Tue.Nov 10, 2020

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Why Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale is leaving Silicon Valley

CTOvision

Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale is following the lead of the software company he helped create and moving his venture firm out of California. Earlier this year, Londsdale relocated his family from […].

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Live-Streaming Commerce Lands In Europe

Forrester IT

Live-streaming commerce is arriving on European shores. Here's what European marketers can expect.

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Fidelis Cybersecurity appoints Anup Ghosh as CEO

CTOvision

Fidelis Cybersecurity announced the appointment of cybersecurity industry veteran, Anup Ghosh as CEO. We are huge fans of Anup and can’t wait to see how he plans on leading and […].

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Online Grocery Investments: Going In Fits And Starts

Forrester IT

There were three interesting grocery developments in the last few days, all pandemic related and all reflective of the fact that digital transformation in grocery is still a work in progress and hardly a home run: Nestlé bought Freshly. This was probably the most predictable in that we’ve seen many big traditional companies buy startups […].

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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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Dell Technologies launches HPC systems aimed at more industries and use cases

CTOvision

Dell Technologies is picking up its high-performance computing pace with a series of systems designed for use cases such as genomics, digital manufacturing and artificial intelligence. Thierry Pellegrino, vice president of […].

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Social Listening Platforms Aim To Serve All User Types

Forrester IT

Throwback to the mid-2000s: Facebook was founded and Hannah Montana premiered. Miley Stewart was an average American kid with an alter ego pop star named Hannah Montana. Miley/Hannah’s dual identity allowed her to escape the public eye while still reaping fame and fortune – ultimately, living “the best of both worlds.” Cut to 2020: Social […].

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Spotify Adds Megaphone To A Long List Of Podcast Acquisitions

Forrester IT

Yet another big move today in the podcast space as Spotify acquired Megaphone for its podcast advertising technology. The acquisition for $235 million continues Spotify’s 3-year buying spree in the podcast market, and further solidifies Spotify’s dominant position here. Spotify adds Megaphone to bolster monetization of its podcast content In addition to giving Spotify’s web […].

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Please help spread the word: USNI and NIP Essay Contest: This year’s challenge area a key one for the nation

CTOvision

Please help share the content at this link to any thinker/writer you know: 2020 Information Warfare Essay Contest This contest is open to all contributors, active-duty, military, reservists, veterans, and […].

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Adobe Buys Workfront To Boost Upstream Creative Support

Forrester IT

Adobe announced yesterday it’s shelling out $1.5 billion to acquire work management tool Workfront, cementing a longstanding partnership between the two companies. Together, Adobe and Workfront can spin a tale of coupling a Forrester Wave™ Leader digital asset manager (DAM) and a work management tool that can handle all the planning and collaboration aspects of […].

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Fintech Company Smarsh Acquires Digital Reasoning

CTOvision

Smarsh just announced they have acquired Digital Reasoning, a firm we have long tracked in our disruptive technology directory. Digital Reasoning are a leader in making sense of data, including […].

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GEP Procurement & Supply Chain Tech Trends Report

The technological landscape is dynamic and changes quickly. And for procurement and supply chain leaders looking to harness the power of technology to navigate complex challenges and an uncertain business environment, keeping up with the latest trends can be its own obstacle. So, what’s on the technological horizon for procurement and supply chain for the year ahead?

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The Ever-Expanding List of C-Level Technology Positions

Information Week

IT professionals are gaining more opportunities to move up the corporate ladder. Here are 10 C-level IT titles that we know of right now, along with salary averages for those roles.

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CIOs embrace remote recruitment to land new gigs: Okta CIO highlighted

CTOvision

Shortly before COVID-19 disrupted the United States, Alvina Antar was approached by an executive recruiter on behalf of Okta. Would Antar, six years into her role as CIO of Zuora, […].

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7 Software Development Models You Should Know

Flexagon

The Software Development Life Cycle, or SDLC, is the process of planning, designing, developing, testing, and deploying high-quality software at the lowest cost possible, preferably in the shortest amount of time. To achieve this goal, software engineering teams must choose the correct software development model to fit their organization’s requirements, stakeholders’ expectations, and the project.

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Phishing, deepfakes, and ransomware: How coronavirus-related cyberthreats will persist in 2021

Tech Republic Security

The pandemic and 5G speed create wider attack capabilities. Phishing emails and other threats will continue to exploit COVID-19 and its side effects, says Check Point Research.

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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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New Feature! Android Enterprise Dedicated device in Azure AD Shared device mode – Learn Intune with Joy

Anoop

Subscribe YouTube Channel [link]. and Facebook Page to get latest updates. [link]. With the October service release last month, Microsoft Intune (a.k.a Microsoft Endpoint Manager) introduced a new feature that enables organizations to automatically provision an android device in Azure AD Shared device mode with Android Enterprise Dedicated device enrollment mode.

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DDoS attacks: How to combat the latest tactics

Tech Republic Security

With DDoS-as-a-Service, criminals with a little know-how can launch denial of service attacks for just a few dollars, says Digital Shadows.

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Can blockchain heal what ails healthcare? Lumedic launches new quest for digital identity standards

GeekWire

Lumedic CEO Mike Nash. (Lumedic Photo). Health technology company Lumedic launched a new effort to create standards for digital identity in healthcare, aiming to streamline the exchange of patient data and remove bottlenecks in the larger healthcare system using blockchain technology. The Seattle-based company, acquired last year by Providence St. Joseph Health , named Mastercard, Providence, and Cambia Health Solutions as initial partners in the effort.

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Dark web: Underground forums remain a hotbed of COVID-19 scams

Tech Republic Security

From fake coronavirus 'cures' to counterfeit travel documents and scam calling services, COVID-19 continues to offer plenty of monetization opportunities for cyber criminals, say researchers from Trustwave.

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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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Apple brings back the PC guy to boast about M1 performance

The Verge

Apple’s big Arm-based M1 Mac announcements brought the company’s first Apple silicon-powered laptops in the form of the new MacBook Air, MacBook Pro, and Mac mini. But the event also had a surprising guest star: actor John Hodgman reprising his role as the PC guy from Apple’s “I’m a Mac, and I’m a PC” commercials that it ran in the mid-2000s. In the short video, Hodgman’s put-upon PC reacts to the announcement of Apple’s new M1-powered Macs, complaining about the improved performance and battery

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Developers: This is Google's new idea for keeping your open-source projects secure

Tech Republic Security

Scorecards provides an assessment of open-source packages, which developers can use to judge whether they are safe to introduce into their projects or systems.

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The Clean Energy Transition Is Becoming a Tidal Wave

Gizmodo

This year, covid-19 lockdowns prompted a precipitous crash in fuel demand which tanked the the fossil fuel market. Oil companies have said it’s quite possibly never going to recover. But it’s a different story for renewable energy industry, which is thriving. Read more.

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Peloton partners with Beyonce to create themed classes with the artist’s music

The Verge

If you purchased a Peloton bike or treadmill to exercise with during the pandemic, you’ll soon have a new collection of classes to take from a familiar artist. This week, Peloton announced a multi-year partnership with cultural phenomenon Beyoncé — the artist will help curate classes for the fitness company’s subscription service, starting with a series of Homecoming-themed classes in honor of historically Black colleges and universities.

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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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Steve Bannon Caught Running a Network of Misinformation Pages on Facebook

Gizmodo

Steve Bannon has been outed for his involvement in running a network of misinformation pages on Facebook. Who could have possibly seen this coming. Read more.

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Google is giving free Stadia gaming kits to YouTube premium subscribers

The Verge

Google has added another promotion to help push its cloud gaming service Stadia into more households: now YouTube Premium subscribers can get its $100 Stadia Premiere Edition bundle for free. Google’s Stadia Premiere Edition features one Stadia controller in addition to a Chromecast Ultra. However, it is important to note that the Chromecast Ultra included is an older model and not the newer one that was recently released.

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Wyze releasing a $199 ‘Robot Vacuum’ to clean up on competitors in the evolving smart home

GeekWire

The Wyze Robot Vacuum. (Wyze Photo). Wyze Labs’ vision of a smarter home, full of its cameras and other products, is also going to be a cleaner place. The Seattle-based company announced a new Wyze Robot Vacuum on Tuesday, available for pre-order now at $199. The price undercuts other autonomous cleaning devices on the market while still offering many of the premium tech features, such as LIDAR precision location mapping, virtual walls, scheduled sweeps and more.

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Apple announces MacBook Air with Apple’s Arm-based M1 processor

The Verge

Apple has announced the launch of its 2020 MacBook Air. It’s powered by Apple’s new M1 processor. This is the first MacBook Air, and one of the first laptops, to feature Apple’s own Arm-based CPUs. The eight-core M1 is a 5nm processor based on the A14 Bionic, the chipset that powers the iPhone 12 and iPad Air lines. Apple stated at its “One More Thing” event that the M1 contains four of the world’s fastest CPU cores, paired with four high-efficiency cores — an effort to balance performance with

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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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Upland lets players trade virtual property for real money using Tilia Pay

Venture Beast

Upland is launching virtual asset trading using Second Life's payment network, dubbed Tilia Pay, which is Second Life's payment tech. Read More.

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Stratolaunch teams up with Calspan and makes progress on hypersonic flight plan

GeekWire

Stratolaunch’s mammoth airplane sits on its runway. (Stratolaunch Photo). Stratolaunch , the aerospace company founded by the late Seattle tech titan Paul Allen, is gearing up on several fronts for tests of its hypersonic launch platform — a year and a half after its mammoth airplane first flew. Allen created the company in Seattle back in 2011 to launch rockets from the world’s biggest aircraft, but after the Microsoft co-founder’s death in 2018 , the company was acquired by p

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The Mandalorian’s darkest moment is now available in Funko Pop form

The Verge

Image: Funko. Funko has announced its latest figurine based on The Mandalorian , commemorating our protagonist’s latest seemingly simple job. If you haven’t watched the second episode of the show’s second season, then it looks like an innocent-enough model. Everyone’s favorite Baby Yoda* is excited at the prospect of helping a frog-like alien transport her eggs across the galaxy for fertilization.

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Man born without a hand gets Metal Gear Solid 3D-printed bionic arm

Venture Beast

Daniel Melville, who was born without a right hand, has a real bionic arm based on the Metal Gear Solid video game series. 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.