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TRENDING: Robots And Humans Join Forces To Speed eCommerce, Together

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Companies recognize the need for IoT security, but few are acting on those concerns. According to a recent survey, 97 percent of respondents said an attack on unsecured devices would be devastating to their organizations. Microsoft isn’t the only company upping its game. Warehouse Robotics for the eCommerce Rush.

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The Robots Are Coming – And Some Are Already Here

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That’s a big price tag, but it’s not so bad when one considers that doing that using humans to perform that kind of plant surveying work would cost roughly $300,000. Here at PYMNTS, we’ve long bemoaned our lack of a robot butler. Unfortunately, the future has not yet turned out the way the Jetsons promised.

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Creating Cookware For A Generation That Doesn’t Cook

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Millennials, according to the above mentioned survey, also spend more time watching cooking shows than any other generation. As a result, the cookware is more or less manufactured here in the U.S. — by a third-generation manufacturer based in the Southeastern U.S.

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The Amazon Effect Pushes Warehouses To The IoT Tipping Point

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That’s the news from Zebra Technologies , which surveyed more than 1,300 IT and operations warehouse professionals on where they see the inventory and fulfillment industry heading over the next half decade. Amazon gets a lot of credit, and rightly so, for changing the way the average consumer expects to shop.

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Face-To-Face V.2021: What Zoom Teaches Us About The Connected Economy

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It was expensive — an investment that only big companies could afford to make, and mostly did so to make it easier for far-flung internal teams and corporate boards to meet without always getting on a plane. Given its hefty price tag and IT requirements, the technology was installed in conference or board rooms and not individual offices.

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Transcript: Benjamin Clymer & Jeffery Fowler, Hodinkee

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Jeff Fowler has been CEO of the company for just about two years.  The transcript from this week’s, MiB: Benjamin Clymer and Jeffery Fowler of Hodinkee , is below. You can stream and download our full conversation, including any podcast extras, on iTunes , Spotify , Stitcher , Google , YouTube , and Bloomberg. How do you hire people?

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