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Daily Digest February 22, 2016 United Nations CITO: Artificial intelligence will be humanity's final innovation The United Nations Chief Information Technology Officer spoke with TechRepublic about the future of cybersecurity, social media, and how to fix the internet and build global technology for social good. Resource of the day Whitepaper: Seven Ways to Reduce Waste and Accelerate Software Delivery This paper will explore best practices for identifying and eliminating seven types of waste: Waiting, handoffs and task switching, motion, extra processes, extra features, partially completed work and defects. New at TechRepublic Linux creator Linus Torvalds doesn't really care about open source Samsung Galaxy S7 isn't sexy, but delivers value on security and business features Survey: Americans split on Apple vs. FBI privacy dispute HTC Vive confirms high-end VR will be costly with $799 price Analytics prediction confidence: It's all about semantics How to use Windows 10's System Restore as a recovery tool Featured Webcast Live Webcast: Avoiding Big Data Headaches: Moving Hadoop to Production Open source big data analytics such as Hadoop and Spark, are important tools for gaining insight into a variety of large data sets. Despite the promise of easy deployment, there is a challenge to meeting enterprise requirements. Big Data reliability, data consistency, security and efficiency are rarely met in the sandbox environment where the project starts. In this webinar, join John Webster of The Evaluator Group while he outlines how the choice of a storage solution can address enterprise requirement or increase the complexity of an enterprise big data project. Register now! New from Tech Pro Research New equipment budget policy This Tech Pro Research policy enables the IT department to coordinate equipment purchases, standardize components based on job responsibility, and prepare for maintenance, repairs and upgrades. Sign up for a Free Trial of Tech Pro Research and preview our articles, tools, policies, and templates. Today's recommended downloads Whitepaper: Seven Ways to Reduce Waste and Accelerate Software Delivery (IBM Corp.) Video: Enabling innovation with on-demand cloud computing (IBM Cloud) E-book Series #3: Four Steps to Achieving Agile Parallel Development (CA Technologies) Redefining Infrastructure Management for Today's Application Economy (CA Technologies) Evaluating file sync and share solutions: 12 questions to ask about security (Dropbox) A special feature from TechRepublic and ZDNet VR and AR: The Business Reality Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality are going to be useful for far more than just gaming. We explore the ways the technology will be used for training, marketing, product design, and much more. Special Offer Web Hosting Solutions Check out CNET's list detailing some of the best Web Hosting companies for 2016. Find Web Hosting providers using price comparisons, specials, coupons and find hosting for specific needs like Wordpress, PrestaShop, along with green energy hosting, drag-and-drop website builder and more. TechRepublic newsletters Get product reviews, tech news analysis, tips, and more in the following TechRepublic newsletters. Click the newsletter title below to subscribe. Election Tech 2016 TechRepublic Cover Stories Connect with TechRepublic Visit the Subscripton Center to get other free newsletters, manage your account settings or to be removed from TechRepublic communications. The e-mail address for your subscription is habib2best@gmail.com. Unsubscribe | Send Feedback | FAQ | Advertise | Privacy Policy © 2016 CBS Interactive, Inc. All rights reserved. TechRepublic is a registered service mark of CBS Interactive, Inc. TechRepublic 235 Second Street San Francisco, CA 94105 U.S.A.