Fri.Jun 11, 2021

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iOS 15: Making 100 Mobile Moments Better Every Day

Forrester IT

Apple kicked off its annual developer conference on Monday, June 7, 2021. One of its big announcements was iOS 15. iOS 15 makes experiences more intelligent and more intuitive. Apple is adding features that help its customers 100 times a day in little moments throughout the day, every day. In some ways, you could say […].

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How to Study for CompTIA Cloud+

Association of Information Technology Professional

Prepare for the new CompTIA Cloud+ with the exam objectives, CompTIA Labs, fundamental network skills and knowledge of Windows and Linux.

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Got Kubernetes in production? Let’s talk.

Forrester IT

Kubernetes is going mainstream—at least, that’s what we are told at the KubeCon conferences, Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) case studies and various vendor success stories. But those high-profile use cases are dominated by the cloud hyperscalers, software and SaaS providers, tech equipment makers, and telcos. Big banks and other financial services providers with way-above-average […].

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SCCM Application Estimated Installation Time | ConfigMgr | Endpoint Manager

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 SCCM Application Estimated Installation Time | ConfigMgr | Endpoint Manager appeared first on HTMD Blog #1 by Jitesh Kumar.

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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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April and May 2021 Research Recap — Cloud And Tech Operations

Forrester IT

Each month, the infrastructure and operations (I&O) team writes incredible research (sorry for missing April initially!). As a research director, I get to not only see the final outcome but all of the work and client insights that went into its creation. For those who know me, I am quick to call these out via […].

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Microsoft Azure Virtual Desktop: A cheat sheet

Tech Republic Cloud

Cloud-based DaaS offers several advantages to a remote workforce. This guide to Microsoft Azure Virtual Desktop (formerly Windows Virtual Desktop) assesses the platform and what it can offer.

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What Can Businesses Do to Fill the Cybersecurity Talent Shortage?

Association of Information Technology Professional

With cybersecurity threats increasing and worsening, the need to fill the gap becomes extremely dire. But what steps have been taken so far and what else can be done? Tech companies need to take more proactive steps to help solve the problem.

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McDonald's suffers cyberattack in US, South Korea and Taiwan

Tech Republic Security

The restaurant chain reportedly said no U.S. customer data was exposed and the attack did not involve ransomware.

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Terraform 1.0 takes DevOps to Multicloud

Tech Republic Data Center

DevOps revolutionized how we managed servers, and HashiCorp's Terraform promises to do the same for multicloud installations.

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The controversy over Bill Gates becoming the largest private farmland owner in the US

Vox

Bill Gates has bought a surprising amount of farmland in recent years. | Michael Gottschalk/Photothek via Getty Images. People are drawing connections between Gates’s vast farmlands and climate change advocacy. Bill Gates might be a tech billionaire — but he and his wife Melinda French Gates, who are in the process of divorcing , are also two of the largest private farmland owners in the United States.

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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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7 Shocking Satellite Images Reveal the West's Megadrought

Gizmodo

The megadrought hitting the western United States has yielded no shortage of horror stories to start the dry season. Record heat last week has seared in drought , turning the region from an already well-done steak into a charred crisp. Almond growers are ripping up orchards , and 17 million endangered salmon are being … Read more.

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Colorful and Nvidia are opening the world's first GPU museum

TechSpot

The museum, located in at Shenzhen New Generation Industrial Park where Colorful recently located, contains a visual history of the Graphics Processing Unit’s evolution, starting from the 1980s up to the present day.

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Restaurants and small biz near Amazon HQ show signs of life as tech giant adjusts remote work rules

GeekWire

Amazon’s Banana Stand is back in action at the company’s HQ in Seattle as workers begin their return to the office. (GeekWire Photos / Taylor Soper). Cinque Terre Ristorante had revenue streams nearly cut off when thousands of Amazon employees started to work remotely in March 2020. But nearly a year-and-a-half later, the restaurant just reopened for daily lunch this week after seeing increased foot traffic around its location on Amazon’s campus near downtown Seattle.

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What We Can Do About Biased AI

Information Week

Biased artificial intelligence is a real issue. But how does it occur, what are the ramifications -- and what can we do about it?

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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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Facebook acquires Seattle virtual reality gaming company BigBox VR, makers of Population: One

GeekWire

Big Box VR co-founders Chia Chin Lee (left) and Gabe Brown. (GeekWire Photo / Taylor Soper). Seattle startup BigBox VR , the company behind multiplayer virtual reality game POPULATION: ONE , has been acquired by Facebook. Facebook was drawn to BigBox due to the popularit y of POP: ONE, which has been one of the top-performing titles on the Oculus platform since it launched last year and racked up $10 million in revenue within a few months.

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The race is on for quantum-safe cryptography

The Verge

Illustration by Maria Chimishkyan. In 2016, Lily Chen started a competition to rewrite the building blocks of encryption. With her team of mathematicians at the US National Institute of Standards and Technology, Chen reached out to academic and industry cryptographers around the world to find algorithms that could resist new threats posed by quantum computers.

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Rubin Observatory Goes Open Source to Capture Galactic Data

Information Week

Optical observatory under construction using InfluxData to help it process data to be collected over time from the stars.

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Kena: Bridge of Spirits hands-on: A little Pikmin in your Zelda

Venture Beast

Kena: Bridge of Spirits stood out to me when Sony showed this independent action-adventure title ahead of the PlayStation 5's launch. Read More.

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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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This Shockingly Invasive Malware Stole Data from 3.25 Million Windows Computers

Gizmodo

Between 2018 and 2020, a mysterious strain of malware infected and stole sensitive data from approximately 3.25 million Windows-based computers—taking with it a horrifying amount of intimate information about the users of those devices. Read more.

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Qatalog: Productivity software overload is killing workers’ productivity

Venture Beast

A Cornell/Qatalog study found too many workplace apps mean people are overloaded with data, can't find what they need, and making mistakes. Read More.

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Facebook just bought the Fortnite of VR

The Verge

A character in Population: One. | Image: BigBox VR. Facebook has acquired yet another developer of a popular virtual reality game, announcing on Friday that BigBox VR, makers of the battle royale VR title Population: One, will be joining Oculus Studios. “ POP: ONE stormed onto the VR scene just nine months ago and has consistently ranked as one the top-performing titles on the Oculus platform, bringing together up to 24 people at a time to connect, play, and compete in a virtual world,” Mike Ver

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AI ‘dominated scientific output’ in recent years, UNESCO report shows

Venture Beast

The UNESCO Science Report 2021 discusses AI, robitics, Industry 4.0, and a spike in scientific reserach, patents, and spending. 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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McDonald’s suffers data breach in the US, South Korea, and Taiwan

The Verge

Photo by ADITYA AJI/AFP via Getty Images. The fast food mega chain McDonald’s is the latest company to have private data stolen by a third party, The Wall Street Journal reports. Unlike other recent attacks on CNA Financial and the Colonial Pipeline , McDonald’s claims it isn’t dealing with ransomware, but store information in the US was taken, along with some customer information in South Korea and Taiwan.

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Malware-packed pirated games infected millions of PCs, stealing data and hijacking webcams to photograph users

TechSpot

NordLocker writes that a hacking group revealed the location of a database containing the stolen data by accident. Security researchers then analyzed the information in partnership with a third-party company specializing in data breaches.

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A Bizarre Coal Industry Propaganda Program Is Infiltrating K-12 Classrooms

Gizmodo

Next week, dozens of teachers from North Dakota, Minnesota, Montana, South Dakota, and Iowa will descend on Bismarck State College in North Dakota for the annual three-day Lignite Energy Council Teacher’s Seminar. Read more.

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Microsoft puts out an 11-minute video of 'Slo-fi' Windows Startup sounds

TechSpot

Microsoft has been dropping a couple of hints for the arrival of "Windows 11," with clues like the 11am ET starting time for the upcoming OS event and the number '11' hiding in plain sight in the related reveal image.

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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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AI Weekly: AI helps companies design physical products

Venture Beast

AI is increasingly being used to assist engineers in creating physical products -- a potentially positive development for enterprises. Read More.

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Air taxi startup Archer shows off small electric aircraft but no flight test

The Verge

Archer Aviation, a Santa Clara-based aviation startup, unveiled a new electric aircraft Thursday that it says will serve as the basis for a future fleet of air taxis that will criss-cross cities and help alleviate traffic. But much like the majority of these startups, the company was not able to demonstrate its flying taxis doing the thing they’re supposed to do: flying.

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10 steps to educate your company on AI fairness

Venture Beast

Practical interventions to ensure AI fairness include creating an AI fairness charter and implementing training and testing. Read More.

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Electronic Arts Hackers Say Slack Was Their Secret Weapon: Report

Gizmodo

After reports broke yesterday about a whopping 780GB of data being swiped from the gaming giant Electronic Arts (EA), we already know how the heist was pulled off, at least according to the hackers’ telling. Read more.

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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.