Fri.Feb 19, 2021

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Promising Improvements — Forrester’s US Retail Recovery Heat Map, February 2021

Forrester IT

Since April 2020, we have estimated how the retail economies of 30 major US metropolitan areas are recovering from COVID-19. By aggregating 11 metrics (across retail sales, local economic indicators, and virus spread), our model predicts that these metropolitan areas will face differing levels of COVID-19 disruption. For these metrics, we looked at US metropolitan-, […].

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Bitcoin now at $1 Trillion Dollar Market Cap

CTOvision

Just 6 days ago we were pointing out the rise of Bitcoin, which at the time was at number 9 on the list of top global assets. It has now […].

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Forr The Planet: Sustainability interview with Atos

Forrester IT

Atos In my research pursuit of technology sustainability, I have spoken to many technology and business leaders around the world about their sustainability initiatives. Occasionally, I encounter someone doing something special in this important business quest. I hope to interview as many of them as I can and share their insights with you. The first […].

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My CompTIA Security+ Journey: How I Passed My IT Certification Exam

Association of Information Technology Professional

Information security requires a specific set of skills. Arming your entire team with this knowledge is sure to equal success.

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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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How PCC Turned Its Undifferentiated Rewards Program Into A Loyalty And Engagement Driver

Forrester IT

Another undifferentiated loyalty program focused on cookie-cutter transactional rewards and lacking in customer insights. Does it sound familiar? Programs like this saturate the market even when retaining customers and earning their loyalty is more important than ever. Our data shows that even though nearly 90% of US online adults belong to a loyalty program, only […].

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How to Deploy Zoom Application using SCCM | ConfigMgr

Anoop

Subscribe YouTube Channel [link]. and Facebook Page to get latest updates. [link]. Let’s check what is the Best Option to Deploy Zoom Application Using SCCM (a.k.a Configuration. Read More How to Deploy Zoom Application using SCCM | ConfigMgr. The post How to Deploy Zoom Application using SCCM | ConfigMgr appeared first on How to Manage Devices by Anoop C Nair.

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5 Tips for Stepping up Your Social Media Game

Association of Information Technology Professional

With the rise of remote working and permanence of online events, your social media presence and how you use social media for business has never been more important. Here are five simple steps you can take today to put social media to work for you.

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4 ways to defend against the Dark Web's cybercrime ecosystem, according to MIT researchers

Tech Republic Security

The Dark Web allows cybercriminals to create a Cyber Attacks-as-a-Service ecosystem that outmaneuvers security defenses. Here are tips on how businesses can try to thwart cybercrime.

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Linux has made it to Mars

The Verge

Image: NASA. Yesterday, NASA landed a rover named Perseverance on Mars. I, along with 2 million other people, watched the landing happen live on YouTube. It was beautiful. I mean, here’s this little robot dude that’s traveled millions and millions of miles through the barrenness of space, and now it’s just hanging out on Mars taking pics and scientific samples!

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Forrester report highlights Zero Trust Edge model for networking and security infrastructure

Tech Republic Security

According to Forrester, ZTE will be most helpful with securing and enabling remote workers while removing the difficult user VPNs.

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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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That Time a Canadian Town Derailed a Diesel Train and Drove It Down the Street to Provide Emergency Power

Gizmodo

Even in a suburb of Montreal that’s well versed in dealing with winter storms, inclement weather can still overwhelm basic services like power, an issue with which millions of people in Texas are still currently struggling. After an especially bad ice storm in 1998, the mayor of Boucherville, Quebec, had a clever idea… Read more.

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Kia outage may be the result of ransomware

Tech Republic Security

A week-long outage for Kia is reportedly connected to a ransomware attack from the DoppelPaymer gang, says BleepingComputer.

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Norway to Decriminalize Personal Purchase, Possession, and Use Of All Drugs In Small Quantities

Gizmodo

The government of Norway is moving to decriminalize possession of small amounts of all recreational drugs as well as their use, including everything from weed and coke to heroin, per Bloomberg. Read more.

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Linux 101: How to block users from setting up their own cron jobs

Tech Republic Security

Jack Wallen shows you how to gain a bit more security on your Linux servers by blocking users from adding cron jobs.

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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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Google fires second AI ethics researcher following internal investigation

The Verge

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge. Google has fired Margaret Mitchell, co-lead of the ethical AI team, after she used an automated script to look through her emails in order to find evidence of discrimination against her coworker Timnit Gebru. The news was first reported by Axios. Mitchell’s firing comes one day after Google announced a reorganization to its AI teams working on ethics and fairness.

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Google fires Ethical AI lead Margaret Mitchell

Venture Beast

Margaret Mitchell was fired today weeks after Google fired Timnit Gebru. A restructure of Google's AI ethics efforts was announced Thursday. Read More.

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Australia’s ABC News shot to the top of the App Store charts following Facebook’s news ban

The Verge

Image: ABC News. The Australian Broadcast Company’s ABC News app shot to the top of Apple’s App Store charts in Australia over the course of the last few days, not long after Facebook banned Australian news sources on its platform. As Financial Times’ Uma Patel suggests in a tweet thread , that’s possibly because ABC capitalized on Facebook’s news ban with an ad sending users to its app.

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The DeanBeat: The outlook for online game events in 2021

Venture Beast

I’m writing this on a Thursday night while participating in a panel in Clubhouse, the social audio chat platform that has grown quickly to more than 8 million users in a couple of months. I’m in the Nordic Games breakfast room run by Zsuzsa James and other folks. We were bemoaning the fact that we can’t meet in person at places li… 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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YouTube removes PewDiePie diss track for violating cyberbullying, child safety rules

The Verge

YouTube has removed one of Felix “PewDiePie” Kjellberg’s recent videos, a diss track aimed at popular children’s channel Cocomelon , for violating guidelines around cyberbullying and child safety. In the video, Kjellberg attacks Cocomelon’s content and pokes fun at kids who watch the videos. Kjellberg also uses phrases like “your audience is just a bunch of m **g virgins,” which could violate YouTube’s guidelines for using offensive or vulgar language in videos that include children.

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Clunky software with a confusing UI just cost Citibank $500 million

TechSpot

On Wednesday, a judge ruled that creditors do not have to return payments that Citibank made to them in error. The bank was attempting to make $7.8 million in interest payments on behalf of Revlon last August, but a subcontractor in India handling the transaction mistakenly issued $900 million instead.

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SolarWinds hackers downloaded some Microsoft source code for Azure, Exchange, and Intune

Venture Beast

SolarWind hackers accessed Microsoft’s secret source code for authenticating customers, potentially aiding one of their main attack methods. Read More.

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How researchers are mapping the future of quantum computing, using the tech of today

GeekWire

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory computer scientist Sriram Krishnamoorthy. (PNNL Photo). Imagine a future where new therapeutic drugs are designed far faster and at a fraction of the cost they are today, enabled by the rapidly developing field of quantum computing. The transformation on healthcare and personalized medicine would be tremendous, yet these are hardly the only fields this novel form of computing could revolutionize.

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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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How to Build Talent Retention by Failing Fast

Information Week

In an industry with frequent turnover, the key to achieving lasting talent retention lies with investing in innovation built by teams in-house who are allowed to experiment and fail.

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Diablo II is getting remastered for console and PC

The Verge

Diablo II is getting a big overhaul in a new remaster. After a few leaks , Blizzard officially announced Diablo II Resurrected at its online-only edition of Blizzcon 2021. The new version of the game — which first launched back in 2000 — will launch this year on PC, Switch, PS4, PS5, and Xbox Series X and S, with cross-progression between PC and console.

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Python pioneer assesses the 30-year-old programming language

Venture Beast

At age 30, the Python programming language has never been used by more developers across more use cases than it is today. Read More.

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Redfin agrees to acquire RentPath for $608 million, owner of Rentals.com, Rent.com and ApartmentGuide

GeekWire

Redfin CEO Glenn Kelman at the 2018 GeekWire Summit. (Photo by Dan DeLong for GeekWire). Redfin is making a major push into the residential home rental market, announcing Friday morning that it is paying $608 million in cash for Atlanta-based RentPath. The deal, approved by the boards of both companies, will establish Redfin’s online rental marketplace, adding online destinations such as Rent.com, Rentals.com and ApartmentGuide.com that attract about 16 million monthly visitors.

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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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How to find details about user logins on Linux

Tech Republic Security

If you need to gather information on user logins for your Linux servers, Jack Wallen has just the tool for you.

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Meet the First Endangered Animal to Be Cloned in North America

Gizmodo

Elizabeth Ann is the first clone of a black-footed ferret, but more importantly, she’s the first endangered species to be cloned in the United States. Her birth represents an important milestone in the ongoing effort to increase the genetic diversity of this threatened species. Read more.

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Google’s Model Search automatically optimizes and identifies AI models

Venture Beast

Google open-sourced Model Search, a tool that automatically optimizes and identifies AI models given a dataset and task. Read More.

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Nvidia: RTX 3060 won't be good for Ethereum mining

TechSpot

The crypto craze is having a big impact on the availability of graphics cards, to the point where miners are snapping up laptops equipped with Nvidia's RTX Ampere GPUs to support their ever-growing operations. Some are even actively trying to tick off the gaming community by bragging about having things.

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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.