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Apple Overhauls Leadership Ranks To Move Beyond iPhone

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In an attempt to lower its reliance on the iPhone, Apple is overhauling its leadership ranks and changing its priorities so that it is focused more on services, artificial intelligence, hardware and retail, reported The Wall Street Journal. But diversifying beyond the iPhone may not be easy.

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The Public Sector Takes The Lead On eProcurement

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The New York Daily News reported last week that the city’s contract with source-to-pay technology firm Ivalua has seen its price tag increase from $30.5 million in 2016 to $47 million today, according to a report by the Checks and Balances Project, which concluded “New York City taxpayers were ripped off.”

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Why Virtual Assistants Need Context To Be Smart Digital Bankers

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The fact remains, though, that successfully mining this data, and using it to bring self-learning to those assistants, has yet to be perfected. Well, we’ve already seen how unsupervised machine learning and AI can reduce reliance on rules-based fraud monitoring and cut false-positives drastically for banks. The security?

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Instagram’s High-Fashion Fakes Problem

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With 130 million monthly active users tapping Instagram’s product tags on shopping posts, it’s no wonder that Instagram wants to be your mall. But, the report noted, social media – with its reliance on navigation tools like hashtags – provides an easier environment for counterfeiters to hide openly.

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The Esoteric Economics Of Feeling The Burn

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For Burning boosters, the week-long, back-to-nature campout built around self-reliance, gifting , creativity and leaving no negative environmental trace is a utopian vision of what a post-capitalist, egalitarian society of cheerful sharers would be like. The Two Burning Mans. In An Extremely Expensive Environment.