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Preparing For The Future: The 2020s Will Demand More From Your Tech

Forrester IT

If ever there was a decade that announced itself so defiantly in the first year, it’s the 2020s. With so much change and volatility already, 2020 has proven this decade will be dramatically different than the one before it. It’s imperative that IT and business leaders prepare for 10 years unlike any others. For IT and business leaders, success in the 2010s meant capitalizing on innovative commercial IT (think cloud and mobile). […].

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Tech on the Front Line: The Emerging and Cutting-edge Technologies Combatting COVID-19

Association of Information Technology Professional

During the COVID-19 pandemic, technology has connected us like never before—solidifying its value during this unprecedented time in history. But beyond doing the important work of moving applications to the cloud and implementing collaboration platforms, the tech industry is playing a critical role in the front line fight against COVID-19.

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InMoment Addresses Head On What Continues To Plague CX Programs

Forrester IT

This morning, customer feedback management (CFM) vendor InMoment announced an array of new product and service offerings focused on improving experiences, not just measuring and reporting on them. The vendor is calling this Experience Improvement (XI)™. This is an aggressive move by InMoment: CX technology buyers struggle to find differentiation among technology vendors and often […].

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ConfigMgr Intune Deep Dive Videos from Ignite 2020

Anoop

Subscribe YouTube Channel [link]. and Facebook Page to get latest updates. [link]. As mentioned in SCCM Intune Deep Dive Technical Videos Microsoft Ignite 2020 article, here are some of the videos released by Microsoft. I will update the post as soon as possible. So this will be one stop shop for all Microsoft Endpoint Manager videos! Get started with Microsoft Endpoint Manager Managing Windows devices with Microsoft […].

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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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The Disruptive And Problem-Solving Potential Of Emerging Technologies In CPG, Healthcare, And Retail

Forrester IT

Emerging technology is always changing, so we wanted to understand the impact on different industries. In this audio series, we speak with our analyst colleagues Jeff Becker, George Lawrie, and Arielle Trzcinski to explore how emerging technologies are changing (and will in the future), even solving some of the most important and complex issues in four key sectors: consumer packaged goods (CPG), healthcare providers, healthcare insurers, and retail.

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Four ways CISOs can move enterprise security into the new normal

Tech Republic Data Center

Security is changing rapidly, and the COVID-19 pandemic hasn't helped. A Cisco roundtable of chief information security officer advisers plotted the course for a secure future.

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How to create a secure username

Tech Republic Security

Passwords are the most important factor for securing your accounts. But you need to pay attention to your usernames as well, says NordPass.

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Microsoft Launches SharePoint Syntex To Automate Content Categorization And Build A Foundation For Knowledge Curation

Forrester IT

Today, Microsoft announced the general availability of Microsoft SharePoint Syntex as of October 1, 2020. This is the first packaged product to come out of the code-name Project Cortex initiative first announced in November 2019. Project Cortex reflects Microsoft’s ongoing investment in intelligent content services and graph APIs to proactively explore and categorize digital assets […].

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Tech jobs: These are the skills most in demand as companies change their priorities

Tech Republic Security

Keeping the hackers out remains a top priority but firms are also looking at new areas of investment.

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Three Business Scenarios Insurers Can Use To Navigate The COVID-19 Storm

Forrester IT

The development of a vaccine will mark the beginning of the recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic. The associated economic rebound may not have a clear marker. For insurers, the long-lasting effects of COVID-19 can range from moderate to severe across multiple business elements Though insurers have been planning for pandemics, measuring the exact impact of […].

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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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ConfigMgr HP Updates Catalog V3 for SCCM | Third-Party Updates

Anoop

Subscribe YouTube Channel [link]. and Facebook Page to get latest updates. [link]. Let’s understand HP Updates Catalog V3 for SCCM. Learn more about the details of third-party updates feature in your ConfigMgr environment. SCCM 1806 or later version has the option to enable third-party updates (without SCUP integration). [Related Posts – 1️⃣ SCCM Third-Party Software Updates Setup Step by Step Guide Post 1 2️⃣List of Free SCCM Catalogs for Third-Party […].

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Time to Shift! The Top Priorities For Emerging-Company Marketing Leaders

Forrester IT

For emerging-company marketers, too much of a good thing can be just as difficult to deal with as too little. Focusing all components of the revenue engine on the primary growth strategy with shared goals is critical in good and difficult times.

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Improving your Customer Experience with Spearline

Spearline Testing

Many customers usually pick up the phone when they have a pressing, emotional issue to resolve. Yet connectivity and audio connection issues sometimes can often make a difficult situation for the customer even worse. The last thing they want to experience is connectivity or audio quality problems with the phone call itself before they even get as far as having a conversation.

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Salesforce announces Meetings, Einstein Video Call Coaching and more tools aimed at improving virtual sales

Tech Republic Cloud

As sales organizations shift to handling most, if not all, sales calls digitally, Salesforce is adding new functionality to its cloud-based software that the company hopes will help its clients adjust.

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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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75% of AppSec practitioners see a growing cultural divide between AppSec and developers

Tech Republic Security

Thirty-nine percent of developers said the security team is responsible for securing apps, while 67% of AppSec practitioners said their teams are responsible, according to a new study.

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How to create and manage breakout rooms in Microsoft Teams

Tech Republic Cloud

Learn how to use channels to create breakout rooms and follow these best practices to make the experience easy for participants.

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Xbox Series X pre-orders sold out even faster than the PlayStation 5

TechSpot

Part of the problem was that Microsoft let users know precisely when pre-orders would go live. Customers anxious to get the next-gen console ended up bottlenecking purchasing pages triggering DDoS countermeasures. In other instances, stores tried to reduce server load by asking users to wait in line.

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Azure Orbital launches Microsoft into a cloud computing space race with Amazon

GeekWire

The world’s largest and most northerly commercial satellite ground station, KSAT’s Svalbard Station in Norway’s Arctic archipelago, will be part of Microsoft’s Azure Orbital network. (KSAT Photo). Call it the Clash of the Cloud Titans: Today Microsoft is taking the wraps off Azure Orbital , a cloud-based satellite data processing platform that competes with Amazon Web Services’ Ground Station offering.

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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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1,000-Year-Old Precursor to Stainless Steel Found in Iran, Surprising Archaeologists

Gizmodo

Chromium steel, commonly referred to as stainless steel, is thought to be a recent manufacturing innovation, but new evidence suggests ancient Persians stumbled upon an early version of this alloy some 1,000 years ago, in what is a surprise to archaeologists. Read more.

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Seattle startup Resonance AI raises $2.2M to analyze dialogue, mood, music in video content

GeekWire

The Resonance.AI team, including co-founder Tom Chiarella (far right, second row), and co-founder Randa Minkarah (second from left, second row). TV news broadcasters, productions studios, and others are using technology from a Seattle startup to analyze their video content and make changes based on audience reception. Resonance AI recently reeled in $2.28 million of a larger investment round to fuel growth of its video analysis platform that uses artificial intelligence to measure dialogue, musi

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Elon Musk warns new Tesla battery tech won’t reach mass production until 2022

The Verge

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge. Whatever is unveiled during Tesla’s Battery Day event on Tuesday won’t enter “serious high-volume production” until 2022, the company’s CEO Elon Musk has cautioned on Twitter. The time-scale means the technology will mainly impact Tesla’s Semi, Cybertruck, and Roadster projects, the CEO said, adding that the company will continue to buy third-party battery cells even if Tesla decides to make its own.

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Buzzworthy AI: Microsoft expands its Premonition mosquito-tracking outbreak prediction system

GeekWire

Principal hardware architect Nicolas Villar puts the Premonition mosquito-tracking system through its paces in a Microsoft lab. (Microsoft Photo). Five years after launching an experiment to see if advanced sensors and artificial intelligence could spot the signs of a disease outbreak before it happens, Microsoft says it’s ramping up Project Premonition to create an honest-to-goodness biothreat protection network.

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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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Align Your Data Architecture with the Strategic Plan

Information Week

Here's how IT professionals can help top management understand the value of data and how to use it to the company's advantage.

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Riding the news cycle: Amazon ‘Prime Bike’ puts brakes on Peloton stock, but it’s mostly just spin

GeekWire

The Echelon Prime Smart Connect Fitness Bike for Amazon. (Echelon Photo). Is Amazon getting set to rival Peloton? That’s how it looked at first glance when an exercise gear company announced a new “Prime Bike” this week , in partnership with the tech giant, describing it as “Amazon’s first-ever connected fitness product.” “Amazon to be the latest Peloton challenger,” read the news update from stock research site Seeking Alpha.

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Microsoft gets exclusive license for OpenAI’s GPT-3 language model

Venture Beast

Microsoft says it will exclusively license OpenAI's powerful GPT-3 natural language processing model as part of a multiyear agreement between the companies. Read More.

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Blue Origin gets ready to test its suborbital spaceship with COVID-19 safety in mind

GeekWire

Blue Origin’s reusable New Shepard booster makes its landing in December 2019. (Blue Origin Photo). After a nine-month gap, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture is planning to send its New Shepard suborbital spaceship on an uncrewed flight to space and back on Thursday, to test a precision landing system for NASA. And that’s not the only new experiment for Blue Origin’s five-year-old New Shepard flight test program: This 13th test flight will be the first to b

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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.

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It looks like a bunch of soon-to-be-disappointed people accidentally bought Xbox One X’s today

The Verge

Photo by James Bareham / The Verge. Today, Microsoft launched pre-orders for its upcoming next generation console, the Xbox One X. Sorry, I meant the Xbox Series X. Can you blame me? There’s only one word of difference between the two names, and it’s the one in the middle. There are also three X’s. I might not be the only one who gets them confused, though. ( Microsoft itself has, but I digress.

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Bezos Academy, funded by Jeff Bezos’ $2B ‘Day One Fund,’ launches first free school in Seattle area

GeekWire

The Day 1 Academies Fund is gearing up to open the inaugural school in its new network of full scholarship Montessori-inspired preschools in underserved communities. The nonprofit, backed by Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos’ $2 billion Day One Fund , will open a new school on Oct. 19 in Des Moines, Wash., just south of Amazon’s Seattle headquarters.

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Facebook says it may have to stop operating in the EU amid new data transfer rules

TechSpot

Last month, Ireland's Data Protection Commission (DPC) sent Facebook a preliminary order to stop transferring the data of European users to the US, after a European Court of Justice ruled that American privacy legislation isn't adequate.

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Top 5 things to know about platform engineering

Tech Republic Cloud

Having a platform engineering team in your company can help bridge the gap between hardware and software infrastructure. Tom Merritt lists five things to know about platform engineering.

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The Big Payoff of Application Analytics

Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business. That’s what drove the five companies in this e-book to change their approach to analytics. Download this e-book to learn about the unique problems each company faced and how they achieved huge returns beyond expectation by embedding analytics into applications.