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Customer Obsession And The CEO

Forrester IT

Getting to customer-obsession is a complex, all-in effort that is more of a cause than a program. It flows directly from the heart of an organization – it’s about how you behave and what you value. Here's a rough map of how a CEO can lead this voyage.

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Time to Think IoT Data, Not Endpoints

CTOvision

Read why Gary Audin says that it is time to realign focus from thinking about the endpoint devices to the Internet of Things data that is produced on IoT Evolution […].

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It Shouldn't Be This Hard To Promote Soft Skills But It Is

Association of Information Technology Professional

Unlike a college degree, certifications actually measure competencies and require those in the field to be re-certified every few years.

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Regulated Blockchain: A New Dawn in Technological Advancement

CTOvision

Read why James Jorner says that for blockchain to be widely accepted there has to be some regulation on Entrepreneur : There is no doubting the fact that there are […].

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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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Digital Transformation is not a 9-5 Job

Social, Agile and Transformation

It's the last week of summer, so maybe take some time to reflect on your team's performance over the last several months. Has your team come up for air after adjusting to COVID, remote working, and realigning digital transformation priorities? . Because before diving into the end of year budgeting, planning, and moving transformation programs forward, I.

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Three Technologies To Accelerate Digital Transformation

CTOvision

There was a time when digital transformation was just another to-do item in most businesses’ agendas. After the Covid-19 outbreak, those days came to a forceful halt. Now, every company […].

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Five critical cloud security challenges and how to overcome them

CTOvision

Read Chris Foster list five critical cloud security challenges and how to overcome them on Help Net Security : Today’s organizations desire the accessibility and flexibility of the cloud, yet […].

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Your Next Move: Application Security Analyst

Association of Information Technology Professional

If you have an analytical mind and a penchant for problem solving, a career as an application security analyst may be for you.

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How ThoughtSpot search helps agencies better explore their data

CTOvision

ThoughtSpot’s search capabilities help agencies better explore their data and answer their questions. This demo showcases how anyone can use ThoughtSpot’s search capabilities. In this AI Demo Showcase, a notional […].

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The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Workspaces

Information Technology Zone Submitted Articles

Artificial intelligence will change everything - even big office real estate

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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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What’s the Future of IoT Security for Businesses?

CTOvision

Read Ben Canner take a look at the best practices in the Internet of Things security on Solutions Review : What is the future of the Internet of Things (IoT) […].

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The best developer-centric security products

Tech Republic Security

Commentary: For organizations struggling to secure their IT, a host of new, developer-focused products are hitting the market. Check out this guide of the best developer-centric security products.

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Throw Out That 3-Year Business Plan

Information Week

Here's why real-time forecasting rules in 2020 (and how retraining your machine learning models can help with that).

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Pickin’ Nuggets: We tested a Seattle startup’s plant-based meat vs. the McDonald’s chicken classic

GeekWire

Rebellyous Foods’ original plant-based nuggets on the left, and its new “Kickin’ Nuggets” on the right. (GeekWire Photo / Taylor Soper). Earlier this summer I came away impressed with Starbucks’ Impossible Breakfast Sandwich, a new menu item with plant-based sausage that’s part of a trend toward meat alternatives.

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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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Samsung launches flagship 980 Pro PCIe 4.0 SSD that can hit a blistering 7,000 MB/s

TechSpot

Samsung gave us an exciting glimpse of the 980 Pro SSD at CES 2020, briefly revealing the drive's underlying technology, read/write speeds and storage capacities. While rumors of a late summer launch have now proved correct, Samsung, in the meantime, managed to find another 500 MB/s increase in the drive's.

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Artists create paintings designed to be tempered in space on Blue Origin’s rocket

GeekWire

Jeff Hein works in his art studio, testing his paints and creative processes on an exterior panel of Blue Origin’s New Shepard suborbital spaceship. (Uplift Aerospace Photo). Uplift Aerospace and Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin rocket venture plan to put paintings where virtually no art has gone before: on the side of a rocket ship. The “canvases” for these works are exterior panels that will be mounted on Blue Origin’s suborbital New Shepard spaceship, sent to t

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Facebook open-sources Opacus, a PyTorch library for differential privacy

Venture Beast

Facebook's Opacus is a library for training PyTorch models with differential privacy that's ostensibly more scalable than existing state-of-the-art methods. Read More.

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Amazon’s drone delivery ambitions hit key milestone with new FAA approval

GeekWire

Amazon showed off its latest drone design in June 2019. (Amazon Photo / Jordan Stead). The Federal Aviation Administration this weekend approved Amazon’s Prime Air arm as an official “air carrier,” marking a key milestone for Amazon’s drone delivery initiative. The designation allows Amazon to begin commercial drone deliveries in the U.S. under a trial program.

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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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Qualcomm doubles 5G mmWave range to 2.36 miles for broadband modems

Venture Beast

The chipmaker has tested its latest wireless home broadband solution at over twice the distance initially promised, bringing faster service to rural areas. Read More.

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Former Amazon, Microsoft engineers raise $120K for Seattle cloud startup Cloudshim

GeekWire

A new startup out of Seattle called Cloudshim just raised $120,000 to help grow the company’s self-serve cloud management platform. Founded by two brothers who previously worked at Microsoft and Amazon — Lokesh Taneja and Vishal Taneja — Cloudshim aims to help companies manage cloud infrastructure services and track associated cloud costs. “Most competitor products have gone upmarket, tailoring their product around enterprise requirements,” said Lokesh Taneja. “This has l

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Finally Some Good News: September Is Overflowing With New Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books

Gizmodo

Movies are slowly trickling back into theaters, but a far safer option is to pick up one of September’s new books instead. And it’s a ridiculously bountiful month, with witches, warriors, time travelers , ghosts, robots, aliens, monsters, and space pirates to fire up your imagination without needing to leave the house. Read more.

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Allen Institute open-sources AllenAct, a framework for research in embodied AI

Venture Beast

The Allen Institute for AI's new open source framework -- AllenAct -- aims to promote reproducible research in embodied AI with a focus on modularity. 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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Big Fish Games to pay $155M and tweak games as part of class action settlement over gambling

GeekWire

Inside the Big Fish office in Seattle. (GeekWire File Photo / Nat Levy). A judge on Monday granted preliminary approval of two class action settlements that order the past and current owner of Seattle-based Big Fish Games to pay $155 million to recover losses incurred by users of its casino-gaming apps. The legal dispute dates back to 2015 when Cheryl Kater sued Big Fish’s then-parent company Churchill Downs.

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Cosmose AI raises $15 million to track in-store shoppers using smartphone data

Venture Beast

Cosmose AI, which is developing a platform that taps smartphone data to track shoppers' in-store behavior, has raised $15 million in venture capital. Read More.

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Apple accidentally approved malware disguised as Flash, new report finds

The Verge

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge. Apple accidentally approved common malware disguised as an update for Adobe Flash Player to run on macOS, according to a new report. According to security researcher Patrick Wardle, Apple approved an app that contained code used by a well-known malware called Shlayer. Shlayer is a trojan downloader that spreads through fake applications, bombarding users with an influx of adware.

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Microsoft, Oracle, and Google top list of companies with most vulnerabilities disclosed in Q2

Tech Republic Security

Two days accounted for 818 vulnerabilities, or 7.3% of the entire midyear's disclosures so far, according to a new report.

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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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Microsoft Flight Simulator’s re-creations of macOS wallpapers look just as good

The Verge

Left: Matt Birchler’s recreation. Right: Apple’s original wallpaper. | Matt Birchler, Apple. Many of us are finding cool things to work on while stuck at home, and I think Matt Birchler takes the cake this week. He, like much of the internet, has been taking off in Microsoft Flight Simulator , and he used the absolutely unreal detail in the game to re-create some of the more iconic wallpapers from recent releases of macOS.

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AVerMedia Live Gamer Duo review — The right capture card for livestreamers

Venture Beast

AVerMedia's Live Gamer Duo is exactly what livestreamers have wanted for years. It's one capture card with an input for a console and a camera. Read More.

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The advantages of looking like a white dad at protests

The Verge

Protesters hold their hands in the air during a Black Lives Matter protest in front of the Multnomah County Justice Center on July 20, 2020 in Portland, Oregon. Monday night marked 54 days of protests in Portland following the death of George Floyd in police custody. | Photo by Nathan Howard/Getty Images. The cops won’t bother you, for one thing. Verge contributor Sarah Jeong interviews a thirtysomething white man who regularly attends protests to find out more.

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An Inside Look at the Making of Star Trek: The Motion Picture

Gizmodo

Star Trek ’s first foray to the box office is a strange beast —a gorgeous, haunting exploration of the franchise’s love of the cosmos wrapped up in an overwrought, over-long plot. So it’s perhaps a good thing that a new making-of book puts the spotlight on what works about Star Trek: The Motion Picture : the art behind … 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.