Illustration: Rahul Awasthi People find identical twins intriguing. Indian cinema has long capitalised on our innate fascination with twins to offer at least one movie about a “double role” every decade for the past century. In a world dominated by the internet, this trend has transcended the celluloid to go for the cloud. Twinfluencers – […]
Archives for August 2020
How official affiliates circumvented Facebook’s political ad policies in 2019 elections and beyond
A Wall Street Journal report on Sunday, quoting sources, revealed how “Facebook declined to act after discovering that the BJP (Bharatiya Janata Party) was circumventing its political ad transparency requirements.” The rules, the report added, “required advertisers to verify identities and disclose them to users.” It also said that in “addition to buying Facebook ads […]
Critical Slack Bug Allows Access to Private Channels, Conversations
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Cradlepoint releases State of Wireless WAN Report 2020
The report highlights confidence in the future of 5G, coronavirus-related wireless WAN adoption, and more. Image: iStock/metamorworks On Monday, Cradlepoint released the State of Wireless WAN Report 2020. Cradlepoint in partnership with IDG surveyed 499 “IT-decision makers” including directors, vice presidents, and managers across the US, Canada, and the UK. Overall, the report was designed […]
Congress calls for a ‘thorough enquiry’ into Facebook
Following a new Wall Street Journal (WSJ) report which alleges Ankhi Das, Facebook‘s public policy director for India supported Prime Minister Narendra Modi through internal posts between 2012-14 and disparaged Congress, the latter has called for a ‘thorough enquiry’ on the social media giant. “We are waiting to hear from Mark Zuckerberg on the matter. […]
BlockpARTy — The art of repeatable transformation
<!– –> Share this post: Creating a blockchain proof of concept is one thing, but creating an in-production blockchain network at scale takes vision. Our innovative clients are achieving success by combining the art of repeatable transformation with their vision for new industry ecosystems. To celebrate their industry changing visions, we commissioned five contemporary artists […]
Advancing a culture of reliability at the pace of Azure
“Customers value cloud services because they are agile and adaptable, scaling and transforming to meet the changing needs of business. Since the velocity of change can work against the tenets of reliability, our Azure engineering teams have evolved their culture, processes, and frameworks to balance the pace of innovation with assurance of performance and quality. […]
Throw Out That 3-Year Business Plan
Here’s why real-time forecasting rules in 2020 (and how retraining your machine learning models can help with that). Before the pandemic, companies had several tools to predict future outcomes. They could plan from several weeks to several years in advance and shape their machine learning models to deliver insights on what the future may hold […]
Standards hold the key to unlocking the connected home
In light of the current pandemic, global technology market advisory firm ABI Research estimates that Connected Home devices could see a 30% year-on-year sales surge in the coming months. Not only this, says Daniel Egger, Axiros GmbH and Project Stream Lead for Broadband User Services (BUS) Data Modeling Project Stream, smart home devices are expected to […]
Azure Cost Management + Billing updates – August 2020
Whether you’re a new student, thriving startup, or the largest enterprise, you have financial constraints, and you need to know what you’re spending, where, and how to plan for the future. Nobody wants a surprise when it comes to the bill, and this is where Azure Cost Management + Billing comes in. We’re always looking […]