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What do you see as the main challenges these days for a CTO?
The main challenges faced by CTOs today often revolve around security concerns. Many organizations underestimate their vulnerability until they experience an actual security event. CTOs must prioritize maintaining a secure environment for all transactions.
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6 tips to put ChatGPT to use
Introducing ChatGPT for anyone wondering or nervous about getting started. With 6 quick and easy tips, you will get started instantly as you begin to scratch the surface of this powerful AI tool. You will wonder how you ever coped prior.
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Remote debugging at 15 billion miles
The complexities of debugging software on Voyager 1, 15 billion miles away, highlight the extraordinary challenges faced by NASA’s JPL engineers. With commands taking 22 hours to reach and another 22 hours for a response, the risks and logistics are daunting.
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The Martian (2015)
This is going to be a tough year for best movie. We’ve had some real high quality delivers and the year has still to finish, with James Bond, Yoda and Tarrantino still to make an appearance. The Martian was one that came out of no where. The trailer was giving the same excitement I had for Interstellar. Though that sadly failed to deliver on what was going to be…
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Tequila Sunrise (1988)
There are some movies that you remember fondly, sparking memories of the time, but yet, after a re-watch nearly 25 years you wonder what it was about the first outing that made it seem a classic. We have Mac (Mel Gibson) the drug dealer who is trying to go straight, even though his oldest best friend, Nick (Kurt Russell) the detective who sometimes steps over the line is trying to…
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Man Up (2015)
This was a movie I never knew existed until I stumbled upon it in a list of Simon Pegg movies for 2015. Having no idea what it was about, I had a quick look at the trailer and was intrigued. A British romantic comedy that isn’t written by Richard Curtis? What an interesting concept. I wonder if that would work So what is our setup here? Well, familiar territory to…
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Magic Mike XXL (2015)
I recall watching the first Magic Mike movie and remember enjoying it at the time. However, I am somewhat at a loss as to what it was. I need to go back to it at some point in this yearly movie marathon I have embarked on. Because, after watching XXL, I can’t remember it being this tongue’n’cheek and frankly, brilliant. XXL was a complete riot from start to finish.…
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Dirty Dancing (1987)
My 40th review in this series and we land here. Aaah, You’ve had the time of your life, happy memories. This dancing genre has so many casualties with way more misses than hits. Dirty Dancing, however, can proudly be ranked up there at the top with the likes of Flashdance and Footloose. This Oscar award winning (for the original song) movie is chock full of toe-tapping numbers that keeps…
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Everest (2015)
Based on the true story of the Everest disaster in 1996, when two expedition parties got into major trouble when a storm suddenly came in and 12 people in total from each group, including their leaders, were lost to the mountain. Jason Clarke plays Rob Hall, the much loved, leader of the New Zealand group, who takes up quite the varied personalities. We have the only female of the group, a…
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Waking Ned Devine (1998)
If you loved Local Hero then you will love this tale of a village set in western Ireland, who discover that one of the 50 odd residents has won the lottery. However at first they don’t know who, but soon discover it is the one person that didn’t come to the party. Poor man had died – of shock that he had won that much money. Knowing that poor Ned…
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Air America (1990)
The first time I seen this movie in a theater in Suchiehall Street Glasgow, when I was at university and I recall laughing my ass off. I let this one sit and age on the shelf and with a little nervousness I dusted off the cover and took it for another spin. Fortunately it has aged very well. Mel Gibson plays Gene, a seasoned pilot flying in the Air America unit…
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Tomorrowland (2015)
Oh Disney, where did this go so wrong? You have such talent available at your finger tips, such vision, huge resources, and this is the best you can do? A disjointed, mess of a movie, with a story line that only “clicks” about 10 minutes from the end, and I say click barely. I actually don’t know how to describe the storyline, because I am still unsure myself what it was…
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