When pandemic lockdowns more than two years ago required Swetha Machanavajhala to work from home, she almost immediately felt the impact on her ability to work efficiently. Born deaf, the product manager on the Azure Cognitive Service Translator team reads lips and doesn’t use sign language, so...
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How easy is it for you to use Windows 7, versus say, whatever you are normally used to? This is a question that has decided the fate of not just entire households, but entire businesses when it comes to a proposed Windows 7 migration. I have noticed that one of the biggest preconceptions about...
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this just popped in my email box:
"The controversial landline tax, designed to fund next generation broadband services, is to be made law before the general election.
The 50p a month landline tax is to be included in this year's finance bill with the aim to raise up to £175million a year...
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