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Zoom App Download Surge Amid Pandemic

The download of the video conference apps have increased significantly in March as people being locked down due to COVID-19 Pandemic. Zoom is one of the most popular apps, its download has surged from 4 mil+ in February to 26mil + in March. Zoom offers a basic plan which is free...

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The Customer Revolution in Customer Service

Customer service relates to the service you and your staff provide before, during and after a purchase. It's how you interact with your customers. Improving your customer service skills can lead to greater customer satisfaction and experience. How to provide good customer experience? You need to know know what your customers consider to...

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The Uprising of Fintech Firms and the Disruption in Banking

Recent years, from payments to wealth management, from peer-to-peer lending to crowdfunding, “fintech” firms are growing rapidly.  These “fintech” firms which are familiar to the public include Lending Club, OnDeck, Venmo, Rate Setter and SocietyOne. Lending Club alone, funded about $2 billion loans last quarter, and their lending to-date is more...

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Thoughts Into Text by A Brain Implant

A Brain Implant That Turns Your Thoughts Into Text? How it could be possible? Tom Oxley is a brain-computer interface specialist and the founder and CEO of Synchron, a neural interface technology company. He is A/Professor and Laboratory Head of the Vascular Bionics Laboratory, University of Melbourne, Australia. He is the...

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2022 Snowflake Summit June 13-16 Vegas

This year's Snowflake Summit is coming and it is a four-days' event and is data focused. People and organizations that comprise the Data Cloud are expected to join the event and there will be discussions and talks around developing new data products and data apps. If you are interested in data...

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Rising of personal robots

Come across this TED talk which was published some years ago but still interesting enough to engage me from start to the end. The talk is about personal robots and how they can be useful for people. There are already some use cases - an assistant robot could help daily tasks...

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What's wrong with your pa$$w0rd?

A good Ted talk to reveal the common mistakes that people made when they chose a password. Do you use a password like "123456", "password", "newpassword", "iforgot", "nothing", "iloveyou"? Then please watch the Ted talk. Video Source: Ted, YouTube.

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Why Edge Computing Is Important to Our Lives

Anyone has a Alexa or Google Home would have experienced Internet of Things, the connected network with connected objects - for example, you tell Google Home to turn on the lights. As technology develops, Internet of Things (IoT) will be brought into our lives more and more. Let's use connected cars...

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Everybody Dance Now

Berkeley AI research group has a research creating a AI worm named "Everybody dance now". It uses motion transfer approach to map the movements from a source target to a destination target. Say, there is a  person dancing, after some time (a few minutes), the moves of the person will be...

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Google Cloud Platform on a shoestring budget

There are many decisions you make for your business, be it technical decisions for performance, for simplicity, or even for "coolness." And sometimes, you need to make decisions based on costs. This talk shares considerations and shows you how to accomplish the most common cloud tasks as cost-effectively as possible. If...

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Why we create computer apps in the first place

I recently came across this video “The pixel Painter”, after watching it, I felt kind of warm and happy. Our lives are no doubt transformed by the mobile and computer apps, Facebook, Twitter, Google Map, internet banking, virtual assistants, virtual reality … and the Microsoft Paint. The Pixel Painter shows you...

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What is UX Design? Defining User Experience Design & Explaining the Process

User experience (UX) matters. When a website has a better UX design, it enhancs user satisfaction. Better UX design improves the usability, accessibility, and pleasure provided in the interaction between the user and a product or service. The video takes you through the process to design more effective landing pages by...

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Introduction to VMware Cloud Foundation

To respond to the ever-increasing demand for faster innovation, businesses are adapting technology trends and moving to a more agile, service-oriented IT model that leverages both private and public cloud. However, during this journey many companies have experienced challenges such as • Managing and controlling diverse infrastructure• Improving security management• Enterprise-level...

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The incredible inventions of intuitive AI

What do you get when you give a design tool a digital nervous system? Computers that improve our ability to think and imagine, and robotic systems that come up with (and build) radical new designs for bridges, cars, drones and much more -- all by themselves. Take a tour of the...

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This app makes it fun to pick up litter

The earth is a big place to keep clean. With Litterati -- an app for users to identify, collect and geotag the world's litter -- TED Resident Jeff Kirschner has created a community that's crowdsource-cleaning the planet. After tracking trash in more than 100 countries, Kirschner hopes to use the data...

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How virtual reality can make you more empathetic

Virtual reality is a powerful technology which generates images, sounds and other sensations that replicate a real environment. This technology is impacting not only the gaming, film making industries, but also our society. Let's watch the Ted talk to find out how virtual reality can make you more empathetic. Video source:...

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Xero Bookkeeping for small businesses and bookkeepers

Xero is online accounting software for small businesses. You can use Xero to manage invoicing, bank reconciliation, bookkeeping, purchase orders, payroll, inventory tracking & more. Xero is integrated with 500+ third party apps which cover inventory, invoicing, time tracking and expenses. The challenges for small business owners are not only the...

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