Snipping Tool Snip & Sketch Printing

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Although MS has promised its banishment for some time, the Snipping Tool is still alive and well in Build 18836. Purported to be a skipahead to 20H1, the old tool remains present even there. Its replacement, Snip & Sketch, has been available since early builds of 1903 appeared last summer. With …READ MORE

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Testing the operating system

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Saw a question about testing the operating system and decided that the easiest way was to use the Version property from Win32_OperatingSystem.  By easiest I mean least typing and string testing.

I used Get-WmiObject as Windows 7 comes with PowerShell v2 which doesn’t co…READ MORE

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Forget all the fancy stuff and apply AI to paying invoices, says Previse: Fintech interview part 15

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While the world is obsessed about how machine learning can make cars drive by themselves fintechs are offering businesses more mundane, yet more rewarding, creations using the technology.

For example Previse, a fintech founded in 2016, offers a platform that harnesses machine learning and huge hi…READ MORE

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Is the Internet broken at Mobike?

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The Internet of Things (IoT) isn’t perfect, we know this much to be true.

Inside the IT industry (if not outside, as well) we know that the IoT just kind of ‘happened’ and that the levels of security provisioning needed to keep most of the devices populating the IoT itself were never put in place…READ MORE

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Fit for whose purpose? Submit your views on the Initial National Cybersecurity Skills Strategy

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I re-read the “Initial National Cyber Security Skills Strategy: increasing the UK’s Cyber Security Capability” after attending the first of their discussion meetings. The meeting illustrated the difficulty of the task the DCMS team will have reconciling the need of MoD and GCHQ for patriotic c…READ MORE

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Microsoft partner training offers self-assessment tool

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An important part of education is determining what you need to learn. Microsoft partner training aims to help service providers in that regard, launching a self-assessment tool Feb. 15.

The tool, dubbed the Transformation Readiness Assessment, lets partners figure out the “next steps to increase …READ MORE

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An IoT DIYer's story of managing Type 1 diabetes

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In February 2018, my family of four — wife, 6-year-old boy and 3-year-old girl — were thrust quite suddenly into the world of Type 1 diabetes. We spent about five days in the hospital trying to stabilize my daughter and learning a whole lot about how to manage the life-threatening disease that wou…READ MORE

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DH2i’s New DxOdyssey to Ensure Security for Remote User Access

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DH2i’s New DxOdyssey, Software-Defined Perimeter (SDP) Software, Promises to Ensure Security for Remote User Access to Cloud Services

An Alternative to VPNs, Which Present Management Headaches and Security Vulnerabilities

From the IT department to the C-suite, data security has become a key …READ MORE

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The Future of Work

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In the days of the industrial revolution, work was a place. A coal mine, an oil well, a train yard, and a factory.The goal was to get the factory to run itself, as efficiently as possible. With the work stable, predictable, and repeatable under scientific management, the owners can walk away and col…READ MORE

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Live from Singapore - can two AI bots fall in love?

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In the run-up to Valentine’s Day, toothpaste brand Closeup has teamed up with MullenLowe, a Singapore creative agency, to discover if love can overcome all boundaries (even firewalls), with a unique experiment to discover whether two AI bots can fall in love.

The two bots, Sol and Num, were devel…READ MORE

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NHS takes a small digital step into the 21st century - with bigger ones to come

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Here is our quote of the week: “We spend £8m a year on paper. We spend £2m a year on envelopes. We can save lives, save staff time and cut costs by using an extraordinary piece of technology that has the ability to allow two people to communicate instantaneously, and to allow groups of people to…READ MORE

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Google cloud head Kurian tips off future Google cloud plans

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Thomas Kurian has kept a low profile since he replaced Diane Greene as CEO of Google’s cloud division — until now.

The longtime former Oracle executive spoke publicly for the first time as Google’s top cloud exec on Feb. 12 at the Goldman Sachs Technology and Internet conference in San Francisco…READ MORE

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Bow to your Sensu

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As all self-respecting geeks now, it’s important to bow to your sensei.

When it comes to open source cloud-native user-centric monitoring, it may soon be important to bow to your Sensu.

Sensu Go is a described as a scalable and user-centric monitoring event pipeline, designed to improve (inf…READ MORE

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Don't struggle to learn new programming languages

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Modern applications developers are often tasked to learn new programming languages and patterns to improve their skills. The classic do-it-yourself approach with books or tutorial videos is great, but it still requires the developer to set up a programming environment to out that newfound knowledge …READ MORE

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The package no one ordered

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Tech gossip doesn’t get steamier than the richest person in the world, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, being blackmailed with his own dick pics by The National Enquirer.
But why would he mind who has to look at his Prime member? It seems like a natural next step on this steaming rock of dystopian inequali…READ MORE

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What Happens to Your Bitcoin When You Die?

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We’ve written before about the challenges in storing bitcoin, and how if you’re not careful, you can lose access to $7.5 million by accidentally throwing the hard drive containing the cryptographic key away. We’ve also written about how people can lose access to data when someone dies without …READ MORE

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GE Digital addendum

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The term “digital” is only referenced twice, in the 87 minutes of GE’s Q4 2018 earnings call that took place at the end of January. In a transcript of the call, posted on the Seeking Alpha financial blogging site, none of the financial analysts who participated, asked about the company’s dig…READ MORE

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RPA bots vs. case management -- both have value, one is transformative

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Robotic process automation is not a transformative technology — so says a guy whose company has been recognized as a leader in the field. Robotic process automation (RPA), software that automates repetitive, rules-based tasks performed by humans, can save costs, boost productivity and improve a cus…READ MORE

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Scoop! Symantec Acquisition Makes Sense Of Software Defined Perimeter Security...

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OK – so that’s probably not the perfect headline to be announced by anyone who whistles through their teeth…

Been having some interesting conversations recently around the idea of zero trust security; primarily why there was ever anything but zero trust in the first place?

An obvious answer …READ MORE

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February 2019 Activity Contest

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Valentine’s Day Image via Adobe
 

Happy February, ITKE users! Love may be in the air this week, but guess what else I smell… Another ITKE activity contest! Before we finish up those reservations and last minute candy heart runs, let’s take a look at who our winners were for January:

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