Crunchbase News

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

By Alex Flanagan As a founder going into a fundraising meeting, the best story you can tell is about growth — ideally exploding user figures with a credible path to revenue or exit. If you haven’t figured out product-market fit yet, you need more time. Until you figure it out, it’s unlikely you’re going to be able to raise. The first place you should look is the place you have the most control: cash going out the door.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

IBM spin-off Kyndryl is betting on its consulting arm, dubbed Kyndryl Consult, to return to growth by rapidly expanding its partnership ecosystem to deliver more diversified offerings. “We have established an ecosystem of around 30 partners since our spin from IBM well over 24 months ago. Our most recent global partnerships were announced late last year with Palo Alto Networks and Dynatrace,” said Mark Slaga, global practice leader at Kyndryl Consult.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Changing careers can be an exhilarating way to keep yourself intellectually engaged, but it inevitably entails some risk. In this article, the author outlines four questions to ask yourself before you transition into a new field: 1) What’s motivating the change? 2) What’s the smallest way to test your hypotheses? 3) What’s your runway? 4) What’s your fallback plan?

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CIO

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

The digital reinvention of American Honda Motor Co. may not seem as dramatic as its transformation to fully electric vehicles, but it provides the company’s 30,000-plus employees the engine necessary to help fuel the automaker’s ingenuity. The Torrance, Calif.-based subsidiary of the Japanese automaker, which debuted its first hybrid EV in 1996, is moving into production its first all-electric, zero-emissions automobiles co-developed with GM this spring — Honda Prologue and Acura’s ZDX SUV — as

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Many organizations today are unlocking the power of their data by using graph databases to feed downstream analytics, enahance visualizations, and more. Yet, when different graph nodes represent the same entity, graphs get messy. Watch this essential video with Senzing CEO Jeff Jonas on how adding entity resolution to a graph database condenses network graphs to improve analytics and save your analysts time.

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Crunchbase News

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

If you pass by a construction site today, you’re likely to see humans on the roof, nailing shingles, laying brick or rolling paint. Time-travel a few years into the future, however, and there’s a pretty good chance robots will be sharing the workload. That, at least, is the vision startups and their backers are banking on bringing to fruition. Over the past few years, investors have poured hundreds of millions into startups at the intersection of construction and robotics, Crunchbase data shows.

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Let's Grow Leaders

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Episode 245: In this podcast episode, Felice Eckelman and Julie Cantor discuss the challenges and strategies for leading in a hybrid work environment. They emphasize the importance of intentionality in developing policies and creating connections among team members. They also address the need for training leaders to recognize and address bias, as well as the importance of setting boundaries and managing zoom fatigue.

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DevOps.com

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Dell Technologies updated its edge computing platform to make it simpler to programmatically provision infrastructure using DevOps best practices.

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Dell EMC

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Jumpstart AI applications with AI-ready Dell Precision workstations and RTX-accelerated AI development tools.

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CEO Insider

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Accelerating demand for metals and minerals driven by the energy transition revolution. The outlook is clear. The demand for critical metals and minerals is advancing dramatically as the energy transition gathers momentum globally. Rare metals and minerals such as lithium, copper, nickel, cobalt, and graphite are some of the essential components in many clean energy […] The post Energy transition: An opportunity and risk for Canada’s metals and minerals dominance appeared first on CE

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Successful former presidents have a few things in common with business leaders who moved onto a new phase after their time in corporate life. The post-presidencies offer a wide-ranging roadmap of the state of possible for anyone moving from one position to another. This is especially needed at the senior-most levels, where CEOs and other top leaders often associate their very self-identities with their jobs and don’t often feel comfortable talking about what they might want to consider doing aft

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InfoWorld

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

While the use of Rust language by professional programmers continues to grow, Rust users expressed concerns about the language becoming too complex and the low level of Rust usage in the tech industry, according to the 2023 State of Rust Survey report. The report, which was produced by the Rust Survey Team and published February 19, noted a slight jump in the number of respondents that self-identify as a Rust user, up from 91% of respondents in the 2022 survey to 93% in 2023.

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DevOps.com

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

To avoid data loss and maintain a level of protection, organizations need a blueprint for adopting their hybrid cloud systems.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Research has shown that emotional manipulation (EM) can significantly impact individuals’ well-being and productivity. It can systematically influence cognitive control, which is crucial for effective decision-making and problem-solving, and can also affect individuals’ interpersonal relationships and overall mental health, further impacting their productivity and satisfaction in the workplace.

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Speaker: Aarushi Kansal, AI Leader & Author and Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO at Aggregage

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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InfoWorld

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

While the use of Rust language by professional programmers continues to grow, Rust users expressed concerns about the language becoming too complex and the low level of Rust usage in the tech industry, according to the 2023 State of Rust Survey report. The report, which was produced by the Rust Survey Team and published February 19, noted a slight jump in the number of respondents that self-identify as a Rust user, up from 91% of respondents in the 2022 survey to 93% in 2023.

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Crunchbase News

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Want to keep track of the largest startup funding deals in 2024 with our curated list of $100 million-plus venture deals to U.S.-based companies? Check out The Crunchbase Megadeals Board. This is a weekly feature that runs down the week’s top 10 announced funding rounds in the U.S. Check out last week’s biggest funding rounds here. After last week saw 10 rounds of $100 million or more , investors followed up with another strong week that saw a half-dozen startups raise similarly.

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Dzone - DevOps

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Automating tasks in cloud environments like Amazon Web Services (AWS) can significantly enhance efficiency, reduce manual workload, and ensure that operations run smoothly and reliably. When it comes to AWS Relational Database Service (RDS) for SQL Server, one valuable automation task is setting up auto-calling, which can automate various database operations such as backups, maintenance, and data processing.

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InfoWorld

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

In a recent legal ruling against Air Canada in a small claims court , the airline lost because its AI-powered chatbot provided incorrect information about bereavement fares. The chatbot suggested that the passenger could retroactively apply for bereavement fares, despite the airline’s bereavement fares policy contradicting this information. Whoops! Of course, the link to the policy was provided in the chatbot’s response; however, the court found that the airline failed to explain why the passeng

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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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Dell EMC

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

ProSupport Suite for PCs will include AI-powered self-healing to resolve PC issues without IT intervention.

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InfoWorld

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

JetBrains has made a beta version of a new terminal available in JetBrains IDEs starting with version 2024.1. The new terminal combines the look and feel of the new JetBrains UI with an expanded feature set. Unveiled February 20 , the new terminal differs visually from the old terminal mainly in presenting each command in a separate block. This helps users more easily locate the start and end of each command, thus enhancing readability of output, JetBrains said.

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Dell EMC

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Dell Telecom Infrastructure Blocks for Red Hat simplify the future of telco clouds.

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Dzone - DevOps

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Docker, the main containerization technology, has transformed application packaging and deployment. While Docker makes it easier to execute apps, it is also critical to monitor and log your Dockerized environments to ensure they are working properly and stay safe. In this post, we’ll go into the realm of Docker logging and monitoring, looking at the best practices, tools, and techniques for keeping your containerized apps operating smoothly.

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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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Dell EMC

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

As companies refresh to modern technology, it’s imperative to shift operations to a leader in PC hardware lifecycle management.

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Ruby on Rails

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Hope you’re having a lovely weekend. Emmanuel here with yet another batch of Rails updates for you! assert_broadcasts returns the messages that were broadcast assert_broadcasts now not only confirms the broadcast but also provides access to the messages that were broadcast. This enhancement, similar to what we have in assert_emails , facilitates additional analyses of the transmitted messages.

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Ooda Loop

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Australian telecommunications provider Tangerine disclosed a recent cyberattack that compromised the personal information of approximately 230,000 individuals.

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IDC

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Latin American customers are boosting their competitive edge by opting for co-managed security and cost-effective solutions, driving the choice for MDR Services.

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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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Ooda Loop

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

A new report from plagiarism detector Copyleaks found that 60% of OpenAI’s GPT-3.5 outputs contained some form of plagiarism. Why it matters: Content creators from authors and songwriters to The New York Times are arguing in court that generative AI trained on copyrighted material ends up spitting out exact copies.

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DevOps.com

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

As businesses scale and diversify AWS services, it becomes crucial to manage costs to ensure cloud expenditures align with strategic objectives and budgets.

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Pandora's Brain

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

After Silicon Valley, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) may be the most future-oriented and optimistic place on the planet. Futurism and techno-optimism are natural mindsets in a country which has pretty much invented itself from scratch in two generations. During this period its people have progressed from a mediaeval lifestyle to being 21st century metropolitans.

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