Mon.Nov 30, 2020

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Digital Go-To-Market Review: Beauty Brands

Forrester IT

Forrester’s Digital Go-To-Market Review evaluates brand manufacturers and how well they are positioned to thrive independently of online marketplaces and even traditional retailers. In our second edition of this study, we focused on the beauty goods sector, evaluating 34 brands on five elements for a total of 20 attributes. From this review, we rated seven […].

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Why I Got CompTIA Security+ and How I Made the Exam Process Work for Me

Association of Information Technology Professional

Gabriela Ariza shares how she tailored her studies for CompTIA Security+ and persevered through challenges and test anxiety to get certified.

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Get Your Design System Right: Approach It Like A Product

Forrester IT

When you hear “design system,” what words come to mind? If you’re like most design leaders I speak with in my role as an analyst covering this space, “consistency,” “scale,” and “components” are the words that bubble up. And that makes sense because it’s true that design systems help teams scale good product design decisions […].

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Zero trust planning: Key factors for IT pros to consider

Network World

Moving away from VPN s as a means to protect corporate networks at the perimeter and moving toward zero-trust network access requires careful enterprise planning and may require implementing technologies that are new to individual organizations. ZTNA employs identity-based authentication to establish trust with entities trying to access the network and grants each authorized entity access only to the data and applications they require to accomplish their tasks.

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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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Innovators 101: How To Secure Innovators’ Engagement During A Pandemic

Forrester IT

I’m having many conversations with ideators, innovation teams, chief data officers, chief innovation officers, and product design teams about how to secure high engagement levels while everyone works from home, leaving corporate innovation labs and centers orphaned. In my honest opinion, this is a real challenge! Innovation workers require connecting with teammates to collaborate on […].

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How to Energize Outside-In Thinking in the World of Remote Work

Social, Agile and Transformation

There are several times during the year when I recommend leaders carve out time for outside-in thinking. The goal of outside-in thinking is to develop an expansive viewpoint on markets, customers, prospects, competition, industry, and technology capabilities through an outsider's broad perspectives and progress beyond the insider's narrow angle lens driven by stakeholders, short-term.

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Cybersecurity report: Average household hit with 104 threats each month

Tech Republic Security

The most vulnerable devices include laptops, computers, smartphones and tablets, networked cameras and storage devices, and streaming video devices, a new report found.

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SCCM Server Upgrade to 2010 | ConfigMgr | Guide | Step by Step

Anoop

Subscribe YouTube Channel [link]. and Facebook Page to get latest updates. [link]. Microsoft released the latest version of Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager 2010. And the 2010 version of ConfigMgr is the Opt-in version. This step by step guide provides all the details that you require to perform SCCM Server Upgrade to 2010. I have predicted the release dates of ConfigMgr 2010 in the previous post.

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Top 5 tips for choosing strong passwords

Tech Republic Security

Strong passwords are necessary for making sure you and your organization stay protected. Tom Merritt offers five tips for creating strong passwords.

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Nonprofit uses AWS grant to put 756 terabytes of cancer research data in the cloud

Tech Republic Cloud

Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation and the Childhood Cancer Data Lab are cleaning up genome data and speeding up the research process.

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GEP Procurement & Supply Chain Tech Trends Report

The technological landscape is dynamic and changes quickly. And for procurement and supply chain leaders looking to harness the power of technology to navigate complex challenges and an uncertain business environment, keeping up with the latest trends can be its own obstacle. So, what’s on the technological horizon for procurement and supply chain for the year ahead?

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Companies are relaxing cybersecurity during the pandemic to boost productivity

Tech Republic Security

Is this a bad idea? Learn about the pitfalls and what organizations should be doing to address lax security versus productivity.

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Super Nintendo World opens on February 4th with AR Mario Kart rollercoaster

The Verge

Universal Studios Japan has announced an opening date for its long-awaited Nintendo-themed area. The Super Nintendo Land zone will open at the Osaka theme park on February 4th, 2021. That’s actually a little earlier than expected — last month Nintendo said that the project would open in spring. A themed cafe and merchandise store have already opened in the larger Universal Studios Japan park.

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Safari for iOS 14 and Big Sur: How to prevent websites from tracking your moves online

Tech Republic Security

Apple has deployed a privacy feature in iOS 14 and macOS 11 Safari that disables trackers from learning about which websites you visit. Learn all about this new feature and how to use it.

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Washington state launches COVID-19 exposure notification app using Google and Apple technology

GeekWire

Images of the Android interface for the WA Notify app being released Monday. Washington state unveiled a new app to inform residents if they’ve been exposed to someone diagnosed with COVID-19, as infection rates in the state soar to an average of 2,700 cases a day. WA Notify , announced Monday morning, is a free app that uses technology developed through a joint effort by Apple and Google called the Exposure Notification System.

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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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How to create strong passwords: 5 tips

Tech Republic Security

Strong passwords are necessary for making sure you and your organization stay protected. Tom Merritt offers five tips for creating strong passwords.

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Enterprising developers are emulating PS2 games on the Xbox Series S and X

The Verge

Photo by Tom Warren / The Verge. Developers have now made it possible to emulate PS2 games on the Xbox Series X and S using the RetroArch emulator — something that the PlayStation 5, a successor to the PS2, can’t. Thanks to the Xbox Series X / S consoles’ “Developer Mode,” the emulation software can be added as a Universal Windows Application (UWA) , allowing users to download a retail version of the emulation software directly to their console without tricky workarounds, so players don’t have t

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What's New in DirectX 12? Understanding DirectML, DirectX Raytracing and DirectStorage

TechSpot

DirectX 12 has been expanding to cover ray tracing, machine learning and faster storage. Learn how next-gen titles like Cyberpunk 2077 are using some of these extras, and how they'll make games better for us all.

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5 Chatbot Use Cases to Steal

Information Week

Chatbots are the top use case of AI in the enterprise. If you are looking for a chatbot use case, here are five to consider.

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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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Samsung’s Note 20 5G and Z Flip 5G now available in festive red and white colors

The Verge

The Note 20 5G (left) is getting a new red color, while the Z Flip 5G (right) will be sold in white. | Image: Samsung. Samsung’s Galaxy Note 20 5G and Z Flip 5G are available in a pair of new colors in the US starting today, the company has announced. The Note 20 5G is now available in red, while the Z Flip 5G is available in white. Both colors are being produced in “limited quantities,” Samsung says, and there’s no difference in specs or pricing between these and the original models.

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How Mark Kelly used conversational AI to help win a Senate seat

Venture Beast

Mark Kelly's campaign has engaged with hundreds of thousands of constituents, replicating in-person conversations with AI chatbot exchanges. Read More.

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December’s Cardinals vs. 49ers game will skip national TV for Prime Video and Twitch

The Verge

Photo by Katelyn Mulcahy / Getty Images. On December 26th, the Arizona Cardinals / San Francisco 49ers game will skip national television networks entirely and head to Prime Video, Twitch, and two local affiliates as part of Amazon’s recently expanded deal with the NFL. With the deal, Amazon locked in streaming rights for Thursday Night Football through 2022, but this Saturday game is a weekend “exclusive,” one of which the company is guaranteed to host each season.

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Facebook's bots ban thousands of small businesses from advertising at height of retail season

TechSpot

For weeks and months leading up to the US election, Facebook has been begrudgingly evolving its message around censorship and content moderation to fit the times and trends seen in other social media companies.

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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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Slack could quickly become Salesforce’s golden goose

Venture Beast

Salesforce has long been trying to expand its reach in customer organizations. Owning Slack would finally make that happen. Read More.

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UK bans installation of new Huawei 5G equipment from September

The Verge

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge. The UK government is banning the installation of new Huawei 5G equipment from September 2021 as part of its plans to phase out the Chinese firm’s technology by 2027, The Financial Times reports. The decision follows the government’s announcement in July that firms would be barred from buying new equipment from January 2021 over national security concerns.

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Amazon reveals reason for last week's major AWS outage

Tech Republic Cloud

The trigger for the service interruption was a small addition of capacity to Amazon Kinesis, but the problem snowballed from there.

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Slack deal would pit Salesforce against Microsoft, with Tableau acquisition as a potential blueprint

GeekWire

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, Slack CEO Stewart Butterfield, and Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff. (Microsoft, Slack and Salesforce Photos, GeekWire Illustration.). Slack could gain new inroads to enterprise customers, and access to additional sales and marketing horsepower, if reports of its impending acquisition by Salesforce come to fruition. The combination promises to address one of Slack’s biggest relative weaknesses in its competition with its largest rival, Microsoft Teams.

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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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DeepMind’s improved protein-folding prediction AI could accelerate drug discovery

Venture Beast

DeepMind claims that its AI system, AlphaFold, is among the most accurate with respect to protein folding predictions. Read More.

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Seattle biotech firm Silverback Therapeutics sets terms for IPO, looks to raise up to $151M

GeekWire

Laura Shawver, CEO of Silverback Therapeutics. (Silverback Photo). Silverback Therapeutics plans to raise up to $151.8 million in its initial public offering, the Seattle-based company said Monday in an updated IPO filing. The biotech firm will aim to sell 6.95 million shares at $17 to $19 per share. It would be valued at $566 million at the midpoint of the proposed stock price range.

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Facebook acquires messaging marketing automation startup Kustomer

Venture Beast

Facebook today acquired Kustomer, a large-scale messaging marketing automation startup, for an undisclosed amount. Read More.

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Amazon details cause of AWS outage that hobbled thousands of online sites and services

GeekWire

A past AWS re:Invent conference. (GeekWire Photo). A “relatively small addition of capacity” to the Amazon Kinesis real-time data processing service triggered a widespread Amazon Web Services outage last week, the company said in a detailed technical analysis over the weekend. The addition “caused all of the servers in the fleet to exceed the maximum number of threads allowed by an operating system configuration,” the post said, describing a cascade of resulting problems

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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.