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Examining the National Bank of Canada CIO’s approach to tech and teams

CIO Business Intelligence

Being accountable for the execution of the technology strategy for National Bank of Canada, delivery of all projects and initiatives, and running daily operations and back offices functions, Julie Levesque has a lot on her plate as EVP of technology and operations, and CIO. But my boss said I needed to go through the process.

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Reality check: Intelligent machines and the future of the automated workforce

GeekWire

Photo by Kathy Gill) [Editor’s Note: This guest commentary is by technology industry veteran Kathy Gill, a writer, web developer and instructor focusing on communications and user experience.] Bank tellers haven’t been wiped out,” she said. had 485,000 bank tellers and 60,000 ATMs (automated teller machine).

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What telco mobile money licenses mean for Nigeria’s financial services sector

CIO Business Intelligence

Nigeria’s mobile money landscape, however, has been dominated by banks and other financial services companies. It was only late last year that Nigeria’s Central Bank (CBN), gave the green light for telcos to acquire mobile money licenses. With the new licenses, banks are set to face some challenges from the telecommunications sector.

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Microsoft Internet Explorer users may be surprised when they get redirected to Edge next month

The Verge

That’s the report from ZDNet , which also recorded a video showing how it works: There’s a lot of big-name sites on the automatically-launch-in-Edge list , including Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, a number of Google products, Microsoft Teams, and quite a few banks and other big brands.

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Vote for Startup of the Year: Arrived Homes, Lexion, Phaidra, Shipium, WhyLabs

GeekWire

Elwany worked as an engineer at Microsoft on artificial intelligence and Baird came from web development firm Pancake Labs. CEO Alessya Visnjic spent eight years at the company helping develop its machine learning infrastructure. Founders : CEO Gaurav Oberoi previously founded two startups that were acquired.

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Hottest tech skills to hire for in 2020

Hacker Earth

It is considered as one of the smartest choices for building interactive web interfaces as all modern browsers support JavaScript. The Stack Overflow developer survey results show that about 69.7% of 90,000 professional developers stated JavaScript is the most commonly used programming language. Full-stack web development.

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Legal tech startup Lexion is using GPT-3 to help lawyers write summaries and suggest edits

GeekWire

Language learning giant Duolingo uses GPT-3 to provide grammar suggestions; Keeper Tax, a San Francisco startup, uses GPT-3 to interpret data from bank statements and find tax-deductible expenses. OpenAI offers GPT-3 as an API that companies such as Lexion can pay for and use.