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Q&A: AstraZeneca CIO Cindy Hoots on Covid-19, collaboration — and change

Computerworld Vertical IT

Over the past two years, Swedish-English pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca has been at the heart of the response to the COVID-19 pandemic, developing a vaccine and supplying more than 2.5 billion doses to people in 170 countries. To read this article in full, please click here

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Is social media ready for a Covid-19 vaccine?

Vox

This is tremendous news — and misinformation about it is already circulating on social media. Much of that disarray could play out on social media. In preparation for a vaccine, social media platforms are fine-tuning their rules. Still, some potentially worrisome content is already on social media.

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Coronavirus scammers are flooding social media with fake cures and tests

Vox

For years, Timothy Mackey has been researching the sale of opioids and illicit drugs online , tracking how dealers have used social media to push controlled substances. There’s no proven treatment for Covid-19, but plenty of social media accounts are nevertheless illegally pushing so-called cures or treatments.

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Ukraine Detains Associates of Clop Ransomware

SecureWorld News

Unlike common ransomware attacks, which encrypt a large number of uninstalled PCs and servers, the Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) attack is aimed at a specific victim's computer network and infects the entire system with a ransomware program. The total damage reaches $500 million. In April 2020, Clop was used to attack the large U.S.

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Autopoiesis and how hyper-connectivity is literally bringing the networks to life

Trends in the Living Networks

When I started writing my book Living Networks in early 2002 I thought that it was important to demonstrate that the concept of 'living networks' was not just a metaphor, but a reality: we, together with the networks that connect us, are literally a new life form. This is happening on two levels. THE SUPERORGANISM.

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Enterprise Twitter – or how to tap social networks for expertise without using email - Trends in the Living Networks

Trends in the Living Networks

About Ross Dawson Keynote Speaking/Strategy AHT Group Future Exploration Network The Insight Exchange Repyoot Recent Media Appearances « Mobile social networking, meaning virtual networks bringing people physically together, will inevitably be a pervasive application | Main | More media coverage of Enterprise 2.0

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What is predictive analytics? Transforming data into future insights

CIO Business Intelligence

The technology helps adopters in fields as diverse as finance, healthcare, retailing, hospitality, pharmaceuticals, automotive, aerospace, and manufacturing. Clustering algorithms, for example, are well suited for customer segmentation, community detection, and other social-related tasks.

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