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How Can AI Developers Avoid Ethical Landmines?

IT Toolbox

Discover the ethical pitfalls that AI developers need to be aware of. The post How Can AI Developers Avoid Ethical Landmines? appeared first on Spiceworks.

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CompTIA Helps Students Build Career Opportunities Early

Association of Information Technology Professional

Vlad Serov, a high school senior, has already earned five CompTIA certifications. See how his high school’s Cyber Lab program set him up for success.

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India’s Budget 2023: What It Means For Financial Services And FinTechs?

Forrester IT

I looked at the Budget 2023 that India’s Finance Minister presented on Feb 1st 2023. On that day, India’s Prime Minister tweeted, “This year’s Budget infuses new energy to India’s development trajectory”. I find that he was not far off the mark.

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10 Hardest IT Jobs to Fill

Information Week

If you’re an IT leader or tech manager struggling to hire for one of these positions, you’re not alone. If you’re an IT professional with experience in these roles, you’re in luck.

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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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Introducing Forrester’s Network Analysis And Visibility Landscape, Q1 2023

Forrester IT

In today’s Zero Trust (ZT) world, organizations have been heavily focused on Zero Trust edge identity solutions. In some cases, however, they’ve neglected visibility across all the connections, endpoints, and applications in the enterprise.

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DisplayPort vs. HDMI: 5 Major Comparisons

IT Toolbox

DisplayPort sends video and other data to an output device. HDMI is an interface for audio and video. The post DisplayPort vs. HDMI: 5 Major Comparisons appeared first on Spiceworks.

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IBM's mainframe operating system upgrade will embrace AI

Network World

IBM said this week it will soon roll out an AI-infused, hybrid-cloud oriented version of its z/OS mainframe operating system. Expected in the third quarter, z/OS 3.1 will support technologies intended to enable deployment of AI workloads co-located with z/OS applications, IBM said in a customer preview letter. The new OS will work best with the newest version of the Big Iron, the z16, but it will support z14 models and above, IBM says.

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UW forms medical data science institute focused on AI, machine learning, healthcare

GeekWire

UW Medical Data Science Symposium keynote speaker Atul Butte, director of the Bakar Computational Health Sciences Institute at the University of California, San Francisco. (GeekWire Photo / Charlotte Schubert) There’s a new institute brewing at the University of Washington at the intersection of artificial intelligence, machine learning and healthcare.

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Enable CART Captions in Teams Meetings | Live Captioning

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 Enable CART Captions in Teams Meetings | Live Captioning appeared first on HTMD Community Blog #1 Modern Device Management Guides by Vidya M A.

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This "kissing" device lets long-distance couples and total strangers experience intimacy, sort of

TechSpot

Designed by a group of students from the Changzhou Vocational Institute of Mechatronic Technology in eastern China's Jiangsu province, the device consists of a pair of silicon lips that simulate the pressure, movement, and heat of a kisser's lips.

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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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Book excerpt: Ex-Google manager’s ‘cautionary tale’ details alleged pregnancy discrimination

GeekWire

Editor’s note: Chelsey Glasson is a researcher and writer who spent the past two decades working in the public policy and tech sectors. This is an excerpt from her upcoming book Black Box: A Pregnancy Discrimination Memoir. Excerpted with permission of the publisher, Lioncrest Publishing. “While trauma keeps us dumbfounded, the path out of it is paved with words, carefully assembled, piece by piece, until the whole story can be revealed.” — The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk

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Salesforce, which just laid off 8,000 workers, pays 'creative advisor' Matthew McConaughey $10 million per year

TechSpot

According to The Wall Street Journal, citing people familiar with the matter, Salesforce, which in January said it has to let 8,000 workers go, pays Interstellar star Matthew McConaughey $10 million per year for his role as "creative advisor and TV pitchman." The report didn't mention when the contract began.

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Novo Nordisk laying off 86 workers as part of lab shutdown in Seattle

GeekWire

Novo Nordisk is shutting down wet lab operations in Seattle. (Novo Nordisk Photo) Danish multinational biopharma company Novo Nordisk is laying off 86 employees in Seattle, according to a new filing with the Washington state Employment Security Department. A spokesperson confirmed the cuts with GeekWire and said the company is shutting its Seattle “wet lab” operations, also known as experimental labs.

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Establishing Links: Platform models in the Open API economy

TM Forum

Find out what’s next for Open APIs and what are the prospects for extending them into enterprise customer’s own systems and processes.

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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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Turn On Your PC Remotely: Set Up Your PC for Wake-On-LAN

TechSpot

If you have several PCs all connected to the same network and want to access one that's currently switched off, you can power it back up remotely thanks to a cool bit of networking tech.

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Apple’s MFi scheme for USB-C is a good thing

Computerworld Vertical IT

Apple appears poised to make it more difficult to use cheap USB-C cables with its devices, and while it may well make a few dollars more from the purported plan, there are also good reasons to put the system in place. Apple got to make a dollar or two The claim is that Apple plans to replace Lightning ports and cables with USB-C in the iPhone 15, and when it does it will introduce a Made For iPhone (MFi) scheme for such products.

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Windows 11 taskbar gets AI-powered Bing, also Notepad tabs and the ability to link your iPhone

TechSpot

Those of you who were fortunate enough to test the new ChatGPT-powered Bing chat feature in the past few weeks are no doubt familiar with the way it serves detailed and convincing answers to a variety of questions that can be answered using the vast swaths of information available on.

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Salesforce stock spikes 14% after beating Q4 estimates; Tableau revenue grows 6% to $636M

GeekWire

(GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop) Salesforce stock was up more than 14% in after-hours trading Wednesday as the company beat expectations for its fiscal fourth quarter. Salesforce reported Q4 revenue of $8.38 billion, up 14% year-over-year. Analysts expected $8 billion. The enterprise sales software giant has been under pressure from activist investors amid slowing revenue.

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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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Surging PlayStation 5 sales makes Sony AMD's biggest customer

TechSpot

In its Q4 2022 earnings report, AMD credited one unnamed customer for about one-sixth of its net revenue for 2022, which increased significantly compared to 2021. A semiconductor industry analyst surmised that Sony was that customer based on its results for the same quarter. AMD provides the chips powering Sony's.

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Negotiating Remote Work Agreements as Listings Thin

Information Week

As organizations angle to get workers back to a more regular in-office work schedule, IT professionals are still in a strong position to bargain for remote and hybrid agreements.

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The United Nations want to study solar geoengineering to fight climate change

TechSpot

Solar Radiation Modification (SRM), or more broadly solar geoengineering, is a type of technologies that can theoretically reflect sunlight back into outer space thus cooling Earth's atmosphere. According to a newly-published report by the United Nations, SRM is still a "speculative group of technologies" which should, however, be studied more.

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AWS makes its Lift program available in India

CIO Business Intelligence

Amazon Web Services on Wednesday made its global Lift program available in India, targeting small and medium-size businesses with revenue ranging from 800 million to 6.25 million rupees. The Lift program, according to AWS, offers promotional credits and nearly 200 AWS services to help enterprises move on-premises workloads to the cloud. The India Lift program allows enterprises within the designated revenue range, regardless of their status as an AWS customer, to join the program.

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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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Everything you need to know about Blizzard's Diablo IV beta

TechSpot

Diablo 4's first beta weekend is March 17-19. This test is considered "early access," so is only open to those who pre-ordered the game. The second period is the weekend of March 24-26. This beta is open to everyone, including pre-orders. So it serves also as a small perk for.

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OpenAI wants to build systems smarter than us

Vox

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman speaks during a keynote address announcing ChatGPT integration for Bing at Microsoft in Redmond, Washington, on February 7, 2023. | Jason Redmond/AFP via Getty Images The (problematic) case for building AI as fast as we can. OpenAI, the creators of ChatGPT and the underlying technology for Bing’s Sydney chatbot , have always had a ludicrously ambitious mission: to bring the world AI systems that are generally smarter than humans.

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Take a look at this liquid-cooled PC with 69 water blocks and 100 feet of tubing

TechSpot

PC Gamer reported on the PC, built by Redditor psychoOC who posted images of it on the /r/watercooling subreddit. Unlike the majority of custom water setups that cool the CPU and sometimes the GPU as well, this one is connected to virtually every component in the PC, including the motherboard.

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Big tech’s billions for climate: Here’s where Amazon and Microsoft are making their carbon bets

GeekWire

Climeworks, a leader in direct air capture of carbon dioxide, has facilities alongside a large geothermal power plant outside of Reykjavik, Iceland. In its pursuit of becoming carbon negative, Microsoft has invested in and bought carbon offsets from Climeworks. The pipes are carrying geothermal hot water. (GeekWire Photo / Brent Roraback) In January 2020, Microsoft announced its $1 billion Climate Innovation Fund, and six months later Amazon unveiled its $2 billion Climate Pledge Fund.

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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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Shadow of the Erdtree is the long-awaited first expansion for Elden Ring

TechSpot

Elden Ring, the award-winning poster child of the Soulsborne formula set in a vast and freely explorable open world, will soon grow bigger. Japanese developer FromSoftware has announced an upcoming expansion for the game, Shadow of the Erdtree, by posting a new piece of artwork on Elden Ring's official Twitter.

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How to create Google Calendar appointment schedules that check busy times against multiple calendars

Tech Republic

In Google Calendar, ensure a guest scheduler can’t schedule an event that conflicts with activities on your primary calendar or any of the other calendars you select. The post How to create Google Calendar appointment schedules that check busy times against multiple calendars appeared first on TechRepublic.

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Space organizations are pushing for a universal Moon time

TechSpot

Up to this point, Moon missions have operated based on local time zones exported from Earth but that apparently won't be sustainable in the near future with so many international players participating in lunar activities simultaneously. Thus, a common timescale could be in the cards.

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Amazon’s Ring names Xbox and Oculus vet Elizabeth Hamren as new CEO; founder Jamie Siminoff remains chief inventor

GeekWire

Elizabeth Hamren will take over as Ring CEO later this month. (Photo courtesy of Amazon.) Five years after its acquisition by Amazon, smart doorbell and home security technology company Ring named a new CEO: Elizabeth (Liz) Hamren, a former executive in Meta’s Oculus division and Microsoft’s Xbox business, who was most recently chief operating officer for social messaging platform Discord.

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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.