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Déjà vu: Don’t let AIOps be CMDB All Over Again!

Forrester IT

In February of 2009, Glenn O’Donnell (VP, Research Director) and I co-authored the CMDB Imperative when ITIL and ITSM were all the rage. Underpinning that rage was the Configuration Management DB (CMDB) which promised to deliver world peace like a pageant winner during the interview portion of the competition. Nearly thirteen years later, the CMDB […].

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Should CIOs Track Employee Happiness?

The Accidental Successful CIO

Image Credit: roxyfletcher_r04. As the person with the CIO job, one of your many tasks is to find ways to make sure that the people that your company has hired choose to stick around. This can be a difficult thing to do: all of the computers in the world can’t tell you what your company’s employees are thinking at any given moment in time.

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Best IT Support and Help Desk Certifications for 2022

Association of Information Technology Professional

Certifications show employers you have the skills they need for IT support. Check out our list of the best IT support and help desk certifications.

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How It Feels To Be A New Forrester Analyst

Forrester IT

My First Two Months At Forrester Have Been Enlightening I joined Forrester two months ago as a Senior Analyst on the Tech & Innovation Research Team. Through my research I help tech executives create sustainable sourcing strategies, nurture better supplier relationships, and get better outcomes from their strategic investments in tech services. My research builds […].

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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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FIX Windows 11 Upgrade Error Code 0xC190010E

Anoop

Hello - Here is the new HTMD Blog Article for you. Enjoy reading it. Subscribe to YouTube Channel [link]. and Facebook Page to get the latest updates. [link]. Read More. The post FIX Windows 11 Upgrade Error Code 0xC190010E appeared first on HTMD Blog #1 by Jitesh Kumar.

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Behind the scenes: A day in the life of a cybersecurity curriculum director

Tech Republic Security

The Kennedy Space Center kick-started Andee Harston's career in cybersecurity. Here's how she worked her way up to overseeing the cybersecurity curriculum for Infosec.

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MalSmoke attack: Zloader malware exploits Microsoft's signature verification to steal sensitive data

Tech Republic Security

Already impacting more than 2,000 victims, the malware is able to modify a DLL file digitally signed by Microsoft, says Check Point Research.

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IT Job Skills 2022: What’s Hot, What’s Not?

Information Week

The pandemic continues to shape new technology and skills demands. Here’s a look at the skills most likely to shine and sizzle this year.

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TikTok Star Who Sells Her Farts in Jars Starts Selling Fart NFTs

Gizmodo

A reality TV star who sells her farts in jars has decided to stop selling them, despite making $1,000 per jar. But fans of her work shouldn’t worry too much. She’s still going to sell her farts as non-fungible tokens, more commonly known as NFTs. Read more.

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Why this Microsoft employee expanded an iconic NFT collection to make a more diverse, inclusive set

GeekWire

Some of the many faces in the ExpansionPunks NFT collection created by a Seattle-area tech veteran. (ExpansionPunks Image). In certain circles of the internet, or in the hyped iteration known as Web3 , having an authentic CryptoPunks NFT avatar as your Twitter profile picture is considered by some to be the ultimate status symbol. But what if your status wasn’t represented by the many thousands of misfit male and female — or zombie, alien and ape — faces that make up the CrytpoPunks collec

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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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Chase CIO Gill Haus Discusses Recruitment, Agile, and Automation

Information Week

Chase CIO talks about how his bank trains its engineers to make use of the cloud, machine learning, and other resources to adapt to consumer demand.

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Kelp snacks, cargo tracking and electric boat engine startups part of Maritime Blue accelerator

GeekWire

The 10 companies participating in Maritime Blue’s third accelerator. (Maritime Blue Image). Maritime Blue , a Washington state public-private coalition promoting marine-related technologies, has announced the 10 startups participating in its 2022 accelerator. Seven are from Washington or Oregon. The cohort includes four female founders and two teams led by people of color, which supports a deliberate effort by the accelerator to bring diversity into the historically white and male dominate

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Razer’s Project Sophia concept turns your desk into a modular computer

The Verge

Razer is no stranger to wild CES prototypes, and CES 2022 is no exception: the company revealed its new Project Sophia concept, which aims to build an entire modular desktop computer into a desk that looks like a Star Trek LCARS console come to life. Razer has had modular computer aspirations before. There was 2014’s Project Christine , a precursor to Project Sophia that imagined a desktop tower that was built out of easily swappable Jenga-like bricks. 2020’s Tomahawk took a more practical appro

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Biotech in 2022: Industry leaders and investors on trends and challenges to watch

GeekWire

From top left, clockwise: Fred Hutch’s Hilary Hehman; Oregon Venture Fund’s Eric Rosenfeld; Alexandria’s Alice Ly; University of Washington’s François Baneyx; sp3nw’s Michaele Armstrong; and Washington Research Foundation’s William Canestaro. It’s been a remarkable few years for biotech, in the Pacific Northwest and beyond.

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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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Razer’s new Zephyr Pro mask has the voice amp feature we wanted all along

The Verge

The Zephyr Pro features two speaker grilles near the bottom replaceable filter, along with a voice amp button near one of its intakes. | Razer. In case you were disappointed that Razer axed the voice amp feature from its Zephyr mask that promised to amplify your voice through speakers, don’t worry. Razer plans to upsell you on its Zephyr Pro mask that has been announced at CES 2022.

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Napster co-founder leads secretive Seattle startup that just raised $3.5M to ‘supercharge productivity’

GeekWire

From left to right: Saurav Pahadia; Jordan Ritter; Shu Wu; and Daniel Cintra. (Augment Photo). The news: A group of experienced entrepreneurs and technologists have teamed up to lead a new Seattle startup that aims to “supercharge your productivity.” The details: Augment AI Corp is still in stealth mode, but GeekWire has learned that the startup just raised a $3.45 million seed round and is spinning out of the incubator at Seattle’s Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (

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How to deploy the Portainer container management tool with persistent storage

Tech Republic Data Center

Looking for a powerful web-based Docker container manager? Jack Wallen shows you how to deploy one of the best on the market.

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Ghost of Tsushima has sold 8 million copies

Venture Beast

Ghost of Tsushima is a global smash hit, and Sony plans to turn it into a movie as part of its PlayStation Studios film efforts. Read More.

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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 will spend 2022 trying to match Apple’s ecosystem integrations

The Verge

Google is announcing no fewer than 13 different new software features at CES 2022, ranging from AirPods-like fast switching to promised software that will mirror your Android text apps on a Chromebook. It’s part of an initiative that Google calls “Better Together” but that the rest of the industry is more likely to refer to as “catching up to Apple’s ecosystem.”.

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CES 2022: AI is driving innovation in ‘smart’ tech

Venture Beast

At CES 2022, a slew of smart tech innovations driven by AI and aimed at improving lives and businesses, are being unveiled publicly. Read More.

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Amazon’s Ring unveils $40 device that detects breaking glass, duplicating Echo feature

GeekWire

The new Ring Alarm Glass Break Sensor. (Ring Photo). Ring, the Amazon-owned smart doorbell and home security tech company, announced a new sensor that promises to detect the sound of a window breaking from up to 25 feet away, using AI to distinguish from other noises in the home. The Ring Alarm Glass Break Sensor , unveiled Wednesday morning, works in conjunction with the Ring Alarm system.

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Online whiteboarding platform Miro raises $400M to power the future of work

Venture Beast

Miro, a visual collaboration platform used by companies like Dell, Cisco, and Deloitte, has raised $400 million at a $17.5 billion valuation. 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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Qualcomm aims to serve next-gen cars with Snapdragon Ride Vision and Digital Chassis

TechSpot

Companies like the Intel's Mobileye, graphics giant Nvidia, and Qualcomm are all using CES 2022 to announce their newest offerings for the automotive industry, as well as important new partnerships with car makers and automotive suppliers.

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What 1000-X faster simulation means for digital twins

Venture Beast

MIT researchers discovered a technique that speeds physics modeling by 1000X. They spun this out into a new company, called Akselos, which helps enterprises weave the tech into various kinds of digital twins. Read More.

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James Webb Space Telescope completes risky sunshield deployment

TechSpot

The unfolding and tensioning of the sunshield took place over the course of eight days, involving 139 of Webb’s 178 release mechanisms as well as 70 hinge assemblies, eight deployment motors, 90 individual cables and roughly 400 pulleys.

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AI could repair the damage done by data overload

Venture Beast

With AI we can start leveraging data to empower connections and enhance problem-solving, collaboration, and finding the answers we need. 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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Report: Russian Hacker Who May Have Documents Proving Kremlin Election Meddling in U.S. Custody

Gizmodo

A Russian businessman and accused hacker may have critical information on Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, according to a recent report from Bloomberg. Luckily for U.S. authorities, the businessman in question was arrested and recently extradited to the U.S. on unrelated criminal charges. Read more.

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Xage lands $30M to bring identity security to ‘real world’ infrastructure

Venture Beast

Xage, which offers zero trust identity security for operational technology customers, raised a $30 million series B to scale its deployments. Read More.

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Google Paid Apple to Stay Out of the Search Business, Lawsuit Claims

Gizmodo

At this point, it’s a bit of an open secret that Google likely pays Apple billions of dollars each year to remain the default search engine that crops up on people’s iPhones and Mac computers. Now, a new class-action suit is alleging that the tech titans’ dealings go even farther than that. An antitrust case against… Read more.

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Sony pivots into cars with Sony Mobility and a Vision-S SUV prototype at CES 2022

The Verge

During Sony’s keynote presentation at CES 2022, the company rolled out the Vision-S EV we saw last year, along with a new concept SUV dubbed Vision-S 02. But the big surprise ( this time ) is the launch of Sony Mobility , a new company it’s starting that will focus on electric cars. While the tech industry has been focused for several years on whether or not Apple might produce a vehicle , Sony already showed us a working prototype packed full of its technology, and now it’s going a step further

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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.