Here are the top stories published during iTWire Update's holiday break.

From a new, COVID-test device that gives instant results just with your breath, to a colour-changing electric BMW to autonomous, electric farm robots that can hoe, weed, seed and more, through to ever-smarter smart home tech, including wireless energy at a distance to robots with ever more realistic facial expressions, and whether it is the latest GPUs, CPUs, start-ups, smartphones, TVs, flying cars, accessibility-friendly tech, fintech, wellness, wearables and much, much more - CES 2022 was definitely smaller, but it still succeeded in launching tons of terrific tech.



The YubiKey Bio range of hardware-based security keys brings fingerprint recognition to the stable. If you're still on the fence about passwordless security, here's your opportunity to get on board in the simplest way.

It’s 2022 and if you’re looking to learn a new programming language, DevOps tool, public cloud, or infrastructure items, the big question is which one to go for? Here are iTWire’s picks on where to invest your time and energy.

Microsoft has announced it has turned on machine language-based noise suppression by default for most Microsoft Teams customers. However, sometimes music isn’t noise but part of the call. Microsoft has announced a new music detection facility will be rolled out in late January through February.

With the DMS-106XT, D-Link has released a high-performing unmanaged switch with five 2.5Gbps ethernet ports and one 10Gbps ethernet port, making it a great option for media, file sharing, and gaming. What’s more, it looks good doing it.

Pegasystems has appointed Katherine Parente as chief people officer, with immediate effect.

And as always there's plenty more today, so for all the news please visit www.itwire.com.

Stephen Withers, newsletter editor, iTWire

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