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Dell Divests VMware: Investors Cheer While Customers Yawn

Forrester IT

When Dell Technologies completed it acquisition of EMC in 2016, it gained a sweetheart of an asset: VMware. More precisely, it gained 80% of VMware, making the software dynamo a mostly autonomous company in the Dell Technologies family of companies. Dell Technologies just announced the expected spin-out of that 80% ownership, making VMware a fully […].

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How to Empower Transformation and Create ROI with Intelligent Automation

Social, Agile and Transformation

CIO and IT leaders have the greatest opportunities to modernize their enterprise platforms, change the culture, and deliver digital business transformations. The secret is out – while first-era digital transformations were driven by improving customer experiences and leading the organization to be more data-driven, all roads on the customer journey map lead to.

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Culture Is Critical To Your Customer Obsession Strategy

Forrester IT

Tired of hearing the phrase “Culture eats strategy for breakfast”? As more CEOs put customer obsession at the heart of their corporate strategy, the mantra bears repeating — because customer-obsessed companies put in the culture work to educate and encourage the workforce on everyone’s role in the customer-obsession strategy. Otherwise, the strategy stalls out or even negatively impacts the culture.

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ConfigMgr Collection Full Incremental Evaluation Status Summary from Console | SCCM

Anoop

Subscribe YouTube Channel [link]. and Facebook Page to get latest updates. [link]. Read More. The post ConfigMgr Collection Full Incremental Evaluation Status Summary from Console | SCCM appeared first on HTMD Blog by Anoop C Nair.

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Get Better Network Graphs & Save Analysts Time

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.

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Microsoft Doubles Down On Healthcare And Conversational AI With $19.7B Purchase of Nuance

Forrester IT

Earlier this week Microsoft announced its intent to acquire Nuance for $19.7B in its second largest acquisition after LinkedIn. For the past 15 years Nuance has been the largest independent speech recognition vendor servicing healthcare and enterprise customer service markets. With this acquisition Microsoft gets serious healthcare chops, an arsenal of conversational AI assets (including […].

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Wells Fargo and Chase now among most imitated brands in phishing attacks

Tech Republic Security

The banks are being exploited in attacks targeting people filing taxes, getting stimulus checks and ordering home deliveries, says Check Point.

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Phishing attack ramps up against COVID-19 vaccine supply chain

Tech Republic Security

Targeting global companies, the attackers are likely seeking confidential data on the distribution and storage of the coronavirus vaccines, says IBM Security X-Force.

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Over 100 million IoT devices and servers are vulnerable because of 20-year-old TCP/IP stacks

TechSpot

The flaws all pertain to how these TCP/IP stacks handle DNS servers. While they found no evidence that these holes have been used in the wild, hackers could potentially utilize them to crash a network or infiltrate a victim's infrastructure allowing them remote control. These implications could be catastrophic for.

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AWS Boosts Support for Girls in Tech's Inclusivity Efforts

Information Week

Cloud services provider increases backing for group aimed at further shrinking the gender gap in the technology workforce.

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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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Chrome 90 is here with HTTPS as the new default protocol, better video calls

TechSpot

Google has been pushing to move the entire web to HTTPS for years by, among other things, labeling all HTTP sites as “Not Secure” and only allowing encrypted pages to download secure files. It appears the plan is working: 97 of the top 100 websites now default to HTTPS, while.

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Crazy for crypto — or not: Seattle VCs sound off on tech’s hottest topic following Coinbase IPO

GeekWire

Coinbase is the talk of tech world this week as the cryptocurrency startup went public and its valuation soared to $85 billion. (Coinbase Photo). Sometimes, making an exception can pay off. That’s what happened to Version One Ventures, which typically invests in early-stage startups but veered off course to make a bet on a fast-growing cryptocurrency company four years ago.

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Autonomous trucking company Plus will use AI and billions of miles of data to train self-driving semis

Venture Beast

By this time next year, hundreds of automated trucks powered by PlusDrive will be on the road, hauling commercial cargo. Read More.

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Reuters is putting its website behind a paywall

TechSpot

“Reuters.com will remain free for a preview period, but will require users to register after five stories,” the publication said, before admitting it wasn’t clear when it would start charging for access.

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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 Games Fund raises $50 million to invest in games in U.S. and Europe

Venture Beast

Join GamesBeat Summit 2021 this April 28-29. Register for a free or VIP pass today. The Games Fund has raised $50 million for a new game-focused venture capital fund to invest in early-stage games in both Europe and the U.S. In doing so, it is joining dozens of other venture capital funds aimed at the hot market of games. But it is unique in that i… Read More.

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Bang & Olufsen Beosound Emerge is a uniquely designed speaker that looks like a book

TechSpot

Designed by Benjamin Hubert of the London-based Design Agency LAYER, the Beosound Emerge looks like a piece of decoration in a living room or like a book on a bookshelf.

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Going, going … goniometer! First Mode delivers measuring gizmo for Mars mission

GeekWire

First Mode President Chris Voorhees and engineers Brian Geddes and Sophia Kim check out the newly completed goniometer before shipping it to Western Washington University. (GeekWire Photo / Alan Boyle). The 3-foot-wide contraption that was built in First Mode’s Seattle workshop looks like something from a science-fiction movie, complete with spinning cogwheels and a flashing light beam — and it really does have an out-of-this-world purpose: helping scientists interpret readings from Mars.

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Google Cloud partners with OSIsoft to simplify industry cloud migration

Venture Beast

Google Cloud partnered with OSIsoft to help enterprises deploy the PI Core industrial operations platform and generate business insights. 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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There's a Black Market for Ketchup Packets Now

Gizmodo

If you’re one of the fast-food aficionados left reeling from stories of the current nationwide ketchup shortage , then get a squirt of this. People are now putting their unopened packets up for sale across eBay and Facebook Marketplace right now, for prices ranging from $1 per pack to over $1,000 for just a few. Read more.

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Canadian politician accidentally appears naked on Parliamentary Zoom call

TechSpot

William Amos, who represents the Quebec district of Pontiac for Prime Minister Trudeau's Liberal Party, was caught walking around in his birthday suit during the session. Like many countries, Canada allows some MPs to participate in parliamentary sittings via video call as a precaution against Covid-19.

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Bezos says Amazon workers aren’t treated like robots, unveils robotic plan to keep them working

The Verge

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos said in his final letter to shareholders as CEO that the e-commerce giant has to “do a better job for our employees.” The letter comes amid ongoing reports of untenable conditions for Amazon workers. And it outlines a strategy that seems odd for a company that has been accused of treating workers like robots: a robotic scheme that will develop new staffing schedules using an algorithm.

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GeekWire Awards 2021: Learn about the 5 finalists for Innovation of the Year

GeekWire

Innovators across the Seattle area are tackling problems big and small with a variety of breakthroughs and technologies. Whether it’s improved battery performance, better vaccines, an easier way to purchase clean energy, tiny tech for tracking scary insects, or management of a company’s cloud infrastructure, the five finalists for GeekWire’s Innovation of the Year are looking to change the way we live and do business.

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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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A Resident Evil 4 VR remake is launching on Oculus Quest 2

The Verge

Capcom. Resident Evil 4 will be rereleased in virtual reality on the Oculus Quest 2 headset. Resident Evil 4’s VR remake will be a collaboration between series publisher Capcom, Oculus parent company Facebook, and the independent studio Armature. While Capcom didn’t offer much detail, some early footage shows a first-person adaptation of the classic third-person shooter.

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Marc Benioff-backed microbiome startup Viome says it expects $100M in revenue next year

GeekWire

(Viome Photos). The news: Viome , the Seattle-area wellness startup that analyzes microbiomes, told GeekWire that it has more than 200,000 customers and expects to hit $100 million in revenue next year. The company also announced the hiring of Dr. Emmanuel Hanon as global head of R&D; Hanon was previously a longtime exec at GlaxoSmithKline. Company background: Founded in 2016, Viome analyzes its customers’ microbiomes through stool samples in order to make food recommendations.

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Nvidia is reportedly releasing a new RTX 3060 with improved anti-mining abilities

TechSpot

With cryptocurrency prices continuing to rise, demand from miners is one of the reasons graphics cards are so expensive and difficult to find right now. By implementing an “unhackable” Ethereum mining limiter, Nvidia hoped that the availability of the RTX 3060, launched on February 25, 2021, would be better than other cards.

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Tech Moves: Adaptive Biotech co-founders join life sciences SPAC; new edtech execs; and more

GeekWire

Chad Robins, left, is co-founder and CEO of Adaptive Biotechnologies, which he co-founded with his brother, Harlan Robins, right, a theoretical physicist turned computational biologist who is the company’s chief scientific officer. (Adaptive Biotechnologies Photo). — Adaptive Biotechnologies co-founders and brothers Chad and Harlan Robins are among the directors of a new life sciences SPAC.

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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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Hide or show the Likes? Instagram and Facebook are giving some users the choice

TechSpot

Instagram has been experimenting with hiding the Like count since 2019. It’s long been known that the pressure some people feel to get huge numbers of Likes can lead to mental health issues, especially in those teens who equate social media popularity with self-worth. Moreover, people tend to gravitate toward.

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Google researchers boost speech recognition accuracy with more datasets

Venture Beast

Google researchers propose a simple solution for improving speech recognition accuracy: training one large model on many datasets. Read More.

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Amazon now has 200 million Prime members, Bezos reveals in annual shareholders letter

GeekWire

An Amazon Prime truck heads north on Interstate 5 in Washington. (GeekWire Photo / Kurt Schlosser). The news: In his annual shareholders letter , Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos said that the company has surpassed 200 million Prime members around the world. It’s the latest update since January 2020, when Amazon hit the 150 million milestone. Amazon reached 100 million Prime members in April 2018.

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Dozens of Fossilized Neanderthal Footprints Found on a Beach in Spain

Gizmodo

Paleoanthropologists have discovered more than 80 fossilized footprints in Southern Spain, on an uneven span of rock that used to be a sandbar. In their analysis, the research team determined the prints were made by 36 individuals, a group of Neanderthal adults and children. 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.