{n}.bora’s Top Articles: 11th December
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Business:
- This article from Entrepreneur looks at how migrating to the cloud can benefit small and medium-sized businesses:
https://www.entrepreneur.com/leadership/how-small-and-medium-businesses-can-save-money-and-increase/464648
Technology:
- Users are unlikely to move away from larger web platforms, even when they actively dislike them. This article from the Next Web explores why:
https://thenextweb.com/news/why-dont-leave-internet-platforms-dislike - As its coming up to Christmas, this article from the Guardian has a guide to the best apps for the festive season:
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/dec/02/12-best-apps-for-christmas-shopping-recipes-elfster-norad-tracks-santa
Advice:
- Exploring a less discussed area of digital transformation, this blog post from Deloitte discusses the benefits of digitisation in physical security:
https://www.deloitte.com/global/en/services/risk-advisory/blogs/physical-security-the-value-of-digitalization.html
AI:
- Looking at AI through a slightly different lens, this Business Insider article explores how large language models can be used to analyse bodies of literature through examining context on a larger scale:
https://www.businessinsider.com/ted-underwood-ai-optimist-humanities-language-literature-research-bill-gates-2023-12?r=US&IR=T
Something Great:
- This Guardian article reports on Quantum System Two, a new quantum computing machine unveiled by IBM:
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/dec/04/ibm-quantum-computer-heron
First published by {n}.bora December 11, 2023
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