Technology
Four takeaways from Facebook whistleblower’s complaints
Facebook’s week is off to a tumultuous start. On Monday, Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram went down for about six hours. On Tuesday, Frances Haugen, the Facebook whistleblower, testified before a Senate subcommittee, following the release of thousands of pages of internal research and documents. 1- Facebook’s mechanics further the spread of misinformation 2- Facebook has taken limited action to address…
Read MoreMicrosoft is doing away with passwords on Outlook and other software
In lieu of passwords, Microsoft will let people access accounts using the Microsoft Authenticator app, the biometric Windows Hello option (which scans your face, iris, or fingerprint), a security key, or a verification code sent to the user’s phone or email. “Passwords are incredibly inconvenient to create, remember, and manage across all the accounts in our…
Read MoreCan IT rise to the digital challenge?
The survey results suggest three key ways that IT organizations can improve their overall performance and effectiveness: Keep score. Despite the proliferating demands on IT and the declining performance in the core areas of its work, organizations are still letting performance management go by the wayside. Only 15 percent of all respondents say their IT organizations…
Read MoreThe new digital edge: Rethinking strategy for the postpandemic era
One year into the COVID-19 crisis, our newest McKinsey Global Survey on digital strategy1 indicates that the pandemic has increased the pace of business and that technology capabilities will be critical to companies’ COVID-19 exit strategies as well as to what comes next. After seeing how the pandemic had sped up the adoption of digital technologies by several…
Read MoreWhat the cyber-attack on the US oil and gas pipeline means and how to increase security
The recent cyber-attack on the US major oil and gas pipeline could become one of the most expensive attacks to an economy. The increasing digitalization of critical infrastructure sectors such as oil and gas, and the associated industrial systems, is changing the nature of cyber risks. The World Economic Forum recently ran a survey among…
Read MoreArtificial intelligence can now design new antibiotics in a matter of days
Imagine you’re a scientist who needs to discover a new antibiotic to fight off a scary disease. How would you go about finding it? Typically, you’d have to test lots and lots of different molecules in the lab until you find one that has the necessary bacteria-killing properties. You might find some contenders that are…
Read MoreThe state of AI in 2020
The results of this year’s McKinsey Global Survey on artificial intelligence (AI) suggest that organizations are using AI as a tool for generating value. Increasingly, that value is coming in the form of revenues. A small contingent of respondents coming from a variety of industries attribute 20 percent or more of their organizations’ earnings before…
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