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Big Brother Walmart? Company awarded employee surveillance patent
Employee surveillance tools have raised concerns about dampening morale and productivity — the very thing such optimization systems seek to bolster.
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OpinionThe importance of data center intelligence for the C-level
Interpreting business intelligence on inventory and processes will help a business become more efficient, the fastest way to a healthy bottom line.
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Report: AWS eyes building data center switches
After the report broke on Friday, Cisco's shares dropped 5%, wiping an equivalent of $11 billion from its market capitalization.
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Microsoft president: Jobs might move abroad following immigration policy changes
For employees affected by immigration policies and losing their ability to work in the U.S., Microsoft may move their jobs abroad with them.
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Check your sunburn, not your inbox: Business email scourge persists while on vacation
Employees who don't want to deal with emails while on vacation can adopt communication strategies and enable basic filters before they leave.
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Can AI match human abstract reasoning capabilities?
Google's DeepMind unit developed an abstract reasoning test for neural networks based on human IQ tests.
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Microsoft offers free version of Teams, hitting on Slack's selling point
Slack is often credited as a pioneer, but despite its launch about two years before Teams, Microsoft's product dominates the market.
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Collecting value or dust? Only half of organizations use their data
If big data is not treated in a way that is organized or capable of driving insight, it is no more useful than that PalmPilot sitting at the bottom of a desk drawer.
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Google and Microsoft top list of most sought-after US employers
Technology's prevalence in American lives might explain workers' preferences for tech companies.
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Uncle Sam — and AI — need you
Including academia, industry and civil society in the process is important as legislators parse out what to do (or, perhaps more importantly, what not to do) for AI.
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Call the exterminator: Awards for bug bounties up 33%
Unlike hackers, technology can only do so much, and most security scanners cannot find a flaw it doesn't already know exists.
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US announces tariffs on $200B more goods from China
China promised to take "firm and forceful measures" in response, but it's unclear exactly what those measures will be.
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How to level the playing field between the haves and have nots of AI
The sectors — industry, academia and government — are displacing AI talent and creating an uneven distribution of the technology.
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Group behind Ticketmaster breach hit 800 companies in global credit card skimming campaign
Magecart transitioned from hacking websites directly to hacking components from suppliers.
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How Starbucks moved 23K tablets for company-wide 'bias' training
The coffee chain was tasked with delivering information simultaneously to about 175,000 U.S. workers on three weeks' notice.
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Security, SaaS, cloud lead IT investment
After 10 years of top rankings, Microsoft was again identified as the most strategic vendor, according to a Goldman Sachs survey.
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Insight CIO's model of IT operations favors enterprise department autonomy
As it has evolved, enterprise IT has "radical centralization and standardization at the core with massive diversity at the fringe," said Michael Guggemos.
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Making cybersecurity work, one state at a time, starting with Virginia
State officials need to ensure that businesses know what supply chains, and thereby threat networks, they are a part of.
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Microsoft Dynamics 365 tweaked updates allow customers to test out changes before deployment
The company is following the update routines of Windows 10 and Office 365 with biannual updates for its ERP and CRM suite.
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PetSmart puts fraudsters in the dog house with AI
The company's fraud detection program saved $12 million last year, helped solve a murder and furthered a human trafficking investigation.
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JetBlue has reviewed 3K startups in 2 years to bolster its tech portfolio
The airline is focused on "being a part of the Silicon Valley innovation ecosystem."
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IT trends for the remainder of 2018
With the first half of the year come and gone, it's time to start executing plans for the second half.
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OpinionFrom the finance desk: Challenges facing the tech industry today
In an increasingly competitive environment, a tech company's success hinges on its ability to continuously and quickly adapt in this evolving industry.
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RPA is having a moment: What you need to know about the automation technology
Robotic process automation gained steam in the past few years as vendors worked to automate rote tasks, such as data entry or financial calculations.
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GE files patent to trace 3-D printed parts with blockchain
3-D printing is nothing new for GE, but finding a practical use case for blockchain holds steep supply chain implications.
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