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Senkyu: MTN Uganda’s new way to say ‘thank you’ loyalty program

TM Forum

Who. : MTN Uganda and Tecnotree. What. : Rebuilt and expanded customer loyalty program, called Senkyu, to acknowledge customers and drive innovative ways to redeem points, including integration with digital payments, which improves financial inclusivity in Uganda. How. : Implemented Tecnotree’s Digital Loyalty Management platform, leveraging TM Forum’s Information Framework, Open APIs (including Loyalty Management API) and Business Process Framework.

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SCCM Application Request Failed SqlException caught in SubmitNewRequest deadlock or retry count exceeded

Anoop

Hello - Here is the new HTMD Blog Article for you. Enjoy reading it. Subscribe to YouTube Channel [link]. and Facebook Page to get the latest updates. [link]. Read More. The post SCCM Application Request Failed SqlException caught in SubmitNewRequest deadlock or retry count exceeded appeared first on HTMD Blog #1 by Deepak Rai.

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Canon sued for $5 million for disabling scanner when printers run out of ink

TechSpot

Leacraft decided to file the lawsuit upon discovering a Pixma MG2522 printer he purchased, advertised as an "all-in-one" machine, would not function as a scanner when ink cartridges are either low or empty. Moreover, faxing capabilities would not work when certain printers ran out of ink as well.

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Enterprises are scrambling to deploy zero trust security

Venture Beast

Enterprises are quickly finding out that zero trust security is becoming a business decision, not only an operational decision. Read More.

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Peak Performance: Continuous Testing & Evaluation of LLM-Based Applications

Speaker: Aarushi Kansal, AI Leader & Author and Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO at Aggregage

Software leaders who are building applications based on Large Language Models (LLMs) often find it a challenge to achieve reliability. It’s no surprise given the non-deterministic nature of LLMs. To effectively create reliable LLM-based (often with RAG) applications, extensive testing and evaluation processes are crucial. This often ends up involving meticulous adjustments to prompts.

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Intel CEO vows to challenge Nvidia, market is "hungry" for alternative GPUs

TechSpot

In a recent interview with CRN that covers several topics with Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger, one subject that was emphasised on was its impending battle with Nvidia. Moving forward, one way Intel plans to differentiate itself from the GPU giant is by being "much more ecosystem-friendly" in terms of software.

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The Guardians of the Galaxy Game Credits the Hell Out of Its In-Game Costumes

Gizmodo

Next week, Square Enix is putting out another Marvel game , this one for the Guardians of the Galaxy. While it looks like a typical third-person action game where you control Star-Lord and command the other Guardians, there is one thing that warrants a special shoutout for how surprising it is. Read more.

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Saudi Arabia Is Building a Tourism Resort Based on an Oil Rig to Try to Make Destroying the Planet Cool

Gizmodo

It seems that the world’s largest oil producing countries will stop at nothing to keep drilling, despite the fact that doing so aggravates climate change and its devastating effects. Oil-producing heavyweight Saudi Arabia recently unveiled a new tactic: making oil rigs look cool. Read more.

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Some games might need an update to be compatible with Intel Alder Lake processors

TechSpot

It’s not unheard of for DRMs to cause trouble for new hardware releases. However, Alder Lake is so different from Intel’s current processors that some developers believe that based on Intel’s documentation, games that come equipped with DRMs are likely to be outright incompatible until they’re updated.

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Transposit unveils CloudOps workflow-building functionality

Venture Beast

Transposit's CloudOps workflow platform creates automated workflows across diverse stacks so that teams can use whichever tools they need. Read More.

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Facebook disputes report that its AI can’t detect hate speech or violence consistently

The Verge

Facebook is disputing a report that says its artificial intelligence isn’t effective at detecting hate speech. | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge. Facebook vice president of integrity Guy Rosen wrote in blog post Sunday that the prevalence of hate speech on the platform had dropped by 50 percent over the past three years, and that “a narrative that the technology we use to fight hate speech is inadequate and that we deliberately misrepresent our progress” was false.

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7 Pitfalls for Apache Cassandra in Production

Apache Cassandra is an open-source distributed database that boasts an architecture that delivers high scalability, near 100% availability, and powerful read-and-write performance required for many data-heavy use cases. However, many developers and administrators who are new to this NoSQL database often encounter several challenges that can impact its performance.

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Why Montréal continues to win new game studios in the age of remote working

Venture Beast

Montréal has a booming job market for video game, visual effects, and animation talent as a working hub for those industries. Read More.

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Apple’s October ‘Unleashed’ event: what to expect

The Verge

Apple has announced an event for October 18th , with a video containing the title “Unleashed.” If you’ve been watching the rumor mill, it won’t come as a surprise — the company still has a lot of products that are expected to come out this year but haven’t shown up in an Apple keynote. Chief among those are new, more powerful MacBook Pros, which will follow the incredible Apple Silicon-powered 13-inch MacBook Pro that launched last November.

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Jens Hilgers interview — Why Bitkraft created its $75M token fund for blockchain/crypto games

Venture Beast

Bitkraft Ventures raised a $75 million token fund last week to invest in blockchain gaming and digital entertainment investments. Read More.

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Spider-Man: No Way Home's Trailer is Pretty Good as a 1960s Cartoon

Gizmodo

No doubt that you’ve seen the first trailer for Spider-Man: No Way Home a good number of times by now. Tom Holland’s potentially final cinematic outing as the wallcrawler has a lot of fans buzzing about what all its universe hopping could lead to, be it remixes of old villains or some new allies and threats coming to… Read more.

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20 Common Mistakes Made by Inexperienced Project Managers

You’ve read the PMBOK® Guide several times, taken the certification exam for project managers, passed, and you are now a PMP®. So why do you keep making rookie mistakes? This whitepaper shows 20 of the most common mistakes that young or inexperienced project managers make, issues that can cost significant time and money. It's a good starting point for understanding how and why many PMs get themsleves into trouble, and provides guidance on the types of issues that PMs need to understand.

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Amazon India's brand team steals designs and artificially boosts its visibility in search results

TechSpot

Reuters Investigates team poured through thousands of internal Amazon India documents and uncovered a plan designed to identify successful "reference" and "benchmark" products from other retailers, then leverage proprietary data to create its own in-house offerings. The project also identified and established relationships with the manufacturers of those goods to.

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Meow Wolf, Anthos team for multi-cloud app management in art shows

Venture Beast

SADA is helping Meow Wolf with multi-cloud app management for immersive art experiences at its permanent multimedia installations. Read More.

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The Batman: Caped Crusader Takes the Dark Knight to His Noir Roots

Gizmodo

It’s pretty much understood that the great Batman cartoon of all time is the ‘90s animated series , made by Bruce Timm and Paul Dini, which formed the cornerstone of the equally excellent DC Animated Universe. So anytime Bruce Timm gets his hands back on Batman it’s worth checking out—and based on this preview, his … Read more.

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What stage of open-source adoption has your company reached?

Venture Beast

Wherever you are on the spectrum of open source adoption, use this actionable model to determine your next step. Read More.

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Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI

“Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI” is an extensive guide for integrating generative AI into product strategy and careers featuring over 150 real-world examples, 30 case studies, and 20+ frameworks, and endorsed by over 20 leading AI and product executives, inventors, entrepreneurs, and researchers.

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Facebook Pushes Back Against Report That Claims Its AI Sucks at Detecting Hate Speech

Gizmodo

On Sunday, Facebook vice president of integrity Guy Rosen tooted the social media company’s own horn for moderating toxic content, writing in a blog post that the prevalence of hate speech on the platform has fallen by nearly half since July 2020. The post appeared to be in response to a series of damning Wall Street… Read more.

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Team Spirit takes home $18.2M as winner of The International Dota 2 Championship

Venture Beast

Team Spirit won The International Dota 2 Championship, taking home $18.2 million of the record prize pool of more than $40 million. Read More.

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Doom Patrol's Coming Back for Another Warped and Wacky Season

Gizmodo

Doom Patrol is one of DC’s weirdest shows, and also just a lot of fun. Its cast of misfits trying to make a go at being superheroes has plenty of charm to go along with its trippy nature, clearly enough to make the jump to HBO Max. During yesterday’s lengthy DC Fandome, a trailer dropped for the remaining episodes of… Read more.

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Report: Cybercriminals refine tactics to exploit zero-day vulnerabilities

Venture Beast

This exploit shows how attackers can gain control of a system simply by tricking victims into previewing a malicious document. Read More.

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Entity Resolution Checklist: What to Consider When Evaluating Options

Are you trying to decide which entity resolution capabilities you need? It can be confusing to determine which features are most important for your project. And sometimes key features are overlooked. Get the Entity Resolution Evaluation Checklist to make sure you’ve thought of everything to make your project a success! The list was created by Senzing’s team of leading entity resolution experts, based on their real-world experience.

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Wonder Woman Finally Gets Her Own Event in Trial of the Amazons

Gizmodo

As important as Wonder Woman has appeared to be to DC’s brand, it’s only recently that she’s really been allowed to get the attention that her fellow Trinity members Batman and Superman have. Those two get their own big line wide crossover events every year, but Diana hasn’t had one to herself since the early 1990s.… Read more.

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Week in Review: Most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of Oct. 10, 2021

GeekWire

Get caught up on the latest technology and startup news from the past week. Here are the most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of Oct. 10, 2021. Sign up to receive these updates every Sunday in your inbox by subscribing to our GeekWire Weekly email newsletter. Most popular stories on GeekWire. Photos: Stunning Northern Lights dance over Seattle — here are tips for catching the next one.

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You Can Now Pay for Ride Fares in the Moscow Subway With Your Face

Gizmodo

Contactless payment systems are quickly becoming an ordinary part of our daily lives. As of this week, you can even pay for subway fares with your face. Before you ask where you can sign up, this new facial recognition payment system has debuted in Russia, sparking concerns that it will be used by authorities as a… Read more.

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Hollywood union reaches contract agreement over streaming pay to avoid strike

The Verge

IATSE members were planning to strike over working conditions | Myung J. Chun / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images. The union representing thousands of film and television production workers has reached a tentative agreement with studios, averting an strike that was set to begin Monday. The International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE) had been negotiating with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP), which represents major production studios like Netflix,

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Strategic CX: A Deep Dive into Voice of the Customer Insights for Clarity

Speaker: Nicholas Zeisler, CX Strategist & Fractional CXO

The first step in a successful Customer Experience endeavor (or for that matter, any business proposition) is to find out what’s wrong. If you can’t identify it, you can’t fix it! 💡 That’s where the Voice of the Customer (VoC) comes in. Today, far too many brands do VoC simply because that’s what they think they’re supposed to do; that’s what all their competitors do.

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Halloween Kills It at the Box Office, Not So Much at Peacock

Gizmodo

Looks like Michael Myers can’t be stopped, in either Haddonfield or in real life. Halloween Kills released on Friday both in theaters and on Peacock , and absolutely dominated at the box office with a $55 million take. Most of it came from North America and its love for Jamie Lee Curtis and John Carpenter, and the $50… Read more.

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IATSE Reaches a Deal on Film and TV Contract, With Mixed Reception

Gizmodo

Earlier this week, we reported that the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE) were set to strike—just one of many going on recently, as it turns out— as conversations with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) were coming to a standstill. The plan was for the trade union… Read more.

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Y: The Last Man Canceled at FX as Its First Season Nearly Ends

Gizmodo

FX’s adaptation of Y: The Last Man , based on Brian K. Vaughan and Pia Guerra’s 2005 comic, has been canceled. The announcement was made today by showrunner Eliza Clark, who said that FX on Hulu wouldn’t be going forward with a second season. Read more.

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Biden's Clean Energy Initiative May Get Left on the Cutting Room Floor

Gizmodo

Democratic lawmakers may have to scrap the most aggressive emissions-reduction initiative in American history from their massive budget bill. Senators Joe Manchin III of West Virginia and Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona have told President Joe Biden they refuse to support his climate agenda, forcing negotiations for the… Read more.

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The Big Payoff of Application Analytics

Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business. That’s what drove the five companies in this e-book to change their approach to analytics. Download this e-book to learn about the unique problems each company faced and how they achieved huge returns beyond expectation by embedding analytics into applications.