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Using a mixture of character types in your passwords and regularly changing passwords are officially no longer best password management practices according to new guidelines published by the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).

Source: https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/nist-scraps-passwords-mandatory/

How the Barcode Became An Integral Part of Our Lives

An opinion piece that we should all watch and hear and understand and trust that this opinion is important and real.

Leila Gharani – YouTube

Collection of latest information to help Insteon users transition to Home Assistant.

Source: Hey Insteon users!

SIP represents the next generation of business phone systems and can even be overlaid directly on top of a company’s existing PBX, or private branch exchange, used to support traditional phone calls.

Source: The Ultimate Guide to SIP Phones

Canon’s EOS Webcam Utility now has an official release and supports a dozen new models.

Source: Canon U.S.A., Inc. | EOS Webcam Utility

Lumix Tether for Streaming will let Panasonic owners use their cameras as webcams.

Source: Panasonic mirrorless cameras now work as webcams

New features make video chat and live video easier and more natural.

Source: Introducing Messenger Rooms and More Ways to Connect When You’re Apart – About Facebook

Video conferencing solutions have always been in high-demand, with Google for the past several years partnering on hardware bundles. Asus today announced their latest Google Meet hardware kit offerings.

Source: Asus announces new Google Meet hardware kits – 9to5Google

Premium video meetings. Now free for everyone.
We re-engineered the service we built for secure business meetings, Google Meet, to make it free and available for all.

Source: https://apps.google.com/meet/

If you’re thinking of buying a webcam, here’s an option you may not have thought of. If you happen to have a DSLR, mirrorless or compact camera, you may be able to put it into service as a high-quality webcam. In some cases, particularly with select Canon, Nikon and Sony models on Windows, you might not even need any extra hardware at all.

Source: How to use your DSLR camera as a webcam | Engadget

Almost every country in the world uses metric measurements. Every country except for the United States that is. It’s usually not a big problem. But there have been some close calls throughout history when people used metric instead of imperial, or vice versa with disastrous results.

Source: Five Massive Screw-ups That Wouldn’t Have Happened If We All Just Used the Metric System