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The 12 Most Effective Employee Selection Methods: A Comprehensive Guide

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

Finding the perfect fit for your team can feel like searching for a unicorn. But fret not, fellow recruiters! Here’s where employee selection methods come in – your secret weapon for building a stellar team. Understanding Employee Selection Methods Think of employee selection methods as a toolbox filled with different tools to assess candidates.

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CIO100 2024: The top transformational tech leaders and teams in Southeast Asia and Hong Kong

CIO

CIO ASEAN is proud to announce the winners of the 2024 CIO100 Awards – recognising the top technology leaders and teams across Southeast Asia and Hong Kong who are driving innovation and influencing rapid change. Winners were unveiled during an in-person awards ceremony at Marina Bay Sands in Singapore, with more than 300 executives from across Southeast Asia and Hong Kong.

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AI just gave us the Star Trek farewell we always wanted - watch it here

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy reunite in a powerful short film using AI and deepfake technology to give fans the emotional farewell they deserve.

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Siete formas de implementar su propio LLM

CIO

La i nteligencia artificial (IA) generativa es la nueva tecnología que más rápido se está desarrollando en la historia. Está transformando el mundo y, según la Encuesta de población en tiempo real a más de 3.000 adultos que trabajan en EE.UU, una cuarta parte utilizó IA generativa para trabajar al menos una vez la semana anterior, y casi el 11% la usaba todos los días.

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15 Modern Use Cases for Enterprise Business Intelligence

Large enterprises face unique challenges in optimizing their Business Intelligence (BI) output due to the sheer scale and complexity of their operations. Unlike smaller organizations, where basic BI features and simple dashboards might suffice, enterprises must manage vast amounts of data from diverse sources. What are the top modern BI use cases for enterprise businesses to help you get a leg up on the competition?

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AI transformation is the new digital transformation. Here's why that change matters

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

Your boss has read about the power of generative AI and wants you to stop dithering about potential risks and start delivering results.

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10 tiny tools and gadgets I keep on my keychain and why

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

These handy gadgets make for useful gifts during the holidays. If your loved one likes to be prepared for anything, you can't go wrong with these EDC essentials.

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La IA generativa redefine la educación secundaria; así es GenAI4ED

CIO

El pasado mes de octubre arrancaba el proyecto GenAI4ED, una iniciativa internacional financiada a cargo de Horizonte Europa que cuenta con la participación de IMDEA Networks. Destinada a explorar cómo las herramientas de inteligencia artificial (IA) generativa pueden revolucionar la educación secundaria , contempla una duración prevista hasta septiembre de 2027.

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Leaders Can’t Make Up for Bad Behavior by Being Nice Later

Harvard Business Review

Find new ideas and classic advice on strategy, innovation and leadership, for global leaders from the world's best business and management experts.

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Microsoft partners with industry leaders to offer vertical SLMs

CIO

At its Microsoft Ignite 2024 show in Chicago this week, Microsoft and industry partner experts showed off the power of small language models (SLMs) with a new set of fine-tuned, pre-trained AI models using industry-specific data. “While organizations around the world recognize the value and potential of AI, for AI to be truly effective, it must be tailored to specific industry needs,” said Satish Thomas, corporate VP of business and industry solutions at Microsoft, in a blog post.

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Prepare Now: 2025s Must-Know Trends For Product And Data Leaders

Speaker: Jay Allardyce, Deepak Vittal, and Terrence Sheflin

As we look ahead to 2025, business intelligence and data analytics are set to play pivotal roles in shaping success. Organizations are already starting to face a host of transformative trends as the year comes to a close, including the integration of AI in data analytics, an increased emphasis on real-time data insights, and the growing importance of user experience in BI solutions.

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How to Use Games to Build Relationships with Your Customers

Harvard Business Review

Organizations are still learning how to think about games as media for marketing. Games aren’t typically covered in marketing classes in business schools, and they are often still seen as fundamentally different from other media. Modern-day games offer companies varied opportunities to connect with new and hard-to-reach customers, drive brand awareness and loyalty, and acquire and retain new customers.

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La alta directiva bloquea el valor de los datos en sus empresas

CIO

Las organizaciones están perdiendo capacidades y conocimientos transformadores debido a la combinación de plataformas tecnológicas heredadas y a una falta de comprensión del estamento directivo sobre el papel esencial de la modularidad para desbloquear el valor de los datos empresariales. Así se desprende de un nuevo estudio dirigido por IFS y Boomi junto a la firma de análisis e investigación IDC.

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Genetic Testing Delivers Startup Hits And Misses

Crunchbase News

When submitting a genetic test, one usually has a desired outcome in mind. That doesn’t mean the results will bear it out. Investing in DNA testing startups is much the same. Over the years, startup investors have poured billions of dollars into companies in the space. To date, the results have delivered both huge successes and flops. On the flop front, one of the more high-profile disappointments for investors has been genetic testing provider 23andMe.

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Meta creates ‘Business AI’ group led by ex-Salesforce AI CEO Clara Shih

CIO

Meta has hired the former CEO of Salesforce AI, Clara Shih, to lead a new “Business AI” group. Salesforce has still not publicly acknowledged Shih’s departure , but it will be hard to ignore now that she’s announced her new role on her LinkedIn profile. Shih is now a vice president at Meta and the head of a new business AI group, she said in a post there.

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2024 Salary Guide

Procom’s 2024 Salary Guide provides critical insights into the latest hiring trends, in-demand IT roles, and competitive pay rates across Canada and the U.S. It highlights key market dynamics such as the growing demand for remote work, skills-based hiring, and flexible staffing solutions. With detailed pay rate data for top IT positions like Cybersecurity Consultants, Cloud Engineers, and Salesforce Developers, this guide is an essential resource for companies looking to stay competitive in toda

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Coaching, The Laissez-faire Leadership Style?

Agile42

Some widely spread myths about the coaching leadership style makes the topic blurry. Not only that – the entire topic may get trivialized or burned if those who coach reduce themselves to headlines or superficialities. Therefore, in this edition, we’d like to address some common simplifications of ground rules, such as ‘you shall never coach someone without permission or mandate’ or ‘everything that happens in coaching turns into the coachees’ responsibility’.

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I CIO e le spese ambiziose per l’AI nel 2025. E oltre

CIO

Nonostante il ROI di qualsiasi progetto di AI rimanga ancora incerto [in inglese] , una cosa sta diventando chiara: i CIO spenderanno molto di più per questa tecnologia nei prossimi anni. La società di ricerca IDC prevede che la spesa mondiale per supportare le strategie di AI raggiungerà i 337 miliardi di dollari nel 2025, per poi superare il raddoppio entro il 2028, raggiungendo i 749 miliardi di dollari.

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Update your iPhone, iPad, and Mac now to patch these serious zero-day security flaws

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

The emergency updates resolve two zero-day flaws that may have already been exploited in the wild.

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How to Manage an Employee Who Gets on Your Nerves

Harvard Business Review

Psychologist Art Markman takes questions from listeners who are struggling to manage difficult employees and offers advice for how to give your initial feedback and follow up.

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Launching LLM-Based Products: From Concept to Cash in 90 Days

Speaker: Christophe Louvion, Chief Product & Technology Officer of NRC Health and Tony Karrer, CTO at Aggregage

Christophe Louvion, Chief Product & Technology Officer of NRC Health, is here to take us through how he guided his company's recent experience of getting from concept to launch and sales of products within 90 days. In this exclusive webinar, Christophe will cover key aspects of his journey, including: LLM Development & Quick Wins 🤖 Understand how LLMs differ from traditional software, identifying opportunities for rapid development and deployment.

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The best web hosting services of 2024: Expert tested and reviewed

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

Do you want to build a website, but you're unsure where to start? You should start with a reputable hosting service. We've tested the top web hosting services that offer solid customer service and good value for the money.

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A Post-ZIRP Survival Guide For Startups Part 2: Aligning Product And Customer Success 

Crunchbase News

By Bryan House In the first part of my series , I wrote about the economics and business dynamics that got us to the point of market commoditization for SaaS businesses. I haven’t written this series to accelerate your downward panic spiral, so let’s focus on the positive. Product-led growth tactics and product virality have lowered customer acquisition costs for many companies.

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8 Bluesky tips every new user should know

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

Freely available to anyone, Bluesky offers key advantages over X, Threads, and other social networks. Here are 8 ways to achieve social nirvana.

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Streamline RAG applications with intelligent metadata filtering using Amazon Bedrock

AWS Machine Learning - AI

Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) has become a crucial technique for improving the accuracy and relevance of AI-generated responses. The effectiveness of RAG heavily depends on the quality of context provided to the large language model (LLM), which is typically retrieved from vector stores based on user queries. The relevance of this context directly impacts the model’s ability to generate accurate and contextually appropriate responses.

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An Architect’s Guide for Selecting Scalable, Data-Layer Technologies

There’s no getting around it: selecting the right foundational data-layer components is crucial for long-term application success. That’s why we developed this white paper to give you insights into four key open-source technologies – Apache Cassandra®, Apache Kafka®, Apache Spark™, and OpenSearch® – and how to leverage them for lasting success. Discover everything you’ll want to know about scalable, data-layer technologies: Learn when to choose these technologies and when to avoid them Explore h

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To Mitigate Gen AI’s Risks, Draw on Your Team’s Collective Judgment

Harvard Business Review

Organizations today face the challenge of using generative AI without falling prey to its drawbacks. Many companies have employed two basic layers of risk management strategies: policies on how to use the technology, and critical thinking about gen AI’s outputs. Companies should also adopt a novel third layer of risk management: team-based judgment.

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How FP8 boosts LLM training by 18% on Amazon SageMaker P5 instances

AWS Machine Learning - AI

Large language models (LLMs) are AI systems trained on vast amounts of text data, enabling them to understand, generate, and reason with natural language in highly capable and flexible ways. LLM training has seen remarkable advances in recent years, with organizations pushing the boundaries of what’s possible in terms of model size, performance, and efficiency.

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How Google turns Android into a desktop OS in 5 steps

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

Merging Android and ChromeOS is a bold first step, but turning Android into a true alternative to MacOS, iPadOS, and Windows requires Google to make some big moves.

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Nvidia Is Helping Google Design Quantum Computing Processors

Ooda Loop

Nvidia Corp., the chipmaker at the center of a boom in artificial intelligence use, is teaming up with Alphabet Inc.’s Google to pursue another technology once relegated to science fiction: quantum computing. Google’s Quantum AI division will use Nvidia’s Eos supercomputer to speed up the design of quantum components, according to a statement from the […] The post Nvidia Is Helping Google Design Quantum Computing Processors appeared first on OODAloop.

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IT Leadership Agrees AI is Here, but Now What?

IT leaders are experiencing rapid evolution in AI amid sustained investment uncertainty. As AI evolves, enhanced cybersecurity and hiring challenges grow. This whitepaper offers real strategies to manage risks and position your organization for success.

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Data Security Startup Cyera More Than Doubles Value To $3B In Seven Months

Crunchbase News

After raising $300 million in April, data security startup Cyera closed another $300 million windfall at more than twice its previous valuation. The New York-based company announced a $300 million Series D led by Accel and Sapphire Ventures at a $3 billion valuation. Just seven months ago, Cyera raised a $300 million Series C led by Coatue at a $1.4 billion valuation.

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Converge Bio raises $5.5M in Seed funding to speed up drug discovery and development with GenAI

Ooda Loop

Converge Bio, a generative AI platform for accelerated drug discovery and development, announced on Wednesday that it has raised $5.5 million in Seed funding, led by TLV Partners. Converge Bio’s platform uses large language models (LLMs) trained on biological and chemical data (DNA, RNA, protein sequences, and small molecules) to help biotech and pharmaceutical companies […] The post Converge Bio raises $5.5M in Seed funding to speed up drug discovery and development with GenAI appea

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Get a Microsoft Office 2019 license for Mac or Windows for $27: Deal

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

This deal gets you a lifetime license to Microsoft Office 2019 for Windows or Mac and access to Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and more for 88% off.

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