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How 2 Australian sporting brands leverage human-centric digital innovation to drive new fan experiences in and out of the arena

CIO

Creating new revenue streams, identifying untapped audiences and better engaging fans onsite and all year-round are just some of the wins iconic Australian sporting events are chalking up thanks to human-centric digital innovation. If there’s any lesson brands should have taken from the last three years of the Covid-19 pandemic, it’s that investing in digital can deliver even more engagement – online and in-person.

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Spend management space sees a large raise, and layoffs, in the same week

TechCrunch

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Promotion interview tips for tech: How to sell your value

Gitprime

There is a myth most tech professionals believe: “Everyone knows what I’m working on, and how important it is.” You need to sell yourself, and here's how.

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The cultivated meat industry’s known struggles will take time to sort out, and maybe that’s OK

TechCrunch

The Wall Street Journal went under the hood of the lab-grown meat industry, also known as cultivated or cell-cultured meat, and the struggles within. The Journal particularly homed in on what’s going on at UPSIDE Foods, which received a blessing from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration related to its process for making cultivated chicken, essentially saying it was safe to eat and making it the first company to receive this approval.

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Streamlining Database Compliance with CI/CD Integration

IT leaders know the importance of compliance at every level, but the database often gets left behind as other environments are automated for robust protection. This whitepaper emphasizes the importance of robust, auditable, and secure database change management practices for safeguarding organizational compliance. Learn how automating database compliance: Mitigates risk Protects against security vulnerabilities Helps avoid regulatory penalties Aligns database workflows with app lifecycle Turns d

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Break the Model! How Challenging Status Quo Makes Lasting Impact

Mills Scofield

shutterstock I want to share the amazing work of Second Harvest Food Bank of North Central Ohio*. They are the epitome of how to create an amazing strategic plan that achieves their mission and vision in innovative ways will (hopefully) make them no longer needed. This is not about virtue signaling, but rather my admiration and respect for their foresightful planning , impact, and gratitude for their CEO, Julie Chase-Morefield and team.

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CodeSOD: In the Area (code)

The Daily WTF

Jeremy was sent hunting a bug in some older JavaScript code. The key problem was that many phone numbers were getting a US country code prepended to them, even when they already had a different country code and were in a different country than the US. for (i in item. victims ) { c = item. victims [i]. country_code ; n = item. victims [i]. phone_number ; if (n) { number = c ?

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Measured Response

The Agile Manager

Eighteen months ago, I wrote that there is a good case to be made that the tech cycle is more economically significant than the credit cycle. By way of example, customer-facing tech and corporate collaboration technology contributed far more to robust S&P 500 earnings during the pandemic than the Fed’s bond buying and money supply expansion. Having access to capital is great; it doesn’t do a bit of good unless it can be productively channeled.

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Against pausing AI research. With Pedro Domingos

Pandora's Brain

Should AI research be paused? Is advanced artificial intelligence reaching the point where it could result in catastrophic damage? Is a slow-down desirable, given that AI can also lead to very positive outcomes, including tools to guard against the worst excesses of other applications of AI? And even if a slow-down is desirable, is it practical? Professor Pedro Domingos of the University of Washington is best known for his book “The Master Algorithm: How the Quest for the Ultimate Learning

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The perils of JavaScript: How we've broken the internet's security

Gitprime

JavaScript is powerful, but it also has data-leaking behaviors that can create problems for organizations, who need to be aware of and manage these risks.

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The Big Payoff of Application Analytics

Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business. That’s what drove the five companies in this e-book to change their approach to analytics. Download this e-book to learn about the unique problems each company faced and how they achieved huge returns beyond expectation by embedding analytics into applications.

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Is AGI possible? With Kenn Cukier

Pandora's Brain

Most media coverage of AI is weak The launch of the large language model known as GPT-4 has re-ignited the debate about where AI is going, and how fast. A paper by some researchers at Microsoft (which is the major investor in OpenAI, the creator of GPT-4) claimed to detect in GPT-4 some sparks of AGI – artificial general intelligence, a system with all the cognitive abilities of an adult human.

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Amazon EMR (Elastic MapReduce)

Perficient

What is EMR: EMR as an expandable, low-configuration service that provides an alternative to running on-premises cluster computing. Amazon EMR is based on Apache Hadoop , a Java-based programming framework that supports the processing of large data sets in a distributed computing environment. MapReduce, a core component of the Hadoop software framework developers can write programs that process massive amounts of unstructured data across a distributed cluster of processors or standalone computer

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