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• Slack tailors its chat app to sales staff

  02-08-2023 18:09
  
  Salesforce’s efforts to embed Slack into its product portfolio ramped up this week with the general release of Sales Elevate, a new offering that natively integrates Sales Cloud into the popular chat app.It’s the first time Slack has customized its app to the needs of a specific job role, with a dedicated home screen for sales staff available in the sidebar to offer an overview of information from Sales Cloud.“This is a new way of doing integrations between Salesforce and Slac
  
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• 30 Notable IT Executive Moves: July 2023 - CRN

  02-08-2023 18:03 via news.google.com
  
  30 Notable IT Executive Moves: July 2023  CRN
  
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• UK intelligence agencies seek to weaken data protection safeguards

  02-08-2023 13:32
  
  UK intelligence agencies are campaigning for the government to weaken surveillance laws, arguing that the current safeguards limit their ability to train AI models due to the large amount of personal data required.GCHQ, MI5, and MI6 have been increasingly using AI technologies to analyze data sets, including bulk personal data sets (BPDs), which can often contain sensitive information about people not of interest to the security services.Currently, a judge has to approve the examination and ret
  
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• Apple plays nice with others for an OpenUSD metaverse

  02-08-2023 13:25
  
  Apple, Adobe, Pixar, Autodesk, NVIDIA, and the Joint Development Foundation have joined forces to develop a standard that can be used to underpin mixed- and virtual-reality experiences — a move that also undermine Meta's efforts in the AR/VR arena.Opening up the 3D universe
  The companies formed the Alliance for OpenUSD (AOUSD) to promote the standardization, development, evolution, and growth of Pixar’s Universal Scene Description technology. They plan to share more information abou
  
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• Return-to-office mandates rise as worker productivity drops

  02-08-2023 12:00
  
  When Bill Mandaria was a young architect decades ago, he would follow senior designers around his office to pick their brains to learn the profession.“In architecture, and I’d imagine in a lot of other industries, what’s particularly important is the mentorship,” said Mandaria, now co-owner of Mancini Duffy, a Manhattan-based architecture and interior design firm with about 90 employees.Mentorship, collaboration, and productivity, Mandaria argues, suffer in remote-work s
  
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• Make multitasking a Snap on your Windows PC

  02-08-2023 12:00
  
  Your Windows PC’s Snap feature is either the best feature you’re not using, or the best feature you’re probably not using to its full potential. Sure, you may have snapped some windows, but do you know about all the keyboard shortcuts, Snap Layouts, and Snap Groups — and have you tried Microsoft’s even more powerful alternative to Snap?Snap was originally introduced in Windows 7, where it was called Aero Snap; it let you snap two windows side by side on your screen
  
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• 'Slave to returns': BP chief executive Bernard Looney sets out what it ... - Upstream Online

  02-08-2023 11:03 via news.google.com
  'Slave to returns': BP chief executive Bernard Looney sets out what it ...  Upstream Online
  
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• Kamal Goel joins Anand Rathi as Executive Vice President IT - CIO News

  02-08-2023 10:40 via news.google.com
  
  Kamal Goel joins Anand Rathi as Executive Vice President IT  CIO News
  
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• President Biden signs "Invent it here, make it here" executive order - Specialty Fabrics Review magazine

  02-08-2023 09:00 via news.google.com
  
  President Biden signs "Invent it here, make it here" executive order  Specialty Fabrics Review magazine
  
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• IT Executive Appointed to Enhance Energy Employment Technology ... - EnergyPortal.eu

  02-08-2023 02:17 via news.google.com
  
  IT Executive Appointed to Enhance Energy Employment Technology ...  EnergyPortal.eu
  
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