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Williams F1 drives digital transformation in racing with AI, quantum

Elevate your enterprise data technology and strategy at Transform 2021. “The thing that really attracted me to Formula 1 is that it’s always been about data and technology,” says Graeme Hackland, Williams Group IT director and chief information officer of Williams Racing. Since joining the motorsport racing team in 2014, Hackland has been putting that theory into practice. He is pursuing…
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Google airs Father’s Day ad featuring Search, Assistant, and Messages [Video]

Google’s staple advertising format is having people enter queries into the iconic Search homepage. The latest Google Search ad is timed for Father’s Day and tells the story of communication. The opening search is “Why won’t my teenager talk to me” with a dad proceeding to text (or chat in Google Messages) their son only to get no response. They then look up a YouTube video and create a…
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A specific network name can completely disable Wi-Fi on your iPhone

Here’s a funny bug: a security researcher has found that a carefully crafted network name causes a bug in the networking stack of iOS and can completely disable your iPhone’s ability to connect to Wi-Fi. On Twitter, Carl Schou showed that after joining a Wi-Fi network with a specific name (“%p%s%s%s%s%n”), all Wi-Fi functionality on the iPhone was disabled from that point on. Once an…
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How to build a unicorn AI team without unicorns

Elevate your enterprise data technology and strategy at Transform 2021. How do you start assembling an AI team? Well, hire unicorns who can understand the business problem, can translate it into the “right” AI building blocks, and can deliver on the implementation and…
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Gorgeous Photos of Socotra, The ‘Most Alien-Looking Place on Earth’

Located east of the Horn of Africa, Socotra was famously described by English anthropologist George Wynn Brereton Huntingford in 1980 as “the most alien-looking place on Earth.” Photographer Daniel Kordan visited the island and captured the otherworldly beauty of the landscapes, from the dragon blood trees to the white sand dunes. Socotra is the largest of the remote Socotra islands in the…
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