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The Future Of Banking Requires Tech-Driven Innovation

Forrester IT

Over three quarters of banks are increasing their spending on emerging technologies, creating the potential for hype and fear of missing out. Forrester identified nine emerging technologies that should be on the list of every bank, either now or later. We then organized them according to when firms can expect return on investment and provided details about the technologies and their use cases.

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How ChatGPT Can Be a Game Changer in Human Resource Management

IT Toolbox

Here are a few areas where ChatGPT can improve HR processes. The post How ChatGPT Can Be a Game Changer in Human Resource Management appeared first on Spiceworks.

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Align Around Your Customers To Power Growth In Today’s Economic Climate

Forrester IT

Outdated, short-term growth strategies that focus on extracting value from customers will fail. To succeed, companies must build, run, and continually optimize a customer-obsessed growth engine.

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IBM: Most ransomware blocked last year, but cyberattacks are moving faster

Tech Republic Security

A new study from IBM Security suggests cyberattackers are taking side routes that are less visible, and they are getting much faster at infiltrating perimeters. The post IBM: Most ransomware blocked last year, but cyberattacks are moving faster appeared first on TechRepublic.

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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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Navigating The Economic Headwinds Of 2023

Forrester IT

It seems that every other news headline is warning us of impending economic doom in 2023. The peculiar thing about sales is that there really are no acceptable excuses for nonperformance. I knew of sales leaders who were put on performance improvement plans during the pandemic.

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How to Manage Intune Compliance Policy Settings

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 How to Manage Intune Compliance Policy Settings appeared first on HTMD Community Blog #1 Modern Device Management Guides by Jitesh Kumar.

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'CompTIA Helps Me See Where My Company Can Be in 5 Years, 10 Years’

Association of Information Technology Professional

Steven Tytgat, CEO of Tyneso, and vice chair of CompTIA’s Benelux Community, talks about how CompTIA membership has helped their businesses and careers.

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Amazon Sales And Profit Analysis For 2022: Top 10 Insights

Forrester IT

Last year, Amazon’s total net sales surpassed the half-trillion-dollar mark. To understand the drivers behind Amazon’s sales and profits performance, we analyzed the company’s sales and profits by product groups, countries, and business segments. Following are the top 10 insights from our analysis.

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10 ways to accelerate digital transformation

CIO Business Intelligence

The pandemic-era push to quickly boost digital touchpoints and services proved that transformation can happen fast. That has left a lasting legacy: Even as the pandemic recedes, enterprise executives continue to expect CIOs and their IT departments to deliver transformative capabilities at a rapid-fire pace. If you think you’re keeping up, think again: One recent study from research firm Gartner found that the majority of CEOs (59%) say digital initiatives take too long and 52% take too long to

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A Zero Trust Paradox: Which Comes First, Microsegmentation Or Microperimeter?

Forrester IT

The common trope, “What came first, the chicken or the egg?” is a question about origins and paradoxical relationships. Security and risk conversations about microsegmentation and microperimeters suffer from a similar dilemma. These two concepts are heavily emphasized in Zero Trust conversations as key components to advance maturity.

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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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'CompTIA Helps Me See Where My Company Can Be in 5 Years, 10 Years’

Association of Information Technology Professional

Steven Tytgat, CEO of Tyneso, and vice chair of CompTIA’s Benelux Community, talks about how CompTIA membership has helped their businesses and careers.

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Five Reasons Why CISOs Should Report To CEOs

Forrester IT

For this research, we examined Forrester data on CISO reporting and organizational structures: CEO- and board-aligned; IT-aligned; and risk-aligned.

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Gain an understanding of AI, cybersecurity and more with this $69 resource

Tech Republic Security

The Modern Tech Skills Bundle from CyberTraining 365 offers lifetime access to over 2,000 video lectures that introduce students to today’s most compelling technologies. The post Gain an understanding of AI, cybersecurity and more with this $69 resource appeared first on TechRepublic.

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Bringing Digital People to life with autonomous animation

All Things Distributed

As we find ourselves spending more time talking with and through machines than we do face-to-face, the popularity of conversational AI and large language models show that there is an appetite for interfaces that feel more like conversations with people. However, what's still missing is the connection that's established with visual and non-verbal cues.

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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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Power checklist: Local email server-to-cloud migration

Tech Republic Cloud

Many organizations still manage email infrastructure themselves using local, on-premise equipment. Such firms are a dying breed for a good reason: Cloud-based email solutions simplify administration, typically enhance security, provide broader ease of access and often lower total overall operating costs. Organizations that haven’t already migrated email service to the cloud, subsequently, are likely to.

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‘Profound and historic’: Seattle becomes first U.S. city to ban caste discrimination

GeekWire

Seattle City Councilmember Kshama Sawant sponsored the legislation to ban caste discrimination in Seattle. (GeekWire File Photo / Monica Nickelsburg) Seattle lawmakers on Tuesday approved legislation to ban caste discrimination in a move that could impact tech workers and companies. The first-in-the-nation law aims to address a social practice that is rooted in thousands of years of history in India and other countries.

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How to expand your search sources

Tech Republic

Explore search services beyond Google and Bing for a wider range of results, customization and privacy options. The post How to expand your search sources appeared first on TechRepublic.

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Seattle mayor praises Amazon’s back-to-office policy in ‘State of the City’ address

GeekWire

Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell delivers his State of the City address at Fisher Pavilion at Seattle Center on Tuesday. (Seattle Channel screen grab) Speaking from Seattle Center on Tuesday in his annual “State of the City” address, Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell reflected on the inspiration and innovation that got the Space Needle built 61 years ago.

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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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ChatGPT is overtly and covertly writing novels and short stories and the industry is freaking out

TechSpot

The latest bombshell to hit the ChatGPT spectrum is a report that as of mid-February, the AI has 200 or more books under its virtual belt published in Amazon's Kindle store. Reuters notes that some titles are "co-authored," but many are published as-is with no human intervention other than to.

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Social media used to be free. Not anymore.

Vox

Sandra Hunke, a plumber who is one of the most popular craft influencers in Germany with 120,000 Instagram followers and now also works part-time as a model, poses for a photo in her workshop in North Rhine-Westphalia. | Friso Gentsch/picture alliance via Getty Images You used to pay for social media with your eyeballs. Now Meta and Twitter want your money, too.

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Windows 11 desktop watermarks start appearing on unsupported systems

TechSpot

Microsoft may finally be introducing a dreaded feature it first teased last year. Since the January 2023 Windows update, some Windows 11 users have reported seeing a watermark on their desktops warning them about unmet system requirements.

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Tech Moves: Picnic CEO steps down; Expedia adds board member; Accolade exec departs; and more

GeekWire

Picnic CEO Clayton Wood. (Picnic Photo) — Picnic CEO Clayton Wood is stepping down from the food automation startup. The Seattle tech vet joined Picnic in 2018, helping the startup mature from the prototype stage and land nearly $40 million in venture capital to support growth of its food assembly robots. “It’s been an exhilarating adventure, helping to build a new industry of restaurant automation, and I’m very proud of the work I was able to accomplish with the invaluable assistance of a

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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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Wilson unveils "airless" 3D-printed basketball that nearly meets NBA regulation

TechSpot

Sports gear company Wilson has reinvented the basketball. It recently created a high-tech prototype that needs no air to bounce. The so-called "Airless Prototype" is the first basketball innovation since Butler University's head basketball coach, Tony Hinkle, got Spalding to start making easy-to-see orange basketballs in 1957.

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Stop using your phone number to log in

Vox

iStock/Getty Images Phone numbers were never meant to protect or identify us, but we use them to do that all the time. We shouldn’t. When Ugo moved to a new country last October, he got a new phone number. Ugo, who lives in Europe, where WhatsApp is very popular, didn’t immediately register his new phone number on the app, but was able to continue to use it as normal.

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Google starts rolling out Memory and Energy Saver modes to latest Chrome release

TechSpot

Google in December announced that Memory Saver and Energy Saver modes were coming to Chrome. As the name suggests, the former helps free up system RAM when Chrome is active. This is achieved by snoozing tabs that aren't being used, thereby prioritizing memory for active tabs and other applications that.

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Elements of an Effective Software Supply Chain Strategy

Information Week

Get a handle on your organization's software supply chain not only to comply with federal regulations but also to tighten security throughout that supply chain.

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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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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman warns that the world might not be far from "potentially scary" artificial intelligence

TechSpot

Altman, co-founder and CEO of OpenAI and the former president of Y Combinator, posted several tweets about generative AI over the weekend. He wrote that the benefits of integrating AI tools into society mean the world will likely adapt to the technology very quickly. He believes they will help us.

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Bill to designate official Washington state dinosaur moves step closer thanks to ancient leg bone

GeekWire

A rendering of Daspletosaurus torosus, known as Suciasaurus rex. ( Wikipedia Image ) Lawmakers pondering the relevance of a dinosaur leg bone moved a step closer to designating the unique find as Washington state’s official dinosaur on Monday. A bill to make Suciasaurus rex the state dinosaur passed the House of Representatives for the third time since the Legislature first started considering it in 2019.

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AMD executive talks AI acceleration in new interview

TechSpot

In a recently-published interview, senior figures from AMD expressed interest in AI applications in graphics cards that go beyond image reconstruction, which Nvidia made popular. The machine-translated comments mark the first time the company has talked at length on the subject since unveiling its first GPUs incorporating AI accelerators late.

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What Heineken’s CIO is brewing for better connectivity

CIO Business Intelligence

As a 159-year-old family business, Dutch brewing company Heineken owes its longevity to a steady stream of innovation. Founded by entrepreneur Gerard Adriaan Heineken in 1864, who sought to renovate an old brewery in the center of Amsterdam, the beer company that would later bear his name has become synonymous with Dutch beer, readily recognizable from its green bottle with red star label.

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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.