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Being the oldest of five kids, I’ve got real big-sister energy. I’m protective and want to take care of people. But I also know when I have to take charge, what it means to be a leader. It shapes me as a director. To lead well, you have to care.I was a happy young black girl growing up in Compton, California. I loved my neighbourhood, community, my all-girls Catholic high school. I know so many folks who had hard paths in their early years. I’m grateful to have had a different experience.When I was 18, while a student,…

Maria Diaz/ZDNETZDNET's key takeawaysAmazon just launched a new Ring Battery Doorbell Pro for $230Having tested the Ring Battery Doorbell PlusAside from the Doorbell Pro being 1mm taller than the Plus, both are the same width and thickness and have an outer housing that appears to be made of the same plastic material. The Pro weighs about 244g, while the Plus weighs about 235g, a difference of less than one ounce. Ring Battery Doorbell Plus (left) and Ring Battery Doorbell Pro (right). Maria Diaz/ZDNETOne of the…

Pips and Pixels(Image credit: Future)Pips and Pixels is a new column by James Bentley, iMore's resident gaming expert, covering all things gaming in the Apple ecosystem. Looking at news, accessories, and titles you might have missed out on, Apple is becoming more serious about gaming than ever before. With an eye on the wider games industry, James will guide you through what could be next for Apple gamers. This week’s gaming news has been mostly focused on the very public fight between Apple and Epic. The two tech titans…

Singer, who has been ailing from an unspecified injury, hopes to get back on stage this summer An injury has forced Tyla to cancel her upcoming world tour, which was set to kick off in Oslo on March 21. “Words cannot describe my frustration of this pivotal point in my career,” she wrote to her fans on Instagram. North American ticketholders will be automatically refunded; the ticket vendors will contact international ticketholders. “For the past year I’ve been silently suffering with an injury…

Joe Maring / Digital Trends I’ve seen a future where you may never need apps or to unlock your phone at all, yet still get everything you want done, plus more, and even faster than you can now. At MWC 2024, Deutsche Telekom and Brain Technologies showed off the concept of an appless phone, where actions we normally perform using them are instead handled by an AI concierge that lives on the device’s lock screen. The week before the show, I spoke to Brain’s founder and CEO Jerry Yue and had an in-depth demonstration…

Max Buondonno/ZDNETZDNET's key takeawaysThe Nothing Phone 2a. It costs $349, and it's one of the best budget phones I've ever used. So you can imagine my disappointment that it's not coming to the United States, at least not in the way you think.Also: Nothing Phone 2 review: If 'being extra' was an Android phoneThe 2a is basically a budget version of last year's Phone 2, and is the the phone Nothing hopes users of the Phone 1 will upgrade to, but it will only be sold in the United States through a developer program,…

1. LibreOfficeThis is where the magic happens. I write all of my first draft manuscripts in the open-source LibreOffice. There are several reasons why this is my word processor of choice, but it boils down to efficiency and customization. Not only does LibreOffice include the usual tools like spellcheck, but it's possible to create customizations that can help lead to a more efficient workflow. One of them is as simple as customizing the UI to better fit the way you work. Another is to edit styles such that you do not…

Baseus 240W, 5-port smart USB-C GaN desktop charger. Adrian Kingsley-Hughes/ZDNETZDNET's key takeawaysBaseus 240W, 5-port smart USB-C GaN desktop charger, available from AmazonBaseus 240W, 5-port smart USB-C GaN desktop charger featuresCharge two laptops simultaneous with a maximum power of 140W for one laptop and 100W for the other3 x USB-C (140W max), 1 x USB-A (30W max), 1 x DC port (240W max)Immersive, edge-to-edge LCD displayAdvanced cooling technology that makes use of glue-fill techniques and grapheneBluetooth…

About a thousand years ago, I was really into a band called My Life Story. It was 1996: Britannia was about to be very cool and everything that happened in Camden was cool, even an inexpert piercing that immediately became infected, and they were good, goddammit. They were witty and splashy and knowing and pretentious, intensely melodic and defiantly unbothered by the impossibility of making any money if you went around with a 12-piece orchestra.Looking back, they nearly made it a bunch of times – their debut album,…

Matthew Miller/ZDNETZDNET's key takeawaysThe Pininfarina Senso Hybrid watch -- and it certainly stood out on my wrist as a classy watch with luxury looks.Also: Coros watches are getting 3 major health and fitness updates - and I tested them allHybrid watches provide a standard watch experience with analog watch hands and embedded health and wellness features that are not readily apparent to others. The Pininfarina Senso Hybrid watch is available for $399 in Mercure Gray, Moonlight Silver, Sunburst Rose Gold, and…