Information Week

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Hybrid workplaces, hyperconnectivity, digital business, and cybersecurity may be key priorities for organizations.

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Forrester IT

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Tech leaders and business executives invest in process automation technologies because they expect that productivity gains will translate into cost savings through reduction in employees. But lessons drawn from Forrester’s 2015 forecast, Death Of A (B2B) Salesman, raise doubts on that theory. In that report, we projected that 1 million US B2B salespeople would lose […].

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Association of Information Technology Professional

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Do you have an eye for detail and a knack for problem solving? Put your troubleshooting skills to work as an IT server technician.

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Forrester IT

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

When your sales organization looks to create a “coaching culture,” does everyone fully understand what behaviors you need them to demonstrate? How about what outcomes you’re looking to drive? If you don't take the time to clearly define what sales coaching is, you risk it becoming just another diluted buzzword leading to nothing of significance getting accomplished.

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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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Anoop

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

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 Configure Interactive logon Message for Users Using Intune appeared first on HTMD Blog #1 by Jitesh Kumar.

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Forrester IT

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Passwordless authentication, in the form of inherence factors (e.g., fingerprint, facial) or in the form of possession factors (e.g., device, app, token/certificate) and supplemented by other factors (e.g., location, user behavior), is an emerging authentication technology that will protect organizations from brute force attacks, credential stuffing, phishing, and social engineering tactics.

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Forrester IT

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Retailers, the time is now to manage supply chain risks, raise bot defenses, and prioritize customers this holiday season.

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Network World

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Cisco has upgraded two of its core software programs to make it easier for enterprise customers to secure data-center and WAN -connected resources. [link] Cisco has introduced what it calls Integrated Domain, which combines the domain controllers of Cisco DNA Center and Cisco SD-WAN vManage to tie together network connectivity between the two domains as well as ensuring security-policy consistency end-to-end, according to Justin Buchanan, Cisco director of product management, security policy and

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Anoop

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

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 Feedback UserVoice for Intune SCCM Dead appeared first on HTMD Blog #1 by Anoop C Nair.

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Information Week

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Experts recommend that IT professionals working in the cloud deepen their understanding of these key areas.

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TM Forum

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Join this Global Architecture Forum webinar to learn how TM Forum members have developed a reference architecture for autonomic networks and a comprehensive approach to intent modelling and intent interfaces. Our host, George Glass, CTO of TM Forum will be joined by Aaron Boasman-Patel, TM Forum, and project leads Kevin McDonnell, Huawei and Jörg Niemöller, Ericsson to discuss the benefits of these proposals for realizing an autonomous network.

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Tech Republic Security

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Europol announced new arrests during its "Operation GoldDust." The suspects may have been heavily involved in the Sodinokibi/REvil and GandCrab ransomware activities.

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All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

AWS plans to open a new infrastructure region in Canada - AWS Canada West (Calgary).

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Image: Rivian. Rivian says it will start taking orders for its electric delivery vans in 2022 and will deliver them to fleet customers in “early 2023,” calling into question the status of Amazon’s exclusive rights to the vehicle. The buzzy EV startup — which is slated to go public this week at a valuation of $50 billion or higher — quietly announced the details about its fleet sales plans in a new section of its website that went live Friday afternoon.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Blue Origin’s New Glenn first-stage simulator makes an appearance. (Blue Origin Photo). It’ll be at least another year before Blue Origin’s orbital-class New Glenn rocket gets its first launch, but Jeff Bezos’ space venture has brought out a dummy version of New Glenn’s first stage to practice for that eventual countdown.

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TechSpot

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Last week, Studio Playground Games announced it would soon bring on-screen sign language interpreters to Forza Horizons 5 cut scenes. The feature will display translators in the lower right corner of the screen using the traditional picture-in-picture style. Playground Games Creative Director Mike Brown mentioned that the interpreters are skilled.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

The Cinerama movie theater in Seattle. (GeekWire File Photo / Kurt Schlosser). It’s like the worst and longest cliffhanger in Seattle movie history: Will the beloved Cinerama theater ever reopen? When? … Stay tuned. And stay frustrated. As film lovers emerge from the extended pandemic hibernation that sent them to the couch for nearly two years of small-screen film consumption, a new petition is calling for answers as to when the lights might flicker again at the Cinerama.

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TechSpot

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

This tech, called "Audio2Face," has been in beta for several months now. It didn't seem to get much attention until more recently, despite its potentially-revolutionary implications for game developers (or simply animators as a whole).

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Another batch of startups is ready to experience Techstars Seattle. The accelerator revealed its 13th cohort made up of 12 companies that will spend the next three months supercharging their business plans. The companies hail from a variety of industries such as e-commerce, travel, and meal delivery. They will receive $20,000 from Techstars in exchange for a 6% equity investment made by Techstars, along with mentorship and other help building their companies. “The past two Techstars Seattl

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Image: The Verge. AMC boss Adam Aron said today that the theater chain is exploring how it can accept Shiba Inu in addition to other cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and Dogecoin. In addition, AMC is evidently exploring its own cryptocurrency, which would truly cement the company as king of the memestocks. That AMC appears to be flirting with the idea of accepting (another) meme currency in exchange for actual goods and services isn’t entirely surprising.

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Gizmodo

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Noted tax-lover Elon Musk is the latest entrant in Texas’ Wild West energy market. The CEO of SpaceX and Tesla is now officially licensed to sell electricity to retail customers in the state through a company called Tesla Energy Ventures. Read more.

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TechSpot

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

VideoCardz reports that MicroCenter has reduced the price of some AMD Ryzen 5000 (Vermeer) processors in the wake of Alder Lake’s arrival. The most significant reduction is on the 8-core Ryzen 7 5800X, which is down to $299—$150 off its usual price.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

(Venmo Image). Starting next year Amazon customers will be able to pay on Amazon.com and Amazon’s mobile shopping app via Venmo, the mobile payment service owned by PayPal. It’s the latest deal inked by Amazon to give customers another way to pay for products on its marketplace. Earlier this year it partnered with Affirm to let customers buy products in monthly payments.

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TechSpot

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

The consumer/personal version of Microsoft’s OneDrive cloud service is reaching end of support for Windows 7, 8 and 8.1 on January 1, 2022. It could become yet another reason for users to upgrade to Microsoft’s latest OS, or Windows 10 for that matter, if they want all the capabilities and.

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Gizmodo

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

China’s Shijian-21 spacecraft, a satellite with the stated purpose of cleaning up space junk, has an orbital companion, but we’re not entirely sure what it is. Read more.

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TechSpot

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

During its Accelerated Data Center keynote on Monday, AMD unveiled the roadmap for its upcoming fourth-generation Epyc silicon. AMD chief Lisa Su notes the two HPC processors are aimed at enterprise and data center applications. Reuters notes that Meta (Facebook) just joined long-time AMD partners Microsoft (Azure), Amazon (AWS), and.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Jessie Woolley-Wilson, CEO of DreamBox Learning. (DreamBox Learning Photo). Seattle-area education technology company DreamBox Learning sold a majority stake to Evergreen Coast Capital Corp., a tech-focused Silicon Valley affiliate of private equity firm Elliott Investment Management. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Founded in 2006, DreamBox sells software to K-12 schools.

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TechSpot

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Walmart said the operations involve consistent, repeated delivery runs multiple times per day, seven days a week on public roads. The deployment represents the first time that an autonomous trucking company has completely removed safety drivers from a commercial delivery route, although that’s somewhat of a technicality.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Niantic. Niantic is releasing a platform for building what it calls “real-world metaverse” apps. Called Lightship, the platform is “built around the parts necessary to stitch together the digital and the real world,” CEO John Hanke tells me. According to Hanke, Lightship will let mobile apps identify whether a user’s camera is pointed at the sky or water, map the surfaces and depth of an environment in real time, or place a virtual object behind a physical one.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Washington Gov. Jay Inslee (holding microphone) participates in an event at the United Nation’s COP26 climate talks in Glasgow this month. ( Governor Jay & First Lady Trudi Inslee Photo). As the global climate talks in Scotland enter their second week, Bill Gates on Monday shared his customarily upbeat assessment of what he experienced while attending the early days of the United Nation’s COP26 summit.

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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.