Pro, but almost every name in the gaming laptop business that attended CES this year also announced a stealthy, professional-looking device in its gaming lineups, stripped of any unnecessary RGBs or accents that would give away the machine's true purpose.Chromebooks or MacBooks for these minimalist gaming laptops, but the possibility is there for gamers who work in stuffier business environments to size down their work computer and personal gaming machine into one gaming laptop.  … [Read more...] about Hybrid business/gaming laptops are the future – and I’m all for it

CCleaner Portable is ideal for helping out friends and family members whose PCs have started to slow down (though always check before deleting their cached logins). Oh yes, and if you’re running it from your Downloads folder, don’t worry – it won’t try to delete itself.  … [Read more...] about Best portable apps of 2021

I got the sense, talking to William Gibson last October, that Agency was not necessarily intended as part of a premeditated trilogy -- it just ended up that way. Similarly, Agency isn't so much about the future as it is a way of wrestling with the present. And it's also a book about... friendship. Is it optimism I sense as I'm reading a book about how future timelines are playing with people like ants in an ant farm? … [Read more...] about Agency by William Gibson splits the seams between AI and humans