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Not just a barking dog: Open-source developers grow to embrace software as a service

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The open-source movement has a history that captures both its community spirit and renegade impact. Sometimes, that history even involves a yapping animal. In Linux, the “biff” command notifies users when mail arrives and identifies the deliverer. Was “biff” a cleverly conceived acronym for a remarkably sophisticated programming language? No. It was named after a […]

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Using the Cloud Securely: A conversation between two cybersecurity leaders

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Industry talking to customers What’s this?Published: October 4th, 2019 By: Steve Proctor Laura Payne, Director Information Security Services, BMO Lakshmi Hanspal, CISO, Box When Box CISO Laksmi Hamspal and BMO Director of Information Security Services Laura Payne struck up a conversation at a recent security conference in Toronto, the connection was immediate. These two women

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Rep. Tlaib v Detroit PD, round two, was a missed opportunity to bridge facial recognition debate gap

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Weeks ago, when a brief Twitter spat between between Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) and the Detroit Police Department over the latter’s use of facial recognition software ended with an invitation for Tlaib to come and visit the Real Time Crime Center headquarters, I mentioned in an article that if the Congresswoman took them up on

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The problem with PC VR is the PC

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“Friction” is the word tech companies now use to acknowledge software and hardware pain points — typically at the point they’re planning to reduce or eliminate them. As the enemy of smoothness, friction is the collection of factors that keep an experience from being effortless, fun, or “magical” in Apple parlance; Polaroid cameras famously demonstrated

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Box debuts new security controls, other enhancements to workflow automation tools

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Cloud storage company Box Inc. is using its annual BoxWorks conference as a launchpad for its new Box Shield as well as enhancements in Box Relay, helping users secure their most important data and collaborate more easily on various projects. First up today is Box Shield, which is an add-on service built into Box’s content management suite

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Waze integrates city data into Google Cloud

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Waze is integrating its city data with Google Cloud to allow for cities to more easily access, organize, store, interpret, and share its transportation data. Waze for City Data, formerly known as the Connected Citizens Program, was created in 2014 and has since attained 1,000 global partners, including the City of Toronto, City of Winnipeg

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At PagerDuty Summit, IT support advances at the speed of life

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The first time I heard about the emergent PagerDuty a few years ago, I wondered: Is another notification layer between information technology service management or ITSM tickets and IT monitoring alerts even a market? Gartner still doesn’t seem to think so. But after attending PagerDuty Summit 2019 in San Francisco (below), I admired a crater-sized

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Amazon’s Vesta no-show highlights the challenges of home robots

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You’d think Amazon would be the one to shake up a product category that has chewed up and spit out startups and corporate giants alike, but the company’s next flagship robot seemingly remains a work in progress. At a press event in downtown Seattle, some expected Amazon to preview a home robot that’s reportedly like

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Pushing ahead with European expansion, Google plots new data center in Poland

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Google LLC will open a cloud data center in Warsaw, Poland, to provide better service to Central and Eastern European companies, the company announced today. The search giant plans to build three so-called availability zones as part of the project. Availability zones are server farms that are located in close proximity to one another, usually

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