Forrester IT
SEPTEMBER 18, 2020
COVID-19 and the associated containment measures are accelerating digital transformation and automation in financial services. Customer service in particular has been under enormous pressure and financial services firms such as Nationwide Building Society in the UK and the Royal Bank of Canada have launched chatbots to deal with the unusually high volume of requests.
Association of Information Technology Professional
SEPTEMBER 18, 2020
The CompTIA Tech Career Academy trains students who have little-to-no information technology experience and gives them the skills to launch an IT career. The program offers online classes and even connects its graduates to potential employers once they’ve completed their training. Wood was one of CompTIA Tech Career Academy’s first fully remote students, and the program changed his life.
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Forrester IT
SEPTEMBER 18, 2020
One of the biggest transformations in retail that Forrester highlighted in its recent B2C buying research stream is the growth of brand manufacturers in commerce and the corresponding tension with marketplaces like Alibaba, Amazon, and others around the world. (“Brand manufacturers” are traditionally wholesale companies that distribute through intermediaries.
Information Week
SEPTEMBER 18, 2020
Interop will provide IT professionals with a glimpse into how cloud, AI and other tech concepts are reshaping financial technology.
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Many organizations today are unlocking the power of their data by using graph databases to feed downstream analytics, enahance visualizations, and more. Yet, when different graph nodes represent the same entity, graphs get messy. Watch this essential video with Senzing CEO Jeff Jonas on how adding entity resolution to a graph database condenses network graphs to improve analytics and save your analysts time.
Forrester IT
SEPTEMBER 18, 2020
In this environment, successful B2B CMOs must be agents of change within marketing and across the revenue engine by introducing well-established proven best-practice processes that can be adjusted quickly to create alignment between functions and meet the changing needs of the business. Join Jennifer Ross and Adele Sweetwood on October 15 for the Forrester SiriusDecisions webcast “Is It 2021 Yet?
Anoop
SEPTEMBER 18, 2020
Subscribe YouTube Channel [link]. and Facebook Page to get latest updates. [link]. Let’s learn the internals of office 365 email backup. Well, it’s not the only office 365 mailbox but many more services like OneDrive, etc. I have experienced an office 365 mailbox outage recently because someone accidentally deleted the cloud identity. Of course, it was a great (not) experience!
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Information Week
SEPTEMBER 18, 2020
The San Francisco Giants have digitized decades of media assets and are using artificial intelligence to manage and access what they need from the massive library.
Tech Republic Data Center
SEPTEMBER 18, 2020
A successful disaster recovery strategy is never easy, and a pandemic adds challenges. Read some advice from industry experts on how to protect your organization from all disasters.
Anoop
SEPTEMBER 18, 2020
Subscribe YouTube Channel [link]. and Facebook Page to get latest updates. [link]. I’m sure this year ignite is more organized for a better virtual experience than in previous years. The main reason being Microsoft Ignite 2020 is a virtual event. This is very well explained in the Tech Community article by Joe Lurie. As per him this MS Ignite conference is: 100% remote 100% virtual 100% free […].
Tech Republic Security
SEPTEMBER 18, 2020
Looking for an easy to use encryption tool to protect data on your Linux servers? Jack Wallen shows you how to install and use gocryptfs to serve that very purpose.
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.
TechSpot
SEPTEMBER 18, 2020
In a world where a decent graphics card can cost the same as a new cutting-edge console, you'd be forgiven for thinking that $500 just isn't enough money to buy a PC and play games on it. So, can it be done?
Tech Republic Security
SEPTEMBER 18, 2020
Users in the US would be unable to download the two Chinese-owned apps from local app stores, according to the Department of Commerce.
Gizmodo
SEPTEMBER 18, 2020
Australia’s Qantas Airlines will fly a seven-hour “flight to nowhere” that takes off and lands in Sydney, a bizarre idea hinging on the belief that people who have been cooped up during the pandemic would want to just experience air travel, even if their destination is the same airport where they departed. And,… Read more.
GeekWire
SEPTEMBER 18, 2020
Howard Schultz. (GeekWire Photo / Kevin Lisota). For all the remembrances tied to the passing of Bill Gates Sr. , who died Monday at age 94, perhaps no story is more surprising or entertaining than one told over the years by Howard Schultz, former chairman and CEO of Starbucks. There was a time when Starbucks didn’t have more than 30,000 locations around the world.
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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.
Gizmodo
SEPTEMBER 18, 2020
What happens when you have a copy of Crysis: Remastered and Nvidia’s new RTX 3080 graphics card in your possession? You see if the RTX 3080 can run it, naturally. One of my hopes for Crysis: Remastered was that it would be just as punishing on PCs today as it was when originally released in 2007. Now that the game has… Read more.
The Verge
SEPTEMBER 18, 2020
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge. One of iOS 14’s big new features is picture-in-picture mode, which lets you watch a video in a small window while you’re doing other things on your iPhone. That could be handy if you, say, wanted to watch a YouTube video in Safari while chatting with your friends or checking email. But unfortunately, it seems YouTube has done something to stop videos from continuing to play when PIP mode is activated — unless you pay for YouTube Premium, that is.
GeekWire
SEPTEMBER 18, 2020
(GeekWire File Photo). A grand jury in the Western District of Washington has indicted six people in a multi-million dollar scheme to bribe Amazon employees and contractors to gain an unfair advantage on the Amazon marketplace, the U.S. Justice Department announced on Friday. The indictment alleges that the defendants conspired to pay over $100,000 in bribes in order to benefit specific merchant accounts on the platform used by third-party sellers.
Venture Beast
SEPTEMBER 18, 2020
ByteDance is planning a U.S. IPO of TikTok Global, a new company that will operate the popular video app, should its deal be cleared by the U.S. government. Read More.
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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.
GeekWire
SEPTEMBER 18, 2020
Blue Origin’s New Shepard suborbital spaceship makes a precision landing in May 2019. (Blue Origin Photo). Apollo 11 commander Neil Armstrong famously had to dodge a boulder-strewn crater just seconds before the first moon landing in 1969 — but for future lunar touchdowns, NASA expects robotic eyes to see such missions to safe landings. And Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture is helping to make it so.
Venture Beast
SEPTEMBER 18, 2020
Unity Technologies has raised more than $1.3 billion in an initial public offering (IPO) at a $13.6 billion valuation. That's a rare event in games. Read More.
The Verge
SEPTEMBER 18, 2020
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge. Comcast and Roku have come to an agreement months after NBCUniversal’s Peacock streaming service launched. Peacock will be available to stream on Roku in the coming weeks. “We are pleased to have reached an agreement with Comcast that will bring Peacock to Roku customers and maintains access to NBCU’s TV Everywhere apps,” a Roku spokesperson said.
Venture Beast
SEPTEMBER 18, 2020
The excitement around a metaverse is growing, as it's not just a thing of science fiction anymore. And Facebook Horizon might be a first step. Read More.
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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.
The Verge
SEPTEMBER 18, 2020
A Tesla Model S owner in Alberta, Canada, was charged with dangerous driving after being pulled over for sleeping while traveling at speeds of 150 km/h (93 mph). The case raises questions about Tesla’s partially automated driving system, Autopilot, and driver complacency. On July 9th, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police said they received a complaint of reckless driving on Highway 2 near Ponoka in Alberta.
Venture Beast
SEPTEMBER 18, 2020
Apple could have dropped the Series 5 watch to $299 and brought an important health feature to mainstream customers, but instead put profits over people. Read More.
The Verge
SEPTEMBER 18, 2020
Asus partnered with Acronym to create this colorful and delightfully weird laptop. You all just need to look at this. This here is the weirdest and coolest 14-inch gaming laptop I’ve ever used. It’s called the ROG Zephyrus G14 ACRNM. If you’re wondering why it looks like that, Asus partnered with a clothing designer called Acronym, which primarily makes stuff like this $2,000 trench coat.
Venture Beast
SEPTEMBER 18, 2020
Cutting-edge language generation models like GPT-3 are capable of producing convincing falsehoods if not properly curtailed, a new study shows. Read More.
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“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.
Gizmodo
SEPTEMBER 18, 2020
Tom Goldtooth awoke on Feb. 21 expecting a pretty regular day ahead. And by all accounts, his day was normal. He was on the road by 11 a.m. to catch a flight. But unbeknownst to him, around the same time as he left, U.S. Customs and Border Protection was watching his home in Beltrami County, Minnesota, from 20,000… Read more.
Venture Beast
SEPTEMBER 18, 2020
France tried to chart its own course by developing a StopCovid tracing app that centeralized data, despite privacy criticisms. It didn't work. Read More.
Gizmodo
SEPTEMBER 18, 2020
The hoverboard is the cursed gadget that keeps on giving. Years after the devices became infamous for exploding , they’re back in the news. This week, Seth Lookhart, a former dentist in Anchorage, Alaska, was sentenced to 12 years in jail after a video of him removing a patient’s tooth while riding a hoverboard drew… Read more.
Venture Beast
SEPTEMBER 18, 2020
Zoox gained approval from the California Department of Motor Vehicles to test autonomous vehicles without drivers in a designated part of Foster City. Read More.
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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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