Eliana Willis

Kyle Kucharski/ZDNETSamsung just released some new impressive gaming monitors, including the Odyssey OLED G8 More

<!–> ZDNET’s key takeaways The Poseidon Pro is a full-feature power bank available now for $119. It’s incredibly robust, with water, dust and impact resistance. The accessories includes a lock knife which could be problematic in some jurisdictions. –> Power banks are a necessity, and while most are designed to withstand the rigors of being […] More

SpiffyJ/Getty Images AI agents are changing how we work, but Salesforce’s latest research reveals that consumers are also looking to agentic AI to simplify their daily lives.  The survey of 2,552 US consumers identified four personality types interested in AI agents: the Life-Hacker, the Tastemaker, the Minimalist, and the Smarty Pants. Also: Why neglecting AI ethics […] More

<!–> ZDNET’s key takeaways The InfiRay P2 Pro currently sells for around $250, but it’s well worth it if you require a thermal vision camera. Use a thermal camera on functioning items to learn how they should look, which will make it easier to spot faults later. The InfiRay P2 Pro thermal camera is the […] More

Anthropic Anthropic has developed a reputation as one of the more transparent, safety-focused AI firms in the IT industry (especially as firms like OpenAI appear to be turning more opaque). In keeping with that, the company tried to capture the morality matrix of Claude, its chatbot.  Also: 3 clever ChatGPT tricks that prove it’s still […] More

David Gewirtz / Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNETI record many hands-on projects for my YouTube channel. Often, one or more stages of a project must be recorded in a single take. That’s because once whatever it is I’m doing is done, it’s done.Take unboxing videos, for example. Some of the items I’m opening come in giant crates. The crates must be aggressively disassembled to access the gear inside. Once that disassembly is completed, there are no redos. The same can be said for cutting material for a project. Once it’s cut, it’s cut. Also: How to download YouTube videos for free – 2 waysMy point is, I don’t get many opportunities for do-overs. If my video has errors, my only option is creative editing. But starting over and trying again is not usually an option.To give myself a fairly good chance of getting good video, I arrange several iOS devices around the work site. Each is pointed at my project for filming. Later, in editing, I stitch the multicam recordings together and jump from view to view to show things from different angles. My collection of iOS recording gear consists of three iPhones, two base iPads (9th and 10th generation), and an M1-based iPad Pro. The base iPads are often the first used, because they’re inexpensive. If they were to tumble onto the concrete in the fairly inhospitable environment of my workshop, I’d be out $300 instead of a thousand bucks or more.Also: The camera I recommend to most new photographers is not a Nikon or SonyMy 10th-generation iPad only has 64GB of storage. This capacity has never been a problem. I only have a few filming-related apps on the device. I clear the iPad out after every recording session. But last time, I ran into a snag. My 20GB recording I recorded a 20GB video in a single one-hour and 14-minute take. While I recorded the process with another camera, the iPad take was the only one where I was positioned on frame correctly with the giant 3D printer I was taking out of its crate. In other words, without this 20GB block of video, the YouTube video would have come out looking like crap. More

Jack Wallen / Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNETMuch to the chagrin of those who would like to malign the Linux operating system, it’s actually quite easy to use. Thanks to modern GUI desktop environments and applications, anyone can jump into the fray and know what they’re doing.On the rare occasions when trouble arises, you might want to know a few commands to help you out. The problem is that there are so many commands available within the realm of Linux, which makes it challenging to know which commands are the best options. Also: The first 5 Linux commands every new user should learnSure, you can learn any of the commands that display system information (such as top, free, iostat, htop, vmstat, and iftop), but those tools will only get you so far. What is more valuable is skipping to the command that can really help you if something goes wrong. With that introduction out of the way, let’s get to the commands.1. dmesgBack when I first started using Linux, dmesg was my best friend. Essentially, dmesg is used to examine all messages that are created after the bootloader phase of the kernel. In other words, you might find a clue for anything you could possibly troubleshoot right here. Also: I’m a command-line pro and this is the best terminal app I’ve ever used, thanks to AIUnlike the dmesg of old, you now have to run the command with sudo privileges, so: sudo dmesgThis will print quite a bit of output you can scroll through, making it a bit challenging to find what you’re looking for, and much of what you read will most likely seem like gibberish. The good news is that errors print out in red, so you can quickly scroll to find anything that might be wrong. Also: 5 things to do with the Linux terminal on your Android phone – including my favoriteThere’s a way to make this even easier. Let’s say you’re experiencing an error, and you want to see if it is logged via dmesg as it happens. To do that, issue the command: dmesg -wThis will display the output from dmesg as it happens, so when an error occurs, you’ll see it written in the terminal window and can troubleshoot from there. More