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• Google Chrome gets memory- and power-saving modes

  08-12-2022 21:59
  Google’s Chrome browser has long been plagued by memory system-sucking issues — especially when multiple tabs are open — but the world’s most popular browser today got an upgrade to optimize both device battery power and memory use.With the latest release of Chrome on desktop, Google will be introducing two new performance settings: Memory Saver and Energy Saver. When they're used, Google said Chrome will consume up to 30% less memory and extend a device&r
  
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• A Look at the Executive Order on Cryptos and What It Means - PaymentsJournal

  08-12-2022 21:24 via news.google.com
  A Look at the Executive Order on Cryptos and What It Means  PaymentsJournal
  
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• Kandji improves its Device Harmony Platform for Apple enterprise

  08-12-2022 19:01
  The busy Apple-in-the-enterprise space continues to generate new products and services. Case in point: Kandji, which has enhanced its existing Mobile Device Management (MDM) platform with Declarative Device Management. I caught up with, Weldon Dodd, the company's senior vice president for product strategy, for the details.What’s new in Device Harmony?
  Apple says there are nearly 2 billion active Apple devices worldwide, up from 1.5 billion in 2021, many of them deployed across the en
  
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• Salesforce deepens integration between Slack, Sales Cloud

  08-12-2022 18:34
  Salesforce is offering new Slack and Sales Cloud integration capabilities, designed to help sales teams drive productivity and efficiency while providing cost savings.The new offerings, announced at the Salesforce World Tour NYC event on Thursday, comprise a productivity bundle that is on offer to customers at a discounted rate until mid-January, and a new native Slack integration with the company's Sales Cloud.Speaking ahead of the event, Blake Markham, vice president of product management at
  
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• Intel and CIO Power Hour exposes productivity challenges for hybrid working

  08-12-2022 15:30
  Hybrid working is now mainstream. The latest figures from the UK government suggest that over one-in-five UK workers now work at least one day per week from home, while one-in-eight work from home exclusively. In knowledge industries these figures are significantly higher. Yet productivity is becoming a pain point. A November 2022 study for Microsoft found that while 87% of employees felt they worked as efficiently when working from home as in the office, 85% of business leaders lacked the same
  
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• ChatGPT: Finally, an AI chatbot worth talking to

  08-12-2022 12:00
  AI chatbot experts are all talking about — and talking to — a newish research project from artificial intelligence research organization OpenAI. It’s called ChatGPT.(OpenAI, a San Francisco-based non-profit AI research lab founded in December 2015, is the same organization behind the DALL-E image generation technology.)Conceptually, ChatGPT can be used like the AI art tools in the sense that minimal text input by the user produces credible synthetic media — paragraphs in
  
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• An IT Executive Introduction To Developer Productivity Engineering - Forbes

  08-12-2022 09:00 via news.google.com
  An IT Executive Introduction To Developer Productivity Engineering  Forbes
  
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• Atlassian targets ITSM with new additions to Jira Service Management

  08-12-2022 08:00
  Atlassian Thursday unveiled a slew of new features for Jira Service Management—its IT service management (ITSM) offering—providing support and development teams with new automation capabilities, virtual agent technology and on-the-go incident response.  Speaking ahead of the company’s annual High-Velocity ITSM event in London on December 8, Jira Service Management  product manager Shihab Hamid said that Atlassian—which has acquired six companies in the last fou
  
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