Singularity University (SU), a global community with a mission to educate leaders to apply exponential technologies to address humanity’s challenges, announces its two newest products: On-Demand Classes, the company calls these “affordable” and “bite-sized” learning opportunities on topics like security and hacking, artificial intelligence, and human healing Uncommon Learning, a “personally adaptive virtual reality (VR) training system” with […]
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Where Your Office Needs Sound Absorption (and Where Other Techniques Work Better!)
Sound absorption for offices isn't the whole story: for a fuller, better solution, consider these two elements of acoustical treatments.
Let’s face it, a lot of modern buildings and facilities face one potentially big design flaw: bad sound. With flat hard-surface walls and ceilings now all the craze, people are coming to realize that these high-fidelity spaces are feeling a little, well, echo-y. The solution to this, of course, is to incorporate acoustical treatments and […]
Does Your Org Have Any Used Cisco Hardware? The Company Is Making It More Difficult to Use It
Your used Cisco hardware could become harder to use, now that the company has adopted Smart Licensing. But is this done intentionally?
According to this report from iFixit, owners of used Cisco hardware may find it more difficult to use it. When their Smart Licensing System became mandatory to use Cisco’s Catalyst 3650, 3850, and 9000 series switches, the company claimed it would make make fore more flexible management of hardware licenses. But, according the iFixit report, it also […]
Google Vows to Introduce Recycled Materials into Manufacturing Process
The tech company is working on making its products with more recycled materials, and aims to be carbon neutral in the next couple of years.
The tech company is working on making its products with more recycled materials, and aims to be carbon neutral in the next couple of years.
Bloom Energy AlwaysON Microgrid Solution Provides Resiliency During Grid Outages
The AlwaysON microgrid solution by Bloom Energy is designed to provide a path to energy resiliency in the face of future outages at a predictable cost.
Bloom Energy, a microgrid company, announces a new AlwaysON Microgrid solution with designed to make it easier and convenient for companies to protect themselves from extended grid power outages and escalating grid electricity rates, the company says. Hundreds of thousands of electric utility customers have been left without power for days at a time this summer as […]
Classroom Technology Fails: What NOT to Do with Education Environments
These classroom technology fails are poor excuses for interactive tech in education environments. How did they go so wrong?
The benefits of classroom technology can only be measured in how well the students and teachers actually use it. Far too often, teachers and faculty in schools across the world find themselves fed up with faulty A/V systems. Meanwhile, though, the students suffer most, because interactive classroom tech can’t live up to its name if […]
Senators Call on Google to Hire Long-Term Independent Contractors
Google uses many freelancers for a variety of services, but these workers don’t receive the same salary, benefit, or professional treatment as their full-time counterparts even when they work consistently.
Google uses many freelancers for a variety of services, but these workers don’t receive the same salary, benefit, or professional treatment as their full-time counterparts even when they work consistently.
UC Santa Barbara Sues Major Retailers over LED Light Bulb Patent
The recent lawsuit issued by the University of California Santa Barbara sparked attention to patent enforcement issues in the retail industry.
The recent lawsuit issued by the University of California Santa Barbara sparked attention to patent enforcement issues in the retail industry.
ADTRAN Addresses Connect America Fund Program with Fully-Managed, Cloud-Based Performance Test Solution
No touch turnkey service from Adtran "simplifies and streamlines FCC compliance for network operators" per Connect America Fund guidelines.
Adtran, a provider of open networking and subscriber experience solutions, announced its fully-managed, cloud-based performance test solution, built to streamline data collection and reporting for network operators that utilize the Connect America Fund (CAF) program. Recipients of these Federal broadband subsidies will be required to submit testing results as part of their annual compliance in […]
Data Team Diversity: Where the IT Industry is Going Wrong
IT industry data team diversity could use some work. Why? Not just because it would offer jobs to qualified people, but it makes the quality of work better.
Over the last few years, the workplace has seen a rapid expansion of data teams within operations, finance, marketing and HR teams. Data-driven solutions are being employed successfully in businesses of all sizes to solve various organizational challenges, however not all companies are seeing progressive results. To truly analyse data and provide an unprejudiced perspective […]
