Organizations keep messing up their data insights — here’s how to fix it Why do organizations struggle with gaining data insights? What’s actually going on? It’s not that industries don’t understand the value of data, particularly as artificial intelligence (AI) and augmented analytics have gained traction globally.60% of CIOssay that data and analytics will affect their businesses in the next three years, and73% of companiesare planning to invest in DataOps initiatives to support AI and machine learning initiatives....

Orionid will bring 20 shooting stars per hour — here’s how you can see it Hunting for the bunter At nighttime or in the pre-dawn sky, the Orionidmeteor showerprovides amateur skygazers a chance to see a beautiful display of shooting stars. Not surprisingly, the Orionidmeteorshower is centered on the constellation Orion. This is one of the easiest of all constellations to find in the night sky. Simply look for three bright stars huddled fairly close together in a near-perfect line....

This is a clever new feature of OS X Lion that we hadn’t seen anywhere. You can apparently convert any selected batch of text to spoken word with one click from the contextual menu. The feature was posted onRedditso we don’t have many details beyond that, but it looks pretty cool.Update below. It looks as if all you have to do is select a block of text, alt-click it and choose the ‘Add to iTunes as a Spoken Track’ option from the menu....

An AppleKnowledge Base articlehas been posted that explains which Macs can use the new AirDrop feature of Lion,The Loopreports. AirDrop is one of the cool new features of Lion that allows you to share files easily from one Mac to another on the same WiFi network. According to Apple, these are the models that will work with AirDrop The feature is incredibly simple to use, allowing users to toss files to another person in the same office very easily....

The death of Osama Bin Laden late last night immediately sparked a huge wave of social media updates and blog posts, demonstrating graphically how the way news spreads has been altered since 9/11. One of the casualties of war is the popular Disqus comment system which is used by many major sites. Disqus has posted a message that the traffic in it’s system has been so high that they’ve been forced to temporarily disable comment counting in the embedded comment module that many popular sites use for user feedback....