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I enabled Data Saver mode on my Android phone to avoid overcharges – and it’s a big relief

I enabled Data Saver mode on my Android phone to avoid overcharges – and it’s a big relief

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Jack Wallen / ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET’s key takeaways If you have limited mobile data, pay attention. This feature could save you money. You control whether apps can use data in the background. For some people, the idea of saving and controlling data usage on a phone isn’t really an issue. If you don’t happen to have an unlimited data plan, it’s a different story. I’ve been in situations before when my phone warns me that I’ve exceeded 2GB of data (I can’t remember how much data my plan gives me). When that happens, I tend to put the brakes on. When those instances happen, I’m glad Android makes it easy for me to take control of data use. In conjunction with stopping Android apps from running in the background, you’ll have more control than you ever thought you could enjoy. Also: How to easily encrypt your files on an Android phone – for free If that sounds like something you could use, read on, and I’ll …

Your TV is adding over 50ms of input lag unless you’ve enabled this one setting

Your TV is adding over 50ms of input lag unless you’ve enabled this one setting

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With modern TVs, it can be all too easy to lose yourself in a sea of distracting settings menus. Dynamic contrast levels, expression enhancers, tone mapping, true motion, MPEG noise reduction; we’ve come a long way from the days when all you really had to worry about on a CRT set was adjusting brightness levels. While many of these settings will only subtly tweak how your favorite movies or shows look, one option many of you should definitely have enabled is game mode. If your TV offers such a preset and you regularly play PS5, PC, or Nintendo Switch 2 games, enabling this console-friendly option can massively reduce latency, making your favorite titles feel a good deal more responsive. If you’re not using your TV’s game mode either due to confusion around what it does, or you simply forgot to toggle it on, let me run you through why reducing screen latency is a big deal for gamers. What is screen latency? Explaining input lag Credit: MakeUseOf Input latency is measured in milliseconds, and it can …

How the AI boom was enabled by a 1970s economic revolution

How the AI boom was enabled by a 1970s economic revolution

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Artificial intelligence is accelerating a global economic revolution that began back in the 1970s. Researching the impacts of AI on different sectors of society highlights an important parallel moment in history: the creation of the “service economy” in the US. In 1972, amid a period of global turmoil, a group of OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) economists sought to reinvent how nations thought not only about wealth but the very purpose of society. They did this by proposing a broad new category of commerce: services. It seems hard to imagine now, but until then economists had perceived and measured trade largely in terms of goods alone. Money was made by exchanging tangible, physical products (wheat, guns, butter). To become a rich nation, the wisdom went, you needed to add unique value to your raw materials (crops, iron) by turning them into more complex products (processed foods, steel) that gave you a competitive advantage over other countries. Instead, this new category of services lumped together a diverse range of “intangible” jobs and social goods …

My internet felt slow even with gigabit speeds until I enabled this

My internet felt slow even with gigabit speeds until I enabled this

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Paying for 1,200Mbps internet should mean everything runs smoothly, but my experience told a different story. Work video calls froze whenever streaming kicked up elsewhere in the house. My Ring doorbell took ages to load a live view after dinner. My own gaming sessions turned into a frustrating mess of lag spikes and rubber-banding whenever the family was streaming. Speed tests looked fine, though. Great, even. I’d already ditched my mesh network for hardwired Ubiquiti access points months earlier, and the cables checked out after I’d learned what actually makes Ethernet perform well. Hardware wasn’t the problem. My router was treating a critical Zoom presentation exactly the same as a background iOS update. Raw bandwidth doesn’t guarantee a smooth experience The traffic competition nobody talks about Most people assume faster internet automatically means better performance across the board. That assumption falls apart in a house full of connected devices all demanding attention simultaneously. My ranch home has over twenty Ethernet drops, multiple streaming devices, smart thermostats in every zone, security cameras monitoring the property, and …

How SAP Cloud ERP enabled Western Sugar’s move to AI-driven automation

How SAP Cloud ERP enabled Western Sugar’s move to AI-driven automation

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Presented by SAP Ten years ago, Western Sugar made a decision that would prove prescient: move from on-premise SAP ECC to SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition. At the time, artificial intelligence wasn’t a priority on most roadmaps. The company was simply trying to escape what Director of Corporate Controlling, Richard Caluori, calls “a trainwreck:” a heavily customized ERP system so laden with custom ABAP code that it had become unupgradable. Today, that early cloud adoption is proving to be the foundation for Western Sugar’s AI transformation. As SAP accelerates its rollout of business AI capabilities across finance, supply chain, HR, and more, Western Sugar finds itself uniquely positioned to take advantage of the technology. “We didn’t move to the cloud thinking about AI,” Caluori says. “But that decision to embrace clean core principles and standardized processes turned out to be exactly what we needed when AI capabilities became available. The clean data, the standardized workflows, the disciplined processes, all of that groundwork we laid for basic operational reasons is now the foundation that makes AI …