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What’s ahead for AI, VR, NFTs, and more?

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Supply chains and business logistics will remain under stress. We’ll see new tools and platforms for dealing with supply chain and logistics issues, and they’ll likely make use of machine learning. We’ll also come to realize that, from the start, Amazon’s core competency has been logistics and supply chain management.

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To understand the risks posed by AI, follow the money

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Google, Meta, and virtually all other major online aggregators have, over time, come to preference their economic interests over their original promise to their users and to their ecosystems of content and product suppliers or application developers. But it is far from alone.

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Reinvention Risk Trade

The Agile Manager

Those adjusted schedules were often logistically flawed because the planes and crews matched at a specific place and time didn’t make sense in the real world. System fragility and key person risk may make the status quo highly unattractive, but software development has long track record of cost overruns and failure.

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How Prepared is your IT Organization to Support the Rise in eHealth?

Tasktop

In this digital-first climate, software and IT systems can make a significant difference as organizations across most industries become increasingly virtual enterprises. While not new, software-driven platforms—such as telehealth (or telemedicine), e-consultations and e-subscriptions—are witnessing a surge in adoption in recent months.

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Understanding the Importance of 5 Nines Availability

IO River

Whether it's an e-commerce platform, a banking system, or a software-as-a-service (SaaS) provider, downtime can result in lost sales, dissatisfied consumers, and financial losses.As In massively multiplayer online games (MMOs), where players can trade virtual goods, downtime can even have real-world financial implications for players.

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Understanding the Importance of 5 Nines Availability

IO River

Whether it's an e-commerce platform, a banking system, or a software-as-a-service (SaaS) provider, downtime can result in lost sales, dissatisfied consumers, and financial losses.As In massively multiplayer online games (MMOs), where players can trade virtual goods, downtime can even have real-world financial implications for players.

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5 key areas for tech leaders to watch in 2020

O'Reilly

Software architecture, infrastructure, and operations are each changing rapidly. The shift to cloud native design is transforming both software architecture and infrastructure and operations. From pre-built libraries for linear or logistic regressions, decision trees, naïve Bayes, k-means, gradient-boosting, etc.,