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Six Technologies Will Make Digital Experiences More Humanlike (And GenAI Is Just One Among Them)

Forrester IT

The future of human-machine interaction (HMI) will be drastically more humanlike in six ways — creative, conversational, perceptive, embodied, physical, and personified — as a result of six emerging technologies: generative AI, language AI, adaptive AI, somatic interfaces, spatial interfaces, and virtual people, respectively. But these technologies are still immature, and the road ahead is fraught with challenges.

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Should Your Organization Use a Hyperscaler Cloud Provider?

Information Week

Moving to a cloud hyperscaler shouldn't be viewed as a conventional procurement process. Decide on your cloud objectives and target your approach before committing to a provider.

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What We Can Learn From 2023’s Most Notable Breaches

Forrester IT

Cybersecurity breaches continued to rise in 2023. Learn the eight most common incident types and get four key takeaways from our new report.

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Understanding the AI/Cloud Convergence

Information Week

AI and cloud computing are revolutionizing the digital landscape, enhancing innovation, and productivity. Organizations must adapt to not only thrive but also lead in this new era.

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15 Modern Use Cases for Enterprise Business Intelligence

Large enterprises face unique challenges in optimizing their Business Intelligence (BI) output due to the sheer scale and complexity of their operations. Unlike smaller organizations, where basic BI features and simple dashboards might suffice, enterprises must manage vast amounts of data from diverse sources. What are the top modern BI use cases for enterprise businesses to help you get a leg up on the competition?

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Self-Service Buying Is A Wake-Up Call For B2B Sales

Forrester IT

Digital buying and self-service are everywhere. In all buying stages, B2B buyers use tools to complete tasks and purchases on their own. Reassuringly, they still value interactions with sales reps and product experts.

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5 Reasons Why You Should Use a Password Manager

Tech Republic Security

Here are 5 reasons why you should consider using a password manager to protect your data and improve password management.

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NY Tech Week: Growing From Silicon Alley to Mainstreet

Information Week

With NY Tech Week commencing, leadership from Tech:NYC, Astronomer, and Cockroach Lab share their thoughts on the local tech ecosystem's development.

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You Better Shape Up! Insights From Australia’s 2024 CX Index Study

Forrester IT

Our latest research, working off of Australia 2024 Customer Experience Index (CX Index™) study data, reveals that most brands and agencies in our study saw the quality of their CX either flatlining or declining. In 2024, we surveyed banking, investment, government, and, for the first time, superannuation firms.

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Cloud Migration Means Teamwork: Everyone’s Involved

Information Week

The cloud migration process is a major business undertaking -- it’s a process that will require the IT team to overcommunicate in some instances.

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AI Fluency Is The CMO’s Next Big Superpower

Forrester IT

AI is disrupting the marketing function. That’s why it makes sense for the CMO to be a leading voice and connector in AI.

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2024 Salary Guide

Procom’s 2024 Salary Guide provides critical insights into the latest hiring trends, in-demand IT roles, and competitive pay rates across Canada and the U.S. It highlights key market dynamics such as the growing demand for remote work, skills-based hiring, and flexible staffing solutions. With detailed pay rate data for top IT positions like Cybersecurity Consultants, Cloud Engineers, and Salesforce Developers, this guide is an essential resource for companies looking to stay competitive in toda

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Snowflake Denies Responsibility for Ticketmaster, Santander Breaches

Information Week

Snowflake admits an ex-employee account was compromised, but the third-party cloud data storage software company denies the hack is linked to a pair of high-profile ‘ShinyHunters’ attacks on Ticketmaster and Santander Bank customers. Ticketmaster has confirmed its breach.

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How to Generate Intune Device Inventory Report using Graph API

Anoop

Hello - Here is the new HTMD Blog Article for you. Enjoy reading it. Subscribe to YouTube Channel [link] and Facebook Page to get the latest updates [link] The post How to Generate Intune Device Inventory Report using Graph API appeared first on HTMD Community Blog #1 Modern Device Management Guides by Sujin Nelladath.

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Singapore government pushes energy-efficient data center plan

Network World

The Singapore government is advancing a green data center strategy in response to rising demand for computing resources, driven in large part by resource-hungry AI projects. The city state aims to increase its existing 1.4 GW of data center capacity with at least 300 MW of additional capacity in the near term, with more to come through green energy deployments, it announced earlier this week.

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Pioneering Digital Transformation: Simplify from Industry 4.0 to Government

Social, Agile and Transformation

Manufacturing, construction, and government have a few things in common. These companies and institutions lag other industries in deploying technologies while having a key opportunity to connect the physical world with digital back-office workflows and develop actionable intelligence. These businesses have other similarities.

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Guide to Centralizing IT Operations: How to Link Tasks and Tools with an Automation Platform

For many IT admins, business as usual is a juggling act. Job schedulers and scripts run on autopilot, applications and operating systems can’t speak the same language, and other tools—like RPA or MFT solutions—operate in isolation. On a good day, everything runs smoothly. But good days are rare; more often than not, something goes wrong and you’re stuck putting out fires.

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HPE Aruba aims to simplify private 5G for enterprises

Network World

HPE Aruba is offering a new private 5G service it says will be as easy to deploy and manage as many Wi-Fi services. The HPE Aruba Networking Enterprise Private 5G package (P5G) comes with an integrated 4G/5G core, HPE ProLiant Gen11 servers, SIM/eSIM cards, 4G/5G small cells, and a dashboard that enables the whole system to be managed via the cloud.

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AI-backed robots roll through Seattle construction site, speeding build process and improving safety

GeekWire

Two Didge robots from Nextera Robotics, outside the Kaye apartments development in Seattle’s Belltown neighborhood. (Skanska Photo) A couple of high-tech workers are part of the crew helping to construct a new residential tower in Seattle’s Belltown neighborhood. They roll through the place, take a bunch of pictures, upload everything to an artificial intelligence platform, and in the process speed up the project and improve safety along the way.

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Getting infrastructure right for generative AI

CIO Business Intelligence

Facts, it has been said, are stubborn things. For generative AI, a stubborn fact is that it consumes very large quantities of compute cycles, data storage, network bandwidth, electrical power, and air conditioning. As CIOs respond to corporate mandates to “just do something” with genAI, many are launching cloud-based or on-premises initiatives. But while the payback promised by many genAI projects is nebulous, the costs of the infrastructure to run them is finite, and too often, unacceptably hi

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OpenAI reportedly in talks with Helion Energy to ‘buy vast quantities’ of fusion power

GeekWire

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, shown here at Microsoft’s Build developer conference in Seattle on May 21, 2024, is the board chair of Helion Energy. (GeekWire File Photo / Todd Bishop) The Seattle-area fusion company Helion Energy is talking with OpenAI about a deal in which the AI company “would buy vast quantities of electricity to provide power for data centers,” according to the Wall Street Journal.

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HR Meets AI: The New Way of Keeping Large Workforces Connected and Engaged

Speaker: Miriam Connaughton and Donald Knight

As organizations scale, keeping employees connected, engaged, and productive can seem like a monumental task. But what if AI could help you do all of this and more? AI has the power to help, but the key is implementing it in a way that enhances, rather than replaces, human connection. Join us for an exploration into how industry trailblazers are using AI to transform employee experience at scale while addressing both the potential and the pitfalls.

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IT leaders’ AI talent needs hinge on reskilling

CIO Business Intelligence

CIOs and HR managers are changing their equations on hiring and training, with a bigger focus on reskilling current employees to make good on the promise of AI technologies. That shift is in no small part due to an AI talent market increasingly stacked against them. With AI talent in high demand, the shortage of AI technicians available will only get worse, some hiring experts say, as job postings for workers with AI expertise are growing 3.5 times faster than for all jobs, according to a recent

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Microsoft cuts jobs in Azure, HoloLens, and other units in latest move to control costs

GeekWire

Microsoft’s campus in Redmond, Wash. (GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop) Microsoft is cutting a total of around 1,000 jobs across the company, in areas including its Azure cloud unit and HoloLens mixed-reality organization, a person familiar with the matter confirmed Monday afternoon. The cutbacks come as Microsoft tries to maintain its profit margins amid heavier capital spending , which is designed to provide the cloud infrastructure needed to train and deploy the models that power AI applica

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Dell expects memory and SSD prices to jump an additional 20% this year

TechSpot

We've been hearing since last year that memory and solid-state drive price hikes were incoming, and that intelligence ultimately proved accurate. Our recent SSD price guide update looked at five leading 500GB SSDs and found that from January through April of this year, each and every model is now more.

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The Strengths and Limitations of Large Language Models

Eric D. Brown

Few innovations have sparked interest and excitement as Large Language Models (LLMs). These sophisticated AI systems, capable of understanding and generating human language, are being discussed as ways of revolutionizing business operations. LLMs are proving their worth in various applications, from customer service chatbots to content creation tools.

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Launching LLM-Based Products: From Concept to Cash in 90 Days

Speaker: Christophe Louvion, Chief Product & Technology Officer of NRC Health and Tony Karrer, CTO at Aggregage

Christophe Louvion, Chief Product & Technology Officer of NRC Health, is here to take us through how he guided his company's recent experience of getting from concept to launch and sales of products within 90 days. In this exclusive webinar, Christophe will cover key aspects of his journey, including: LLM Development & Quick Wins 🤖 Understand how LLMs differ from traditional software, identifying opportunities for rapid development and deployment.

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Telcos are sitting on gold mines of buried copper wire

TechSpot

British circular economy company TXO recently provided an enticing estimate of the potential value of copper wires owned by telecom companies if properly recycled and reused. Over the next 10 years, TXO stated, telcos could "harvest" 800,000 metric tons of copper wires. At today's prices, this material could be worth.

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These startups are tackling deepfake and digital likeness issues spurred by generative AI

GeekWire

Seattle-based TrueMedia launched its deepfake detector in April. (TrueMedia image) Several new startups in Seattle are taking on one of the most pressing issues in tech: the growing problem of deepfakes and likeness issues driven by the rapid adoption of generative AI technology. The generative AI boom has led to an increase in deepfakes, or digitally manipulated photos, videos, and audio that use someone’s likeness to generate synthetic media.

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Carpenter uses Apple AirTags to locate stolen items, finds stash of tools worth millions

TechSpot

The 43-year-old carpenter in question was distraught after the tools he relies on for a living were stolen from his van on two occasions, writes the Washington Post. Not wanting to lose any more, he hid some AirTags in the larger items in the hope of tracking them down if.

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This Changed Everything

Vox

Vox has been explaining for an entire decade. We’ve published thousands upon thousands of articles, videos, and podcasts about nearly every subject imaginable, illuminating all the important and interesting and confounding things that give us a better understanding of who we are and how our world works. It’s been a wild time! To say so much has happened would be a gross understatement.

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An Architect’s Guide for Selecting Scalable, Data-Layer Technologies

There’s no getting around it: selecting the right foundational data-layer components is crucial for long-term application success. That’s why we developed this white paper to give you insights into four key open-source technologies – Apache Cassandra®, Apache Kafka®, Apache Spark™, and OpenSearch® – and how to leverage them for lasting success. Discover everything you’ll want to know about scalable, data-layer technologies: Learn when to choose these technologies and when to avoid them Explore h

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"I'm a Mac" actor grows up to promote Windows on Arm PCs for Qualcomm

TechSpot

In 2021, Intel tapped Long to flip the script, having the actor praise PC while poking fun at various Mac features, like the unpopular Touchbar and its vast color choices of "gray and gray-er." The copycat campaign was mildly amusing, but Long played both parts in the comparisons rather than.

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Is there a natural contradiction within AI-driven code in cloud-native security?

CIO Business Intelligence

AI-generated code promises to reshape cloud-native application development practices, offering unparalleled efficiency gains and fostering innovation at unprecedented levels. However, amidst the allure of newfound technology lies a profound duality—the stark contrast between the benefits of AI-driven software development and the formidable security risks it introduces.

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Portable SSD with AirJet tech runs 20C cooler, achieves 2x sustained performance

TechSpot

Frore Systems again demonstrated its AirJet cooling technology, this time at Computex 2024 using a pair of Sabrent 8 TB solid-state drives – each installed in a separate Orico external SSD enclosure. One enclosure was left alone in a passive cooling configuration while the other was outfitted with a pair.

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Wizards of the Coast posts job for an AI engineer — and some fans aren’t happy

GeekWire

Wizards of the Coast headquarters in Renton, Wash. (GeekWire File Photo / Kurt Schlosser) A job posting by Wizards of the Coast went viral on social media over the weekend, highlighting some consumers’ lack of enthusiasm for generative artificial intelligence, as well as the continuing fallout from some of Wizards’ recent controversies. At the end of May, Renton, Wash.

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IT Leadership Agrees AI is Here, but Now What?

IT leaders are experiencing rapid evolution in AI amid sustained investment uncertainty. As AI evolves, enhanced cybersecurity and hiring challenges grow. This whitepaper offers real strategies to manage risks and position your organization for success.