Forrester IT
AUGUST 14, 2020
A few weeks ago, I teamed up with some treasured colleagues to discuss the marketing technology landscape in a conversational webinar: Steve Casey, who joins me in covering B2B marketing technology, and our compatriots Joe Stanhope and Rusty Warner who cover B2C marketing technology, engaged in a spirited (‘cause we don’t always agree) conversation about […].
Association of Information Technology Professional
AUGUST 14, 2020
CompTIA Security+ ranks among the top 10 cybersecurity certifications in 2020. See how CompTIA Security+ 601, coming in November, compares to 501.
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Forrester IT
AUGUST 14, 2020
Digital leaders face tough decisions on where to invest limited funds. It’s no surprise that interest in digital has skyrocketed in a post-COVID-19 world. CEOs who put off digital investments to focus on more pressing priorities may be wishing they heeded Forrester’s advice from 2013 and 2014. Some digital teams are scrambling to modernize experiences […].
Anoop
AUGUST 14, 2020
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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.
Tech Republic Cloud
AUGUST 14, 2020
Amazon Web Services hopes to empower companies by letting them test quantum algorithms in its fully managed Braket service.
Information Week
AUGUST 14, 2020
Robotic process automation promises to streamline an array of routine business tasks. Here's what you need to know about this transformational technology.
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The Verge
AUGUST 14, 2020
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) signed a contract with facial recognition company Clearview AI this week for “mission support,” government contracting records show (as first spotted by the tech accountability nonprofit Tech Inquiry ). The purchase order for $224,000 describes “clearview licenses” and lists “ICE mission support dallas” as the contracting office.
GeekWire
AUGUST 14, 2020
(Shutterstock Photo). An appeals court in California ruled Thursday that federal law does not shield Amazon from liability for defective products offered by third-party sellers through its online marketplace — the latest blow to the one of the tech giant’s most controversial legal positions. Although it’s not the first time a court has issued such a decision , lawyers for the plaintiff say this ruling is unique in setting a precedent for future cases, as the first published opi
The Verge
AUGUST 14, 2020
Facebook appears to flipping the switch on integrating the chat systems for Instagram and Messenger. On Friday evening, several editors at The Verge across the country — on both iOS and Android devices — noticed an update screen popped up in Instagram’s mobile app with the message “There’s a New Way to Message on Instagram” with a list of features including a “new colorful look for your chats,” more emoji reactions, swipe-to-reply, and the big one: “chat with friends who use Facebook.”.
Venture Beast
AUGUST 14, 2020
Google-affiliated researchers developed an open source framework -- Language Interpretability Tool (LIT) -- designed to explore and audit language models. Read More.
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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.
GeekWire
AUGUST 14, 2020
CityBldr CEO Bryan Copley at Seattle’s protest zone in Capitol Hill, holding a carton of cigarettes he used as trade currency to help him navigate the area. (Photo courtesy of Copley). Bryan Copley was at the center of this year’s two biggest crises. The Seattle startup CEO tested positive for COVID-19 in March. Then his company, CityBldr , suddenly found itself in the heart of the Seattle protest zone that made headlines around the globe.
The Verge
AUGUST 14, 2020
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge. When you delete something from Instagram you expect it to be gone for good. But when security researcher Saugat Pokharel requested a copy of photos and direct messages from the photo-sharing app, he was sent data he’d deleted more than a year ago, showing that the information had never been entirely removed from Instagram’s servers.
Venture Beast
AUGUST 14, 2020
Surface Duo, Microsoft's dual-screen Android phone, is dead on arrival. But that's not because of the price: 128GB for $1,400 and 256GB for $1,500. Read More.
GeekWire
AUGUST 14, 2020
Protestors march to Amazon’s headquarters in Seattle to support an earlier plan to impose a new business tax. (‘Tax Amazon’ campaign photo). The Downtown Seattle Association is asking the Seattle City Council to reconsider a new payroll tax following a news report that Amazon polled employees about which communities they’d prefer to work from elsewhere in the region. “This news should be deeply concerning to the city and is another early warning of the long-term, da
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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.
Venture Beast
AUGUST 14, 2020
Epic Games fired a shot heard around the world as it sued Apple and Google for antitrust violations after they removed Fortnite from their stores. Read More.
Gizmodo
AUGUST 14, 2020
Russell Kirsch, the inventor of the pixel and the first person to create a digital photograph, died Tuesday at his home in Portland, Oregon, according to a report from the Washington Post. Kirsch was 91 years old. Read more.
Venture Beast
AUGUST 14, 2020
Long-tailed distributions of data make it difficult to build efficient AI companies. Here's some advice from practitioners on how to fix the problem. Read More.
GeekWire
AUGUST 14, 2020
Brad Porter, vice president of robotics at Amazon, introduces new breeds of robots at the re:MARS conference in Las Vegas. (GeekWire Photo / Alan Boyle). Amazon’s longtime robotics leader Brad Porter has left the company, according to a report from Business Insider. Porter joined Amazon in 2007 and became a distinguished engineer in 2014, earning an exclusive title given to only a handful of employees.
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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.
Venture Beast
AUGUST 14, 2020
In a new tutorial, Google researchers demonstrate how quantum computing techniques can improve accuracy in tasks like image classification. Read More.
The Verge
AUGUST 14, 2020
Image: DC Universe. DC Universe’s original content — a list that includes Titans , Swamp Thing , Stargirl , and Young Justice — is heading to HBO Max, according to DC chief creative officer and publisher Jim Lee in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter. The news comes as WarnerMedia is in the process of a larger reorganization at DC Comics, which was also hit by a wave of layoffs this week.
Venture Beast
AUGUST 14, 2020
Apple and Google claim they banned Fortnite to ensure platform safety and fairness, but Epic's a perfect example of why neither justification is true. Read More.
Gizmodo
AUGUST 14, 2020
It’s been a tough time for for Apple. Just a few weeks ago CEO Tim Cook testified under oath that his company’s app store policies—including the sky high tax that gives Apple 30% of any in-app purchases—were fair game, only to be slammed with an antitrust suit from EU authorities less than a day later. Yesterday the… Read more.
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Venture Beast
AUGUST 14, 2020
Halo: Infinite's delay puts Microsoft in a weird spot, as their upcoming Xbox Series X is now without a major launch title. Launch games matter. Read More.
Gizmodo
AUGUST 14, 2020
In a pairing that has all the makings of a privacy and/or human rights nightmare waiting to happen, the dystopian facial recognition software maker Clearview AI secured an ongoing contract with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement this week. Read more.
The Verge
AUGUST 14, 2020
The last hurrah for the Intel iMac Apple’s new 2020 version of the 27-inch iMac looks exactly like it has for eight years now. The updates are all on the inside, adding improvements that bring it up to the specs you’d expect in a 2020 computer, with 10th Gen Intel processors and SSDs standard instead of spinning disk drives. It starts at $1,799 for the base Core i5 model, but of course you can price it out much higher.
Venture Beast
AUGUST 14, 2020
The U.S. Justice Department is moving "full-tilt" on its antitrust investigation of Alphabet's Google and other Big Tech platforms. Read More.
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Gizmodo
AUGUST 14, 2020
“I’ll just hunker down and ride this out,” you said. “I’ll just call the pizza guy and get my vital nourishment delivered,” you said. But the coronavirus comes for everything that’s good. Read more.
Venture Beast
AUGUST 14, 2020
Electronic Arts rebranded its subscription game services -- EA Access and Origin Access -- under the EA Play brand name. The benefits stay the same. Read More.
The Verge
AUGUST 14, 2020
Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge. Facebook is launching a new events feature that will let page owners and event organizers create paid online events to try to fill the gap created by the COVID-19 pandemic, the social media giant announced on Friday. But there’s one catch: the platform is going to earn those pages and businesses less on iOS, as Facebook says Apple is refusing to waive its standard App Store fees or allow the company to use its own in-app payment processing system it s
Venture Beast
AUGUST 14, 2020
Activision has teased its Call of Duty 2020 game, believed to be Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War, in the Call of Duty: Warzone battle royale game. Read More.
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