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Customer Experience Lifts Service to the Stratosphere

.orgSource

These comments from McDonald’s CEO, Chris Kempczinski to New York Times journalist David Gelles describing how the pandemic would change the company’s business resonated with me on a couple of levels. “We The post Customer Experience Lifts Service to the Stratosphere appeared first on.orgSource.

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NOAA scientists scrub toilets, rethink experiments after service contracts end

Ars Technica

Federal scientists responsible for monitoring the health of West Coast fisheries are cleaning office bathrooms and reconsidering critical experiments after the Department of Commerce failed to renew their labs contracts for hazardous waste disposal, janitorial services, IT, and building maintenance. Read full article Comments

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4chan is down: Hack suspicions grow as commenters turn Downdetector website into an alternate forum

Fast Company Tech

(Downdetector is a platform that monitors online services and internet-related issues, and is essentially a crowd-sourced outage reporting tool.) Fast Company has reached out to 4chan for comment and did not hear back immediately. The outage was first reported on Downdetector at around 9:57 p.m.

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Resolving code review comments with ML

Google Research AI blog

As part of this process, the reviewer inspects the proposed code and asks the author for code changes through comments written in natural language. In our measurements, the required active work time that the code author must do to address reviewer comments grows almost linearly with the number of comments.

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“MyTerms” wants to become the new way we dictate our privacy on the web

Ars Technica

Author, journalist, and long-time Internet freedom advocate Doc Searls wants us to stop asking for privacy from websites, services, and AI and start telling these things what we will and will not accept. The websites, apps, or services you visit are the second party. Read full article Comments

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Should we be concerned about the loss of weather balloons?

Ars Technica

Due to staff reductions, retirements, and a federal hiring freeze, the National Weather Service has announced a series of suspensions involving weather balloon launches in recent weeks. Read full article Comments The question is, will this significantly degrade forecasts in the United States and around the world? Grand Junction, Colo.;

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Google unveils end-to-end messages for Gmail. Only thing is: It’s not true E2EE.

Ars Technica

Heres a description of what the new service does and doesnt do, as well as some of the basic security that underpins it. Read full article Comments Others wondered precisely how it works under the hood.

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