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Two Questions To Ask Yourself About Your COVID-19 Messaging

Forrester IT

As B2B analysts, we’ve been asking ourselves whether organizations have been responding to this health crisis in a way that is truly helpful to their customers. Our upcoming report, “Messaging In The Time Of COVID-19,” which details our findings after reviewing 60 B2B websites and social accounts across 12 industries, seeks to answer that question. […].

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Oki Mek to present at June?s AI in Government Event

CTOvision

AI in Government is where those working in and with the government get together to network, discuss, and interact on topics relating to AI, machine learning, and cognitive technologies. This […].

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Two Questions to Ask Yourself About Your COVID-19 Messaging

Forrester IT

As B2B analysts, we’ve been asking ourselves whether organizations have been responding to this health crisis in a way that is truly helpful to their customers. Our upcoming report “Messaging In The Time Of COVID-19,” which details our findings after reviewing 60 B2B websites and social accounts across 12 industries seeks to answer that question. […].

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How to share files in Microsoft Teams

Tech Republic Cloud

File sharing is a key part of remote collaboration. Here's how to improve your ability to get work done together by sharing items in Microsoft Teams.

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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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Slack and Amazon partner to take on Microsoft Teams and Zoom

TechSpot

Slack and Amazon have struck a multi-year agreement, where the latter will adopt Slack for in-house communication for its AWS teams and will provide additional services to Slack for expanding its footprint in the enterprise workspace. Once Amazon's rollout to its employees is complete, the company could potentially overtake IBM.

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CIOs: 8 ways to trim IT budgets

Tech Republic Cloud

These eight areas will net fast budget reductions with minimal disruption to the business and headcount.

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Here's how a new machine learning software can beef up cloud-based databases

Tech Republic Data Center

A Purdue data team just developed a way for organizations to improve performance and efficiency through cloud-hosted databases.

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Huawei's proposal to replace TCP/IP is going nowhere fast

TechSpot

Huawei, and by extension, China isn't content with the TCP/IP communication protocol that governs how data moves around on the Internet, so in 2019 they issued a proposal for a replacement at an International Telecommunications Union (ITU) meeting.

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Don?t panic: Huge, headline-grabbing asteroid has no chance of hitting us anytime soon

GeekWire

An artist’s conception shows asteroids zipping past Earth. (NASA Illustration). The bad news is that an asteroid of city-killing proportions is heading in our direction, but the good news is that it’ll miss us on Saturday night by 3.2 million miles. The space rock, known as 2002 NN4, generated enough scary headlines that NASA felt compelled to put out a reassuring note today. “There is no danger the asteroid will hit the Earth,” NASA said.

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Apple unsuccessfully invested millions of dollars across several years to replace human labor with robots

TechSpot

Apple is usually very discreet with its projects, but every now and then some of what the company is cooking in its labs transpires and we get to see a glimpse of its vision for the future of tech.

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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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As the Punisher Skull Re-Emerges on Cops in U.S. Protests, Marvel Comics Reckons With Its Imagery

Gizmodo

The appropriation of comic book character Frank Castle’s skull emblem by police and the military has been an ongoing issue for Marvel Entertainment as it wrestles with the questionable embrace of the anti-hero’s extrajudicial violence by real state and federal employees. But as the “Punisher skull” has re-emerged on… Read more.

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Designing Digital Products with Customers' Well-Being in Mind

Information Week

The effort is relatively low compared to the immense personal and business benefits of keeping customers pleased and even delighted during this turbulent time.

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How to hide faces and scrub metadata when you photograph a protest

The Verge

A protester takes a photo with her phone in Martin Place during a ‘Black Lives Matter’ rally on June 02, 2020 in Sydney, Australia. The event was organized to rally against aboriginal deaths in custody in Australia as well as in solidarity with protests across the United States following the killing of an unarmed black man George Floyd at the hands of a police officer in Minneapolis, Minnesota. | Photo by Lisa Maree Williams/Getty Images.

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Riot Games will invest $10 million in minority-owned game studios

Venture Beast

League of Legends publisher Riot Games said that it will invest $10 million in founders who are underrepresented minorities in the video game community. 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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Here are the best iPad deals right now

The Verge

iPad deals are more common than you might think. Whether you’re after the most affordable iPad, the high-end iPad Pro, or something in between like the iPad Air or iPad mini, there’s usually some sort of price cut happening somewhere. Of course, it’s difficult to know exactly where you can find those deals unless you’re looking around at all of the major retailers.

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Give InKind raises more cash as social giving platform gains popularity amid pandemic

GeekWire

(Give InKind Photo). Business is booming for Tacoma, Wash.-based startup Give InKind as more people use its social giving platform during the global pandemic. The company just raised nearly $900,000 to help support its growth. The funding comes six months after it raised a $1.5 million seed round. Give InKind aims to help streamline the giving process between friends and family and those in need of meals or other aid as they go through difficult life situations.

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Intel Core i9-10980HK Review: Flagship Laptop CPU

TechSpot

The Core i9-10980HK is Intel's flagship mobile processor in their 10th generation line-up. This is the third CPU we've looked at in the Comet Lake H-series, after the Core i7-10875H and Core i7-10750H, so we're starting to get a pretty comprehensive outline of where Intel is positioned in the market.

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How to add third-party cloud services to Microsoft Teams

Tech Republic Cloud

Teams has a lot of collaboration features, including the ability for users to connect their own cloud storage services. Here's how to do just that.

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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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Yelp?is adding a new tool to easily search for black-owned businesses

The Verge

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge. Yelp is launching a new tool to allow businesses on the platform to identify themselves as black-owned, CEO Jeremy Stoppelman announced in a blog post Thursday. Customers will be able to search the Yelp app for black-owned businesses they want to support. Over the last week, Yelp says it saw a huge increase in the searches on the app for black-owned companies across various industries.

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ProBeat: Black journalists in tech you should follow

Venture Beast

VentureBeat Executive Editor Emil Protalinski uses his ProBeat column this week to amplify the voices of 10 black journalists in tech. Read More.

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Federal IT Leaders Find Success in Modernization

Information Week

A study on federal early technology adoption offers intriguing insights for all government and commercial IT leaders.

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Portland Mayor Tells Cops to Stop Using Deafening Sound Cannon to Break Up Protests

Gizmodo

Police in Portland, Oregon deployed a controversial sound cannon to disperse protestors early Friday morning, the Willamette Week reported. Called a long-range acoustic device or LRAD, it can generate a piercing tone so loud that its potential to cause serious health effects has resulted in a federal lawsuit. 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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Amazon?s new AI technique lets users virtually try on outfits

Venture Beast

In new papers, Amazon researchers propose techniques that let users virtually try on apparel and find items that complement their wardrobe. Read More.

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Vaccine veterans preview milestones on the long road to the end of the pandemic

GeekWire

Larry Corey is a veteran virologist and past president of Seattle’s Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. (Fred Hutch Photo / Robert Hood). A public-private partnership called Operation Warp Speed is aiming to get multiple vaccines approved by the end of the year to protect against COVID-19 — but two veterans of the vaccine development process say there’s a long road ahead, with no wormholes in sight to reduce the travel time.

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Instacart tweaks tipping system after tip-baiting outcry

The Verge

Photo by Evelyn Hockstein/For The Washington Post via Getty Images. Instacart is adjusting how it handles customer tips following the announcement last week of a congressional inquiry into the practice of tip-baiting, in which Instacart allows customers to promise big tips for shoppers only for those customers to later rescind the tip after the order is dropped off.

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Poisonous Toads Invade South Florida in Latest Sign of the Apocalypse

Gizmodo

First, there were murder hornets. Now, invasive, poisonous toads are the latest bizarre creature to go wild in the U.S. As South Florida enters its wet season aka hurricane season, the cane toad—an ugly, warty, brown amphibian with poison can kill pet dogs—is thriving. That’s not only concerning for pet owners. These… 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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Breakroom enables blockchain conference in a virtual world

Venture Beast

EAK Digital and Sine Wave Entertainment have teamed up to created a blockchain technology conference in a virtual world using Breakroom. Read More.

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Product placement and sales analytics startup Observa draws big-name investors with $725K round

GeekWire

Observa co-founders CEO Hugh Holman and CTO Erik Chelstad at the Consulate-General of Japan in Seattle in July 2019. (Observa Photo). Observa , a Seattle-based startup that uses AI to provide analytics on brick-and-mortar sales, has closed a $725,000 financing round. The company creates real-time, crowd-sourced retail audits that show brands and retailers how products are being displayed in physical stores and correlating that with sales.

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The Premier League is returning with virtual crowd noise from FIFA games

The Verge

Harriet Lander/Copa/Getty Images. The English Premier league is set to restart in the coming weeks, and Sky Sports is working with EA Sports’ FIFA division to create simulated chants and crowd noises designed for specific teams. The goal is to replicate “the vibrant atmosphere of Premier League clashes,” according to a press release. While some sports leagues are beginning to pick up seasons suddenly paused by the global coronavirus pandemic, safety precautions means teams play in empty stadiums

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Slack and Amazon Web Services team up to integrate platforms

Tech Republic Cloud

New capabilities coming to Slack let engineers manage AWS from inside Slack channels, transfer data, and more.

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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.