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Climate change predictions: Anticipating and adapting to a warming world

IBM Big Data Hub

For instance, when utility officials are aware that a heat wave is on its way, they can plan energy procurement to prevent power outages. 3 While the transition from fossil fuels to clean, renewable energy sources is already underway, accelerating this transition could help further limit emissions, even amid rising global energy needs.

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Protecting America’s Critical Infrastructure

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

From taking a shower, to brewing your coffee, and watching the news, your morning routine is fueled by the energy sector. But the energy sector also underpins our emergency and response systems, our hospitals and healthcare, our schools, our businesses, and virtually everything we do as a society. The Rising Threat.

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How conversational AI can transform IT support

IBM Big Data Hub

Throughout my time in college, I’ve worked numerous part-time jobs to help cover the ever-rising costs of living and studying in New York City. Support technicians can utilize their technology background to find creative solutions as new issues arise. For example, the green energy giant ENN Group Co.

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Congratulations to Sidley’s Newest Partners!

Data Matters

Kate is a member of the firm’s Privacy and Cybersecurity, Healthcare, and Commercial Litigation groups. Kate brings to her practice substantial experience working with a broad range of government agencies and federal programs across the national security, healthcare, and energy and environmental fields.

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MRO spare parts optimization

IBM Big Data Hub

Many managers in asset-intensive industries like energy, utilities or process manufacturing, perform a delicate high-wire act when managing inventory. Can you group and prioritize work by using work queues and monitor progress by organizational areas and data sets? What’s at stake?

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MY TAKE: Memory hacking arises as a go-to tactic to carry out deep, persistent incursions

The Last Watchdog

In fact, memory attacks have quietly emerged as a powerful and versatile new class of hacking technique that threat actors in the vanguard are utilizing to subvert conventional IT security systems. Allegedly developed by US and Israeli operatives, Stuxnet was discovered circulating through Iranian nuclear energy facilities in 2010.

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Necessity drives innovation; innovation is a necessity

CGI

The common thread is a person or group wanting to do something different to make things easier (smart phones, e-commerce), faster (grocery self-checkout, drone-based delivery) or cheaper (robotic process automation, sustainable energy). Innovation is not specific to a trend or industry.