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Predictions 2021: Technology And Customer Obsession Help Firms Emerge From Crisis Mode

Forrester IT

It has never been more important for organizations to anticipate change, strengthen resilience, and become truly customer obsessed. Heading into 2021, technology — both new and existing — will help firms achieve these aims and emerge from the crisis on sound footing.

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Satellite Cybersecurity Digital Week 19-22 October 2020

CTOvision

Attendees at the virtual CyberSat Summit October 19-22 2020 will have an opportunity to learn from peers from across the satellite and space industry and can also tap into some […].

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Europe Predictions 2021: Disruption And Opportunity For Technology Leaders

Forrester IT

Every autumn at Forrester, we look ahead to predict how we think the world will unfold in the coming year. It’s that time again now. The art of prediction isn’t new, and as Europeans, we’ve excelled in it for centuries. Millenia even. Kings and queens, chieftains and war leaders would consult the wise, hoping for […].

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Think Through Disaster Response Before You Need To with STAR-TIDES

CTOvision

The annual STAR-TIDES event is running 20-21 October, this time online. I’m participating in a panel focused on improving resiliency across the many stovepipes of response in crisis. Here is […].

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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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The Smaller, Smarter Future Of Agencies

Forrester IT

The future of the “agency” is being shaped by technology. The belief that artificial intelligence and machines will displace human labor is pervasive across many industries. For agencies, embracing artificial intelligence (AI) and intelligent automation (IA) comes with trepidation that the human side of creativity will be forever lost. Even though AI tantalizes marketers with […].

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Lessons from Lockdown: How to Survive and Thrive in a Pandemic

Association of Information Technology Professional

COVID-19 prompted IT companies to rethink more broadly how they approach customer acquisition, engagement and support, according to IT leaders in a “Surviving and Thriving” panel at CompTIA's 2020 EMEA Member and Partner Conference.

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Ransomware campaign threatens organizations with DDoS attacks

Tech Republic Security

All the organizations that contacted security provider Radware after receiving an extortion letter were hit by Distributed Denial of Service attacks.

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Europe Predictions 2021: Marketers Must Craft Experiences To Retain Contradictory Customers

Forrester IT

Every autumn Forrester looks ahead to predict the major consumer, business and technology trends that will shape the marketing landscape for the following year. 2020 has been a year of unprecedented political, social, economic and healthcare disruption – and 2021 shows no signs of any of these trends slowing down. How then should European consumer […].

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IBM Research's Chief Scientist Talks AI for Cloud Migration

Information Week

Part of the future is already here as AI increases its influence on hybrid cloud and the digital transformation equation, according to Ruchir Puri.

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Europe Predictions 2021: Manufacturers Will Accelerate Their Digital Transformations

Forrester IT

In 2021, European manufacturers will leverage emerging technology to accelerate the digital transformation efforts.

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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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Fix SCCM Secondary Server Recovery Failed Issue | ConfigMgr

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Subscribe YouTube Channel [link]. and Facebook Page to get latest updates. [link]. Let’s check how to fix SCCM secondary server recovery failed issue. I got this issue while installing a hotfix to the configuration manager secondary site server. You can check Show Install Status wizard shows the replication between secondary and primary is not active.

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Holiday 2020: India’s Festive Season Will Generate $6.5 Billion In Online Sales

Forrester IT

Holiday 2020: India’s Festive Season Will Generate $6.5 Billion In Online Sales Online retailers in India are expected to generate about $6.5 billion in sales during this year’s festive month (October 15 to November 15), with around 55–60 million online buyers participating (see Figure 1). About 75% of these sales will occur from October 15 […].

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Survey: 53% of young cybersecurity professionals fear replacement by automation

Tech Republic Security

Cybersecurity professionals largely embrace automation, but half of younger employees worry that technology could make their roles obsolete, according to a new survey by Exabeam.

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Predictions 2021: Strong CMOs Will Own Their Companies’ Regrowth

Forrester IT

In 2021, we expect to see an obvious separation of CMOs who are leaders -- those who recognize that 2020 launched a new chapter for the way commerce works, from CMOs who are outdated -- those content to run promotions, sales support or media buying teams. Companies without a CMO leader won't survive. .

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GEP Procurement & Supply Chain Tech Trends Report

The technological landscape is dynamic and changes quickly. And for procurement and supply chain leaders looking to harness the power of technology to navigate complex challenges and an uncertain business environment, keeping up with the latest trends can be its own obstacle. So, what’s on the technological horizon for procurement and supply chain for the year ahead?

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Xbox Series X predicted to have double the sales of PlayStation 5 by Christmas

TechSpot

One of the first prognosticators out of the gate is the SEO firm The Hoth. Analysts at the firm poured over data from Google Trends throughout the year and have concluded that the Xbox Series X will outsell the PlayStation 5 by Christmas.

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Europe Predictions 2021: Digital Leaders Widen The Customer Experience Maturity Gap

Forrester IT

In 2020, for the first time in more than five years we saw two financial services companies achieve an “Excellent” score in our Customer Experience Index (which measures how successfully a company delivers customer experiences that create and sustain loyalty). But even as these digital leaders begin to pull away, the mainstream banks are stagnating. […].

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Female Founders Alliance report measures impact of pandemic on women and entrepreneurship

GeekWire

(Female Founders Alliance Graphic). Seattle-based Female Founders Alliance released a new report on Thursday that measures the effect of the pandemic on women and non-binary individuals and what the prolonged health and economic crisis is doing to their entrepreneurial aspirations. While women-founded companies have been historically left behind when it comes to venture funding— at less than 3% of all venture capital invested, according to FFA — the pandemic has made matters worse.

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Europe Predictions 2021: Digital Acceleration In Financial Services

Forrester IT

2020 has been a challenging year for financial services. First, COVID-19 hit insurers with business interruption and travel insurance claims. Then, banks’ profits took a hit as banks set aside billions for loan loss provisions. Given this and the protracted period of low interest rates, investors have taken a dim view of the industry’s prospects, […].

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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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AWS, Microsoft, Uber engineering vets raise $20M from top VCs for Seattle startup Temporal

GeekWire

Temporal co-founders Samar Abbas, CTO, and Maxim Fateev, CEO. (Temporal Photo). A Seattle startup led by cloud computing veterans has quietly attracted big-name users and top venture capital firms as it aims to help improve developer productivity. Temporal announced a $20 million Series A round led by Sequoia Capital, with participation from Madrona Venture Group, Addition Ventures, and Amplify Partners.

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Europe Predictions 2021: With Volatility Comes Opportunity

Forrester IT

European organizations can expect consumer contradictions, regulatory upheaval, and more cross-border remote work.

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Twitter’s massive outage may be over, company says ‘no evidence’ of hack

The Verge

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge. Twitter has been experiencing an outage that began in the early evening on Thursday, with some users reporting problems sending tweets and refreshing their timelines starting shortly after 5:30PM ET. Just after 7PM ET, tweets began to cross our timelines, and things may be returning to normal. “We have no evidence of a security breach or hack, and we’re currently investigating internal causes,” a Twitter spokesperson said in a statement to The Verge.

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Full steam ahead as Fred Hutch moves into historic building and expands Seattle campus

GeekWire

The Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center Steam Plant building in Seattle. (Fred Hutch Photo / Robert Hood). It’s full steam ahead for the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center as the Seattle institution is now fully occupying the historic Steam Plant building as part of an expansion of its South Lake Union campus. Fred Hutch has spent two years refurbishing the 106-year-old building into 106,000 square feet of space suitable for 300 scientists and staff focused on immunotherapy, transla

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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’s new ‘hum to search’ feature can figure out the song that’s stuck in your head

The Verge

Google is adding a new “ hum to search ” feature to its search tools today that will let you hum (or whistle, or sing) the annoying song that’s stuck in your head, and then use machine learning techniques to try to identify it. The new feature is available today in the Google app on both iOS and Android, or in Google Assistant — just ask Google “What’s the song” or tap the newly added “search a song” button, and then hum your earworm.

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Virtual primary care startup 98point6 raises $118M as pandemic sparks demand for digital health tech

GeekWire

Robbie Cape, CEO of virtual primary care startup 98point6, accepts the award for Health Innovation of the Year at the GeekWire Awards ceremony in 2019. (GeekWire Photo / Kevin Lisota). Demand is through the roof for Seattle telemedicine startup 98point6. The company, which helps facilitate virtual primary care appointments, has seen its membership base skyrocket 274% this year as people look for medical advice without going to a physical doctor’s office during the pandemic.

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Spider-Cat is already shaping up to be the real hero of Spider-Man: Miles Morales

The Verge

Spider-Cat is an unlockable costume in Spider-Man: Miles Morales. Spider-Man: Miles Morales is coming to the PS4 and PS5 on November 12th , but this week we got a glimpse of the game’s most important feature by far: Spider-Cat. Yes, Spider-Cat is real and they can absolutely be your friend and crime-fighting partner. The big reveal comes courtesy of a gameplay video from Game Informer that shows Morales following up on a bodega robbery.

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Xbox Series X temperature test: How hot does it get?

Venture Beast

The Xbox Series X runs hot, but not as hot as the PlayStation 4 Pro or Xbox One X. Microsoft has engineered a box that stays relatively quiet and cool. 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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Google wants to push you away from Hangouts, so it’s giving you Chat for free

The Verge

Illustration: Alex Castro / The Verge. Google Chat, the messaging service previously only available to customers who pay for Google Workspace (the recent rebranding of G Suite ), will become a free service that’s available inside of Gmail and in a standalone app, and you’ll be able to bring over your Hangouts data to Chat sometime in the first half of next year.

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Sony reveals Spatial Reality Display, a 4K screen with glasses-free 3D

Venture Beast

Glasses-free 3D screens are becoming considerably more powerful in resolution and speed, enabling creators to display realistic holographic content. Read More.

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Facebook is accidentally locking some users out of their new Oculus headsets

The Verge

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge. Facebook says a “small number” of customers have been locked out of their new Oculus Quest 2 headsets, following a string of reports that buyers were unable to use the virtual reality headsets because their Facebook accounts were suspended. On Twitter, it urged users to contact Oculus if they had problems.

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Google details how it’s using AI and machine learning to improve search

Venture Beast

During a livestreamed event today, Google announced new ways it's applying AI and machine learning to improve the Google Search experience. 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.