Der Elektrosportwagen Piëch GT eines Porsche-Nachfahren startet in die Erprobungsphase. Neue Akkus sollen das Laden so schnell machen wie das Tanken. (Elektroauto, Technologie)
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Tipps von den Entwicklern, und was noch geändert wird: Golem.de konnte vorab die Map der offenen Beta von Battlefield 2042 ausprobieren. (Battlefield 2042, Electronic Arts)
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Kläger in den USA hatten argumentiert, dass ein gebrauchtes, wiederaufbereitetes Apple-Gerät als Ersatz für ein defektes nicht ausreicht. (Apple, Notebook)
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Das Razer Blade 15 und Razer Book werden überarbeitet und für Windows 11 vorbereitet. Mit dabei sind Tiger-Lake-CPUs und RTX-3080-GPUs. (Razer, Notebook)
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With the sessions recording feature in RHEL, you can easily determine the root cause of a security incident. In this post, learn how to use the tlog RHEL System Role to automate implementing session recording across your environment!
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We are pleased to announce that Red Hat’s head of Application Services engineering, Mark Little, Ph.D., has been named a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, the U.K.’s national academy of engineering.
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Couldn’t make it to OSSummit? Check out Red Hat CTO Chris Wright’s keynote presentation, In Community We Trust: Open Source Software and Supply Chain Security.
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Because we wanted to keep Service Mesh for Mere Mortals short and consumable, there was a lot of interesting (but peripheral) content we had to cut. We did, however, want to make sure it was available to you if you want it, so we’re presenting it here. Troubleshooting k0s installation For the sake of thoroughness … Continued
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The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted all industries over the last year-and-a-half, and research institutions were no exception. In fact, making advancements in medicine and science became an even more urgent priority. Many private sector and government agencies around the globe turned to the cloud to help their remote employee base stay connected and collaborate with cloud tools like chat, video, large file sharing, live document editing, and more. But some scientific research still requires face-to-face collaboration in a lab environment. This is why we wanted to dig deeper to understand how COVID may have impacted the progress researchers have been making in various critical fields, including medical research, geophysics, climate science, chemistry, computer engineering and more. We commissioned the Harris Poll to explore how the pandemic may have impacted academic researchers around the world. The study surveyed 1,591 respondents across the United States, Canada, Mexico, Argentina, Colombia, Brazil, France, Spain, Germany, United Kingdom, Singapore and Australia. All were employed in either a private or government lab, medical center, or PhD-level program. Here are the four main takeaways: Researchers across all 12 countries and age groups are struggling to manage their workloads without face-to-face interaction.The COVID-19 pandemic has taken a toll on productivity, especially in terms of innovation and collaboration. Globally, 67% of researchers reported making less progress in 2020 due to the pandemic. Eighty-five percent of respondents said they struggled to innovate effectively, and 77% said they struggled to test, compute, and collaborate effectively while working remotely. This was true across all types of institutions surveyed.The pandemic accelerated the demand for collaboration and communication tools–both cloud-based and virtual–for the majority of researchers.An overwhelming majority of researchers (98%) said the pandemic accelerated their need for cloud-based tools. More specifically, they cited the “lack of collaboration tools to replace face-to-face meetings” as one of their biggest challenges. Due to this demand, and despite the lack of tools, the use of virtual collaboration and communication tools increased significantly. Respondents indicated that virtual meetings increased 91% and chat use increased 62% globally.Usage of all disruptive technologies, including artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML), increased substantially during the pandemic. The vast majority of those surveyed (96%) reported increased usage of at least one of the following tools: cloud, data and analytics, digital productivity tools, or AI / ML. Of those, the cloud saw the largest increase in usage during the pandemic.Globally, more than half of researchers surveyed anticipate an increased investment in cloud solutions due to the COVID-19 crisis. Sixty-one percent of researchers reported that their institutions were “not very” or “not at all” prepared for COVID conditions, though those already using the cloud were best prepared. More than 93% of researchers across all work environments agree that COVID-19 has deepened the current and future needs for cloud computing in their organizations. Just over half (52%) of respondents believe their organizations will increase their investment in cloud technologies in the next 12 months. Survey data also reveal some differences among institutions and regions. For example, researchers employed by private laboratories were more likely than those in other types of research facilities to report an increased use of cloud. Regionally, organizations in Colombia, the U.S., and Australia were the most likely to increase their investment in cloud solutions. Overall, the survey revealed the dramatic impact of the pandemic on research and researchers everywhere, though it also documents how cloud-based tools and strategies helped organizations adapt.With new SARS-CoV-2 variants making in-person work more difficult, there are number of actions research facilities–private or government-funded–can take in order to continue their important research:Scale as needed. Cloud technologies can help research institutions implement a support-at-scale model under rapidly changing conditions. Flexible cloud infrastructures make data more accessible and secure so researchers can work together from anywhere, at any scale.Leverage AI / ML. As the use of AI / ML tools for scientific research increases, research centers need to ensure the quality, safety, and efficiency of their workloads. Cloud provides a platform to quickly build and deliver modern applications and other connected experiences for clinical trials, research studies, patient care, and more. Optimize data.As academic research centers expand and incorporate new sources of data across multiple clouds, the task of consolidating this data and information becomes a challenge. Cloud technologies enable researchers to break down data silos to gain insight across all teams and ensure a consistent data experience on a fully managed infrastructure.Maximize ROI.Securing funding is not easy. In fact, 44% of respondents said funding decreased or was redirected during the pandemic. By processing documents and data quickly and securely, cloud-enabled automation tools help institutions increase the speed of decision-making, reduce costs of data entry, and accelerate discoveries.To learn more about these findings and more, download our infographic. To ramp up your own research project with Google Cloud, apply now for free credits in select countries. Research methodology: The survey was conducted online and by phone by the Harris Poll on behalf of Google Cloud, from April 22, 2021 to May 17, 2021, among 1,591 researchers in academic laboratories/medical centers, government laboratories, private sector laboratories, colleges/universities, or hospitals/health care systems. Researchers were based in the United States (n=501), Canada (n=100), Mexico (n=100), Colombia (n=100), Argentina (n=100), Brazil (n=77), France (n=105), Spain (n=100), Germany (n=102), UK (n=100), Singapore (n=100), Australia (n=105), and have to have been employed in lab or hospital/medical center or be a PhD student at least one year into program, and work as a researcher or be a decision maker for research facilities.
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As people everywhere continue to adapt to new ways of working and collaborating, many trends that might have seemed a decade away in 2019, have cemented themselves as today’s blueprints for success. We’ve seen firsthand the acceleration in demand for technology that lends itself to agile development without compromising power, ease or security and governance. Businesses cannot afford for solutions to be locked within excessively bureaucratic processes, with line-of-business workers unable to affect real progress. But they also need the solutions developed within individual teams to be manageable and secure, without all the “shadow IT” risks that often arise when teams create their own apps and services. To help businesses balance this dynamic, we’ve provided no-code app creators combating the pandemic special access to AppSheet, Google Cloud’s no-code development platform, and we will continue to do so through December 31, 2021. Nigeria-focused NGO New Incentives is a superlative example of the organizations that have used AppSheet to achieve meaningful results.A non-profit working to improve infant mortality rates through immunization efforts, New Incentives began their no-code journey in 2015. Balancing the needs of a global team with operations that often take place in rural areas, their IT team needed solutions to be both flexible and responsive. Projects such as their expense app helped pave their no-code journey early on, demonstrating that important applications could be developed more quickly than in the past via a mixture of technical talent and non-technical talent, as well as via tools that let IT maintain governance requirements while individual teams experimented. “It’s like building an entire ecosystem for our needs, with multi-tiered approvals, and the ability to bring in a lot of interesting, contextual information to be able to identify fraud,” said Svetha Janumpalli. “When someone’s reviewing an expense, being able to see their route in Google Maps is very important to know where we’re going and operating in these very hard-to-reach, hard-to-travel areas. Like, are people actually doing what was intended?”Pre-pandemic, most of the non-profit’s no-code app needs were focused on internal processes such as tracking of supplies, expenses, and data intake. When COVID began to emerge, they weren’t certain if their immunization program would be able to continue. “We were thinking early on, this is going to become a problem, and what are we going to do? We basically create crowds [by organizing ways for children to be immunized against disease],” said Janumpalli. “So, we knew early on that we wouldn’t be able to continue unless we got ahead of having good mitigation measures, and unless we made the case to government stakeholders—to our Community Partners—that we take them very seriously. Because AppSheet gives us speed, we were able to introduce these apps, iterate them, and then share that information back.” As the pandemic progressed, New Incentives leaders soon realized that AppSheet apps could be used to address external needs in addition to internal needs as communication with the external community was becoming increasingly important. “The apps are like having a portable office,” Janumpalli stated. To help prevent the spread of COVID-19 while maintaining their ongoing mission, the organization needed to engage in an open dialogue with the community to understand and meet each location’s unique needs. By building apps that let team members collect data from communities, quickly assess the data, and make changes, the New Incentives team knew they could stay aligned with those they served, even as conditions changed.“Sometimes, there’s no internet connectivity. Sometimes even cell phone communications are difficult. AppSheet helps the app user retrieve that information properly. And then it allows us to program the feeding of that data: who needs it and when they need it to make good decisions.”Taking a community-first approach, New Incentives began collecting information on the ground from local members that could then be trickled upwards through both their communities and the organization. Not only did this help build trust in a difficult time, but it allowed for faster app iteration and faster implementation of on-the-ground changes that needed to take place. “We could take that community member feedback and instead of waiting a year, literally within a week, we could review that information and then make improvements.”One of the solutions that came from these community-driven dialogues was their bi-hourly app. “We’re a program that increases demand for immunization, but we couldn’t risk increased crowding,” Janumpalli explained. “So, we had to put in a bunch of new protocols around sanitization, hand-washing, and social distancing. We introduced this app called bi-hourly monitoring, and it was so useful that irrespective of COVID in the future, we’ll keep that as part of our processes.”While COVID is still active, the resilience that New Incentives has built into their problem-solving has provided them an opportunity to continue their mission with minimal disruption. This non-profit has helped to double rates of full immunization (increased from 25% to 54%) in the region, and COVID placed these efforts in jeopardy. “We’re a health organization. We don’t want to introduce measures superficially,” Janumpalli stated. “I would imagine that if we didn’t have this type of real-time information to have the confidence that it’s okay to continue to operate, we would have had to stop operations more often out of a lack of information because it just would have exceeded our risk tolerance” “What I hope other people understand about AppSheet is that it helps with the full spectrum,” she added. “It’s not just data collection, but also how you manage that data, how you integrate that data into your team processes, how you review that data, how you gain actionable insights from that data. So for us it’s data that’s actually influencing people to change and empowering managers to be able to have all the information they need to provide the right guidance and leadership to their teams.”New Incentives is continuing their immunization efforts, scaling from an average of 5,800 new infants added to its program per month in 2020 to 27,000 for the month of June this year alone. The real-time flexibility of AppSheet combined with their innovative culture means the same small team can meet the expanding and diverse demands that will continue to emerge through COVID and beyond. Start innovating with no-code for free.
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