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| PC World - 17 Jul (PC World)Maintaining a perfect lawn takes a lot of work and care, but that doesn’t mean it also has to take a lot of your time. Aiper’s IrriSense is the ideal solution for those who want to maintain a green and luscious, well-watered lawn, without spending hours with a hose in their hand.
There are other solutions for taking the manual work out of garden irrigation, but this system from Aiper doesn’t demand a fiddly installation that involves digging up half your garden. In fact, within a single unit, IrriSense is able to replace an entire system of rotor sprinklers, electrical valves, and irrigation controllers.
Customizable watering zones
A single one of these Aiper devices can cover up to 4800 square feet, an area that would otherwise require dozens of sprinklers and endless hose lines running below the soil. Just one IrriSense will handle the whole yard, spraying out water with up to 39-foot range with the correct water pressure and flow rate. It’s able to efficiently adapt to any lawn shape, and you can easily customize the watering zones through the mobile app.
IrriSense uses a technology called Adaptive ReSpray to shorten and lengthen spray distances to let it reach all areas of the garden. So, if your lawn is narrower on one side, it won’t water your fence, your walkway, or even your lawn chairs.
Water smarter with Irrisense
Simulating natural rainfall to protect your plants
Aiper’s own EvenRain technology is a highlight of the IrriSense. When you’re in a rush to get the watering done, it can be tempting to turn up the water pressure – potentially leading to over-watering and damage to your plants. EvenRain simulates the water pressure of natural rainfall, delivering even coverage across the entire lawn.
This gentler water stream is much easier on your plants, and could be the difference between life and death for any tiny seedlings or loose soil that couldn’t withstand a full-on blast from the hose.
Speedy 15-minute installation
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Aside from the convenience of an automated watering system, one of the most appealing things about the Aiper IrriSense is its simple installation: this smart watering system can be set up in around 15 minutes. You install one locator, fix it with four ground stakes, add the device, get the hose, plug it in, and you’re done.
The IrriSense works with 5/8? and 3/4? garden hoses, so you won’t need any fancy equipment to get it working. It’s also super-light, weighing just 10.58 lbs, making it easy to relocate if needed.
Water smarter with Irrisense
Mobile or manual operation for ultimate convenience
The accompanying app brings a slew of benefits too, enabling you to easily set a watering schedule based on the weather forecast, and you can make manual adjustments at any time. Should it rain for more than five minutes continuously, an on-device rain sensor sends a message to cancel the day’s irrigation plans, so you won’t needlessly waste water.
The IrriSense was built to last, with UV-resistant materials and copper hose fittings that resist corrosion. It also features a filter to prevent pipe clogging and water source contamination, can automatically shut off water, and even has a winter drainage mode so you don’t have to worry about it freezing up or breaking down during the cold season.
Get a smarter watering system today
Stop wasting time, water and money and get the IrriSense for your yard – delivering just the right amount of water at just the right pressure, IrriSense will help you maintain a healthy lawn with minimal effort. The IrriSense system usually costs $699.99 – less than you’d pay to install a full irrigation system, and without the need to dig up the yard – but until July 31 PCWorld readers can unlock a 10% discount with the code PCWORLD10OFF.
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|  | | PC World - 17 Jul (PC World)Human beings have a hard time dealing with numbers that get really big. The speed of light, the number of atoms in apparently small amounts of matter, the energy being burned every time you ask ChatGPT how many days there are in July. It doesn’t really fit into our meat brains. Take, for example, Seagate’s latest industrial hard drive, which holds 30 terabytes of data. Oof.
The new Exos M and IronWolf Pro are the most dense drives single I’ve ever seen in the standard form factor, narrowly beating out existing 28TB models by leveraging Seagate’s innovative Heat-Assisted Magnetic Recording (HAMR) technology. But these hard drives aren’t really designed for regular PC users — they’re being made for the data center market, as demand for scalable storage spikes in the AI industry. That said, there’s nothing stopping you from just rolling up to Seagate’s digital storefront and putting your money down. The new drives, in the standard 3.5-inch form factor, cost $600.
(Editorial note: It’s entirely possible that 30TB drives have been available before in the 3.5-inch form factor, and I know NAS systems with more than that spread over multiple drives are a thing. This is the first time I’m seeing it with a regular link to buy, as far as I’m aware.)
Again, it’s hard for me to imagine what I’d do with that much storage. My first desktop PC that I didn’t have to share with my sister had a 40GB drive, and my parents thought that was beyond the dreams of avarice. I have hundreds and hundreds of games in my Steam account, some of which teeter beyond the 100GB mark, and I still don’t think I could fill up a 30TB hard drive with all of them. In college a friend of mine who definitely, absolutely was not me, allegedly, once shared a little over 2TB of video files on the local campus network, and that was the top score in a student population of over 40,000.
But these things aren’t meant for individual users, unless those individual users are hosting some rather impressive websites from a home server or doing some other exotic stuff. These drives are meant to be bought dozens or hundreds at a time, and installed in data centers that cost billions of dollars to set up. I haven’t seen a new laptop with a spinning hard drive in years, and even desktop users with space to spare are now transitioning to full solid state storage more often than not.
Still, I can’t deny that there’s something tempting about buying one and seeing if I could fill it up. I wonder how many hi-res Skyrim textures it would take…
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|  | | PC World - 17 Jul (PC World)Copilot Vision’s vision is improving.
Microsoft said Monday that it’s beginning to allow Copilot Vision to “see” your desktop, as well as specific applications. Microsoft calls this “Desktop Share,” and it’s a part of a new Copilot app update, version 1.25071.125.
Microsoft introduced Copilot Vision in April with the ability to see a single app; when Copilot Vision formally debuted, it could see two. Now, it can see your entire desktop in one fell swoop.
I’m not sure what the difference is, to be honest. Presumably, Copilot Vision was limited to one or two apps before. Now, I suppose, you can have several applications open on your desktop, and Copilot Vision can now see and understand all of them at once. Or maybe it can give advice toward tidying up a Windows desktop with a couple dozen app icons scattered about?
In any event, Desktop Share for Copilot Vision is now complemented by a Microsoft test of turning on Vision from an existing Voice conversation. If you’re already orally chatting with Copilot, you can now flip on Copilot Vision by clicking the “glasses” icon in the conversation.
I wasn’t too impressed when I tried Copilot Vision earlier this year. when I tried out Copilot Vision earlier this year, but I’d expect the technology to improve. It needs to better understand what it sees, not just see more. Read...Newslink ©2025 to PC World |  |
|  | | RadioNZ - 16 Jul (RadioNZ) Western Institute of Technology is planning to scrap its agriculture courses as part of its plan to prove its financial viability amid restructuring within the polytech sector. Read...Newslink ©2025 to RadioNZ |  |
|  | | NZ Herald - 16 Jul (NZ Herald) Beef + Lamb NZ has asked Government to `slow down` and `consult properly` with farmers. Read...Newslink ©2025 to NZ Herald |  |
|  | | ITBrief - 16 Jul (ITBrief) Melbourne`s Rippl teams with Onpack to offer custom-branded mineral water cans using fast, eco-friendly digital direct-to-can printing technology. Read...Newslink ©2025 to ITBrief |  |
|  | | ITBrief - 16 Jul (ITBrief) AI leaders emphasise the urgent need for ethics, governance and sustainability as the technology increasingly transforms industries and raises complex risks. Read...Newslink ©2025 to ITBrief |  |
|  | | RadioNZ - 16 Jul (RadioNZ) The Western Institute of Technology at Taranaki - known as WITT - is one of four polytechs that have been given a year to shape-up financially, or face a shake-up. Read...Newslink ©2025 to RadioNZ |  |
|  | | PC World - 16 Jul (PC World)The National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) in Japan has set a groundbreaking record: a data transmission rate of 1.02 petabits per second (around 127,500 GB/s) over 1,802 kilometers (about 1,120 miles), reports CNET.
That’s around 350,000 times faster than the average US fixed broadband internet connection, which was around 289 Mbps according to Speedtest as of May 2025. At this new record-breaking speed, you could download the entire Netflix library in under a second.
Fiber optics with 19 cores
The key to the record is a new optical fiber with 19 cores, which are installed in a cable with a diameter of just 0.125 millimeters (the standard size for existing networks). Compared to conventional cables with one core, this fiber transmits 19 times more data with minimal data loss due to uniform light conduction. For transmission over the 1,120-mile distance—comparable to New York to Chicago—the signal was amplified 21 times.
The new record more than doubles the previous year’s figure of 50,250 GB/s. In 2023, the NICT team achieved similar speeds but only over a third of the distance. Advances in signal amplification and reduction of data loss are what made this new range possible.
Compatible with existing fiber optic cables
The technology could meet the growing demand for data worldwide, as data volumes have been increasing by about 50 percent annually according to Nielsen’s Law.
In general, the new technology is exciting and also interesting for countries where fiber optic expansion is stagnating, primarily because these new cables fit into existing infrastructures.
The record has not yet been independently verified, but it shows how fiber optics could further shape the future of the internet. Read...Newslink ©2025 to PC World |  |
|  | | PC World - 15 Jul (PC World)In another testament to how risky lifetime VPN subscriptions are, BulletVPN has announced that it is shutting down. The service unexpectedly ceased operations last week, canceling lifetime subscriptions for all users who had previously purchased the plans.
The service was based in Estonia and had been in operation since 2015. Up until last month, it had been offering lifetime VPN subscriptions to users for only $39. However, in a message on its homepage titled, “BulletVPN End of Life,” the company announced that the VPN service would no longer be available.
This adds to a growing number of controversies surrounding lifetime subscriptions in the ever-changing VPN market. Just in May of this year, VPNSecure suddenly cut all lifetime subscriptions after being sold to new owners.
To stand out in a crowded market, many smaller VPN providers, such as BulletVPN, offer lifetime subscriptions with cheap prices in order to attract new customers. Unfortunately, these deals can often turn sour if the VPN service goes out of business—which is often the case for smaller VPN providers in the cut-throat industry.
In a statement on its website the company wrote, “This decision was made after careful consideration of various factors, including shifts in market demand, evolving technology requirements, and sustainability of operations.”
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Needless to say, affected users aren’t happy. Thankfully, rival VPN Windscribe has stepped in to help. Users who previously had lifetime subscriptions to BulletVPN, are now eligible for a complimentary 6-month subscription to Windscribe, along with a discounted long-term plan. As stated in the End of Life notice, BulletVPN users who qualify can contact support@bulletvpn.com to claim the offer. Read...Newslink ©2025 to PC World |  |
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