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Newsweek worked with the Florida-based Best Practise Institute (BPI) to survey 1.4 million employees at 450 companies, from small organizations to mega corporations, to find out which firms generate the most love from their workers. External public ratings from sites such as Glassdoor and additional research were also used to determine rankings. The results show employee happiness comes from several factors, including offering remote work, opportunities for career advancement, benefits such as 401(k) plans, and a firm’s approach teamwork, collaboration, and ethics....

In this feature we’ll revisit the company’s past, examine the twists and turns in the path to the present, and wonder at what lies ahead for this Silicon Valley veteran. Editor’s note: The third edition of this article was published at the end of 2022, see the most up-to-date version here. The rise to fame and fortune To begin our story, we need to roll back the years and head for America and the late 1950s....

Things improved for Thecus’ offering in the game test as it matched the Synology DS211 with an average transfer speed of 40.6MB/s and beat the LG N2A2 by a 71% margin. Nonetheless, our desktop system still edged ahead by 16%. The N3200XXX handles our program test very well for the second time, providing an upload rate of 25.4MB/s. That was 22% faster than our desktop test system and 27% faster than the Synology DS211 – impressive to say the least....

Encoding 720p content using the H.264 codec can still be done at reasonably high frame rates on a Core 2 Quad processor. The Q9650 for example hit 115.4fps, which was just a few frames faster than the Pentium G3220, and the Celeron G1820 matched the Q6600. The i3-4350 wasn’t far behind the i7-870, though it was considerably faster than the i5-760. Again we see the Sandy Bridge Core i5-2500K and 2700K performing well....

The base configuration for the TS-453mini costs almost 80% more than the DS414slim, while the 8GB model costs well over twice as much. Moreover the TS-453mini isn’t just faster and more expensive, it is also physically larger. While that is primarily because it can support 3.5" drives, it also has to do with the internal hardware, which requires a lot more cooling than the Marvell Armada 370 used by the DS414slim....

The classic edition includes a physical copy of the game with reversible cover, a SteelBook, an art booklet, sprite stickers and a retro VHS sleeve with tape box to store the game and SteelBook. It’ll be available for Xbox One, PlayStation 4 and Nintendo Switch priced at $64.99. The flagship radical edition includes everything from the classic edition plus a strategy guide, an 18" x 24" poster, a Shredder action figure, a shadow box, a mini arcade cabinet replica, a CD soundtrack and blister box packaging....

The above data suggests that Tomb Raider isn’t particularly CPU-intensive, as our Core i7-3770K offered virtually identical performance when clocked at 2.5GHz as it did at 4.0GHz. In fact, an 80% increase in clock speed to 4.5GHz resulted in a frame rate boost of only 1%. The AMD FX-8350 tells a similar story as the 80% clock speed increase accounted for just 4% more performance. When testing a broad range of CPUs, we found that most recent quad-core or better chips gave about the same performance of 77 to 79fps, while the Athlon II X4 640 fell to 71fps, the Core i3-3220 hit 69fps and the dual-core Phenom II and Athlon II chips were 20% slower than their higher-end counterparts, but still served playable performance....

But if you’re looking to really master it, and get the most out of the application, join us as we take a quick look at some of the top 10 shortcuts, tips, and hacks that will help you on your way to becoming a PowerPoint pro. All the tips and tricks listed are for the latest Windows version of the PowerPoint application – for macOS and web users some of the features might not be present or may look a tad different…...

Uber-inspired vehicles for ride sharing would feature lower top speeds and seating areas where passengers can face each other. Khosrowshahi said the top speeds of many cars today are not necessary for city driving. Dialing back this capability can reduce the overall cost of the vehicle. Uber is also considering delivery-specific two-wheelers or three-wheelers with trunk space. Their smaller footprint would be able to get through traffic easier, Khosrowshahi said, and also have less of an environmental impact than a full-size car delivering groceries....

The Intel SSD 750 Series and Samsung SM951 dominated the PCMark 7 importing pictures test as both just managed to break 410MB/s. The G.Skill Phoenix Blade PCIe just got on the podium with 282MB/s followed by the Kingston Predator with 214MB/s. The fastest of the SATA SSDs delivered between 140-155MB/s and this included the Samsung SSD 850 Pro, Samsung SSD 850 Evo, OCZ Vector 180 and Crucial MX200. Looking between 120-130MB/s we find the Transcend SSD370, SanDisk Extreme Pro and Kingston HyperX Savage....

OnePlus, another Chinese startup founded by former Oppo employees, succeeded in competing with other electronics giants by selling well rounded and affordable Android phones, however they tend to be the exception rather than the rule. Historically I’ve taken issue with smaller OEMs and the devices they produce as they rarely live up to their advertised claims, making quality a big hit or a huge miss seemingly at random. However, I am willing to give any company a chance to impress, which is why I have the Umi Touch in the office to review....

Microsoft seemed to hit full stride with Windows 7, developing a fast and efficient operating system. Thankfully it seems Windows 8 continues to build on that pattern as we found it to be on par with and ocassionally faster than 7. The improvements that have been made to startup and shutdown times are self-evident, and no doubt a major focus on the new OS’ development as this will particularly benefit laptop and tablet users....

While giving away titles is a common occurrence on the Epic Games Store, the platform’s Mega Sale has seen some of the most memorable titles of the last few years handed out for nothing. First was Borderlands 3, then came BioShock: The Collection. Now, it’s the game that sees the return of one of the best-named heroes of all time (B.J. Blazkowicz) in Wolfenstein: The New Order. The New Order remains arguably the best game in the franchise....

It all started when some curious developers noticed that the Pixel 6 and Pixel 6a share an integral piece of display hardware: something that their software recognizes as the s6e3fc3, which the developers thought was the panel or its controller. In theory, then, if the Pixel 6 supports a 90 Hz refresh rate, the 6a should, too, and could be limited to 60 Hz by software, not hardware. Working from this theory, a developer called TheLunarixus came up with a way to see if the Pixel 6a’s panel was overclockable....

From what began life as a tech demo, the series has endured for over 16 years, producing 14 games (including Far Cry 6) that have sold over 50 million copies and spawned an utterly atrocious movie. This is the story of Far Cry. Origins Way back at the 1999 E3 conference, Crytek was a newly founded German gaming company, showing off a tech demo called X-Isle: Dinosaur Island that demonstrated the capabilities of the CryEngine....

While SSO options offer the convenience of not creating yet another username and password to remember, they do have drawbacks. For one, you do have to give up a little of your privacy when using these authentication services, but earlier this month, we showed you how to revoke permissions to your personal information from the big three. Another problem they pose is remembering which SSO you used for every website you’ve visited....

The GTX 680 was later refreshed as the GTX 770 with higher clocked GDDR5 memory, but shortly prior to that we received the GTX 780, a brand new bit of silicon that boosted the core count by a whopping 50% and took the die size to 561mm2, which wasn’t even the full configuration. All 2880 CUDA cores weren’t enabled until the GTX 780 Ti landed six months later. At the time, these big Kepler cards were mighty impressive....

The Spy Who Loved Me mod is playable via an N64 emulator, but the developers claim that if you have a working Nintendo 64 and the means of flashing a ROM cartridge, it should run natively on the console in 4K at 60fps. The full-length mod will include the movie’s plot and settings. “The project was made with a console-first mentality and has been thoroughly tested to run on N64 hardware,” the mod’s description reads....

Akamai Technologies protected one of its Eastern European customers against a massive DDoS attack, a new record-setting flow of malicious traffic that tried to take the company’s infrastructure offline. The content delivery network and cloud provider said the new attack is the worst ever recorded in Europe, with peak traffic of 704.8 Mpps and more widespread targets compared to the previous attack. A distributed denial-of-service attack (DDoS) happens when multiple “zombie” or bot systems flood the bandwidth or resources of a targeted system, exploiting more than one unique IP address or machines – often from thousands of hosts infected with malicious software....

The Athlon II X4 645 is a fraction faster than the older 640 and we see much the same when comparing the Athlon II X2 265 to the 260. The Athlon II X3 445 produced a bandwidth of 12.1GB/s making it only slightly slower than the Phenom II X3 720. Finally the Phenom II X2 560 also provided a slight performance gain over the 555 model.