CTO Academy

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

It is now common for a team leader or project manager to find themselves placed in the CTO’s shoes at a moment’s notice. Often, this brand-new executive is forced to form a Chief Technology Office out of thin air and without any help. This is the challenge facing what we call the accidental CTO. At […] The post Building an Effective Chief Technology Office on Different Business Scales appeared first on CTO Academy.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

In July last year, Naver, maker of the search engine known as the “Google of South Korea,” opened its new second headquarters, Naver 1784. The building’s name refers to a year commonly associated with the Industrial Revolution. Inside you’ll find a testament to automation’s growing global influence, in the form of 100 autonomous robots.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Many companies today are rapidly adopting new technologies and tools to improve overall efficiencies, improve customer and client experiences, and support key initiatives that are related to business transformation. However, these efforts, while necessary, bring with them growing pains for the workforce. As our global technologies transform, so must our teams.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Globalstar, a satellite network operator backed by Apple, has purchased launches from SpaceX worth $64 million, according to regulatory filings. The launches, which are scheduled for 2025, will send at least 17 new satellites to low Earth orbit to replenish Globalstar’s existing constellation.

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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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SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

SAP has appointed a new global head of artificial intelligence, Walter Sun, after the previous post-holder quit to found her own AI startup. For the past 18 years, Sun worked at Microsoft, most recently as VP of AI for its business and applications platform group. Sun has a PhD from MIT and continued to publish academic research papers during his time at Microsoft, in addition to teaching at Seattle and Washington universities.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Developers are hired for their coding skills, but often spend too much time on information-finding, setup tasks, and manual processes. To combat wasted time and effort, Discover® Financial Services championed a few initiatives to help developers get back to what they do best: developing. The result? More than 100,000 hours of developer toil have been automated or eliminated.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Tesla just chopped $3,000 off the price of its “full self-driving” beta software. The 20% cut brings the cost of FSD down to $12,000 in North America. That’s precisely what Tesla previously charged for the advanced driver assistance system (ADAS) before hiking the fee to $15,000 about a year ago.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Facing the possibility of an economic recession, one of the world’s leading professional services companies felt the urgency to improve its grasp on spend management – the practice of fully understanding and managing supplier relations and company purchasing. With 738,000 employees and $3.8 billion in services contracts, it was crucial for Accenture to not only identify every dollar being spent but also assess whether the organization was fully exploiting each expenditure.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

IFA technically kicks off today in Berlin, but it seems like Lenovo may have won the thing outright. I’ve given the company plenty of credit in the past for its willingness to try new things in this oft-staid world of consumer electronics, and it’s really come out of the gates swinging.

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Let's Grow Leaders

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Better presentations aren’t a luxury. Connecting online or in person is an essential skill for anyone driven to make an impact. Whether you’re presenting to a group of 17 or 70,000, live or virtually, present like a confident change-maker, without fear or imposter syndrome, no matter your experience level. In this episode Jacqueline Farrington, Author of Better Presentations: How to Present Like a Pro , provides proven insights on presentation skills that will build confidence and mastery, eleva

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

The opioid epidemic has had a whack-a-mole kind of complexity, stumping researchers for the better part of two decades, as they’ve attempted to better understand the evolving social and systemic factors that push people to start abusing opioids and also identify potential overdose hot spots.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Most people believe in promoting DEI in the workplace. But implicit and unconscious biases — not to mention the constant juggling of priorities required at work — can lead to inequitable decision-making. In this article, drawing on recent research, the authors suggest that this problem can be addressed by making DEI more immediately obvious, or salient, to managers immediately before they need to make consequential decisions about such matters as hiring, promotions, and performance evaluation.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

TechCrunch Disrupt 2023 kicks off in just two weeks, and we can’t wait to meet you there! This is the startup world’s main event, and it’s where you’ll find the knowledge, tools and connections you need to grow a successful business.

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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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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Arthur C. Brooks is a bestselling author, Harvard University professor, and a widely read columnist for The Atlantic, whose writing draws from both science and philosophy and is aimed at providing insight and strategies on how we can live our best lives. He’s the co-author (with Oprah Winfrey) of the forthcoming book, Build the Life You Want: The Art and Science of Getting Happier, and he joined HBR editor Adi Ignatius for this episode of New World of Work to share insights in how to be happier

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Apple attempts to sway more soccer fans into signing up for MLS Season Pass with its newest discount. The subscription, which gives viewers access to every Major League Soccer game, now costs $14.

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DevOps.com

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Platform engineering is extending the principles that made DevOps so successful to meet the challenges and opportunities of the new tech era.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

About a year ago, I tore down a pitch deck by Mi Terro, founded by Robert Luo. Guess who’s back with another company? Luo has raised $1.5 million for Tanbii from a Hong Kong family office.

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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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SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

There’s an increasing concern about the energy use and corresponding carbon emissions of generative AI models. And while the concerns may be overhyped, they still require attention, especially as generative AI becomes integrated into our modern life. Factors such as model architecture, transparency and quantization of models are required to decrease carbon emission from AI systems.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Cruise, the self-driving subsidiary of General Motors, has raised over $15 billion, employs more than 3,000 people and expanded its footprint across multiple cities within the U.S. It even has a presence in Dubai. What does it take to build and scale such complex technology?

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DevOps.com

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Incorporating AI tools in the realm of anti-fragility enables SREs to build systems that not only resist stress but thrive under it. The incorporation of AI tools in the realm of anti-fragility brings this dynamic resilience to a new level, enhancing capabilities from conducting fire drills and chaos engineering to identifying reliability weaknesses in production logs.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

When a group of startups works on a similar set of problems, they frequently bring about massive shifts in how day-to-day life is lived.

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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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Invid Group

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Offshoring vs. Outsourcing BY: INVID Companies always look for better ways to save money and work more efficiently in today’s global business world. Two common ways they do this are through offshoring and outsourcing. Even though people often use these words interchangeably, they mean different things. They each have good points and challenges.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Welcome to Startups Weekly. Sign up here to get it in your inbox every Friday. It’s sometimes hard to remember that, as a startup founder, you have influence over aspects of your business that you wouldn’t have if you were a cog in a giant machine somewhere.

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Honeycomb

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

On July 25th, 2023, we experienced a total Honeycomb outage. It impacted all user-facing components from 1:40 p.m. UTC to 2:48 p.m. UTC, during which no data could be processed or accessed. This outage is the most severe we’ve had since we had paying customers. In this review, we will cover the incident itself, and then we’ll zoom back out for an analysis of multiple contributing elements, our response, and the aftermath.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

This week, Equity is covering deals from Teamshares and MoonPay then digging into new rental-focused startups, the IPO drought and what happens when you bring lean startup ideology into the AI world.

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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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CloudZero

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Picture this. Gartner forecasts worldwide end-user spending for public cloud usage to ramp up to nearly $600 billion in 2023 — from $491 billion in 2022. Out of that spend, SaaS will make up a chunky $200 billion. For comparison, Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) and Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) will make up $150 billion and $139 billion, respectively.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

As a company, Magic Leap moved on from its first headset some time ago. Along with a new CEO came a major pivot. With the Magic Leap 2, the startup went all in on enterprise — a far safer and more lucrative bet than the fickle world of gaming.

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DevOps.com

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

A Broadcom survey found more than three-quarters of respondents are moving to consolidate cloud automation tools and platforms.

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