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How Edge Computing and Hybrid Cloud Are Shifting the IT Paradigm
With cloud at the center of a whole new operating model, organizations will have distributed DevOps teams spinning up new applications in real time.
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Hoarding, Stockpiling, Panic Buying: What's Normal Behavior in an Abnormal Time?
Hoarding disorder goes beyond stockpiling in an emergency.
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Is Now the Time to Start Protecting Government Data from Quantum Hacking?
The key to creating quantum-resistant encryption is to get away from the core strength of computers, according to one expert.
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Mindful People Don't Seem to Cope with Stress Better
Study participants were “sweating the small stuff.”
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A Record Number of Women Will Serve in the 117th Congress, Including at Least 51 Women of Color
The freshman class in the House of Representatives will include at least 26 women serving their first term.
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To Improve Safety of Defense Networks, Eighty-Six Dot1x
The protocol creates the false sense of security that all devices are being screened, even if minimally, for security when in fact they are not.
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Smart Concrete Could Pave the Way for High-Tech, Cost-Effective Roads
The life of structures could be extended, however, if damages were monitored in real time and fixed early on.
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5 Ways to Improve Emergency Preparedness for Next Time
A permanent team that is focused solely on national preparation and ensuring that the relevant federal agencies are all on the same page should coordinate all five of these components.
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Will Low-Income Countries Have to Wait on COVID Vaccines?
The global assessment of purchasing agreements shows that high-income countries, as well as a few middle-income countries flush with manufacturing capacity, have already purchased nearly 3.8 billion doses of the COVID-19 vaccine.
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Foundations of a Sound Social Media Retention Strategy for Federal Agencies
A lack of a clear social media strategy also leads to key bits of information getting lost.
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DOD Must Expand Its Mission-Critical Cybersecurity Focus to Include Connected Weapons
Lapses in cyber hygiene that could have real-world consequences.
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Move to Telehealth Strains Therapists and Their Clients
A big issue was client access to technology and reliable internet services.
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Remote Education Is Rife with Threats to Student Privacy
All the electronic eyes watching students these days have created privacy concerns that merit more attention.
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COVID-19 Froze Digital Transformation Initiatives. Here’s How to Overcome That.
It’s essential to focus on citizen experience innovations that will deliver the most impact without breaking the bank.
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How Government Agencies Can Use Tech to Safely Get Back to Their Workplaces
Now is the time to prioritize collaboration between the IT, physical security and human resources teams.
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Phones Actually Pop Skewed 'News Bubbles'
In an era where mobile phones are increasingly the gateway to the internet for the majority worldwide, this insight into mobile news exposure is an encouraging sign.
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Will Quantum Computing Supercharge Artificial Intelligence?
Imagine if we could simply train an AI to look at the data coming from the quantum machine, figure out what makes sense and what is probably wrong without human intervention.
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Why Tech Needs Women Leaders and How to Get Them
Mixed leadership teams perform better simply because they can solve problems more quickly and more creatively than less diverse teams.
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19th-Century Political Parties Kidnapped Reluctant Voters and Printed Their Own Ballots—and That's Why We've Got Laws Regulating Behavior at Polling Places
All 50 states have laws that ban potentially intimidating behavior at polling places.
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