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• NetApp’s Spot PC: a foundation for a new desktop paradigm?

  22-07-2022 20:06
  
  After I wrote about NetApp’s Spot PC last month, I had a surprisingly nice call with Spot PC’s general manager, Jeff Treuhaft. He reminded me that this is still a very young offering and, given that, it makes more sense to focus on the product, not the channel or the brand. So, while Treuhaft didn’t disagree with my thoughts, he suggested NetApp has a plan to deal with issues once the Spot PC has proven itself in a few initial deployments. To read this article in full, pl
  
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• Considering a website redesign? Why not do it in public?

  22-07-2022 13:30
  
  A building under construction is a work in progress for all to see. Such is rarely the case with corporate websites.Frequently conceived in back rooms and constructed by teams of design and marketing professionals, business websites are typically built less for target visitors than for executives at the companies that run them.They’re the best guess at what target visitors need based on the opinions of people who haven’t met many of them.In rebuilding the Americans with Disabilities
  
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• Zoom expands end-to-end encryption for Phone and breakout rooms

  22-07-2022 12:44
  
  Zoom has announced it is expanding end-to-end encryption (E2EE) capabilities to Zoom Phone, with breakout rooms to be given the same level of encryption in the near future.Zoom Phone customers now have the option to upgrade to E2EE during one-on-one Zoom Phone calls between users on the same Zoom account that occur via the Zoom client.During a call, when users select “More” they will see an option to change the session to an end-to-end encrypted phone call. When enabled, Zoom encryp
  
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• Don’t get too emotional about emotion-reading AI

  22-07-2022 12:00
  
  Call it “artificial emotional intelligence” — the kind of artificial intelligence (AI) that can now detect the emotional state of a human user.Or can it?More importantly, should it?Most emotion AI is based on the “basic emotions” theory, which is that people universally feel six internal emotional states: happiness, surprise, fear, disgust, anger, and sadness, and may convey these states through facial expression, body language and vocal intonation.In the post-pand
  
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• TCS executive says they want to become a recognised IT brand - Highland Radio

  22-07-2022 11:45 via highlandradio.com
  
  TCS executive says they want to become a recognised IT brand  Highland Radio
  
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• 3 little-known location tricks for Google Assistant on Android

  22-07-2022 11:45
  
  I don't know if you've noticed, but our favorite virtual helper is losing some of its location-sensing smarts.Yes, oh yes: For reasons unknown, Google's in the midst of quietly pulling back Assistant's ability to handle reminders based on your physical location — y'know, the "remind me to do something when I get to this place" sorts of commands that have long been possible on Android. It's part of a broader confusion campaign realignment of Google features that seems to be placing more em
  
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