Wed.Jun 17, 2020

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The Future Of B2C Buying In Europe: May You Live In Interesting Times

Forrester IT

The ancient Chinese curse “May you live in interesting times” might be neither ancient nor Chinese, but it’s wholly applicable to 2020. Words and phrases like “unprecedented” and “the new normal” are, well, the new normal as infection and social unrest sweep the globe. It’s easy to get swept up in the zeitgeist of revolution, […].

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Know-It-All CIOs Are The Source Of The Problem

The Accidental Successful CIO

Know-it-all CIOs don’t think that they need input from anyone Image Credit: Charles Kremenak. CIOs who are excited about their jobs and who are ambitious often like to act like they know everything. This kind of behavior becomes very visible to everyone that they work with. As they move on in their career, these CIOs often start to realize that, despite the importance of information technology, just how little they actually did know.

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Just Published: Dual Forrester Wave™ Evaluations On Text Analytics

Forrester IT

Enterprises have been successfully leveraging analytics platforms such as business intelligence (BI), predictive analytics based on machine learning (PAML), cognitive search, and others for multiple applications and use cases for decades. That has not been the case with text analytics or natural language processing (NLP) technologies. Forrester tracks over hundred vendors whose platforms are mostly […].

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ConfigMgr Admin Console Silent Install Application Using SCCM

Anoop

Subscribe YouTube Channel [link]. and Facebook Page to get latest updates. [link]. Let’s create the ConfigMgr Admin Console Application Using SCCM. This application can be used to deploy the SCCM admin console to Windows 10 devices. Let’s perform a ConfigMgr Admin Console Silent Install Application Using SCCM. You can use the admin console source files from Configuration Manager primary server folder “<SCCM site server installation path>ToolsConsoleSetup“ In [R

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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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Connected Experiences: The Goal For Great “Smart” Products

Forrester IT

Product makers have pushed tech smarts beyond our phones and PCs into gear and gadgets, but many smart, connected products are not so smart. Whether it’s the latest connected harvester or a new smart speaker, the user experience often falls short of rising expectations. Adding sensors and remote-control using Internet of Things (IoT) tech in […].

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BlackBerry partners with Intel to detect cryptojacking malware

Tech Republic Security

The partnership leverages Intel's CPU telemetry data to more easily detect abnormal system behavior that indicates illicit cryptocurrency mining.

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How blockchain is transforming online gaming for players

Tech Republic Security

With blockchain, gamers can save their in-game purchases and retain their value to resell them to other players or move them into other games for the first time.

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The Future of Work: Best Managed with Agility, Diversity, Resilience

Information Week

The pandemic has had an uneven impact on businesses and industries. However, the common thread has been rapid and sometimes dramatic change.

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Cybercriminals unleash diverse wave of attacks on COVID-19 vaccine researchers

Tech Republic Security

As multiple companies inch closer to a potentially life-saving vaccine for the coronavirus, cybercriminals with varying motives have increased attacks.

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How to install MicroK8s on macOS

Tech Republic Cloud

If you've been waiting for the perfect Kubernetes dev solution for macOS, the wait is over. Learn how to install Microk8s on macOS.

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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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Most of the world's most popular passwords can be cracked in under a second

Tech Republic Security

Hackers who use brute force attacks can easily compromise accounts with weak passwords, according to Nordpass.

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‘Hey Siri, I’m getting pulled over’ shortcut makes it easy to record police

The Verge

Staff photo by Ben McCanna/Portland Press Herald via Getty Images. As protests against racial police violence have spread across the US, we’ve seen how video captured on mobile devices can help identify misconduct by law enforcement. But such evidence isn’t just useful at a protest, but during all sorts of routine interactions with the police, including traffic stops.

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Perseverance rover will go to Mars with a monument to COVID-19 medical teams

GeekWire

An engineer attaches a plaque paying tribute to medical workers on the chassis of NASA’s Perseverance rover, which is due for launch to Mars as early as next month. (NASA via YouTube). When NASA’s Perseverance rover lands in Mars’ Jezero Crater next February, it’ll be carrying a tribute to the medical community and their work to quell the coronavirus pandemic.

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Jaws at 45: The Scenes, the Sounds, the Shark

Gizmodo

Going in the water hasn’t been comfortable for 45 years. That’s how long it’s been since director Steven Spielberg first released his film Jaws and subsequently changed everything. The summer blockbuster season was born. A new wunderkind director emerged. A little-known composer instantly became a legend. And… Read more.

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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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This startup is taking on Instacart by helping gig workers launch grocery delivery businesses

GeekWire

Elite Groceries is one of 2,000 grocery delivery businesses established using Dumpling’s technology. (Dumpling Photo). The coronavirus pandemic has made grocery and food delivery workers essential while exposing the inequities and shortfalls of an on-demand workforce left out of a social safety net built on traditional employment. Federal and local governments are responding by adopting new benefits and protections for gig workers.

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The "world's first GPU" has been recreated in Lego form

TechSpot

Released on October 11, 1999, the card was the first to carry Nvidia’s ‘GeForce’ brand name. But its biggest claim to fame is being the world’s first GPU—3D game accelerators existed before its release, but the term GPU, or graphics processing unit, did not. Nvidia defined the term as “a.

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Two Outreach founders depart, team up on secretive remote work venture

GeekWire

From left to right: Outreach co-founders Manny Medina, Gordon Hempton, Wes Hather, and Andrew Kinzer. (Outreach Photo). Outreach co-founders Wes Hather and Gordon Hempton are working on a stealthy new remote work company after leaving the billion-dollar Seattle startup they helped launch six years ago with Andrew Kinzer and Manny Medina. Hempton left this past October, while Hather departed earlier this year.

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Kim Kardashian West is the next superstar celebrity to snag an exclusive podcast deal with Spotify

The Verge

Kim Kardashian West has entered into a deal with Spotify to produce and host a new exclusive podcast. The deal follows Spotify’s landmark contract last month with podcast juggernaut Joe Rogan , who is moving his podcast The Joe Rogan Experience to the music streaming platform this later this year. The Wall Street Journal first reported Kardashian West’s deal on Wednesday.

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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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The next X-ray? Seattle startup Proprio raises $23M to build high-tech surgical navigation system

GeekWire

Screenshot of a 3D interactive scene generated by the Proprio system, including live capture of the surgical field fused with preoperative imaging and planning data. (Proprio Image). Seattle startup Proprio has raised more cash to help build out its surgical technology that some investors believe will be just as transformative as the X-ray. The 4-year-old company announced a $23 million Series A investment round led by DCVC, with participation from Cota Capital, BOLD Capital Partners, and Alan F

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Twitter starts rolling out audio tweets on iOS

The Verge

Twitter is rolling out the ability to record audio snippets and attach them to your tweets. The new feature is available first on iOS and launching today for “a limited group of people,” according to the company. “Sometimes 280 characters aren’t enough and some conversational nuances are lost in translation. So starting today, we’re testing a new feature that will add a more human touch to the way we use Twitter — your very own voice,” Twitter’s Maya Patterson and Rémy Bourgoin wrote in a blog p

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Zynga creates $25 million fund for promoting diversity education and charities

Venture Beast

Frank Gibeau, CEO of Zynga, said the company is creating a $25 million to donate money or invest in diversity-related educational and charitable causes. Read More.

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Sharp drop in overall security spending forecast from Gartner due to COVID-19

Tech Republic Security

The pandemic is causing security spending in 2020 to shrink dramatically in most, but not all, segments, according to a revised estimate.

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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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Spaceflight signs deal with SpaceX for future rideshare satellite launch slots

GeekWire

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket sends 64 satellites into space in December 2018, on a mission that was arranged by Seattle-based Spaceflight Inc. (SpaceX via YouTube). Seattle-based Spaceflight Inc. says it’s signed an agreement to secure spots for secondary payloads on several of SpaceX’s rockets due for launch through the end of 2021. Spaceflight, which was recently acquired by Japan’s Mitsui & Co. in partnership with Yamasa Co. , specializes in arranging rideshare launch logist

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This Metabolism Breathalyzer Helped Me Shed a Few Pounds in Quarantine

Gizmodo

If you think counting calories is tedious, I guarantee you counting macronutrients, or “macros,” is a bazillion times worse. It’s a painstaking process, and even the best food-logging apps often come up short. I have shaken a fist at the sky many times, pleading for an unnamed benevolent entity to grant me a faster… Read more.

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How Business Email Compromise attacks pose a threat to organizations

Tech Republic Security

BEC campaigns represent a relatively small percentage of all email attacks yet pose the greatest financial risk, says Abnormal Security.

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Google commits $175 million to racial equity with focus on black-owned businesses

The Verge

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge. Google is committing to spending more than $175 million on racial equity initiatives with a focus on financing black-owned businesses and supporting black entrepreneurs. The funding was announced by Google CEO Sundar Pichai on Wednesday alongside a number of other commitments and changes meant to fight anti-black racism and support black Google employees and their families.

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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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A Brief History of Listening In on Police Radios

Gizmodo

Last Friday night, thousands defied New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio and Governor Andrew Cuomo’s curfew order and marched in the rain, the fifth evening in a week marked by beatings and mass arrests after dark. It was now common for police to leapfrog ahead of the crowd, assemble a chokepoint, and ambush with mass… Read more.

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Dropbox adds password manager, vault, and other security features

Tech Republic Security

The cloud storage site has also unveiled an app center and improved its integration with HelloSign eSignature technology.

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Documents reveal Microsoft pitched facial recognition tech to drug enforcement feds

GeekWire

Microsoft President Brad Smith speaking at Seattle’s Town Hall in September. (GeekWire Photo / Kevin Lisota). Microsoft has long cast itself as a moral authority on facial recognition, calling for federal regulation of the technology and pledging not to sell it to police. But emails obtained by the ACLU and released Wednesday show Microsoft repeatedly pitched its facial recognition software to the federal government.

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GE will make taller wind turbines using 3D-printing

The Verge

GE Energy 1.5 megawatt wind turbines mounted on 80 meter towers | Photo by Mark Reinstein/Corbis via Getty Images. GE announced today that it’s developing skyscraper-sized wind turbines with massive 3D-printed bases. The conglomerate plans to work with partners in the construction industry to produce both a printer and materials that could eventually be deployed around the world.

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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.