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Amazon puts Fire TV Cube to work, repurposes streaming device for desktop computing

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Amazon WorkSpaces , the company’s virtual desktop service, just unveiled its first device for end users, a $195 product created by directly repurposing the hardware design for Amazon’s Fire TV Cube. AWS is marketing the WorkSpaces Thin Client to industries like healthcare, financial services, and contact centers.

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Tech Moves: Convoy vet joins Xembly; Seattle climate firm hires Goldman Sachs exec; and more

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(Xembly Photo) — Ziad Ismail is now chief operating officer of Xembly , a Seattle startup that offers an artificial intelligence “chief of staff” designed to automate tedious tasks such as meeting notes, scheduling, to-do lists and more. Hillsboro, Ore.-based

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What is an automation engineer? A growing role to address IT automation

CIO Business Intelligence

The automation engineer role Automation has been a cornerstone of the manufacturing industry for decades, but it’s relatively new to the business, healthcare, and finance industries. Sometimes this will include hardware or software, but other times you might be asked to automate service or business processes.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: EP 69 Self-Healing Operating Systems

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It’s time to evolve beyond the UNIX operating system. So while I was editing this podcast on self-healing operating systems, I was reminded of an article that I never finished for Fobes.com. It’s a radical rethinking of how we even view our current choices of UNIX-derived operating systems.

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Naturally Better Security: Leveraging the power of nature to enhance Internet security

CTOvision

Solutions inspired by nature are being applied to diverse fields including energy production, medicine and healthcare, architecture, food production, transportation and manufacturing. Attacks in the healthcare sector have violated the privacy of hundreds of millions of patients and have disrupted hospital and emergency care.

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Security and Windows 10 Will Cross Paths for Enterprises

CTOvision

Outside of the more notable and talked about features—friendlier UI, improved device manageability including MDM, easier operating system deployment (OSD), universal applications, and a customizable store portal for organizations—Windows 10 comes with something even more important - deeper security.

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Interoperability: A Much Needed Cloud Computing Focus

Cloud Musings

Cloud computing transitions information technology (IT) from being "systems of physically integrated hardware and software" to "systems of virtually integrated services". Recent government IT failures like the healthcare portal roll out highlight this critical difference. John Thune, R-S.D.,

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