When you first start scripting in PowerShell, it can be tempting to package up a series of commands. However, if your script fails you will not know where to start troubleshooting. To save yourself from wasting time trying to guess why your script failed, you should use error handling. There are four parts to PowerShell error handling: the Error Action parameter, Try/Catch blocks, the Error Variable parameter, and logging. PowerShell Error Handling the Easy Way The first time you want to handle errors is when something stops your script in its tracks. If the failure does not affect your later...
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One of the biggest upsides of the internet is that people from all over the world now have access to virtually anyone anywhere. Everyone is just an email away. That’s also the problem. That same accessibility has left people, businesses and organizations open to attack. In headline after headline, crippling cyberattacks are highlighting in bright neon the new insecurity of our digital… 
Buy a car through Facebook, and the social network could earn a special place in your heart. So Facebook is creating a special section of Marketplace for vehicles. You’ll now be able to use new search filters to find a ride with a specific type, make, model, mileage, transmission, and more from both people and car dealerships like Edmunds, Cars.com, Auction123, CDK Global, and SocialDealer. 
It’s been once year since Workplace, Facebook’s social network designed specifically for businesses and other organizations, came out of beta to take on the likes of Slack, Atlassian, Microsoft and others in the world of enterprise collaboration. Now, with 30,000 organizations using Workplace across some 1 million groups (more than double the figures Facebook published April)… 
If you’ve ever wondered if the hashtag heavy, politically far afield Twitter user you’re about to eviscerate in 140 characters is totally delusional or merely not quite sentient, well, wonder no more. On Wenesday, Quartz just launched a handy Twitter bot known as @probabot_ to sort so much automated chaff from Twitter’s proverbial fields of wheat. Probabot identifies… 
The RoboBee, a thimble-sized flying robot platform from Harvard’s Wyss Institute, has been gaining improvements for years. The latest trick of this diminutive robo-creature is to dive into the water, then emerge and blast itself upwards using a strange and clever mechanism for a safe landing nearby. 
Photographers can breathe easy knowing that a beloved tool will avoid dying a premature death. Google announced earlier this year that it would discontinue development for the Nik Collection software suite, but today DxO issued a statement that it would be sweeping in to save the day. DxO is likely best known for its mobile camera benchmarks, but the company puts out its own photo editing… 
Today, Google is starting to seed a new developer beta (8.1) of Android Oreo to devs. The big highlight here is the new Neural Networks API, which brings hardware-accelerated inference to the phone for quickly executing previously trained machine learning models. Bringing these calculations to the edge can bring a lot of utility to the end user by reducing latency and load on the network,… 
When Whim launched two years ago, it was based on a straightforward idea: What if a dating app was focused on enabling real dates, rather than chatting? Of course, plenty of actual dates happen as a result of Tinder and its imitators, but it can take a lot of awkward messaging to get there. Whim eliminates those preliminaries. Founder and CEO Eve Peters said the idea appealed to users, but… 
Last year, Google released a fun app that let curious kids perform a handful of science experiments by monitoring light, sound, and motion using a smartphone. Following some feedback, the app has been updated with a more open-ended approach, allowing kids to simply record and annotate the world around them. (It’s also on iOS now.) 
