Tue.May 12, 2020

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Distinguish Hot From Hype In Retail Tech Investments For 2020

Forrester IT

In the highly competitive world of commerce, retailers and brands must invest in tech initiatives that will differentiate them, drive revenue growth, and keep their customers satisfied. For our annual “The Top Retail Technology Investments In 2020” research, we interviewed over 60 retail and brand professionals to understand which technology initiatives they are prioritizing in […].

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Amazon launches cognitive search service Kendra in general availability

CTOvision

Amazon today launched Kendra, an AI and machine learning-powered service for enterprise search, in general availability. Kendra debuted in preview last December during Amazon Web Services (AWS) re:Invent 2019 in […].

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Business Resilience Is No Longer Optional

Forrester IT

Too many business and technology leaders have referred to the global pandemic as a black swan — an entirely unpredictable and devastating event. The truth is that a global pandemic was entirely predictable, and it was a risk that infectious disease experts and health organizations have been warning about for years. What the pandemic has […].

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Learn OPSWAT’s Unique Contributions To Cybersecurity 13 May 2020: From SDP to Endpoint Configuration Control In One Well Thoughtout Approach

CTOvision

Register now for a 13 May 2020 virtual panel I’ll be participating in with Bob Flores, former CTO of the Central Intelligence Agency and Michael Hylton of OPSWAT as we […].

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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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Redesign Your Physical Location To Successfully Welcome Customers Back

Forrester IT

Consumer-facing services and retail businesses in parts of the US are readying themselves to reopen. But judging from current guidelines, grocery store experiences, and global examples like Singapore Disneyland’s reopening, one thing is crystal clear: Don’t expect a “return to normal” anytime soon. Your customer is a key reason why. COVID-19 will cast a long […].

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Common Sense Comes Closer to Computers

CTOvision

Read John Pavlus explain how researchers are working to build AI with common-sense reasoning, such as the COMET system, which combines symbolic reasoning and neural language modeling on Quanta : […].

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Realizing the Growth Potential of AI

CTOvision

Read Stephen Diorio’s explaining how we can realize the growth potential of artificial intelligence on Forbes : Business leaders and investors universally agree that Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning […].

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Cisco, others, shine a light on VPN split-tunneling

Network World

As the work-from-home trend grows due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the need for secure access to enterprise resources continues to grow and with it the demand for ever-more VPN. For example demand for commercial virtual private networks in the U.S. jumped by 41% between March 13 and March 23, according to research from Top10VPN.com, a VPN research and testing company in the U.K.

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MIT Cuts Ties With a Chinese AI Firm Amid Human Rights Concerns

CTOvision

MIT has terminated a research collaboration with iFlytek, a Chinese artificial intelligence company accused of supplying technology for surveilling Muslims in the northwestern province of Xinjiang. The university canceled the relationship […].

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Monitor ConfigMgr Client Status from SCCM Console | Online | Offline

Anoop

Subscribe YouTube Channel [link]. and Facebook Page to get latest updates. [link]. Let’s monitor ConfigMgr client status from the admin console. This shall help SCCM admin to understand the Configuration Manager client on the Windows 10 devices. The following technics can be used to monitor & health from the SCCM console. Let’s learn about all the following icons of SCCM clients using the SCCM console.

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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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AI reality check: 6 statistics on IT hopes and fears

CTOvision

Read Stephanie Overby list 6 statistics to show the reality of adoption of artificial intelligence on Enterprisers Project : Artificial intelligence (AI) is poised to reshape the way we work […].

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Populate VMWare Virtual Systems to a ConfigMgr Collection

Mick's IT Blog

During the COVID19 pandemic, one of my projects has been to build a new configuration manager server at our newer production site for optimal performance. During this process, we needed to be able to differentiate what servers were on our disaster recovery VMWare server, and what servers were on the production VMWare server. We quickly learned that some of the virtual servers could not be differentiated.

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Software lessons from HBO's "Silicon Valley"

Tech Republic Cloud

HBO's "Silicon Valley" is actually a reasonable representation. Here's how to get your master's degree in startups by binge watching it.

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Has AI Failed the Pandemic Test?

Information Week

In the first real test of AI in a crisis, the results are mixed. While many individual applications are helping, the tech remains immature and unable to address complex public policy issues.

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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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Facebook will pay $52 million in settlement with moderators who developed PTSD on the job

The Verge

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge. In a landmark acknowledgment of the toll that content moderation takes on its workforce, Facebook has agreed to pay $52 million to current and former moderators to compensate them for mental health issues developed on the job. In a preliminary settlement filed on Friday in San Mateo Superior Court, the social network agreed to pay damages to American moderators and provide more counseling to them while they work.

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This Philosopher Is Challenging All of Evolutionary Psychology

Gizmodo

It’s not often that a paper that attempts to take down an entire field. Yet, this past January, that’s precisely what University of New Hampshire assistant philosophy professor Subrena Smith’s paper tried to do. “Is Evolutionary Psychology Possible?” describes a core problem with evolutionary psychology, called the… Read more.

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Coronavirus-related cyberattacks surge to 192,000 in one week

Tech Republic Security

Attacks include malicious websites and files, all exploiting the COVID-19 pandemic, says Check Point Research.

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Evolving IT into a Remote Workforce

Information Week

Is it possible to transition most IT staff members into a remote workforce? How would this impact IT organizations, and what would be the challenges?

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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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Playmobil Made the Best Back to the Future Toys You Can Buy

Gizmodo

Despite what Star Wars and George Lucas taught the industry about how to properly market a summer blockbuster , when Back to the Future hit theaters in 1985, there was a dismal amount of movie merchandise in stores. But 35 years later, an avalanche of BttF collectibles is en route, including some new sets from… Read more.

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Intel Capital commits $132 million to 11 AI startups

Venture Beast

Intel Capital announced that it's invested $132 million in 11 startups focused on AI, machine learning, automation, and chipset design. Read More.

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Tesla Warned Staff to Return to Work in Violation of County Order or Lose Unemployment: Report

Gizmodo

Tesla informed workers that if they did not show up for work at a Fremont, California, production facility CEO Elon Musk has reopened in violation of a county health order that they may be ineligible for unemployment, emails obtained by the Guardian show. Read more.

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Apple adds 2014 and 2013-era MacBooks to its 'Vintage Products' list

TechSpot

That doesn't mean the devices are obsolete yet -- that's a whole different category with more serious end-user implications -- but it does mean it could be harder to receive service for them. Apple classifies a product as "Vintage" when it hasn't been officially sold in over 5 years (but.

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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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Washington state reveals contact tracing plan to support phased opening of business

GeekWire

Washington Gov. Jay Inslee said Tuesday that the state’s contact tracing team will be in place by the end of the week and revealed other details of the program, which is seen as essential to re-opening the state’s economy. By May 15, Washington will have 1,371 contact tracers trained and ready to investigate the contacts of COVID-19 patients and notify them that they may have been exposed to the virus.

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Nvidia CEO cooks up ‘world’s largest graphics card’ for GTC 2020

Venture Beast

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang teased the 'world's largest graphics card,' or something he has cooking for his Thursday Nvidia GTC keynote speech. Read More.

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Sony announces new PlayStation Studios branding for its first-party PS5 games

The Verge

Sony has announced a new PlayStation Studios brand that it’ll be using for its first-party exclusives going forward as a way to let customers know that a game comes from one of Sony’s in-house development teams. Sony’s various studios already technically exist under the Sony Interactive Entertainment Worldwide Studios organization ( which has its own logo ), but the new branding is simpler and more focused on the PlayStation brand.

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Hailo partners with Foxconn to build edge device for AI inference

Venture Beast

AI chip startup Hailo plans to partner with Foxconn to launch an AI edge computing device -- BOXiedge -- designed for applications like smart cities. Read 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.

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Anduril Industries expands to Seattle, seeks engineers to work on AI-centric defense tech

GeekWire

One of Anduril’s sentry towers stands tall at the company’s HQ in California’s Orange County. (Anduril Photo). Irvine, Calif.-based Anduril Industries says it’s opening a new office in Seattle and will be hiring engineers to work on defense technologies. Founded in 2017, Anduril develops hardware and software centered around Lattice, an AI backbone allowing for real-time information analysis across the company’s range of products.

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BlackBerry Bootcamp boosts university applied computing with cybersecurity program

Tech Republic Security

Canadian-based BlackBerry partnered with the University of Windsor to create a cybersecurity "camp" for students to matriculate online during the COVID-19 crisis.

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Twitter is now letting employees work from home indefinitely

The Verge

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge. Twitter will now let its employees work from home indefinitely, which was first reported by BuzzFeed News. CEO Jack Dorsey reportedly informed employees of the new policy in an email sent on Tuesday. “If our employees are in a role and situation that enables them to work from home and they want to continue to do so forever, we will make that happen,” a Twitter spokesperson said in a statement to The Verge.

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Iron Man VR is coming to PlayStation on July 3

TechSpot

Whether you're a fan of the Marvel universe or not, Iron Man VR is, by all accounts, shaping up to be a phenomenal experience. Journalists and content creators have gotten the chance to experience the Sony-published game first-hand at various gaming conferences and events, and it sounds like a true.

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Monetizing Analytics Features

Think your customers will pay more for data visualizations in your application? Five years ago, they may have. But today, dashboards and visualizations have become table stakes. Turning analytics into a source of revenue means integrating advanced features in unique, hard-to-steal ways. Download this white paper to discover which features will differentiate your application and maximize the ROI of your analytics.