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Go 5D With Forrester’s Advanced CX Prioritization Model

Forrester IT

In my earlier posts about CX prioritization, focusing on Forrester’s beginner-level and intermediate-level models, I covered the use of criteria around customer impact, business impact, and (when you get to intermediate) feasibility as a means of determining which CX-related projects you should pursue or put to the side. Moving up to advanced mode requires taking […].

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What enterprise architects need to know about Java modernization

Tech Republic Cloud

Quarkus and Jakarta EE are gaining on Spring/Spring Boot as the most popular approach to moving Java applications to the cloud.

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How to Remove ConfigMgr Package from Multiple DPs at the Same Time | SCCM

Anoop

Subscribe YouTube Channel [link]. and Facebook Page to get latest updates. [link]. Read More. The post How to Remove ConfigMgr Package from Multiple DPs at the Same Time | SCCM appeared first on HTMD Device Management by Anoop C Nair.

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How a Sponsor Can Help Elevate Your Career in IT

Information Week

In a highly competitive market, a strong sponsor relationship can help advance you in your tech career. Here are my tips on making the process a simple and successful one.

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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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Cybersecurity in Real Life vs. the Movies — The Good, The Bad and The Terrible

Association of Information Technology Professional

Mr. Robot, The Matrix Reloaded or Swordfish? Which movie deserves the most street cred when it comes to hacking accuracy?

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Apple files lawsuit against former employee over leaking trade secrets to the media

TechSpot

The lawsuit, first reported by Apple Insider, claims that Sam Lancaster began talks with his media correspondent in November 2018, and over the next year the two continued communication over calls, text messages, and email. He exchanged information relating to "unreleased Apple hardware products, unannounced feature changes to existing hardware.

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Adobe's Super Resolution tool uses machine learning to give users clear 4x image supersampling

TechSpot

Adobe is taking photo upscaling to a whole new level with an AI-powered tool called Super Resolution. The feature is currently available in Camera Raw 13.2, with Lightroom and Lightroom Classic implementation coming sometime down the road.

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Investors sue Washington state bitcoin mining magnate who they say bilked them for millions

GeekWire

Malachi Salcido, founder of Salcido Enterprises, used his expertise building large climate-controlled buildings to set up a bitcoin mining operation in the Wenatchee Valley. (GeekWire File Photo). Investors who bet big on Malachi Salcido, a self-described bitcoin mining magnate, now claim the Washington state man busted his own business, and may have cost them millions of dollars.

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DC Comics Tells Artists to Stay Out of NFT Business or Else

Gizmodo

José Delgo, a former DC and Marvel comics artist, used to be best known for his run penciling Wonder Woman back in the ‘70s and early ‘80s. Now, he’s probably most famous for making $1.85 million dollars by selling NFTs—or non-fungible tokens —of his drawings online, many of which featured Wonder Woman and other… Read more.

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Jeff Bezos says no thanks to Bernie Sanders’ request to testify on income inequality

GeekWire

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos testifying last summer in front of Congress on anti-trust concerns. Amazon founder Jeff Bezos will not testify at a Senate Budget Committee hearing on income inequality next week — a decision that comes hours after Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont invited the billionaire to share his thoughts on the matter, reports CNBC. Sanders originally said he wanted Bezos “to explain to the American people why he thinks it’s appropriate for him to spend a whole lot of mone

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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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Google says Chrome 89 keeps your Mac cooler, and saves ‘significant memory’ on Windows

The Verge

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge. Google has detailed the efficiency improvements it made with Chrome 89, the latest version of its browser released earlier this month. Depending on whether you’re using the browser on Windows, macOS, or Android, Google says the browser should use less resources, launch quicker, and feel more responsive to use.

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Red Hat CIO Kelly Talks Hybrid Cloud for Post-Pandemic World

Information Week

The stage has been set for more cloud transformation with the role CIOs play in the equation continuing to evolve.

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Sony’s PlayStation 5 is restocked at Best Buy

The Verge

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge. If you missed Target’s PS5 restocks Thursday, you may be in luck. Best Buy has the PS5 Digital Edition and PS5 models up for purchase. According to the product listing, Best Buy will only allow you to pick up your newly purchased PS5 at a local Best Buy store. No home delivery is available for either model. Once you get your hands on a PS5, there are a few items you’re going to want to pick up for your console.

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Global chip shortage is reportedly affecting phones as Qualcomm struggles to meet demand

TechSpot

Reuters reports that Samsung is experiencing a shortage of Qualcomm’s SoCs, which is mainly affecting the South Korean company’s low- to mid-range models. A different supplier said there is also a shortage of Snapdragon 888 chips found in the Galaxy S21 series, but it’s unclear whether this has affected the.

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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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Apple discontinues HomePod, but HomePod Mini will live on

The Verge

Photo by James Bareham / The Verge. Apple is discontinuing the original, full-size HomePod and will now focus its speaker efforts on the HomePod mini, the company told TechCrunch on Friday evening. Here is what Apple said in a statement to TechCrunch : HomePod mini has been a hit since its debut last fall, offering customers amazing sound, an intelligent assistant, and smart home control all for just $99.

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Facebook details AI that can understand videos

Venture Beast

Through its Learning from Videos project, Facebook says it's investing in AI that can understand social media videos on a granular level. Read More.

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Tim Berners-Lee says internet access should be a basic right

The Verge

Photo by Paul Clarke / Wikimedia. Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the world wide web, writes in a new post on the internet’s 32nd anniversary that governments must work to ensure global broadband access by the year 2030 in order to bridge the digital divide and better hold tech companies accountable. “Governments need to pass effective laws that govern technology and hold companies to account for creating responsible products and services,” Berners-Lee writes in the post co-authored by his Web

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Nvidia RTX 3080 Ti "almost certain" to arrive in April, claims report

TechSpot

Talk of an RTX 3080 Ti stretches back months. Original reports claimed that the card would feature 20GB GDDR6X 320-bit memory—4GB shy of the RTX 3090—but it's now believed to feature 12GB GDDR6X 384-bit, which is just 2GB more than the RTX 3080.

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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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Facebook’s next big AI project is training its machines on users’ public videos

The Verge

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge. Teaching AI systems to understand what’s happening in videos as completely as a human can is one of the hardest challenges — and biggest potential breakthroughs — in the world of machine learning. Today, Facebook announced a new initiative that it hopes will give it an edge in this consequential work: training its AI on Facebook users’ public videos.

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Nextcloud: How to use the occ command for command line management

Tech Republic Cloud

Jack Wallen shows you how to administer your Nextcloud installation from the command line.

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These LED dice could electrify your next DnD campaign

The Verge

The dice are equipped with RGB lights and can communicate via Bluetooth. | Image: Systemic Games / Kickstarter. Sometimes it’s nice to get away from technology for a bit, settle down with some friends, and play an entire role-playing game using just pen, paper, and lots of dice. But if that’s a little low-fi for you, then there’s always Pixels , a new set of electronic dice with built in Bluetooth and RGB LED lighting.

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New Model of Ancient Astronomical Device Reveals a ‘Creation of Genius’

Gizmodo

By building a digital model of the Antikythera Mechanism, scientists may have finally exposed a key function of the ancient device, revealing a design that required some seriously advanced thinking. Read more.

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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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CEOs express strong optimism for global growth this year

Tech Republic Security

While they remain anxious about external threats like health crises and cyber threats, concerns about climate change are low, PwC survey finds.

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Why Accenture lists ‘digital twins’ as top-five technology trend in 2021 

Venture Beast

Digital twin tech has become increasingly popular as legacy manufacturers look for ways to keep up with innovative startups. Read More.

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Uber Eats and Deliveroo Riders in Spain to Get Collective Bargaining Rights

Gizmodo

Delivery riders for apps like Uber Eats and Deliveroo will be granted the same rights as employees in Spain, including the right to collectively bargain, according to an announcement from the Spanish government on Thursday. Spain will become the first country in the world to formally give gig economy delivery drivers… Read more.

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AI Weekly: Facebook, Google, and the tension between profits and fairness

Venture Beast

The inner workings of ethics and fairness operations at Facebook and Google reveal tension between profits and harm caused by AI. 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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Android: How to quickly block spam SMS

Tech Republic Security

Jack Wallen shows you how easy it is to block and report spam SMS messages on the Android platform.

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Cloudburst: Hard lessons learned from the OVH datacenter blaze

Venture Beast

A burning datacenter is a textbook case of why robust data backup plans are needed. Turns out many were not ready. Here’s how to solve that. Read More.

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Shocking Findings Show the Amazon May Already Be a Greenhouse Gas Emitter

Gizmodo

Historically, the Amazon rainforest has been one of the planet’s most important sources of carbon sequestration, caching billions of tons of carbon from the atmosphere every year. For decades, scientists have cautioned us not to take this crucial service for granted, warning that in just 15 years , the Amazon could … Read more.

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Ad Lightning raises more cash for new product that helps companies meet privacy standards

GeekWire

Ad Lightning CEO Scott Moore. (Photo via Ad Lightning). New funding: Seattle startup Ad Lightning has reeled in $344,000 of a larger round to fuel growth of a new product for privacy compliance. Company background: Ad Lightning spun out of Seattle-based startup studio Pioneer Square Labs in 2017. It helps online publishers and advertising exchange platforms spot and block programmatic ads that slow down sites and disrupt engagement.

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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.