On Friday of last week, as reported by WCPO, a Zoom panel led by Mason High School's Black Student Union was Zoom bombed with "hate speech and disturbing images." Zoom bombing occurs when a Zoom (or similar platform's) video conference is disrupted by someone who was not invited to the meeting.
In January, Spectrum News 1 explored issues surrounding the recruitment of IT professionals in Ohio on the their Dear Ohio podcast. The program interviewed three people: Ohio General Assembly representative Mark Frazier (R-Newark); Lisa Chambers, National Executive Director of Tech Corps, a company that provides technology training for a variety of age groups; and Nick York, president of the Ohio Innovation and Technology Association.
This week, AT&T announced its new AT&T Access Plan, which would provide assistance to low-income families to pay for high-speed internet. As reported by The Verge, "eligible customers get 'up to 100 Mbps of symmetrical speeds' for $30 per month — a big upgrade from where the 10 or 25 megabits per second for $10 per month the plan used to max out.
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In 2019, WCPO ran a story about a special event that took place just outside of the Cincinnati Museum Center at Union Terminal. Sponsored by Proctor & Gamble, the event drew female STEM students from schools around the tri-state to compete in a rocketry competition.
EDIT: The original version of this post stated that there had been no power outages in Texas at the time of publication. This was not accurate. We have changed the relevant lines to reflect the truth. We apologize if this caused any confusion.
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The National Weather Service has issued a hazardous winter weather warning for the Cincinnati area until 7:00 am on Friday, February 4th.
It's no secret that the last few years have been especially dire when it comes to cybercrime. Several large scale ransomware attacks, in which cyber criminals use advanced encryption to lock a person or organization out of their own data until they pay a ransom, have rocked the country.
Quick Announcement: We're changing gears today. Moving forward, we'll be focusing on general IT issues as they relate to the local Cincinnati, tri-state area. Stay tuned.
Marc Saltzman, in a special column for USA Today, recently explored different methods for getting rid of old hardware.
Quick announcement: The day after we published our post on the chip shortage, Intel unveiled plans to build a new chip manufacturing facility in Ohio, which they claim will be the largest in the world. For more information, check out this story in City Beat magazine.
At the risk of rehashing old news, the world is currently in the throes of a computer chip shortage, due in large part to stresses put on global supply chains by the COVID-19 pandemic. Stephen Shankland, a staff writer at CNET, wrote a helpful summary about the issue this week.
KPIs, or key performance indicators, are quantifiable measures of a company's performance over an interval of time. KPIs vary from sector, company, and even department; but there are some recurring patterns when it comes to categorizing KPIs. The most common kinds of KPIs measure finances in someway--revenue growth, cash flow, profit margins, and so on.