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SCCM Primary Server Upgrade to 2006 | ConfigMgr | Guide | Step by Step

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Subscribe YouTube Channel [link]. and Facebook Page to get latest updates. [link]. Microsoft released the latest version of Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager 2006 opt-in version (fast ring). This step by step guide provides all the details that you require to perform SCCM Primary Server Upgrade to 2006. New Features of ConfigMgr 2006 production version (a.k.a WFH Release) available here.

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Apple wants this recipe app to stop using a pear in its logo

The Verge

Apple has filed a notice of opposition against a meal prep company because it claims the Prepear app’s cartoon fruit logo— in this case, a pear— is too close to Apple’s own trademarked logo which is, of course, an apple (via MacRumors and iPhone in Canada ). The company claims the pear logo would “cause dilution of the distinctiveness” of the Apple logo, and make it difficult for consumers to distinguish between Prepear and Apple’s goods and services, which it argues is a violation of the Lanham

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Why Vindex will invest $300 million in esports gaming arenas

Venture Beast

Vindex will invest $300 million into esports gaming arenas. That's the next idea from Mike Sepso and Sundance DiGiovanni, the founder fathers of esports. Read More.

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Microsoft’s new Xbox Series S console confirmed in leaked controller packaging

The Verge

Microsoft is rumored to be unveiling its second, cheaper next-gen Xbox console this month, and it looks like it will definitely be called Xbox Series S. The Verge has obtained photos of Microsoft’s new next-gen Xbox controller in white, complete with packaging that mentions the Xbox Series S. Instagram user Zak was able to purchase the controller today, and we’ve confirmed it’s genuine.

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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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How a gaijin studio made the beautiful unrealism of Ghost of Tsushima

Venture Beast

Nate Fox, game director at Sucker Punch for Ghost of Tsushima, talks with GamesBeat about the making of the samurai epic and the inspirations for it. Read More.

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Toshiba is officially out of the laptop business

The Verge

Toshiba quietly exited the laptop business once and for all last week, ending a 35-year run by transferring its remaining minority stake in its PC business to Sharp. Two years ago, Toshiba sold an 80.1 percent stake of its PC business to Sharp for $36 million, and Sharp renamed the division Dynabook. Sharp exercised its right to buy the remaining 19.1 percent of shares back in June, and Toshiba released a statement August 4th that the deal was completed.

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Amazon wants to turn failed malls into fulfillment centers

TechSpot

The largest mall owner in the US is discussing the possibility of leasing out some of its anchor department stores to Amazon for use as fulfillment centers.

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Computer scientist Frances Allen, known for her work on compiling, dies at 88

The Verge

IBM. Frances Allen, whose work on computer compiling helped establish a foundation for much of modern computer programming, died on August 4th, her 88th birthday. She was the first woman to win the Turing Award , and the first female IBM fellow. Allen was determined to make the tedious compiling process — converting software programs into ones and zeroes— more efficient.

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Stop gentrifying tech: Why ‘premium’ products make us all less efficient

Venture Beast

Just like gentrification in the physical world, digital gentrification will result in gaps in technical capability, education, and access to resources. Read More.

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Income verification startup The Closing Docs helps property managers during economic crisis

GeekWire

The Closing Docs co-founders Stephen Arifin (left) and Mark Fiebig. (Closing Docs Photos). The pandemic is causing a lot of stress for both renters and landlords. The Closing Docs wants to help. The Seattle startup sells income verification software to property managers, helping them get a better understanding of their tenant’s capacity to pay rent.

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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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Black entrepreneurs can tap new markets — but only with VC backing

Venture Beast

Investing in this untapped pipeline will pay dividends — and create more seasoned Black talent and larger-scale Black-owned companies. Read More.

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Amazon reportedly considering mall spaces for fulfillment centers

The Verge

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge. Amazon has had talks with Simon Property Group about converting some of its mall spaces into fulfillment centers, The Wall Street Journal reported. The conversations started before the coronavirus pandemic, and before the latest wave of bankruptcy filings by mall stalwarts like Lord & Taylor, JCPenney, and Nieman Marcus.

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How to get your data scientists and data engineers rowing in the same direction

Venture Beast

I’ve seen models take months to get to production because the data scientists and data engineers were working at cross purposes. Read More.

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AMD's new patent is an awkward copy of Intel's Lakefield architecture

TechSpot

Hybrid computing is when one processing device uses two (or more) different architectures optimized for different purposes. In this case, AMD wants to create a more power-efficient laptop CPU/APU without sacrificing features. To do so they’re using a “high-feature processor” that does everything quickly and a “low-feature processor” that does.

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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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Brydge releases new line of ‘Designed for Surface’ keyboards and accessories

The Verge

The W-Touch and W-Type accessories. | Photo: Brydge. On August 17th, Brydge will begin selling a new lineup of Surface accessories that have the “Designed for Surface” badge, meaning that they were made in collaboration with Microsoft. The lineup includes keyboards for the Surface Pro and Surface Go, but the most intriguing product in the group is the $99.99 W-Touch standalone trackpad.

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Amazon Might Be Gobbling Up Your Neighborhood's Dying Mall Next

Gizmodo

E-commerce, one of the most-cited culprits behind America’s dying malls, may soon become the mall. Cue The X-Files theme music. Read more.

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Choosing our lives from infinite possibility

Trends in the Living Networks

In Jose Luis Borges ’ exquisite story The Garden of Forking Paths he beautifully evokes the many different paths that our lives could take. Every day we make choices small and large that lead our lives down a particular path, collapsing the infinite possible directions into the one reality we actually live. It is completely natural to look back at the actions that shaped those forks and wonder how our lives would have turned out if we had done something different.

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Why Some of You Might Be Seeing a New ‘Quotes’ Section Underneath Tweets

Gizmodo

Apparently, some more metrics on our tweets is exactly what is missing from our lives during a global pandemic. Or at least that’s what Twitter thinks. 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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Choosing our lives from infinite possibility

Trends in the Living Networks

In Jose Luis Borges ’ exquisite story The Garden of Forking Paths he beautifully evokes the many different paths that our lives could take. Every day we make choices small and large that lead our lives down a particular path, collapsing the infinite possible directions into the one reality we actually live. It is completely natural to look back at the actions that shaped those forks and wonder how our lives would have turned out if we had done something different.

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Klout Founder Tells the Slightly Dirty Secret of His Success

Gizmodo

Klout, a website that defined the unctuous early days of social media, used to rate you based on your online presence. In its heyday, a high Klout score could get you special privileges - maybe a free soda - and bragging rights at the Rosewood hotel, the literal Hotel California where VCs checked you into their funds… Read more.

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US passes 5 million coronavirus cases

The Verge

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge. As school districts across the country struggle to figure out how — or if— to safely reopen schools to teachers and students, the number of coronavirus cases in the US passed 5 million on Sunday, according to the Coronavirus Research Center at Johns Hopkins University. And according to a Washington Post analysis , the US hit the 5 million mark just 17 days after passing 4 million cases.

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Jason Bateman Will Adapt Superworld, a Story Where Everyone Has Superpowers Except One Guy

Gizmodo

That dude seems very unlucky, honestly. 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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Huawei says it’s running out of chips for its smartphones because of US sanctions

The Verge

Illustration by William Joel / The Verge. Huawei, the world’s biggest smartphone vendor, says it’s running out of processor chips because of US sanctions against the company, The Associated Press reported. And according to Richard Yu, CEO of Huawei’s consumer business unit, as of next month the Chinese phone manufacturer will no longer be able to make its own Kirin chipsets due to the ongoing economic pressure from the US.

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This Cast Photo Brings Together the Ragtag Heroes of BBC's The Watch

Gizmodo

This is not a Discworld adaptation you’ve seen before. Read more.

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Week in Review: Most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of Aug. 2, 2020

GeekWire

Get caught up on the latest technology and startup news from the past week. Here are the most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of Aug. 2, 2020. Sign up to receive these updates every Sunday in your inbox by subscribing to our GeekWire Weekly email newsletter. Most popular stories on GeekWire. Bill Gates talks TikTok: Microsoft ‘won’t do things that are hostile’ and is careful about data.

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Robert Pattinson Tried to Lie His Way Off the Tenet Set for His The Batman Screen Test

Gizmodo

Ah, but Christopher Nolan, he is a man wise to deception. Fooling the creator of Memento? Not so easy. 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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Select Versions Of The Digimon Tamagotchis Are Discounted, Grab One And Relive Some Childhood Trauma

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Digimon Digivice Virtual Pet - Translucent Green | $18 | Amazon Digimon Digivice Virtual Pet - Blue | $18 | Amazon Digimon Digivice Virtual Pet - Yellow | $19 | Amazon Read more.

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Love Harley Quinn? Then You'll Love ComiXology's Latest Sale

Gizmodo

Harley Quinn Sale | ComiXology Read more.

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Haunted by Regret Over Killing Vine, Twitter Purportedly Eyes Acquiring TikTok

Gizmodo

While we’re all waiting to see if Microsoft succeeds in striking a deal to buy TikTok, bam! Surprise ! Another big tech company, although not nearly as big as Microsoft, has apparently entered the fray, saying that it too is interested in arguably one of the hottest apps currently on the market. That company is… Read more.

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Huawei Has About a Month Before It Runs Out of Smartphone Chips

Gizmodo

The Trump administration’s sanctions are hitting Huawei hard, and the Chinese tech giant now says it will run out of processors chips for its smartphones by September without access to U.S. venders, according to a weekend Associated Press report. 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.