Fri.Dec 11, 2020

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It’s Time Chatbots And Virtual Assistants Play A Bigger Role In The B2B Buyer Journey

Forrester IT

With collective commute times down to zero and face-to-face meetings all but impossible, we’ve seen the B2B buyer journey become an almost exclusively digital experience. It’s time for B2B marketers to close the gaps in their customers’ digital experiences with the assistance of automated conversations created by chatbots and virtual assistants (VAs).

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4 Tech Trends to Guide Your IT Career

Association of Information Technology Professional

These career-focused trends will guide you as you add business skills to technical skills in order to build your IT career.

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The Grand Trine Redux: Achieving More Effective B2B Marketing Post-Pandemic

Forrester IT

A grand trine in astrology occurs when three planets are exactly 120 degrees apart. In her latest blog post for Forrester, Phyllis Davidson shares how three elements are coming together to fuel more effective B2B marketing. Check out the blog post and attend the webinar – you don’t need a telescope to see this grand trine!

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4 Business Models to Think About Heading into 2021

Association of Information Technology Professional

Heading into 2021, there are four different models that are either well established or well positioned for future growth in the tech industry: consulting, value-added reselling, managed services, and solution building.

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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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Google Buys Actifio — Who Knew Backups Were So Juicy?

Forrester IT

Last week, Google announced the acquisition of Actifio and plans to integrate Actifio’s technology as a first-party data protection solution akin to Azure Site Recovery. In comparison, AWS’s CloudEndure Disaster Recovery and Azure Site Recovery are more limited in functionality and scope than the capabilities Actifio gives Google. Google Cloud Platform (GCP) plus Actifio could […].

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Deploy Microsoft Store Apps using ConfigMgr | SCCM

Anoop

Subscribe YouTube Channel [link]. and Facebook Page to get latest updates. [link]. Let’s try to understand How to deploy Microsoft Store Apps Using ConfigMgr. Microsoft Store for Business gives opportunity organizations to automatically sync Microsoft store apps and make them available for ConfigMgr admins. Once the Microsoft store for business application is synced with Configuration Manager, you can create a Microsoft Store application in the admin console […].

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Amazon to offer free cloud-computing skills training

Tech Republic Cloud

At Friday's re:Invent 2020 conference event, the e-commerce giant revealed that by 2025 it will invest "hundreds of millions" to help 29 million people worldwide to develop tech skills.

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IoT standards: The US government must create them, and businesses will follow

Tech Republic Security

The Internet of Things is still in its Wild West phase of development. Standardization is necessary to ensure safety and easier integration.

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Ways Data Scientists Can Stand Out in the Virtual Hiring Process

Information Week

Searching for a job during a pandemic presents its own sets of challenges. Here are three tips on how to deliver an impactful interview.

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Security moves from blocker to driver of open source adoption

Tech Republic Security

Commentary: Companies used to look to open source to lower costs. That's still true, but an even bigger driver is security, according to a new developer survey.

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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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How I became a ‘Pop’ icon: Testing Funko’s new personalized figurine-building experience

GeekWire

GeekWire’s Kurt Schlosser tried out Funko’s Pop! People experience and built a semi-passable pint-sized and plastic version of himself. (GeekWire Photo / Kurt Schlosser). Move over Captain America, Hulk, Princess Leia, Russell Wilson and every other pop culture icon in Funko’s world of Pop! figurines. There’s a new hero in town.

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How cybercriminals are now exploiting COVID-19 vaccines

Tech Republic Security

Vaccine-related phishing emails and domains are popping up, while criminals are selling phony vaccines via the Dark Web, says Check Point.

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U.S. Schools Are Buying Phone-Hacking Tech That the FBI Used to Investigate Terrorists

Gizmodo

In May 2016, a student enrolled in a high-school in Shelbyville, Texas, consented to having his phone searched by one of the district’s school resource officers. Looking for evidence of a romantic relationship between the student and a teacher, the officer plugged the phone into a Cellebrite UFED to recover deleted… Read more.

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Apple’s iPhone has an aggravating text notifications bug

The Verge

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge. If you’ve noticed that you’re receiving SMS texts and iMessages from people but aren’t getting any notifications about them, you’re not alone. Far from it. I’m one of many people experiencing an annoying bug where messages come through fine — but without any pop-up notification or even the usual red badge to indicate that there’s a new message waiting to be read.

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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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Scientists Find Mammoth Seemingly Butchered by Humans on Arctic Island

Gizmodo

Kotelny Island sits high up in the Arctic, off the coast of Northern Siberia. It’s cold and barren now, mostly absent of humans. But over 20,000 years ago, this island was home to huge megafauna. Melting permafrost is exposing evidence of this past life, including three large woolly mammoth skeletons discovered there… Read more.

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Hyundai takes control of Boston Dynamics in $1.1B deal

The Verge

One of Boston Dynamics most famous robots is Spot, pictured. | Image: Boston Dynamics. Hyundai is officially purchasing a controlling stake in robot maker Boston Dynamics from SoftBank in a deal that values the company at $1.1 billion, the company announced today. The deal has been in the works for a while, according to recent a report from Bloomberg , and marks a major step into consumer robotics for Hyundai.

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A new widespread malware attack targets Chrome, Firefox, Edge, and Yandex users

TechSpot

Microsoft issued a warning this week of a widespread malware campaign that consists of hijacking the most popular web browsers on tens of thousands of devices every day. Attackers are able to make silent changes to users' computers to inject ads in search results and extract a significant amount of.

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Zodiac Killer's Cipher Cracked by Amateur Codebreakers More Than 50 Years Later

Gizmodo

A team of amateur codebreakers has reportedly cracked the Zodiac Killer’s most infamous cipher, solving a mystery that’s had law enforcement stumped for more than 50 years. 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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Beta Hatch raises $9.3M as startup builds facility east of Seattle to scale up insect-growing operation

GeekWire

Beta Hatch CEO Virginia Emery, center, wields a shovel during a ceremonial groundbreaking in September with officials from the city of Cashmere, Wash., U.S. Rep. Kim Schrier, right, and Malachi Salcido, second from right, whose next-door cryptocurrency mine will provide heat for Beta Hatch’s new production facility. (Beta Hatch Photo). Beta Hatch is planning to grow more than insects east of Seattle in Cashmere, Wash.

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Someone Managed to Overclock a 14-Year-Old Intel Processor to 8.36 GHz

Gizmodo

There’s overclocking, and then there’s overclocking. Sure, there’s a certain satisfaction in overclocking a brand new AMD Ryzen 9 5950X , but that seems like child’s play compared to what one overclocker was able to do with a 14-year-old Intel processor. According to TechSpot , HWBot.org user ivanqu0208 took an Intel… Read more.

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Watch the first six minutes of Tenet now, from home, on YouTube

The Verge

Christopher Nolan recently went on a very public tirade about the importance of movies, including his, being seen on the big screen — but if anyone’s interested in watching Tenet ’s opening prologue, they can do so now on YouTube. Warner Bros. has posted the film’s first six minutes on YouTube ahead of the movie’s digital release next week. Don’t worry about spoilers for the time-warping heist film, there aren’t any.

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Get CompTIA certified and validate your IT knowledge and skills

TechSpot

There’s never been a better time to become a full-fledged IT professional, thanks to the high pay prospects, exciting work environments, and countless opportunities for advancement. With over 200 hours of training, the best-selling Complete CompTIA Certification Training Bundle will help you earn some of the most valuable certifications in.

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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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Emptied by pandemic and overtaken by cranes, Microsoft HQ is a symbol of the changing world

GeekWire

Construction cranes fill the sky over Microsoft’s Redmond campus. (GeekWire Photo / Amy Bishop). REDMOND, Wash. — The heart of Microsoft’s headquarters campus was full of noise and activity on a recent weekday afternoon, as crews worked beneath a sky full of cranes to keep the tech giant’s massive redevelopment project on track.

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How nonprofits are transforming their remote programming to support girls in STEM

Venture Beast

Girls Who Code, AnitaB.org, and NCWIT are working to close the tech gender gap with pandemic-adjusted strategies for education and community. Read More.

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Overclocker pushes 14-year-old Celeron D 347 processor to 8.36GHz

TechSpot

A case in point is this recent achievement from Chinese overclocker ivanqu0208 who managed to push an Intel Celeron D 347 from its base frequency of 3.06GHz all the way up to 8.36GHz.

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Volunteers Are Racing to Save Endangered Sea Turtles Stunned by the Cold

Gizmodo

For decades, volunteers in Cape Cod Bay in Massachusetts have spent November and December trekking up and down the area’s beaches during high tide. They have a very important mission: finding stranded sea turtles that are so cold they can barely move, leaving them essentially defenseless on the shore. 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.

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What Big Tech and Big Tobacco research funding have in common

Venture Beast

Attendees of the Resistance AI workshop at NeurIPS say that by funding research, Big Tech is following the same playbook as Big Tobacco. Read More.

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New venture capital firm looks to invest at intersection of 5G, edge networks and AI

GeekWire

Jim Brisimitzis. A new venture capital firm is taking shape in Seattle with a name suitable for this rain-soaked city. Cloud City Venture Capital was formed earlier this year by tech veterans Jim Brisimitzis and Kevin Ober , and is in the process of raising a new fund, GeekWire has learned. Ober is well known in venture capital circles. He co-founded Seattle venture capital firm Divergent Ventures, and before that spent seven years with Vulcan Ventures, the venture capital firm of the late Micro

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Go read this story about schools buying FBI-grade phone-hacking tech

The Verge

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge. If you were worried about sending your kids back to school after the pandemic ends (or if you are a kid worrying about going back to school), I’m afraid this Gizmodo article is not going to help. Tom McKay and Dhruv Mehrotra have done a fantastic job reporting about how some US school districts are buying tools designed to break into phones to download texts and photos… even ones that have been deleted.

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Matt Smith and Olivia Cooke Join Game of Thrones Prequel House of the Dragon

Gizmodo

This dance (of the dragons) card is starting to fill up. Ready Player One ’s Olivia Cooke, Doctor Who ’s Matt Smith, and Truth Seekers ’ Emma D’Arcy have signed onto HBO’s next journey into Westeros: House of the Dragon. It’s about the fall of Targaryen empire , which led to the rise of the Mother of Dragons. Read more.

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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.