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Fortinet delivered third quarter revenue of $867.2 million, up 33% from a year ago. For the third quarter, Fortinet’s non-GAAP earnings of $0.99 a share were above expectations. Wall Street was expecting Fortinet to report third quarter earnings of $0.94 a share on revenue of $809.9 million. Fortinet CEO Ken Xie said the company was pleased with its Q3 because they exceeded $1 billion in quarterly billings for the first time in their history....

Swvl, an Egypt-born, UAE-based mass-transit app, was born out of two formative experiences CEO Mostafa Kandil had early in his career. It’s the Middle East’s latest tech unicorn, and the first to list on the Nasdaq exchange. The first, he recounted, involved the challenge of commuting from Cairo to his family home in Ismailia. Although only 90 minutes away, “I would go to the station, and I would wait for the bus,” Kandil recalls, adding that there was no fixed or published timetable....

On September 1, the data watchdog said that SpyFone, together with the company’s chief executive Scott Zuckerman, are now also banned from the surveillance business and they must delete any information illegally harvested – as well as attempt to notify its victims. “The stalkerware app company secretly harvested and shared data on people’s physical movements, phone use, and online activities through a hidden device hack,” the FTC says. “The company’s apps sold real-time access to their secret surveillance, allowing stalkers and domestic abusers to stealthily track the potential targets of their violence....

“After many years of discussions and building on the progress made last year, we have achieved a historic agreement on a more stable and fairer international tax architecture,” the finance ministers said in a joint statement. The G20 finance ministers have agreed to the Organisation for Economic Cooperation’s (OECD) proposed “two-pillar approach” that aims to ensure multinationals pay their fair share of tax in the countries they operate in, which forms the foundation of the OECD/G20 Inclusive Framework on Base Erosion and Profit Shifting (BEPS) agreement....

In a joint statement, the G7 finance ministers said the tax rate would be used to target “the largest and most profitable multinational enterprises”. “It will include large profitable firms, and those firms, I believe, will qualify by almost any definition,” she said. Yellen added the agreement would “end the race-to-the-bottom in corporate taxation and ensure fairness for the middle class and working people in the US and around the world”....

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Also: I grew a little garden on my houseboat. Here’s how For that, we settled on the newly released Gardyn Home Kit 3.0, which combines three grow towers with high-tech lights and near full autonomy. Factor in the app, onboard cameras that monitor plant health, and a great selection of grow pods and you have the makings of a garden to go. We’ve had the Gardyn for about two months and our first harvest is upon us....

There’s no question that the past two years have been challenging in many ways. However, the broader acceptance of remote work and the return to everyday travel has made it possible for folks to work further from home, or without a permanent one, for that matter. But to make the digital nomadic lifestyle work, you should consider owning a powerful, lightweight laptop, and an Apple MacBook Air could certainly fit the bill....

While drones can be great fun even in your backyard, they really come into their own when you travel. These nifty gadgets allow you to capture stunning images and videos of places you may not return to any time soon. The only problem is that drones can be bulky, taking up precious space in your bags. The perfect solution, of course, is an affordable folding drone. That’s precisely what you get with this 4K Global Drone and its four folding propellers....

The Windows operating system is stronger than ever, with the number of users still growing alongside amount of time users spend on their computers. As a result, the demand for Windows professionals has increased, making it a great career choice. Right now, you can get a lifetime of Microsoft training with the Complete Microsoft Windows, 365, & Teams Certification Training Bundle for only $59. Even better, during the Your Bundle, Your Way sale, you can combine this course bundle with another item from our Labor Day collection and get an additional 20% off with code YOURWAY20....

Creative writing is not for the faint of heart. It can be extraordinarily difficult. Even those who have enormous vocabularies can sometimes struggle to think of the exact word they need, and keeping references organized and all of the details of the plot straight can feel overwhelming at times. Fortunately, MasterWriter offers powerful writing, reference, and organizational tools all in one user-friendly program, and a two-year license for the Creative Writer version is currently on sale at 33% off....

Stuart Templeton said many organizations were still struggling to figure out what role the office should play within new, hybrid work environments now that knowledge workers were spending more time working remotely. Templeton made the comments after a survey of 1,000 UK knowledge workers by Slack found that many are going into the office and spending up to four hours on video calls. Slack said employers risked turning their offices into “productivity killers” if they couldn’t figure out how to make in-person working more meaningful....

Google announced the Google Distributed Cloud Edge and Google Distributed Cloud Hosted offerings at its Google Cloud Next 2021 conference this week. SEE: Google Cloud, General Mills expand cloud, analytics partnership Google’s distributed cloud products are built on its Anthos system, which is meant to simplify the management of hardware and virtual machines in Google Cloud, on-premise hardware, virtual machines in rival clouds, and edge devices where machine learning takes place....

For example, Google points out that the pie emoji looked like a slice of American pumpkin pie. The new emoji is a fully baked pie, with its contents a mystery. The new emoji will make their debut on Android devices whenever Google releases Android 12 later this year, but perhaps the best part of the announcement is that you won’t have to wait for Android 12 to get them. Developers of messaging apps can add support for the Appcompat API, and you’ll be able to see and use the new emoji, regardless of the version of Android your phone or tablet is running....

The 1,000 Languages Initiative is Google’s commitment to build an AI model that supports the 1,000 most-spoken languages across the globe to make information more accessible. “Language is fundamental to how people communicate and make sense of the world,” said Jeff Dean, Google senior fellow. “But more than 7,000 languages are spoken around the world, and only a few are well represented online today.” Also: I tested out an AI art generator and here’s what I learned Since the undertaking is extremely ambitious, the project will likely take many years to see fruition....

How to watch The Made by Google event will kick off at 10 am ET (7 am PT) and will be livestreamed on the event’s landing page on the Google website. The actual event will take place in Brooklyn, New York, but in-person attendance is limited to members of the press. However, the general public is welcome to watch the event’s livestream without any need to register in advance. On the event page, you can add the Made by Google event to your calendar to watch the livestream on launch day....

Google has two sync options available: Backup and Sync, which was built for consumer users, and Drive File Stream, which was built for business users. These clients are being combined into the new Drive for desktop. The change is coming to Google’s consumer users and to its Workspace users. This month, Google will prompt users to make the switch via notifications in the existing sync apps and will cut off functionality to them by September 2021....

In addition to charging the device, the dock will control all of your household devices, such as your home’s thermostat. Google said that, typically, tablets are “homebodies,” remaining home 80% of the time and only used at certain times of the day. With the charging speaker dock, Google hopes to transform the tablet from something that sits forgotten in your home into a device that is more of an integral part of your life....

The new fall detection feature will help Google’s relatively new Pixel Watch match the capabilities found on the popular Apple Watch. Coming just a few weeks after reports that the Apple Watch’s crash detection features are causing headaches for first responders, Google insists that its new fall detection feature will avoid false alarms. Also: Google Pixel Watch review: Google’s time to shine “Your Pixel Watch knows the difference between taking a hard fall and performing a vigorous physical activity or even quickly recovering from a small stumble – thanks to our machine learning algorithms and rigorous testing,” Google product managers Paras Unadkat and Edward Shi wrote in a blog post....

Deep learning programs, such as OpenAI’s GPT-3, continue using more and more GPU chips from Nvidia and AMD – or novel kinds of accelerator chips – to build ever-larger software programs. The accuracy of the programs increases with size, researchers contend. That obsession with size was on full display Wednesday in the latest industry benchmark results reported by MLCommons, which sets the standard for measuring how quickly computer chips can crunch deep learning code....