CTOvision
DECEMBER 16, 2020
When FireEye Inc. discovered that it was hacked this month, the cybersecurity firm’s investigators immediately set about trying to figure out how attackers got past its defenses. It wasn’t just […].
Forrester IT
DECEMBER 16, 2020
Business-to-business partnerships are a long and well-established way for businesses to grow. Many software companies, for example, owe the lion’s share of their revenue from sales through partners. Partnering with consumers, however, is less mature and less industrialized, even if the practice is actually very widespread. First of all, what is a consumer partner, or […].
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CTOvision
DECEMBER 16, 2020
Atlanta, Georgia-based internet of things company Bastille Networks has received an other transaction agreement from the Department of Homeland Security to continue the development of a technology designed to protect […].
Forrester IT
DECEMBER 16, 2020
In the eighth post in Forrester’s 12 days of Christmas blog series, we offer the eight B2B content best practices of “Contentukkah,” the annual holiday commemorating well-written assets.
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.
CTOvision
DECEMBER 16, 2020
MongoDB today released into general availability its Atlas Online Archive service, providing users with a service that enables data tiering. With data tiering a user can archive older, less active data […].
Forrester IT
DECEMBER 16, 2020
It’s time for a holiday miracle! In his latest blog post for Forrester, Malachi Threadgill shares advice on how to align sales and marketing with the seven must-dos for B2B buying groups.
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Forrester IT
DECEMBER 16, 2020
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CTOvision
DECEMBER 16, 2020
Immuta, the automated data governance company, today announced the availability of new features for its Automated Data Governance platform including new, native integrations with Starburst Presto and Presto. By natively […].
Association of Information Technology Professional
DECEMBER 16, 2020
IT pros continue to be in demand - even amidst a pandemic. But who is hiring, and where? We turn to CompTIA Tech Town data to find out.
Anoop
DECEMBER 16, 2020
Subscribe YouTube Channel [link]. and Facebook Page to get latest updates. [link]. Let’s learn the process of the SCCM 2010 Secondary Server Upgrade. I have already explained how to start the upgrade of the primary server to the 2010 version. Make sure you have all the prerequisites in place. ConfigMgr 2010 is Generally Available now. You don’t have to run the opt-in version script to make the 2010 version available in […].
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Tech Republic Security
DECEMBER 16, 2020
Cybercriminals are clever, and AI cannot always account for that. This is where cybersecurity and AI professionals come in.
The Accidental Successful CIO
DECEMBER 16, 2020
CIOs have the responsibility to help keep the Covid-19 vaccine secure Image Credit: Jernej Furman. The Covid-19 pandemic has been a long, hard, path for everyone. Only now is a light starting to appear at the end of the long dark tunnel that we have all been in. Vaccines are racing through the testing phases and once they become available everyone is going to want to get one.
Tech Republic Security
DECEMBER 16, 2020
Apple now requires apps to reveal how user data may be collected, but some companies aren't happy about the policy.
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DECEMBER 16, 2020
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Information Week
DECEMBER 16, 2020
Enterprise IT executives saw huge acceleration in automation deployments in 2020, and that trend will continue next year as they look to expand into intelligent automation.
The Verge
DECEMBER 16, 2020
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge. Twitch will no longer allow streamers and commenters to go around calling one another “simps.” The term — a recent favorite in the Twitch community that nominally refers to men who seem desperate for a woman’s attention — will be banned when used as an insult under Twitch’s upcoming revamp of its harassment policy.
GeekWire
DECEMBER 16, 2020
There are 10 unicorn startups in the Seattle area valued at $1 billion or more. (Shutterstock Photo). The unicorn — that supposed elusive creature of the startup world — is becoming a bit more commonplace in these parts. There are now 10 unicorn startups valued at $1 billion or more parading through the mossy and rain-soaked environs of Seattle, based on data compiled by GeekWire and PitchBook.
Tech Republic Security
DECEMBER 16, 2020
Social engineering is allowing cybercriminals the way in. Learn how to lock that door.
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The Verge
DECEMBER 16, 2020
Facebook’s newspaper ad. | Dave Stangis ( Twitter ). Facebook is publicly criticizing Apple’s upcoming iOS privacy changes in full-page newspaper ads today. “We’re standing up to Apple for small businesses everywhere,” reads the headline on an ad inside the New York Times , the Washington Post , and the Wall Street Journal today. Bloomberg News reports that the ads are related to Apple’s iOS 14 privacy changes that will make it more difficult for companies like Facebook to target users with ads.
GeekWire
DECEMBER 16, 2020
(FriendlyFace Photo). It’s not easy to put on a happy face, or any face, really, during a pandemic in which face masks and frowns are kind of the norm. But a Seattle company is helping people smile with a product that combines selfies and tech and COVID-19 safety. FriendlyFace is the work of digital designers and developers based in West Seattle, working out of a studio called Lab.
The Verge
DECEMBER 16, 2020
Photo: Ben Carter. Ray-tracing technology, available for a few years on PC, has finally come to consoles: the PS5 has it, the Xbox Series S and X have it, and, 30 years after its release, the SNES is getting it. No joke — the Nintendo console from 1990 has had ray tracing run on it, thanks to an incredible mod by programmer Ben Carter ( via Gizmodo ).
GeekWire
DECEMBER 16, 2020
An artist’s conception shows the New Glenn rocket on its launch pad. (Blue Origin Illustration). Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture hasn’t yet finished its orbital-class New Glenn rocket, but today NASA put it on the “on-ramp” for future missions. The NASA Launch Services II contract, or NLS II for short, essentially puts New Glenn on the list of options available for ordering through June 2025, with an overall period of performance through 2027.
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Gizmodo
DECEMBER 16, 2020
As part of an ongoing process of retooling its policies around harassment and hateful conduct, Twitch announced on Wednesday that the words “simp,” “incel,” and “virgin” will no longer be allowed on the platform as long as they are used by streamers and commenters as insults. If they are used in a friendly way, the… Read more.
GeekWire
DECEMBER 16, 2020
A Project Kuiper employee works on antenna hardware. (Amazon / Project Kuiper Photo). Amazon’s Project Kuiper hasn’t yet said when it’ll start launching satellites or providing broadband internet access from above, but it is sharing details about how customers will get their data. The $10 billion project , which aims to put more than 3,200 satellites into low Earth orbit, will use an innovative type of phased-array antenna that overlays one set of tiny elements on top of anothe
Gizmodo
DECEMBER 16, 2020
Warehouse workers in an Alabama Amazon facility could soon become the first unionized workers employed by the retail giant after federal regulators greenlit a National Labor Relations Board election on Wednesday. Read more.
The Verge
DECEMBER 16, 2020
Photo by Monica Chin / The Verge. Today, Neverware announced in an FAQ that it’s now part of Google. Neverware, based in New York City, makes a software application called CloudReady that allows you to convert a PC into a system that runs Chrome OS. In its FAQ, Neverware states that it and its CloudReady software are “officially part of Google and the Chrome OS team.”.
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GeekWire
DECEMBER 16, 2020
An Amazon employee enters a fulfillment center in Kent, Wash., before a shift in the massive package handling warehouse. (GeekWire File Photo / Kurt Schlosser). As the first vaccines for COVID-19 are being administered in the U.S. this week, Amazon is asking the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to take care of some of the tech giant’s workers as soon as possible.
The Verge
DECEMBER 16, 2020
One of the biggest hurdles facing HBO Max is no longer a problem: the streaming service will finally be coming to Roku devices, starting December 17th. The move comes just after after WarnerMedia announced that it will simultaneously release its 2021 movies on HBO Max the same day they debut in theaters. The move follows Wonder Woman 1984 debuting on HBO Max the same day as its released in theaters on December 25th.
TechSpot
DECEMBER 16, 2020
Each doughy creature in the Blob Opera has a unique voice—bass, tenor, mezzo-soprano, and soprano—that you control by dragging the blob up and down to change pitch. Moving left or right changes the vowel sound it sings.
GeekWire
DECEMBER 16, 2020
(Instagram photo via @ZeroAvia ). ZeroAvia , an aviation startup aiming to power cleaner airplanes with hydrogen, has raised $21.4 million in a funding round led by Bill Gates’ Breakthrough Energy Ventures as well as Amazon’s Climate Pledge Fund. The California-based company said Wednesday it is using the money to accelerate the development of its hydrogen-electric powertrain to help with the transition to zero-emission commercial aircraft.
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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