Soft skills, especially creativity, is becoming vital in today’s workplace. And so are factors like pay transparency, flexibility to work where & when employees want, and new ways to tackle workplace harassment. These are the findings of a LinkedIn survey of over 5,000 talent professionals in 35 countries, including more than 400 in India. While […]
Archives for 2019
It’s sale as usual: Amazon, Flipkart tell online-only companies
Amazon and Walmart-owned Flipkart have told mobile phones, electronics and other companies, which sell their wares exclusively on these platforms, that they will be able to operate like they do now — albeit with some tweaks and rephrasing of agreements — once the revised ecommerce FDI norms come into effect. Two senior industry executives said […]
Paytm enters hotel booking business, buys NightStay
Paytm has launched hotel bookings on its platform and acquired NightStay, which offers deals on last-minute bookings at luxury hotels, as the Alibaba-backed payments and ecommerce company expands its travel business. Paytm said it plans to invest Rs 500 crore in scaling up its travel operations and has partnered with more than 5,000 hotels across […]
Japan to Hunt Down Citizens’ Insecure IoT Devices
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2019 and Beyond: The (Expanded) RSAC Advisory Board Weighs in on What’s Next: Pt. 2
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Automated Best-First Feature Selection
In this third post about feature selection scripts in WhizzML, we will introduce the third and final algorithm, Best-First Feature Selection (Best-First). In the first post, we discussed Recursive Feature Selection, and in the second post, we covered Boruta. You can find this script in the BigML Script Gallery If you want to know more about it, visit its info page. Best-First […]
Researchers Allege ‘Systemic’ Privacy, Security Flaws in Popular IoT Devices
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The race to lock down industrial control systems | Salted Hash Ep 44
Guest host Juliet Beauchamp and CSO senior writer J.M. Porup talk about the challenges around securing the systems and networks used to control industrial plants and infrastructures.
Walmart’s Flipkart warns of major ‘customer disruption’ if new India rules not delayed
Walmart Inc’s online retailer Flipkart has told the Indian government the company faces the risk of “significant customer disruption” if the implementation of new curbs for e-commerce is not delayed by six months, a source told Reuters. India’s new foreign investment restrictions will, from Feb. 1, bar e-commerce companies from selling products from firms in […]
Dropbox to buy HelloSign for $230m
Dropbox has announced that it’s acquiring eSignature and document workflow management platform HelloSign for $230 million, making it easier for the company’s customers to sign documents and complete forms on the go. It’s good news for HelloSign’s customers too, with the company explaining that the tie up will allow its users to take advantage of Dropbox’s services […]