Fri.May 22, 2020

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During The Pandemic, Empathetic Brands Build Trust With Wary Consumers

Forrester IT

Now more than ever, consumers crave connection and reliable information. Learn how marketers can offer this.

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COVID-19 pandemic ratchets up threats to medical IoT

Network World

The mere fact of the COVID pandemic’s existence has pushed the American healthcare system to capacity, but another threat to that system has reared its ugly head – cyberattacks, particularly those based on ransomware, have become more common as the disease spread, targeting medical IoT devices and healthcare networks. According to Forrester Research analyst Chris Sherman, two U.S. hospitals have already been attacked via virtual care systems, after a hacker targeted a vulnerability in a medical

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Schrodinger?s SOAR: Feature or Abstraction?

Forrester IT

“Security Orchestration, Automation and Response” (SOAR) is not a term that Forrester has used in the past, but its prevalence in the market is such that I’ve decided it’s better to use a slightly broken acronym that’s adopted by the market than to continue to leverage the different and more concise “Security Automation and Orchestration” […].

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25 Episodes of Free Intune Training for Device Management Admins

Anoop

Subscribe YouTube Channel [link]. and Facebook Page to get latest updates. [link]. Let’s see the overview of 25 episodes of Free Intune Training in the post. The HTMD community worked hard to produce several free training options for device management admins. We successfully completed the season#1 of HTMD weekend learning (more details below).

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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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Data researchers at odds: Will Americans opt in or out of COVID-19 contact tracing apps?

Tech Republic Security

Results from separate studies by Checkmarx and ExpressVPN reveal consumers won't easily share their personal information with tracing apps due to concern for misuse.

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Smoothing Out the Edges for Remote Digital Worker Experience

Information Week

IT teams are facing a new normal with the shift to remote work. Here are some key steps they may not be considering (but should) to improve the digital experience.

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The opportunity for social capital and mutual aid to define how we emerge from this crisis

Trends in the Living Networks

Today was the first episode of my new live-streaming show, The Virtual Excellence Show (which I haven’t even had time to announce on this blog yet, but if you’d like to follow it please subscribe here !). My guest on the first show was the amazing and colorful Howard Rheingold. When I considered who should be my first guest on the show, Howard was the obvious choice, having been a pioneer in all things virtual for decades, in among other landmarks publishing the book Virtual Communit

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3 ways the COVID-19 pandemic is impacting consumer behavior and fraud

Tech Republic Security

E-commerce is on the rise, and digital transformation for businesses must be a top priority in the coronavirus era, according to a new report. Here are the three takeaways.

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COVID-19: Salesforce's pre-built website packages help businesses add curbside pickup

Tech Republic Cloud

Businesses can add product data and speed the process of getting sales and product pickups curbside by starting with these all-in-one products.

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Google Cloud VP: Strong encryption makes working from home safer

Tech Republic Security

Find out how G Suite and Google Meet help employees and students work and study at home, and why encryption is key.

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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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How to save and delete messages in Microsoft Teams

Tech Republic Cloud

Microsoft Teams has a handy feature that allows users to "save" messages in a larger thread so they can quickly refer back to the items later. Learn how to use this hidden Microsoft Teams feature.

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This Lickable Screen Can Recreate Almost Any Taste or Flavor Without Eating Food

Gizmodo

No matter how they may make you feel , licking your gadgets and electronics is never recommended. Unless you’re a researcher from Meiji University in Japan who’s invented what’s being described as a taste display that can artificially recreate any flavor by triggering the five different tastes on a user’s tongue. Read more.

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Nvidia’s AI recreates Pac-Man from scratch just by watching it being played

The Verge

Photo credit should read EMMANUEL DUNAND/AFP via Getty Images. Nvidia is best known for its graphics cards, but the company conducts some serious research into artificial intelligence, too. For its latest project , Nvidia researchers taught an AI system to recreate the game of Pac-Man simply by watching it being played. There’s no coding involved, no pre-rendered images for the software to draw on.

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Seattle-area software engineer charged for attempting to defraud CARES Act of $1.5M

GeekWire

(Bigstock Photo). Baoke Zhang , a 35-year-old software engineer at ride hailing giant Lyft, is facing bank and wire fraud charges for what federal prosecutors called a “brazen scheme” to defraud the U.S. government’s recently launched Paycheck Protection Program. It marks the first Paycheck Protection Program fraud case brought in the U.S.

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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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Nvidia’s GameGAN generates games like Pac-Man by watching videos

Venture Beast

Nvidia researchers created an AI system that can synthesize video games simply by watching videos of other games, as well as actions taken in those games. Read More.

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Remote reckoning: Tech companies face tough trade-offs as WFH becomes permanent reality

GeekWire

Facebook’s Arbor Blocks 300 Building in Seattle. (Facebook Photo / Jen Leahy). Fifty percent of Facebook’s workforce could permanently shift to remote work in the next 5-10 years, CEO Mark Zuckerburg told employees on Thursday. It’s a staggering statistic for a company that historically placed a high premium on in-person office culture, and it signals a broader trend in the technology industry. “This is probably overdue,” Zuckerberg said. “Over the past few de

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The DeanBeat: It’s time to hurry up and build the Metaverse

Venture Beast

During this pandemic, Dean Takahashi can't think of anything more exciting for us to do from the comfort of our own homes than to explore the Metaverse. Read More.

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Innovative sleep apnea fix takes home $25K prize at University of Washington student startup contest

GeekWire

Student entrepreneurs competing in the Dempsey Startup Competition made their pitches Thursday to a panel of judges connected by Zoom. (UW Image). Ryan Yousefian had an advantage in the 2020 Dempsey Startup Competition for student entrepreneurs in the Pacific Northwest. The University of Washington student developed an innovative technology to solve a problem that he personally experienced: obstructive sleep apnea.

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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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ProBeat: Microsoft’s AI supercomputer was the best of Build 2020

Venture Beast

At Build 2020, OpenAI showed Microsoft's supercomputer not just completing code and offering suggestions, but writing code from English instructions. Read More.

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How Google Cloud is helping companies scale up quickly due to COVID-19

Tech Republic Cloud

Learn how the healthcare, e-commerce, and media sectors are managing to adapt to massive demands and challenges during the coronavirus pandemic.

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April 2020 NPD: U.S. game spending breaks records

Venture Beast

The April 2020 NPD games report revealed massive sales for video games in the United States. Consumers set a new spending record for an April month. Read More.

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Seattle considers mandating hazard pay for gig workers during the pandemic

GeekWire

(Bigstock Photo). The Seattle City Council is considering new emergency legislation that would require companies like Uber and Grubhub to pay drivers $5 for each delivery or ride they provide, on top of their regular rates. The hazard pay is intended to offset costs and risks that drivers are dealing with during the pandemic, like acquiring protective gear and cleaning vehicles between trips.

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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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Grandmother posting Facebook photos of her grandchildren violates GDPR privacy rule, court says

The Verge

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge. A grandmother in the Netherlands has until this weekend to remove photos of her grandchildren from her Facebook page, or she’ll face daily fines, after a judge found she was violating the European Union’s strict online privacy rules, the BBC reported. The EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) does not generally apply to personal or household information.

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How Google Cloud is helping companies scale up quickly due to COVID-19

Tech Republic Cloud

Learn how the healthcare, e-commerce, and media sectors are managing to adapt to massive demands and challenges during the coronavirus pandemic.

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The Oppo Watch isn’t bad, but it does look like an Apple Watch

The Verge

After I recently wrote about Oppo’s “oddly familiar” new smartwatch , Oppo got in touch with me to ask whether I’d be interested in checking it out for myself, even though it’ll only be available in China until later this year. The company representative suggested that I might find it less familiar in person, so I was interested to try it. How did that work out?

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Google Cloud VP: Strong encryption makes working from home safer

Tech Republic Security

Find out how G Suite and Google Meet help employees and students work and study at home, and why encryption is key.

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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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Twitter Bots Drove the Push to 'Reopen America,' Study Finds

Gizmodo

This might not come as a surprise if you ever use Twitter, but it turns out bots are driving the push to “reopen America” on the platform. Read more.

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Expedia Group CEO Peter Kern: ?Google?s a problem for everyone who sells something online?

GeekWire

Expedia Group CEO Peter Kern. (Expedia Group Photo). Expedia Group’s new CEO isn’t mincing words about one of the company’s biggest challenges: Google’s dual role as a rival in online travel, and a key source of customers through search traffic and paid advertising. “I think Google’s a problem — it’s a problem for everyone who sells something online, and we all have to struggle with that,” Peter Kern said during an appearance on CNBC on Frida

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AI Weekly: Getting back to work under the watchful eye of technology

Venture Beast

As we figure out how to get back to normal, all the same issues around surveillance, AI, data privacy, and safety coalesce in the workplace. Read More.

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Genius Bees Force Plants to Bloom by Biting Them

Gizmodo

Bumblebees need pollen from flowers to survive. But increasingly, the creatures are waking up earlier in the year when flowers have not yet bloomed due to the climate crisis. Nature appears to be finding a way, though. Read more.

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The Big Payoff of Application Analytics

Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business. That’s what drove the five companies in this e-book to change their approach to analytics. Download this e-book to learn about the unique problems each company faced and how they achieved huge returns beyond expectation by embedding analytics into applications.