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This tiny desktop habit will make you way faster on your PC If you want one of the easiest, lowest-effort productivity upgrades you can make right now, this is it: level up your keyboard shortcut game. Navigating your PC and apps with keyboard shortcuts may not sound that worthwhile, but that time spent not clicking can lead to serious efficiency gains. Here’s the trick. Don’t try to memorize 50 shortcuts at once—that’s a surefire way to give up. Instead,… SUSE bets automated migration can break VMware’s grip on virtualization SUSE is targeting enterprises weighing their VMware options with a new partnership that promises zero-downtime, automated migrations at scale. The open-source infrastructure company has announced a partnership with Cloudbase Solutions to integrate the Coriolis migration tool into its SUSE Virtualization stack. The aim is to remove the manual effort that has kept many enterprises on VMware despite… The most interesting startups showcased at Google Cloud Next 2026 Google wants AI startups on its cloud and has showcased a long list of them at its annual conference. Older Drivers Love F-150s, But Gen Z's Favorite Car Couldn't Be More Different The Ford F-150 remains America's most popular car over the past half a century, but things are changing. What's Gen Z's favorite car to own? Best Chromebooks (2026): Most Are Bad, but These Aren't Chromebooks have a reputation for being cheap and crappy. But they don't have to be, and these are the Chromebooks that prove it. InformationWeek Podcast: Rightsizing AI frameworks to avoid failure mode Robin Gordon, chief data officer at Hippo Insurance, and Gabe Goodhart, chief architect of AI open innovation at IBM, discuss how they match data models with context. Apple's next era: After Tim Cook's dream run, new CEO has to help the company catch up Cook charted his own path as chief executive after the death of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs in 2011. Over nearly 15 years, he expanded Apple's business and navigated the company through major challenges. Oil crisis? What oil crisis? IT spending de-coupled from wider war shock Gartner sees accelerating growth in IT spending, powered by cloud and AI infrastructure investment A day after the International Energy Agency (IEA) said the US/Israel/Iran war was creating the worst energy crisis ever faced by the world, Gartner increased its growth forecasts for global IT spending by nearly three percentage points.… |
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