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Auto Manufacturers, Love Them Or Hate Them – Human Touchpoints Aren’t Going Away

Forrester IT

With Zaklina Ber, Senior Research Associate, Forrester In 2021, we surveyed customers in five European countries about their experiences with auto manufacturers during both the purchase and service experience. To understand and ultimately improve the quality of their customer experience (CX), auto manufacturers need to understand why the industry ranks the way it does.

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Set Computer Name During Windows Autopilot Hybrid Azure AD Join using Intune

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 Set Computer Name During Windows Autopilot Hybrid Azure AD Join using Intune appeared first on HTMD Blog #1 by Kannan CS.

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5 Reasons Blockchain Should Matter to Solution Providers

Association of Information Technology Professional

It's time for solution providers and MSPs to learn how they can integrate blockchain into their current and future solutions offerings to customers. Here are five reasons why, according to members of CompTIA’s Blockchain Advisory Council.

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FIX: SCCM Task sequence has failed with the error code 0x80070057

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 FIX: SCCM Task sequence has failed with the error code 0x80070057 appeared first on HTMD Blog #1 by Jitesh Kumar.

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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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AWS re:Invent 2021: Few new services suggest AWS is maturing (in a good way)

Tech Republic Cloud

Commentary: AWS didn't fill re:Invent 2021 with new product announcements. Instead, AWS seems to be trying to help customers make better use of what they already have.

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Tech Predictions for 2022 and Beyond

All Things Distributed

2022 will be an exciting year for technology, with it pushing all of us, and our planet, forward in the process.

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Lessons learned on the journey to cloud native

TM Forum

Communications service providers (CSPs) worldwide are at different stages on their journeys to becoming cloud native. Some are aggressively adopting a public cloud-first strategy and have already migrated more than half of their IT workloads to the public cloud. Others are taking the first tentative steps away from on-premises systems by adopting a hybrid strategy of private and public clouds.

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As long as the universe is changing… there will be opportunities

Trends in the Living Networks

All change creates both challenges and opportunities. All life is change: being born, growing, learning, maturing, dying, evolving. Society is continually transforming: moving from the past to the future, building on our human history, creating new and unique manifestations of humanity. Our world is morphing: the turning of the seasons, the movement of the continents, shifts in climate and flora and fauna, both natural and anthropogenic.

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Quick Talk: AWS, private networks and competition for the enterprise customer

TM Forum

In this podcast, TM Forum's chief analyst, Mark Newman, and principal analyst, Dean Ramsay, discuss the implications of AWS' move into turnkey private networks; Ericsson's acquisition of Vonage; competition for the enterprise customer; and European telcos' recent call for big tech platforms to contribute to network costs, as well as regulatory action on data spaces.

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Apple’s frontline employees are struggling to survive

The Verge

Illustrations by Jesse Zhang. If you ask Jimmy Bailey what killed his best friend Mark Calivas, his answer is simple: “It was Apple.” How else could he explain how the Apple Store wellness champion — known for evangelizing therapy and mental health — would slide into a depression so profound he’d be forced to take medical leave and ultimately die by suicide?

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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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The challenges and benefits of good data governance

TM Forum

Understanding the need for data governance is one thing, but establishing and running a mature data governance program is quite another. And it is particularly difficult for a complex, legacy business, such as a telco. Executives from the Belgian telco Proximus and Cloudera joined analysts in a TM Forum webinar to discuss both the growing strategic importance of data governance and the difficulty of creating and maintaining effective programs. image.

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Microsoft’s new Windows prompts try to stop people downloading Chrome

The Verge

Microsoft’s new Edge prompt. Microsoft has never been a fan of Windows users downloading Chrome instead of using Edge, but the company has now stepped up its campaign to keep people using its built-in browser. Windows 10 and Windows 11 have both started displaying new prompts when people navigate to the Chrome download page, in an effort to discourage people from installing Google’s rival browser.

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Microsoft and KPMG will try out quantum algorithms on real-world problems

GeekWire

Krysta Svore, general manager of Microsoft Quantum, explains how quantum computing hardware works during a Seattle science conference in 2020. (GeekWire Photo / Alan Boyle). Microsoft and KPMG are getting set to test Azure Quantum’s capabilities on the sorts of real-world problems that should give quantum computing an edge over traditional approaches.

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Qualcomm’s new always-on smartphone camera is a potential privacy nightmare

The Verge

The front-facing camera on a Samsung smartphone. Next year’s Qualcomm processor will allow these cameras to always scan for your face, even when you’re not using the phone. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge. “Your phone’s front camera is always securely looking for your face, even if you don’t touch it or raise to wake it.” That’s how Qualcomm Technologies vice president of product management Judd Heape introduced the company’s new always-on camera capabilities in the Snapdragon 8 Ge

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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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Reality check: Microsoft, David Bowie, Bill Gates, and a creepy video game called ‘Omikron’

GeekWire

Omikron: The Nomad Soul. (Image via Steam). Yes, there was a game called Omikron: The Nomad Soul, starring a virtual David Bowie, released in 1999 for Microsoft Windows. No, the game was not made by Microsoft. Suggesting that Bill Gates had anything to do with it is like calling Apple CEO Tim Cook the mastermind behind Facebook because the social network runs on iPhone.

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How are Organizations Doing with Cloud?

Information Week

No one doubts the value of cloud computing, but it doesn't mean that cloud services providers can’t improve performance. How can they make life for their enterprise clients easier?

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Insider threats: How trustworthy are your employees?

Tech Republic Security

While we often worry about outside threats to our business data, insider threats are a growing problem. Here's how to secure your business.

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The Norwegian-Swedish Wolf Is Extinct

Gizmodo

The original population of wolves living in Norway and Sweden were wiped out 50 years ago, a report commissioned by the Norwegian parliament has concluded. Read more.

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How to Migrate From DataStax Enterprise to Instaclustr Managed Apache Cassandra

If you’re considering migrating from DataStax Enterprise (DSE) to open source Apache Cassandra®, our comprehensive guide is tailored for architects, engineers, and IT directors. Whether you’re motivated by cost savings, avoiding vendor lock-in, or embracing the vibrant open-source community, Apache Cassandra offers robust value. Transition seamlessly to Instaclustr Managed Cassandra with our expert insights, ensuring zero downtime during migration.

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Tesla announces all-electric $1,900 Cyberquad for kids

The Verge

Tesla has quietly launched a $1,900 four-wheel ATV for kids. The Cyberquad for Kids is available to order right now from Tesla’s website , and will begin shipping in two to four weeks. The surprise announcement comes more than two year after Tesla announced a fullsize Cyberquad ATV to compliment its futuristic Cybertruck. The Cyberquad has not yet shipped.

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Univ. of Washington deep learning researchers ‘hallucinate’ protein designs from scratch

GeekWire

A protein structure generated by a machine learning algorithm developed by the University of Washington’s Institute for Protein Design. (UW IPD Photo | Ian C. Haydon). New protein structures not seen in nature have emerged from deep learning software deployed by University of Washington researchers and their colleagues. The approach is a step toward building bespoke proteins with specific properties, a feat that would accelerate drug development.

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Zoom might pay you $25 as part of a class-action settlement

The Verge

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge. Zoom has reached a settlement (PDF) in a class-action lawsuit over alleged privacy and security issues, and if you used the videoconferencing app before July, then you could be eligible to receive money as a result. The company has agreed to pay $85 million while continuing to deny the allegations and any liability.

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Blockchain is only a game changer if players are stakeholders

Venture Beast

Join gaming leaders, alongside GamesBeat and Facebook Gaming, for their 2nd Annual GamesBeat & Facebook Gaming Summit | GamesBeat: Into the Metaverse 2 this upcoming January 25-27, 2022. Learn more about the event. GUEST: The recent boom of NFTs has led many to think of blockchain, the underlying technology that supports them, as a solution se… 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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Ringler Goes Low Code/No Code to Leverage Data Analytics

Information Week

Settlement planning company finds a more efficient path to its digital modernization by working with Creatio’s platform.

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Binance and Animoca Brands launch $200M fund for crypto gaming startups

Venture Beast

Binance Smart Chain and Animoca Brands have partnered to launch a $200 million fund to accelerate and incubate early crypto gaming startups. Read More.

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Microsoft Makes Breakthrough in the Quest to Use DNA as Data Storage

Gizmodo

The world has a data problem. Each day, we created another 2.5 million gigabytes of data, and each year, the amount of data produced globally increases exponentially. This puts us on a collision course with a serious problem: the rate at which we produce data is outpacing our ability to store it. Read more.

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Microsoft tells people trying to download 'so 2008' Chrome that Edge is better

TechSpot

Neowin reports that when someone attempts to download Chrome from within Edge, they’re met with several popups extolling the virtues of Microsoft’s browser over Google’s. “Microsoft Edge runs on the same technology as Chrome, with the added trust of Microsoft,” reads one.

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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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Someone stole $120 million in crypto by hacking a DeFi website

The Verge

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge. On Wednesday night, someone drained funds from multiple cryptocurrency wallets connected to the decentralized finance platform BadgerDAO. According to the blockchain security and data analytics Peckshield, which is working with Badger to investigate the heist, the various tokens stolen in the attack are worth about $120 million.

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Scientists Made a Map of the Nasty Diseases Ticks Can Give You

Gizmodo

It may be winter in the U.S., but it’s always a good time to refresh your innate fear of the creepy crawlies that make us sick. In a new paper this week, John Hopkins researchers have detailed the creation of their Lyme and tickborne disease dashboard. The project provides an easy-to-navigate map tracking the spread… Read more.

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RISC-V grows open source processor membership 130% in 2021

Venture Beast

RISC-V International said it has grown during the pandemic as its RISC-V open source processor membership popped 130% in 2021. Read More.

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Microsoft’s new Office UI is now rolling out to everyone

The Verge

Microsoft is starting to roll out its new Office UI to all users this week. The visual update was originally announced earlier this year and went into testing over the summer. Now it’s starting to roll out to all Office 365 and Office 2021 users. This new Office UI is designed to match the visual changes in Windows 11, and it includes a more rounded look to the Office ribbon bar, with some subtle tweaks to the buttons throughout Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook.

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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.