Tech Republic Security
AUGUST 20, 2021
To ensure business continuity amid high turnover, many CIOs are planning to alter their strategies to make the company "less dependent on employee institutional knowledge," says PwC.
Tech Republic Cloud
AUGUST 20, 2021
Microsoft's Power BI helps professionals, including Apple users, better understand their data. Here's how users with an iPhone, iPad or Mac can take advantage of all Power BI offers.
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Tech Republic Security
AUGUST 20, 2021
In response to a breach that compromised the personal data of millions of subscribers, T-Mobile customers should change their password and PIN and set up two-step verification.
Gizmodo
AUGUST 20, 2021
This week, a Swedish firm announced it had delivered carbon-free steel to a customer—a world-first. It’s a huge step in the race to clean up one of the most carbon-intensive activities on Earth. Read more.
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.
The Verge
AUGUST 20, 2021
After a dense presentation about the undeniably impressive work Tesla is doing with AI, the company’s self-anointed Technoking, Elon Musk, capped the evening by bringing out a dancer in a spandex suit. Behold, said Musk: my Tesla Bot. The dancer in the suit, he said, was the model for a new humanoid robot Tesla will produce in the near future. After the dubstep and applause had faded, the vaguest of briefing slides promised that the Tesla Bot will stand five feet, eight inches (1.7m), weigh 125
GeekWire
AUGUST 20, 2021
A balloon from Seattle Ballooning rises in front of Mount Rainier, as seen from another balloon, during a sunrise flight near Auburn, Wash., on Wednesday. (GeekWire Photo / Kurt Schlosser). “It never gets old,” Eliav Cohen said as he raised his iPhone at the sun peeking over the Cascades one morning this week and added another image to the 37,000 already on the device.
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Computerworld Vertical IT
AUGUST 20, 2021
Okay, Microsoft, we need to talk. Or rather, we need to print. We really do. We aren’t all paperless out here in the business world — many of us still need to click the Print button inside our business applications and print things out on an actual sheet of paper, or send something to a PDF printer. But over the last several months you’ve made it near impossible to stay fully patched and keep printing.
TechSpot
AUGUST 20, 2021
According to data from Trendfocus (via StorageNewsletter), the SSD market as a whole shipped 99.596 million units during the three-month period ending June 30, 2021. For comparison, shipments totaled 99.438 million units in the first quarter.
GeekWire
AUGUST 20, 2021
Amy Lahkani (left) and Samir Lahkani with their children. The husband-wife duo helped launch Magicall during the pandemic, while facing other challenges at home. (Magicall Photo). Samir and Amy Lakhani have had quite the year — one that involved quitting full-time jobs, working on their first startup, homeschooling kids, and a cancer diagnosis, all during a global pandemic.
Venture Beast
AUGUST 20, 2021
Arezou Soltani Panah is teaming up with social scientists and policy makers to solve complex problems like loneliness and family violence. Read More.
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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.
TechSpot
AUGUST 20, 2021
In development since last month, this Windows 11 demo was built in React and JavaScript along with CSS. The project has a GitHub page detailing its progress where you can already try it out. It doesn't have much other than some basic functionality in the start menu and desktop, and.
Venture Beast
AUGUST 20, 2021
Marketers save the most time due to automation tools, an average of 25 hours saved each week, followed by IT professionals at 20 hours. Read More.
The Verge
AUGUST 20, 2021
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge. The news about T-Mobile’s latest data breach is only getting worse, as the company announced new details from its investigation. While someone in possession of the leaked data said they had obtained information for as many as 100 million customers , including driver’s license info, IMEI numbers, and more, T-Mobile’s first statement put the figure at 47 million or so and did not mention the IMEI / IMSI data.
Venture Beast
AUGUST 20, 2021
BeingAI is creating virtual beings with artificial intelligence. And its first AI being is a virtual character named Zbee. Read More.
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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.
GeekWire
AUGUST 20, 2021
(Good Luck Games Image). If you’ve ever wanted to recruit a who’s-who of characters from folklore, mythology, and the public domain, then send them to fight and die on your behalf, Storybook Brawl is the game for you. Designed by the Olympia, Wash.-based Good Luck Games, Brawl is free to play and currently working its way through Steam Early Access since its debut in mid-June.
Information Week
AUGUST 20, 2021
Nothing lasts forever, including stored data. Here's how to ensure that your organization's information infrastructure remains accurate and intact for a lifetime.
Gizmodo
AUGUST 20, 2021
Americans continue to have a challenging relationship with science, modern medicine, and at times reality, but a review of annual surveys from 1985 to 2019 does yield some good news: Over half of surveyed participants believed in the science of evolution. That’s a win, I guess. Read more.
The Verge
AUGUST 20, 2021
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge. Google has confirmed it’s shutting down the standalone “Android Auto for Phone Screens” app with Android 12. Instead, anyone who wants a driving-friendly interface for their Android phone should use the Google Assistant driving mode , which is available within Google Maps, or the native Android Auto interface available in select cars.
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TechSpot
AUGUST 20, 2021
Last year when Epic was giving Grand Theft Auto V away in its game store, so many customers rushed to claim the freebie that it crashed the EGS servers. It was unclear how many claimed the uber-popular title that had already sold 120 million copies on multiple platforms. However, court.
Gizmodo
AUGUST 20, 2021
A prolific hacker gang claims to be selling data on 70 million AT&T customers, the likes of which would appear to include names, phone numbers, social security numbers, DOBs, home addresses, and more. Read more.
TechSpot
AUGUST 20, 2021
USB drives is a common method to transfer data from one device to another because it's simple, affordable and effective. It's also portable, which comes with some potential hygiene issues as they go from hand to hand, transporting microbial if not disinfected. And even if disinfected regularly, bacteria can still.
Gizmodo
AUGUST 20, 2021
Today in dystopian hellscape news: covid-19 cases in Orlando have apparently gotten so overwhelming that it’s begun impacting the city’s water supply. Yes, really. Read more.
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“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.
The Verge
AUGUST 20, 2021
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge. On Wednesday, Facebook released a report about what content was most viewed by people in the US last quarter. It was the first time it had released such a report. But according to The New York Times , Facebook was working on a similar report for the first quarter of 2021 that it opted not to share because it might have reflected poorly on the company.
Gizmodo
AUGUST 20, 2021
Welcome to Burning Questions, a series where Earther answers the most common asks we get on how to address climate change. Many people want to do something, anything to help address the climate crisis. We answer your questions about how to help change your life—and the systems that will save us. Read more.
Venture Beast
AUGUST 20, 2021
Clustering algorithms are a powerful form of AI that can be applied to business challenges from customer segmentation to fraud detection. Read More.
Gizmodo
AUGUST 20, 2021
After making a bold leap into 3D CG animation with Lupin III The First last year, Monkey Punch’s iconic gentleman thief is going back to more traditional TV routes this year, with Lupin III Part 6 set to celebrate the character’s 50th anniversary. Bad news for poor Lupin though: he’s celebrating it while being hunted… Read more.
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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.
TechSpot
AUGUST 20, 2021
Like its long-running rivalry with Apple in the phone world—before Xiaomi dominate—Samsung is constantly fighting with Intel for the number one position in the semiconductor manufacturing industry.
Venture Beast
AUGUST 20, 2021
While I missed Doom 64 back in the '90s, I have more history with Quake. I'm glad the game is back with a new remaster. Read More.
Gizmodo
AUGUST 20, 2021
Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla and second richest person in the world, unveiled his idea for a robot on Thursday that he says might become a prototype by 2022. And while Musk has delivered plenty of hilarious vaporware presentations in the past, from the Loop to the Cybertruck , this one might take the cake. Read more.
Venture Beast
AUGUST 20, 2021
A new paper underlines the reproducibility challenges that the AI research field continues to face. Read More.
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.
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