Forrester IT
FEBRUARY 5, 2021
First, before you all jump to making comments: I have absolutely zero doubt that Amazon will retain its dominant foothold in retail and digital long after I type the last period of this post. But this post is about the culture and operating philosophy of the company – and the real question of “Can Amazon […].
Information Week
FEBRUARY 5, 2021
A gift usually is given to you neatly wrapped. Data, however, is rarely a gift that is prepared with similar care. Here are some concepts on how to keep ML models in production with balanced data.
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Anoop
FEBRUARY 5, 2021
Subscribe YouTube Channel [link]. and Facebook Page to get latest updates. [link]. This is a sponsored post by 1E. The post Reduce Device Management Overheads with 1E Agent appeared first on How to Manage Devices by Anoop C Nair.
Tech Republic Cloud
FEBRUARY 5, 2021
Mass migration of 2.1 million NHS mailbox accounts saw some 2.3 petabytes of data moved from local servers to Microsoft Azure.
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.
Tech Republic Security
FEBRUARY 5, 2021
Attackers are taking advantage of a security flaw in the way Plex Media servers look for compatible media devices and streaming clients, says Netscout.
Association of Information Technology Professional
FEBRUARY 5, 2021
The Bash shell is the most common login shell used on Linux systems. So, why use the Z shell? Simply put, because it can do more than Bash.
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Gizmodo
FEBRUARY 5, 2021
A few weeks ago, I wrote a piece for the Columbia Journalism Review about the way that my lifelong interest in heavy metal and ongoing career as a metal journalist had equipped me with a very specific skill set—namely, spotting Nazis, especially when they would prefer not to be found. In this respect, I am nothing… Read more.
The Verge
FEBRUARY 5, 2021
Photo by Michele Doying / The Verge. The wonderful thing about bitcoin is many of its apparent benefits, like the ability to be anonymously owned and securely transferred, are also the things that often create situations like this: police in Germany have seized more than €50 million ($60 million) in bitcoin, but they can’t access any of it because, as Reuters reports , the person they took it from won’t tell them his password.
GeekWire
FEBRUARY 5, 2021
Microsoft President Brad Smith. (GeekWire File Photo). Microsoft says its Political Action Committee (PAC) will suspend contributions for the 2022 election cycle to all members of Congress who voted against certifying results of the U.S. presidential election, and to all “state officials and organizations who supported such objections or suggested the election should be overturned.” The company says it will also create a new initiative called Democracy Forward to allow employees, sha
The Verge
FEBRUARY 5, 2021
Image: Maytree. In January, South Korean a cappella group Maytree wowed us with their spot-on vocal interpretations of Windows sound effects, and on Friday, the group released a video of their next impressive showcase: interpretations of sounds from iPhones. The video is a little over a minute long, and I recommend watching the whole thing, which you can do at the top of this post.
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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.
GeekWire
FEBRUARY 5, 2021
Julie Larson-Green. Julie Larson-Green, an engineering leader and executive who spent more than 25 years at Microsoft, is retiring from her position as the chief experience officer at Qualtrics following the experience management technology company’s recent initial public offering. She has worked for Qualtrics, which has dual headquarters in Seattle and Provo, Utah, since 2017.
Gizmodo
FEBRUARY 5, 2021
If you eat oysters in Galveston, there’s a chance your discarded oyster shells will end up back in the bay near the Texas city. Unlike throwing trash in the sea, that’s a good thing. Read more.
GeekWire
FEBRUARY 5, 2021
The Goat got baaaaaaannnnned. T-Mobile’s Super Bowl ad featuring Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback Tom Brady (Greatest Of All Time?) won’t air during the big game on Sunday so the Bellevue, Wash.-based wireless carrier released it Friday morning. As far as T-Mobile sees it, the ad starring Brady and tight end teammate Rob Gronkowski may have ruffled some feathers with the NFL and its big sponsor — and T-Mobile rival — Verizon.
Tech Republic Cloud
FEBRUARY 5, 2021
Before you take the AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner exam, check out this prep course.
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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.
GeekWire
FEBRUARY 5, 2021
Claude Letourneau, president and CEO of Svante. (Svante Photo). Vancouver, B.C.-based Svante has closed a $75 million funding round. The company calls it “the largest private investment into point source carbon capture globally to date.” Since launching in 2007, the Canadian company has developed a technology for trapping industrial carbon emissions where they’re released — such as facilities responsible for cement manufacturing, blue hydrogen production and natural gas boilers
Venture Beast
FEBRUARY 5, 2021
Lucy, the virtual being from Fable Studio's Wolves in the Walls virtual reality experience, attended the virtual Sundance Film Festival. Read More.
Information Week
FEBRUARY 5, 2021
As IT has evolved, solutions have become increasingly sector-agnostic, creating a ripe opportunity for the reuse of technology solutions across different industries.
Venture Beast
FEBRUARY 5, 2021
VentureBeat examines how Andy Jassy's ascention to Amazon CEO could impact the company's AI initiatives and sales of facial recognition tech. Read More.
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The Verge
FEBRUARY 5, 2021
Photo by Alexander Kramer for The Verge. Apple’s MacBook Pro with the new M1 processor is one of the best-performing laptops on the market in its price range. If you are interested in picking up the latest Apple laptop for a discount, Amazon , B&H Photo , and Best Buy are selling the base model, which includes 256GB of SSD storage, for $1,199, knocking $100 off its usual retail price of $1,299.
GeekWire
FEBRUARY 5, 2021
(GeekWire File Photo). Editor’s note: This is a guest post written by Daniel Li , partner at Madrona Venture Group, which first appeared in his weekly newsletter The DL. Open source software (OSS) started as a reaction to companies like Microsoft and Oracle making “unfair” profits on software, so developers created Linux and MySQL and made them available to anyone for free.
Venture Beast
FEBRUARY 5, 2021
VentureBeat investigated claims of gender discrimination at Dropbox lodged by dozens of current and former employees. Read More.
TechSpot
FEBRUARY 5, 2021
SpaceX revealed as much in a recent petition to the Federal Communications Commission in which Starlink Services is seeking designation as an eligible telecommunications carrier.
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“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.
The Verge
FEBRUARY 5, 2021
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge. Microsoft has announced that it will suspend all donations for the upcoming 2022 election cycle for any members of Congress, state officials, and organizations that voted to object to the certification of electors in the 2020 election or supported attempting to overturn the election. The company temporarily suspended all political contributions after the January 6th attack on the Capitol, with Microsoft taking the time to decide “whether to suspend furthe
TechSpot
FEBRUARY 5, 2021
On Thursday, Apple released the public beta for watchOS 7.4, which expands the "Unlock with Apple Watch" feature to iPhones. We first learned of the functionality when the beta rolled out to developers earlier this week. Unlock with Apple Watch has been available for quite some time but has only.
GeekWire
FEBRUARY 5, 2021
Eddie Murphy, right, and Arsenio Hall star in “Coming 2 America,” coming to Amazon Prime on March 5. (Amazon Photo). The most important part of Sunday’s Super Bowl is already watchable as advertising for a variety of companies and products has hit the internet ahead of the big game. Tech is once again well represented, although a few big names which have stolen the show in years past are not present for Super Bowl LV.
TechSpot
FEBRUARY 5, 2021
Ford is one of several automakers that has been forced to slow production of its vehicles due to the global semiconductor chip shortage—manufacture of its popular F-150 pickup trucks is being cut back at plants in Michigan and Missouri.
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The Verge
FEBRUARY 5, 2021
Photo by Sean Hollister / The Verge. Okay, screenwriters, directors, authors, and production companies — we get it. You have some experience telling stories about Wall Street, the video game industry, or social networks, and you see some mighty big dollar signs in the true tale of how Reddit managed to drive an ailing video game retailer’s stocks to completely ridiculous highs through sheer power of will plus a David versus Goliath narrative that probably doesn’t hold up under close examination.
TechSpot
FEBRUARY 5, 2021
Google’s file sync offerings under its Drive service can get a bit complicated, especially if you’re a regular customer who relies on Backup and Sync for personal use and then has to manage Drive File Stream at work. It could also get messy if an organization used both solutions at.
The Verge
FEBRUARY 5, 2021
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge. It’s more important than usual to update to the latest version of Chrome. Version 88.0.4324.150 of Google’s browser released on Thursday fixes a vulnerability which the search giant says is actively being exploited in the wild. The update is rolling out now across Windows, Mac, and Linux. Google isn’t providing specific details about the CVE-2021-21148 vulnerability “until a majority of users are updated with a fix.
TechSpot
FEBRUARY 5, 2021
You need not look further than our review of the Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060 laptop GPU to understand that while it does offer great value, it comes in several configurations that make it very difficult for the average consumer to differentiate. We're talking about more than 70 different laptop models.
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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