TechCrunch

OCTOBER 15, 2020

In Y Combinator’s early days, founders would move to Palo Alto, split a two-bedroom with five others to save money and trade notes around the clock with their new, like-minded roommates. Now, as remote work continues and the pandemic persists, scores of entrepreneurs are working from home around the world. Y Combinator isn’t requiring its recent cohorts to relocate and collaboration is a screen-to-screen affair.

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OCTOBER 15, 2020

This article was co-written with Leila Dige. As the amount of knowledge generated within organizations continues to rise, firms must implement systems that make it easy for employees to find the information they need when they need it. Doing so not only stands to improve employee experience and boost productivity, but also can enable a level of agility and innovation that can become a competitive differentiator.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 15, 2020

It’s a difficult time for small businesses — to put it mildly. And Fivestars CEO Victor Ho said that many of the big digital platforms aren’t really helping. Ho argued that those platforms (whether they offer delivery services, user reviews or marketing tools) all have the same underlying model: “They seek to take over a small business’ customer base and then charge them a tax to start reaching those customers.” Superficially, a company like Fivestars, which has cr

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Let's Grow Leaders

OCTOBER 15, 2020

The pivot to more virtual meetings didn’t create this problem. Anyone who has ever run more than a meeting or two knows the challenge of managing the person who just can’t seem to shut up. It’s extra tricky when they’re a high-performer […]. The post How to Prevent Big Mouths From Hijacking Your Virtual Meeting appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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Software leaders who are building applications based on Large Language Models (LLMs) often find it a challenge to achieve reliability. It’s no surprise given the non-deterministic nature of LLMs. To effectively create reliable LLM-based (often with RAG) applications, extensive testing and evaluation processes are crucial. This often ends up involving meticulous adjustments to prompts.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Paulo Rogério Nunes. Contributor. Paulo is the co-founder of Vale do Dendê (Dende Valley) and AFAR Ventures , a global diversity and inclusion creative and consulting agency that identifies opportunities for multinational brands, corporations and investors in emerging markets. Tara Sabre Collier. Contributor. Tara Sabre Collier is an early-stage impact investor with more than 15 years of experience at the intersection of economic development, social entrepreneurship and impact investment.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Agility, the Oregon State University spin-off behind Digit and Cassie, announced this morning that it has raised $20 million in funding. The latest round, led by DCVC and Playground Global, brings the startup’s total funding up to $29 million. Other recent investors include TDK Ventures, MFV Partners, the Industrial Technology Investment Corporation, Sony Innovation Fund and Safar Partners.

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David Walsh

OCTOBER 15, 2020

JavaScript is full of tricks that you don’t know you want until you … want … them. Or maybe just until you see them. One trick I recently realized was conditionally adding attributes to React elements. Of course this trick essentially boils down to conditionally adding properties to an Object, but let’s not dive too far into specificities — let’s jump into the code.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 15, 2020

A few years ago, Whisper president and co-founder Andrew Song was talking to his grandfather about his hearing aids. Even though he spent thousands of dollars on a medical device designed to improve his hearing, and in the process his quality of life, he wasn’t wearing them. Song’s co-founders had had similar experiences with grandparents, and as engineers and entrepreneurs, they decided to do something about it, to try and build a better, more modern hearing aid.

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DevOps.com

OCTOBER 15, 2020

With IT teams around the world adjusting to remote working while still struggling to maintain productivity and workflows, ensuring DevOps and Agile practices are in place has never been more important. And while typical DevOps professionals probably have significantly better remote desktop setups than most of their business peers, it’s how IT leaders manage these […].

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Multi-tenant architecture allows software vendors to realize tremendous efficiencies by maintaining a single application stack instead of separate database instances while meeting data privacy needs. When you use a data warehouse to power your multi-tenant analytics, the proper approach is vital. Multi-tenant analytics is NOT the primary use case with traditional data warehouses, causing data security challenges.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 15, 2020

River , the latest venture from Wander founder Jeremy Fisher, has today announced the close of a $10.4 million funding round from Founders Fund,406, BoxGroup, Josh Kushner and Scooter Braun. River is meant to rethink the way we consume content across the internet. The app pulls stories and content from across the entire internet, including from publishers, Twitter and other social media, etc. and organizes that content based on the topic.

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TechBeacon

OCTOBER 15, 2020

By its very nature, agility is a challenge for large organizations. Its requirements of flexibility, experimentation, and the ability to pivot quickly in a dynamic environment seem inconsistent with the rigid structure of the enterprise.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 15, 2020

French startup WizVille is launching a new product called Local Monitor to help restaurant owners, haircut places, bakeries and all kinds of small shops track their Google Maps ratings and the ratings of their competitors. While there are plenty of ratings services to compare places around you, such as Foursquare, Yelp and Tripadvisor, Google Maps has slowly been showcasing ratings more prominently.

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TechBeacon

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Here we go again. Seven major governments call for tech companies to weaken encryption—just like the last time, and the time before that, and the time before that, and ….

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Apache Cassandra is an open-source distributed database that boasts an architecture that delivers high scalability, near 100% availability, and powerful read-and-write performance required for many data-heavy use cases. However, many developers and administrators who are new to this NoSQL database often encounter several challenges that can impact its performance.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Knowable , the Andreessen Horowitz-backed startup focused on audio learning, is switching business models. When the company launched last year , it charged users on a per-class basis. Starting today, it’s shifting entirely to a subscription model, where listeners pay $50 annually or $9.99 per month for unlimited access to the Knowable library. “This gets us closer to our mission of daily, actionable learning,” co-founder and CEO Warren Shaeffer told me.

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Toptal

OCTOBER 15, 2020

The Spring Security framework is the de facto industry standard when it comes to securing Spring-based apps, but it can be tricky to configure. In this article, Toptal Software Engineer Ioram Gordadze demonstrates how you can implement it without wasting too much time.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Brendan Sweeney didn’t know anything about the restaurant business before he and his co-founders launched the Atlanta-based startup Popmenu. What Sweeney did know was that it was nuts that while every other business was using incredible graphics, curated text, carefully crafted images and fancy videos to make their pitch to customers restaurants were — posting a text-based menu. “It’s just crazy that restaurants present their inventory, which is their whole story, their w

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DevOps.com

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Predictive analytics technologies have become critical to compete in manufacturing (predicting machine failure), banking (predicting fraud), e-commerce (predicting buying behavior) as well as to address horizontal use cases such as cybersecurity breach prevention and sales forecasting. Using data to predict and prevent IT outages and issues is also a growing best practice—especially as advances in […].

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“Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI” is an extensive guide for integrating generative AI into product strategy and careers featuring over 150 real-world examples, 30 case studies, and 20+ frameworks, and endorsed by over 20 leading AI and product executives, inventors, entrepreneurs, and researchers.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Zoe Jervier Hewitt. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Zoe Jervier Hewitt is a leadership coach and talent partner at multi-stage VC fund EQT Ventures , where she helps portfolio companies structure and accelerate their search for talent by facilitating connections to the right technology and people required to source candidates at each stage of company growth.

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Tenable

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Researchers disclose a critical pre-authentication vulnerability in the SonicWall VPN Portal that is easily exploitable. Background. On October 12, SonicWall published a security advisory (SNWLID-2020-0010) to address a critical vulnerability in SonicOS that could lead to remote code execution (RCE). The vulnerability was discovered by security researchers at Tripwire’s Vulnerability and Exposure Research Team (VERT).

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Hello and welcome back to Equity , TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast ( now on Twitter! ), where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. The whole crew was back today, with Natasha and Danny and I gathered to parse over what was really a blast of news. Lots of startups are raising. Lots of VCs are raising. And some unicorns are shooting to go public.

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CTOvision

OCTOBER 15, 2020

The annual STAR-TIDES event is running 20-21 October, this time online. I’m participating in a panel focused on improving resiliency across the many stovepipes of response in crisis. Here is […].

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Savana , a machine learning-based service that turns clinical notes into structured patient information for physicians and pharmacists, has raised $15 million to take its technology from Spain to the U.S., the company said. The investment was led by Cathay Innovation , with participation from the Spanish investment firm Seaya Ventures, which led the company’s previous round, and new investors like MACSF, a French insurance provider for doctors. .

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The Daily WTF

OCTOBER 15, 2020

"Aldi doesn't deliver to a.computer memory address!? Ok, that sounds fair," wrote Oisin. . "When you order pictures from this photography studio, you find that what sets them apart from other studios is group photography and not web site design," Stephen D. wrote. . John H. writes, "To be honest, I'm a little bit surprised.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 15, 2020

French startup Koyeb has raised a $1.6 million (€1.4 million) pre-seed round. The company focuses on data-processing workflows across multiple cloud providers. It hides many complexities using a serverless model. Jean-David Chamboredon and Juliette Mopin from ISAI are leading the round with Plug and Play Ventures, Kima Ventures, AceCap and a long list of business angels also participating, such as Zachary Smith, Justin Ziegler, Alexis Lê-Quôc, Sébastien Lucas, Marc Jalabert, Amirhossein Malekzad

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Dzone - DevOps

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Hello folks, if you want to become a DevOps engineer and looking for the best DevOps courses then you have come to the right place. In the past, I have shared free DevOps courses , and today, I am going to share the best DevOps courses you can join to learn DevOps and CI/CD in depth. you may know that DevOps is one of the most in-demand skills for both big and small organizations.

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Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business. That’s what drove the five companies in this e-book to change their approach to analytics. Download this e-book to learn about the unique problems each company faced and how they achieved huge returns beyond expectation by embedding analytics into applications.

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Tenable

OCTOBER 15, 2020

To maximize the impact of your security advisories, here are some key steps vendors can take to support automated workflows and timely remediation efforts. Over the years we’ve seen every variation of security advisory imaginable: plain text, good HTML, bad HTML, machine readable, machine readable with giant blobs of embedded text (which potentially negates the value of the machine readable parts).

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Gitprime

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Turning our epic, annual conference into a virtual event was going to be a challenge—we knew that. But we also knew we could go big AND stay home, so we went all in on setting a new standard for virtual tech conferences.

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ParkMyCloud

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Microsoft Azure recently announced an addition designed to help with Azure chargeback: cost allocation, now in preview in Azure Cost Management + Billing. We’re always glad to see cloud providers making an effort to improve their native cost management capabilities for customers, so here’s a quick look at this update. Chargeback for Cost Accountability.

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