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How reverse ETL can lighten your data load
Where does your enterprise stand on the AI adoption curve? Take our AI survey to find out. Moving data between applications and warehousing data for analysis are recurring issues for app builders, data engineers, and IT teams. But we all know our businesses can benefit in significant ways if... Read more
Google Search’s knowledge panels have a misinformation problem
Hristo Georgiev recently received a troubling message from a friend: Google says he’s a serial killer. If you Googled his name, the search engine would serve up Georgiev’s professional headshot alongside a Wikipedia article about a Bulgarian serial killer with the same name who died in 1980. This is... Read more
NFC flaws let researchers hack an ATM by waving a phone
Chalongrat Chuvaree | Getty Images For years, security researchers and cybercriminals have hacked ATMs by using all possible avenues to their innards, from opening a front panel and sticking a thumb drive into a USB port to drilling a hole that exposes internal wiring. Now, one researcher has found... Read more
Mark Zuckerberg’s ghostly sunblock photo finds new life on his surfboard
In April, photographers caught Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg on vacation in Hawaii absolutely slathered in sunscreen and looking like the Joker, or Commander Data, or a mime. In an Instagram Live discussion at the time, the billionaire said he was trying to hide from the paparazzi, ruefully noting the ploy... Read more
US Vaccinations Slow, Americans Travel Again, and More Coronavirus News
Vaccination rates slow in the US, new variants gain traction, and travel picks up among Americans. Here’s what you should know: Want to receive this weekly roundup and other coronavirus news? Sign up here! Headlines The US falls short of Biden’s July 4 goal as vaccination rates slow Earlier... Read more
PagerDuty expands enterprise incident management with remediation tools
Where does your enterprise stand on the AI adoption curve? Take our AI survey to find out. As part of an effort to expand the reach of its incident management platform beyond IT teams, PagerDuty this week added a service graph to its portfolio through which users can discover... Read more
GM Financial will ban you from selling lease to rivals next month, report says
GM wants first dibs on your off-lease vehicle. Bloomberg/Getty Images GM Financial will reportedly no longer allow its lease customers to sell their vehicles to rivals, amid tight inventory levels for new and used vehicles. Instead, customers will only have the ability to trigger an option for a direct... Read more
The Scary Blind Spots in Healthcare AI
Artificial intelligence is everywhere. And increasingly, it’s becoming a critical part of healthcare. Doctors use it to try to suss out symptoms of deadly infections like sepsis; companies like Google are developing apps to help you identify ailments just by uploading some pics.  But AI is only as good... Read more
NIS America is making fan translations official with Trails from Zero and Trails to Azure
Where does your enterprise stand on the AI adoption curve? Take our AI survey to find out. NIS America announced today localizations for four games in Nihon Falcom’s The Legend of Heroes series, and it is turning to a dedicated group of fans to officially bring a couple of... Read more
Google pushes its Chrome cookie ban back to 2023
Google is delaying its long-promised move to block third-party cookies from its Chrome browser by another year, citing the need to “move at a responsible pace” and “avoid jeopardizing the business models of many web publishers which support freely available content.” Google’s business model likely factored into the decision,... Read more