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Digital Experience: The Inside Scoop As Told By 36-Plus Executives

Forrester IT

“When you look forward two years and think about your aspirations for your consumer digital experiences, what will inhibit you from reaching those goals?” Dozens of digital business and experience executives across numerous industries and geographies shared their thoughts with us about digital experience’s current state, emerging tech, priorities, and inhibitors.

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5 Reasons Cybersecurity Experts Love CompTIA PenTest+

Association of Information Technology Professional

CompTIA’s forthcoming certification, CompTIA PenTest+, empowers intermediate cybersecurity professionals with penetration testing and vulnerability management skills. Three cybersecurity experts weigh in on what makes CompTIA PenTest+ worthwhile.

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To Formulate Marketing Strategy, Understand Your Business Context

Forrester IT

B2B marketing strategy development isn't a one-size-fits-all process. To build a marketing strategy that drives business growth, understand these six factors.

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Microsoft Introducing Visio in Microsoft 365 | Windows 10

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 Microsoft Introducing Visio in Microsoft 365 | Windows 10 appeared first on HTMD Blog #1 by Jitesh Kumar.

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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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Amazon Prime Day scams resurface for 2021

Tech Republic Security

With this year's Amazon Prime Day set for June 21-22, scammers are already touting "Early Prime Day Deals," says Bolster.

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How Channel-Ready Are Tech Vendors? Initial Assessment Results Say.

Association of Information Technology Professional

Selling through solution providers is an extremely efficient route to market for tech vendors, but success is often predicated on knowing how to sell through the IT channel—why you want to do it, where to find the best partners, and when to use them. That, it turns out, is not so simple.

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Tim Cook says Android has 47 times more malware than iOS because of sideloading

TechSpot

Speaking to Guillaume Lacroix, CEO and founder of media company Brut, Cook reiterated Apple's focus on user privacy. "We've been focused on privacy for over a decade. We see it as a basic human right. A fundamental human right," the Apple boss said.

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NASA: Earth Is Absorbing an 'Unprecedented' Amount of Heat

Gizmodo

Ominous new research shows that the Earth is taking in a shocking amount of heat. In the past 15 years, the amount of incoming solar radiation trapped on the surface and in the oceans has doubled. Read more.

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Seattle marijuana startup Leafly raises $23M as recent legalization boosts cannabis market

GeekWire

(Leafly Image). Seattle-based online cannabis marketplace Leafly has closed $23 million in new funding, GeekWire confirmed with the company. The fresh cash infusion comes as the cannabis market sees an increase in sales as more states legalize pot and dispensaries were declared essential businesses during the pandemic. The startup plans to expand its online marketplace that lets customers and retailers buy and sell cannabis.

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Microsoft’s new Fluid Office documents are coming to life in Teams, OneNote, and more

The Verge

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge. The biggest change to Microsoft’s Office documents in decades is coming to life soon, as the company’s Fluid framework arrives in Microsoft Teams, OneNote, Outlook, and Whiteboard. Microsoft first unveiled Fluid last year, showing how the framework allows blocks of Office content to live independently across the web.

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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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Experimental zero-emissions last-mile delivery hub launches in Seattle as a test for urban logistics

GeekWire

Coaster Cycles’ Etrike fits an electric cargo pod from BrightDrop. Both companies are participating in a pilot program for last-mile delivery in Seattle. (Seattle Neighborhood Hub Photos). Seattle’s first neighborhood delivery hub is now live. The hub, in a parking lot near the Space Needle, brings together companies working in transportation, delivery logistics and food preparation to help solve the “last mile” problem — the expense and environmental cost of the last leg of de

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Ethical AI will not see broad adoption by 2030, study suggests

Venture Beast

According to a survey by the Pew Research Center and Elon University, experts don't believe ethical AI will be broadly adopted soon. Read More.

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Curiosity brings out the crowds at opening of Amazon’s first full-size cashierless grocery store

GeekWire

The line to get into a new Amazon Fresh store in Bellevue winds through the parking lot. (GeekWire Photo / Alan Boyle). BELLEVUE, Wash. — The first full-service Amazon Fresh grocery store to take advantage of the retailer’s “Just Walk Out” cashierless shopping technology could well become a tourist attraction. That’s what was on the mind of Romy Wada, who made the half-hour drive from Auburn to the store at Bellevue’s Factoria shopping center at 4:30 a.m. today to b

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Explainer: What is an API?

TechSpot

Direct3D. OpenAL. Winsock. You've probably heard of these and you might have even used them before. We're talking about APIs -- the golden fleece to programmers around the world. Join us as we explain just what an API is, and take a quick look at where and how they get.

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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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Silicon Valley firm Khosla Ventures makes a rare Seattle investment, leading $11M round for Lexion

GeekWire

Lexion CEO Gaurav Oberoi. (Lexion Photo). Lexion is on a roll. The Seattle startup that helps legal teams use AI to sift through contracts has quadrupled revenue and added 50 customers over the past four months, including brands such as Outreach, Blue Nile, OfferUp, and others. Now the company is reeling in more cash to supercharge growth, announcing a $11 million Series A round led by Khosla Ventures.

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What Google’s AI-designed chip tells us about the nature of intelligence

Venture Beast

Google Brain scientists published in Nature a deep reinforcement learning technique for floorplanning, or arranging components on chips. Read More.

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Call of Duty: Warzone devs are the first to figure out how to make a PS4 game run at 120fps on PS5

TechSpot

Load times do seem improved, but PS4 games seem to be unable to draw on the PS5's extra cycles to boost frame rates. Granted, nobody is expecting the PlayStation 5 to perform miracles on PS4 games running in compatibility mode, but it does seem that developers should have some access.

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Cloud Outage Fallout: Should You Brace for Future Disruption?

Information Week

The outage of Fastly's services lasted all of 49 minutes, yet its widespread impact shows how pervasive reliance on the cloud has become.

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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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Seattle’s Recompose is raising more cash as human composting startup plans locations in other states

GeekWire

Recompose vessels are seen in the Greenhouse, the company’s facility in Kent, Wash., where human bodies are turned into soil. (Sabel Roizen Photo via Recompose). Recompose is rebounding after some trying times during the COVID-19 pandemic. The Seattle-based startup which turns human remains into soil is looking to raise $15 million in a new funding round as more states pass legislation allowing its process, opening the way for future facilities and growth.

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Blockchain indexing firm The Graph enlists Streaming Fast in $60M grant deal

Venture Beast

Blockchain indexing and query firm The Graph has brought StreamingFast into its ecosystem with a $60 million grant. Read More.

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Athira Pharma CEO Leen Kawas placed on leave, shares sink more than 30%

GeekWire

Athira Pharma CEO Leen Kawas at the 2018 GeekWire Summit. (GeekWire Photo / Kevin Lisota). Athira Pharma CEO Leen Kawas has been placed on temporary leave until the Seattle area biotechnology company completes a review “stemming from doctoral research Dr. Kawas conducted while at Washington State University.” Shares fell sharply in after-hours trading, sinking more than 30%.

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Grafana Labs acquires load-testing startup K6

Venture Beast

Observability platform Grafana Labs announced it has acquired K6, a load-testing startup, for an undisclosed amount. 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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The CIO's Role in Innovation

Information Week

Innovation often comes from customer-driven feedback loops, but a CIO's organization can be the perfect "internal" testbed for innovation.

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Minds raises $10M for decentralized and encrypted social network and messaging app

Venture Beast

Minds, a crypto social network, has raised $10 million from the tech freedom group Futo for its decentralized communications. Read More.

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20 Cool Command Line Tricks for Windows and macOS

Gizmodo

The command line interface is a throwback to a more basic age of computing. Before mouse pointers and application windows and desktop wallpaper, you would interact with your computer through simple text commands typed into the command line. It was more rudimentary, but it had an appealing simplicity to it. Read more.

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Windows 7 and 8 users might get a free upgrade path to Windows 11

TechSpot

As we inch closer to Microsoft's big reveal event for Windows 11, all the leaks and hints point to a visual refresh that will arguably bring the Windows experience into the modern era and in line with Microsoft's new design language. What could have ended up as a separate OS.

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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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Megan Fox Makes a Return to Horror in the Trailer for Till Death

Gizmodo

Megan Fox has made a ton of movies over her career but here she’s best known for her iconic turn in Karyn Kusama’s Jennifer’s Body —the horror-comedy, also starring Amanda Seyfriend, in which Fox’s titular character is demonically possessed. In the trailer for Till Death , she may not be in any immediate danger of… Read more.

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Amazon becomes the latest to offer small devs a bigger piece of the revenue pie

TechSpot

Under the Amazon Appstore Small Business Accelerator Program, developers who earned less than $1 million in revenue in the previous calendar year will qualify for an 80/20 revenue share by default. This means that Amazon will lower its cut from 30 percent to 20 percent, but that’s not all.

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Microsoft Teams’ new front row layout arrives later this year

The Verge

Microsoft Teams’ new front row layout. | Image: Microsoft. Microsoft has been teasing its vision for the future of Teams meetings recently, and it’s now committing to making parts of it a reality this year. Front row is the official name for the new Microsoft Teams layout, which includes methods designed to bridge the hybrid work gap between those physically present in a meeting and remote participants.

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New report finds early cell phone encryption algorithm was intentionally weakened by design

TechSpot

As Vice highlights, GEA-1 was used to encrypt cell phone data primarily in the 1990s and 2000s. The algorithm was originally said to offer full 64-bit security but in their cryptanalysis, the team found that its security was limited to just 40-bit, by design.

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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.