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Predictions 2021: Software Developers Face Mounting Pressure

Forrester IT

As executive teams put more pressure on internal teams to speed digital transformation in 2021, how will software developers respond? Find out in our 2021 predictions for software development.

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Intune SCCM Certification Learning Exams

Anoop

Subscribe YouTube Channel [link]. and Facebook Page to get latest updates. [link]. Let’s more know about Intune SCCM Certifications or Exams. I get many questions about SCCM/Intune/WVD exams and certifications. Hope this post would be helpful to understand the learning strategy from Microsoft for ConfigMgr, Intune, and WVD. Introduction Microsoft learning strategy is changed from the product ( ConfigMgr/Intune/WVD) based exams to role (architect/desktop admin/help desk admin) […].

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Predictions 2021: Insurers Find Opportunity Amid Chaos

Forrester IT

As insurers contend with an unpredictable virus and its economic consequences, promising pathways to prosperity will reveal themselves.

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Who’s selling SASE and what do you get?

Network World

Secure access service edge (SASE) architecture rolls networking and security into a cloud service, making it easier for enterprises to provide simple, secure access to corporate resources, but it’s still in its infancy. Vendors and service providers sell offerings that they call SASE, but what they actually provide and how they provide it varies widely.

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Navigating the Future: Generative AI, Application Analytics, and Data

Generative AI is upending the way product developers & end-users alike are interacting with data. Despite the potential of AI, many are left with questions about the future of product development: How will AI impact my business and contribute to its success? What can product managers and developers expect in the future with the widespread adoption of AI?

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Give More Thought To Giving Tuesday

Forrester IT

These days, many companies are trying to express moral, social, or political values that resonate with values-based consumers. Giving Tuesday (which falls on the first Tuesday after Thanksgiving) presents an opportunity for companies to do just that, so a growing number of brands participate. However, companies’ participation in Giving Tuesday will resonate with the market […].

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Report: Worldwide cloud spending up 33% in Q3

Tech Republic Cloud

As workers continue to rely on the remote office as a result of the global pandemic, investments in the cloud have gone up a third, according to data from Canalys.

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4 Critical Questions to Ask Before Starting an AI Project

Information Week

More businesses are taking on AI projects, but many still aren't finding success. Here's what you need to know before taking on your first artificial intelligence project.

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AWS releases Nitro Enclaves, making it easier to process highly sensitive data

Tech Republic Security

According to Amazon, Nitro Enclaves will help customers reduce attack surfaces for their applications by providing a highly isolated and hardened environment for data processing.

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How to Manage the Data Deluge

Information Week

Data is more like water, not oil -- too much of it can waterlog a business. How can an organization gain control of the volume? Here's a five-step process that can help.

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Cross-Layered Detection and Response (XDR): A Welcome New Entry in the Cybersecurity Alphabet Soup

Association of Information Technology Professional

Cross-layered detection and response (XDR) takes security solutions to the next level by helping IT pros weed through the fog of more.

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7 Leadership Themes for Procurement & Supply Chain Leaders in 2024

Procurement and supply chain leaders are presented with their fair share of challenges, with a host of tools and strategies to resolve them. That said, what’s the best path forward to leverage this year’s trends? In this recap of a recent GEP-WBR webinar, 7 Leadership Themes for Procurement & Supply Chain Leaders in 2024, GEP’s Pramod Sethumadhavan explores seven vital leadership trends that will help guide procurement and supply chain decision-makers.

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As If the Platypus Couldn’t Get Any Weirder

Gizmodo

The platypus is nature’s crazy quilt, as this strange creature looks like about a half-dozen different animals all rolled into one. Turns out that platypuses were hiding yet another conspicuous feature: THEY CAN FREAKIN’ GLOW IN THE DARK. Read more.

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Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War needs up to 250GB of space on PC

The Verge

Activision has revealed the full PC specifications for Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War , and the storage requirements are hefty. If you’re planning to play the game in 4K with ultra settings enabled and ray tracing, you’ll need to free up 250GB of space. That’s the top end of the specs, but anything else still requires 175GB of space. That’s a lot of storage, and for some, it could take up an entire 250GB SSD or get very close to it.

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Photos: Tree deep in Asian giant hornet nest, entomologists recover ‘chewed off’ radio tracker

GeekWire

Washington State Department of Agriculture personnel comb through the log containing an Asian giant hornet on Friday. (WSDA Photos). Just in time for Halloween, the Washington State Department of Agriculture is revealing just what was inside a truly haunted house, or nest. Early Friday, entomologists from the WSDA Pest Program cut open the tree which was home to a nest of Asian giant hornets, or so-called “murder hornets,” which had become a frightful reality near Blaine, Wash., befo

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Apple added a secret button to your iPhone, and you may not have even noticed

The Verge

Your iPhone got a new button last month, and you may not have even noticed. No, Apple didn’t sneak into your house and secretly superglue a button onto your smartphone. But it did release iOS 14, the latest version of its iPhone software, which includes a feature called Back Tap. Back Tap adds a fascinating new “button” to your phone that blurs the line between hardware and software.

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How Embedded Analytics Gets You to Market Faster with a SAAS Offering

Start-ups & SMBs launching products quickly must bundle dashboards, reports, & self-service analytics into apps. Customers expect rapid value from your product (time-to-value), data security, and access to advanced capabilities. Traditional Business Intelligence (BI) tools can provide valuable data analysis capabilities, but they have a barrier to entry that can stop small and midsize businesses from capitalizing on them.

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The Last Time Intel Tried to Make a Graphics Card

TechSpot

Will history repeat itself? Intel's setting out to make a name for itself in the discrete GPU space with its upcoming Xe-HP GPU lineup. We look at Project Larrabee - the last time Intel tried making a graphics card - to understand how things might turn out.

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Ubisoft details which of its PS4 games will not work on the PS5

The Verge

Ubisoft has announced its own backward compatibility list for playing older PS4 games on the PS5 today. Instead of sharing its list of older PS4 titles that will not be supported on Sony’s next-gen console, Ubisoft has flagged the titles on its own website. The French publisher says that the following nine games released for the PS4 will not work on the PS5: Assassin’s Creed: Syndicate.

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How to Control the Data Deluge

Information Week

Data is more like water, not oil -- too much of it can waterlog a business. How can an organization protect itself from waterlogging? Here's a five-step process that can help.

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Waymo pulls back the curtain on 6.1 million miles of self-driving car data in Phoenix

The Verge

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge. Over 21 months in Arizona, Waymo’s vehicles were involved in 47 collisions and near-misses, none of which resulted in injuries In its first report on its autonomous vehicle operations in Phoenix, Arizona, Waymo said that it was involved in 18 crashes and 29 near-miss collisions during 2019 and the first nine months of 2020.

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Next-Gen Procurement: Transforming Processes with the Power of Generative AI

Generative AI goes beyond just automating tasks and providing real-time answers. Did you know that implementing generative AI reduces sourcing cycle times and allows for faster decision-making across procurement operations? In this whitepaper — Next-Gen Procurement: Transforming Processes With the Power of Generative AI — experts reveal how the strategic application of generative AI within procurement processes is paving the way for groundbreaking improvements.

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Adventures in online learning: Microsoft Teams getting chat controls, and schools can hardly wait

GeekWire

Microsoft’s November updates for Teams will include new chat controls. Bigstock Photo / monticello. A virtual school assembly! Great idea. That was my reaction when I heard what my daughter’s public school in Seattle was doing this week. As it got started, I looked over her shoulder for a charming (and heartbreaking) video of the school’s mascot roaming the halls, wondering where everyone was.

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Sony is reportedly close to buying Crunchyroll for nearly $1 billion

The Verge

Crunchyroll has 70 million free members and some 3 million paying subscribers. | Image: Crunchyroll. Sony is close to finalizing a deal to buy US-based anime streaming service Crunchyroll for nearly $1 billion, according to a report from Nikkei Asia. Nikkei says Sony negotiated exclusive rights to bid for the streaming service and its 3 million paying subscribers earlier this year, and the two companies have now “entered into final negotiations.

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Sony close to acquiring anime service Crunchyroll for almost $1 billion

TechSpot

Nikkei Asia reports that Sony is now in final negations to purchase San Francisco-based Crunchyroll, which was founded in 2006 and has been a subsidiary of Otter Media, itself a subsidiary of AT&T's WarnerMedia, since 2018.

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Here’s our best look at ray tracing on the Xbox Series X

The Verge

We’ve been waiting months to see what next-gen games and ray tracing will truly look like on the Xbox Series X. Today, we’re getting a first good look at the next-gen Xbox’s ray-tracing capabilities, thanks to Watch Dogs: Legion. Set in London, the game includes drones, self-driving cars, and lots of historical sites to explore. As it’s often wet and dark in Watch Dogs: Legion , the game also includes a lot of reflective puddles, shadows, and bright neon signs that are perfect for ray tracing.

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Embedding BI: Architectural Considerations and Technical Requirements

While data platforms, artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and programming platforms have evolved to leverage big data and streaming data, the front-end user experience has not kept up. Holding onto old BI technology while everything else moves forward is holding back organizations. Traditional Business Intelligence (BI) aren’t built for modern data platforms and don’t work on modern architectures.

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Waymo’s driverless cars were involved in 18 accidents over 20 months

Venture Beast

Waymo released a safety report outlining the accidents and near-collisions its cars encountered in the years they've been driving in Phoenix. Read More.

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Tesla raises price of ‘Full Self-Driving’ option to $10,000

The Verge

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge. Tesla’s “Full Self-Driving” option, which currently enables Autopilot features like changing lanes on highways and automatic car parking, now costs $10,000, or $2,000 more than before. The price rise only covers the US for now, where the company’s Full Self-Driving functionality has just launched in limited beta , allowing Autopilot’s advanced driver-assist features to be used on local roads as well.

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The Mandalorian Season 2 Started With Its Most Epic Episode Yet

Gizmodo

Season two of The Mandalorian began with an episode that was everything we expected and more. A few pieces of rumored casting were confirmed , some long-time questions were answered , and episode writer-director Jon Favreau gave fans a story straight from an old-school Hollywood Western with the biggest action set piece… Read more.

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The RetroBeat: The Video Game History Foundation is on the hunt for source code

Venture Beast

Video Game History Foundation co-directors Frank Cifaldi and Kelsey Lewin talk about the importance of source code preservation. Read More.

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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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Sony says the PSVR 2 is years away

TechSpot

In an interview with the Washington Post, Sony CEO Jim Ryan said the company isn't giving up on VR. "I think we're more than a few minutes from the future of VR. PlayStation believes in VR.

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Hands-on: Amazon Fresh grocery stores tease brick-and-mortar retail’s future

Venture Beast

Amazon's new brick-and-mortar stores use high-tech shopping carts to update the traditional grocery shopping experience, with mixed results. Read More.

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Playdate, the tiny handheld with a crank, is delayed to early 2021

The Verge

You’ll have to wait a bit longer for Panic’s odd little handheld: In an update published today , the company announced that Playdate will slip from its original 2020 window and now ship in early 2021. The device is the software developer’s first piece of physical hardware, a handheld with a unique crank alongside traditional buttons for controlling the device.

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Extreme Life Thrived in Hot Asteroid Pit After Dinosaur Extinction, Evidence Suggests

Gizmodo

A gigantic pool of magma emerged beneath Earth’s surface following the impact event that wiped out all non-avian dinosaurs. New research suggests this hellish subterranean chamber hosted a biological ecosystem, a finding that could give clues as to how life emerged during Earth’s tumultuous early days. Read more.

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How to Leverage AI for Actionable Insights in BI, Data, and Analytics

In the rapidly-evolving world of embedded analytics and business intelligence, one important question has emerged at the forefront: How can you leverage artificial intelligence (AI) to enhance your application’s analytics capabilities? Imagine having an AI tool that answers your user’s questions with a deep understanding of the context in their business and applications, nuances of their industry, and unique challenges they face.