Wed.Jun 23, 2021

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Summary of the US Innovation and Competition Act of 2021 (USICA): Bipartisan, Bicameral Legislation For Action

CTOvision

The United States Innovation and Competition Act of 2021 (USICA), formerly known as the Endless Frontier Act, passed into law on 8 June 2021. It authorizes $110 Billion for basic and advanced technology research over a five year period. It includes investment in: Artificial intelligence and machine learning High performance computing, semiconductors, and advanced computer […].

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An Agency Decision Is A Technology Decision

Forrester IT

It has become increasingly clear that technology is a critical component of the client-agency relationship. As marketing technology forms the foundation for developing consumer insights, campaign planning and execution, and measurement, it’s part of the fabric of how agencies deliver work product and engage with clients. Companies that rely on their agencies are by extension […].

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My CompTIA Server+ Favorites: Server Deployments

Association of Information Technology Professional

Part 2 in a series of my favorite CompTIA Server+ topics, with server deployments, basic configurations, and the importance of both Linux and Windows.

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B2B Digital Advertising Optimization Is Broken. Here’s How To Fix It.

Forrester IT

Stop focusing on digital advertising click-through rates and start paying attention to three core results to maximize paid media investments.

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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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CIOs Have To Prepare For The Hybrid Work Environment

The Accidental Successful CIO

The new workplace was just made for hackers Image Credit: Rakka. Every CIO understands that the pandemic was a major disruption to their business and the importance of information technology. Their workplaces went from being filled with people to being deserted. Now that vaccines have become available, those workers are starting to trickle back in. However, the workplace as we used to know it may never exist again.

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Solving the Content Data Dilemma: How to Build B2B Content Measurement Dashboards

Forrester IT

Dealing with B2B content data dilemmas? Learn how to build content measurement dashboards to achieve better insights in our latest blog post.

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Forrester’s US Retail Recovery Heat Map, June 2021 — Expected Income Loss Still High In Some Metros

Forrester IT

Retail recovery is proceeding at different rates in various parts of the US. See how our US retail recovery heat map reflects factors such as economic sentiment, change in COVID-19 cases, vaccine rates, and retail foot traffic.

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Cars are packed with technology, but they can still be hacked

Tech Republic Security

The threat to people's lives is terrifying, so auto manufacturers need to change their old-school strategies to protect people.

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Sizing the addressable market for MPNs

TM Forum

Forecasting the size of the market for private LTE and 5G mobile networks is completely different than estimating the market for consumer services, because businesses’ requirements vary widely and predicting average revenue per enterprise is extremely difficult. This excerpt from our new report. Mobile Private Networks: Exploring the CSP opportunity. looks at how today’s mobile private network (MPN) market is taking shape.

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Modernizing app stacks at enterprise scale

Tech Republic Cloud

Modern design is synonymous with customer-centered design, said Wells Fargo's head of modernization and cloud adoption, during a session at the Lesbians Who Tech Pride Summit.

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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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Univ. of Washington and Sana researchers use gene editing to prep stem cells for heart repair

GeekWire

Heart muscle regeneration researchers (left to right) Naoto Muraoka, Elaheh Karbassi, and Chuck Murry. (University of Washington Photo). Human stem cell scientists have long dreamed of repairing damaged hearts, but have been stymied by research showing that the cells yield irregular heartbeats in laboratory animals. A new genetic engineering approach overcomes this barrier, according to a report at the annual meeting of the International Society for Stem Cell Research by scientists at the Univer

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Salesforce launches new Trailblazer Community features ahead of TrailheaDX 2021

Tech Republic Cloud

TechRepublic's Bill Detwiler talks with SVP for Trailhead Marketing & Community, Kris Lande about the new Trailblazer Community and Tony Nguyen, a Trailblazer who shares his story of going from being unemployed during the pandemic to getting a job as a Salesforce Admin.

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Warren Buffett resigns from Gates Foundation in latest development following Gates divorce

GeekWire

Bill and Melinda Gates with Warren Buffett, left, in New York in 2006. (Gates Foundation Photo). Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett said he will resign as a trustee at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. “For years I have been a trustee — an inactive trustee at that — of only one recipient of my funds, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation,” Buffett said in a statement that detailed his annual charitable giving, which totaled $4.1 billion this year. “I am now resigning

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Birds Use Quantum Mechanics to See Magnetic Fields, New Research Suggests

Gizmodo

Many birds have a sixth sense. No, not seeing dead people: They detect Earth’s magnetic field, an ability that allows them to return to the same sites, year after year, during seasonal migration. Now, scientists have come closer to identifying the mechanism that our feathery friends use to feel Earth’s magnetic… 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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Housing boom: 4,000 Seattle homes sold for at least $100K more than asking price this year

GeekWire

A new report from Seattle-based real estate brokerage Redfin found that 4,078 houses in the Seattle region sold this year for between $100,000 and $299,999 over asking price, compared to just 362 last year. The data reflects the red-hot housing market, with record-low inventory creating intense bidding wars for homes. A typical home in Seattle has sold for $47,878 above asking price in 2021, compared to $3,025 in 2020.

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John McAfee found dead in prison after Spanish court allows extradition to US

TechSpot

According to the Associated Press, a Spanish court had recently ruled that the 75-year-old could be extradited to the United States to face charges of tax evasion.

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Microsoft joins space industry information clearinghouse to boost cybersecurity

GeekWire

A series of pictures documents the construction of an Azure Orbital ground station at Microsoft’s data center in Quincy, Wash. (Microsoft Azure via YouTube). Microsoft is joining the Space Information Sharing and Analysis Center as a founding member, with a mission to strengthen cybersecurity for critical space assets. “As the first hyperscale cloud service provider to join this member organization, we will share our unique global threat insights to protect critical infrastructure an

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Cybersecurity practices must be applied to vehicles, too

Tech Republic Security

Manufacturers want to pack cars and trucks full of technology, but they need to remember the dangers to those who drive or ride in them.

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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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Windows 11 vs. Windows 10 Performance: Gaming and Applications

TechSpot

Windows 11 is coming. We didn't plan on testing it just yet, but with so many Windows 11 benchmarks out there with mixed results, we thought we should take it for a spin and see what the real deal is.

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Salesforce wants people to "learn, earn and connect" on one platform with new Trailblazer Community

Tech Republic Cloud

Salesforce's new Trailblazer Community is designed to help people "learn, earn and connect" on one platform. A Salesforce admin, who was once unemployed, shares his story of how it did just that for him.

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Microsoft is warning of malware spread via call centers

TechSpot

A post by Palo Alto Networks' Brad Duncan (via ZDNet) explains that BazarLoader provides backdoor access to an infected Windows host. Once downloaded, criminals use the backdoor to send follow-up malware, such as ransomware, scan the environment, and exploit other vulnerable hosts on the network.

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John McAfee found dead in Barcelona prison, authorities say

The Verge

Photo credit should read PAULA BUSTAMANTE/AFP via Getty Images. John McAfee, founder of the company behind McAfee Antivirus, has been found dead according to reports from Reuters , El Mundo , El País , and others. He was being held in a Barcelona prison, and the Catalan Department of Justice has stated that his death was likely caused by suicide. Lawyers for McAfee confirmed his death to Reuters and The New York Times , with one saying it was “the result of a cruel system that had no reason to k

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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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SpaceX plans to offer global Starlink coverage by September

TechSpot

SpaceX's Starlink is closer than ever to become a global ISP. In a conference with Macquarie Group (via Reuters), Shotwel said that the company has already launched about 1,800 satellites into space. Once they reach their operational orbit, which is expected to happen by September, Starlink will be in a.

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Google Glass Was Ugly, but Facebook's AR Baseball Hat Might Actually Be Worse

Gizmodo

One of the biggest hurdles for augmented reality devices is design: No one wants to wear an obvious gadget on their face. Realizing the issues Google Glass had with gaining consumer traction, it seems Facebook may embrace a unique design for a future wearable. Folks, it’s a baseball hat. Read more.

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Tesla's vision-only autonomous driving system will be powered by a supercomputer with 1.8 EFLOPS

TechSpot

Collecting data for a self-driving system using only cameras instead of radars, LiDAR, and other components may seem inferior, but there are some benefits from this approach. When cutting on the amount of technology packed inside the vehicle, two other things reduce proportionally: costs and weight.

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New Device Creates Water From Thin Air

Gizmodo

As we look towards a Waterworld-esque future where our access to H20 is increasingly rare , it’s even more important to figure out how to squeeze every last drop we can , including out of thin air. In a study published Wednesday in Science Advances, a team of researchers from ETH Zurich demonstrated a new way to create… Read more.

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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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Tomi.ai raises $1M to help brick-and-mortar companies optimize digital ads

Venture Beast

Tomi.ai, a digital sales optimization platform, has raised $1 million in seed funding from Begin Capital and the Phystech Leadership Fund. Read More.

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More Remote Work Leads to More Employee Surveillance

Information Week

Looking to ensure remote worker productivity, organizations are turning to AI and surveillance technology. But 10% of workers are expected to try to subvert those efforts.

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How to better detect and prevent Business Email Compromise attacks

Tech Republic Security

These types of email attacks rely on simple language and exploit human nature to scam their victims, making detection difficult, says Cisco Talos.

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New Oracle rewards program pays customers to adopt more cloud

Tech Republic Cloud

Customers can shave between 25% to 33% on support costs by consuming more cloud, the company says.

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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.