Happy Tuesday! Did you know? The first true battery was invented by Alessandro Volta in 1800—that’s over 200 years of powering our world!🔋 From flashlights to smartphones, batteries keep our daily lives running. What’s one battery-powered gadget you couldn’t live without?
In This Issue: New Finds | Deal of the Day | Cable Raceway | Traffic Shaping | News to Start Your Day
The CK Daily – New Finds
Good morning & Happy Tuesday! Hope everyone is having a great week so far!
I had a pretty low-key weekend, but sometimes those are the best, right? I finally tried a restaurant in my town that I’d never been to before (always fun to check out a new spot!), and I also explored a new park in a neighboring county. It turned out to be a great little find—several miles of gravel trails that are perfect for running or walking. Definitely adding it to my list of go-to places!
Aside from those mini-adventures, I spent a good bit of time painting my bedroom. When I bought my house new a few years ago, the builder painted everything—including the ceilings—a uniform shade of gray. It’s not a bad color, but after living in a sea of gray for so long, I’m officially ready for a change! So, I’m slowly working my way through the house, adding fresh paint and a little personality to each space. It’s amazing how something as simple as a coat of paint can completely transform a room—and it’s one of the most affordable ways to make a house feel like home.
What about you? Have you ever taken on a small home project that made a big difference? Would love to hear!
Hope you all have a fantastic day!
Rebecca
Deal of the Day
Product Spotlights & Updates
Cable raceways route, conceal, and protect cables, creating a cleaner, more organized space. Surface-mounted on walls or other flat surfaces, they shield cables from corrosion, heat, and humidity. Easily cut to size, paintable, and equipped with pre-applied foam adhesive for secure installation.
Learning Center Article – What is Traffic Shaping?
When you’ve worked in networking for a while, you’ll come to realize an unspoken truth. There’s never enough bandwidth to go around. When it comes to rationing bandwidth, you have a few different philosophies, but one of your most dynamic and responsive tools is traffic shaping. It can help the most important functions on your network flow smoothly without increasing your bandwidth or hardware capabilities at all.
Today’s News to Start Your Day:
- India’s oil imports from the United States rose sharply in January from December, turning Washington as the fifth largest oil supplier to New Delhi, data obtained from trade sources show.
- Temperatures are plunging across the country, and the next storm is already on the move taking aim at millions in the Midwest. It comes as areas of the South are still recovering from devastating and deadly flooding over the weekend.
- Starlink, the satellite network known for bringing internet access to remote areas, is now expanding its reach directly to your phone. Through a partnership between T-Mobile, SpaceX, and Starlink, a new satellite-to-cell service allows users to send and receive text messages even in areas without traditional network coverage.
- Elon Musk’s AI startup unveiled it’s latest AI model, Grok 3, which it says outperforms cutting-edge models from competitors.