TechCrunch
JANUARY 5, 2024
Thanks to bans on pay toilets dating back to the 1970s, folks in the U.S. have become accustomed to enjoying free public restroom access pretty much anywhere their travels take them. Depending on the town or city, however, free-use bathrooms aren’t necessarily plentiful — or well-maintained, for that matter. In lieu of stateside political momentum […] © 2023 TechCrunch.
CIO
JANUARY 5, 2024
With stints at Procter & Gamble, HPE and DHL, Jaime González-Peralta landed at Radisson Hotel Group four years ago as CIO for EMEA and then became global CIO in April 2020 — a particularly complex moment due to the paralysis that the pandemic inflicted on the world of travel. During this time, thanks to the period of reflection the health crisis afforded and the opportunity to dedicate time to innovate, González-Peralta initiated a stronger shift to technology and digitalization to better re
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TechCrunch
JANUARY 5, 2024
Uber has quietly been testing a flexible pricing service in more than a dozen cities in India, a move that could help it expand its consumer base in the South Asian nation and put pressure on rival ride-hailing platforms, including Ola and inDrive. The flexible pricing service, called Uber Flex, was started in India in […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved.
The Hustle
JANUARY 5, 2024
Audrey Peard is searching for an elusive, chocolatey piece of Americana: a package of Hydrox cookies. She’s visited multiple grocery stores near her home in the Bronx, followed a Facebook group, and even talked to a manager at a production facility in El Segundo, California, about supply shortages. “Almost 30, 40 years I’ve been on the trail for Hydrox,” she says.
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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.
TechCrunch
JANUARY 5, 2024
Paris-based startup Nabla just announced that it has raised a $24 million Series B funding round led by Cathay Innovation, with participation from ZEBOX Ventures — the corporate VC fund of CMA CGM. This funding round comes just a few months after Nabla signed a large-scale partnership with Permanente Medical Group, a division of U.S. […] © 2023 TechCrunch.
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TechCrunch
JANUARY 5, 2024
Ryan Reynolds-backed Mint Mobile exited to T-Mobile for $1.35 billion last year, and Sam Altman-backed “Ai Pin” startup Humane launched a pricey little device with a $24 monthly subscription that comes with phone number, unlimited data and as many AI-powered queries as you can muster. What do they have in common? They’re both MVNOs, short […] © 2023 TechCrunch.
Harvard Business Review
JANUARY 5, 2024
These meetings, in which supervisors discuss and adjust ratings across the company, are often intended to eradicate bias. In fact, they can have the opposite effect.
TechCrunch
JANUARY 5, 2024
Investors are hoping for more enterprise adoption and vertical AI solutions this year as the AI startup market starts to grow up. © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Harvard Business Review
JANUARY 5, 2024
In June 2023, the Supreme Court effectively ended race-based affirmative action in higher education in the Students for Fair Admissions (SFFA) case. On the heels of that decision, newly empowered activists have brought a barrage of challenges against workplace DEI efforts. When it comes to DEI today, the authors predict that neither side will “win.” Rather, as the law inevitably evolves in a more conservative direction, the new legal standards will be absorbed into the field of DEI, transforming
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TechCrunch
JANUARY 5, 2024
Aurora and automotive supplier Continental have wrapped up the first phase of a more than $300 million project to mass produce autonomous vehicle hardware for commercial self-driving trucks. The two companies said Friday that the design and system architecture of an autonomous vehicle hardware kit is now complete. The blueprint for a secondary computer that […] © 2023 TechCrunch.
Let's Grow Leaders
JANUARY 5, 2024
When Navigating Workplace Conflict, Start with the System “At least 80% of the behavior in organizations is driven by the systems, not personal preferences. So if you eventually switch out the people and bring in new people into the same situations, within 3 months they’re having the same conflicts and the same conversations.” – Ralph Kilmann We’re kicking off the new year with a very special series on navigating workplace conflict and collaboration with the world-r
TechCrunch
JANUARY 5, 2024
Last year presented a tough period for African tech startups. Venture capital was hard to bag (as predicted earlier), bridge and down rounds became the norm, and news of fire sales, layoffs and startup closures reverberated across the continent. With the overall amount of VC funding raised in Africa dipping significantly across the year, according […] © 2023 TechCrunch.
Crunchbase News
JANUARY 5, 2024
When it comes to raising money, gaming startups aren’t seeing a lot of play. Per Crunchbase data, seed- through growth-stage investment in companies tied to the gaming industry hit a multiyear low last year. Large, pre-IPO rounds all but disappeared, and early-stage action remained muted. For perspective, we charted out global investment for the past six calendar years below.
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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.
TechCrunch
JANUARY 5, 2024
After a mediocre 2023, investors are optimistic about exit and M&A activity picking back up in 2024. Some think we will see the IPO market bounce back. © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
CEO Insider
JANUARY 5, 2024
In the 160,000 years that Homo sapiens have existed, our species has seen the rise and demise of genius millions of times over. And yet, despite those centuries of experience, the exact formula for genius remains an enigma to this day. The uncertainty and mystification that surround this concept lead C-suite executives to ask time […] The post Success vs.
TechCrunch
JANUARY 5, 2024
LLMs are exciting, but developing and adopting them requires overcoming several feasibility hurdles. © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Palo Alto Networks
JANUARY 5, 2024
"Threat actors have access to the same technology that we do. They’re innovating just as we are. The question is, how can we stay one step ahead?" - Shailesh Rao, President of Cortex, Palo Alto Networks Security teams worldwide all experience a similar shared frustration: the overwhelming volumes of low-fidelity alerts and false positives that SOCs receive every day.
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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.
TechCrunch
JANUARY 5, 2024
In a dramatic turn of events late Friday, ex-Y Combinator president Sam Altman was fired as CEO of AI startup OpenAI, the company behind viral AI hits like ChatGPT, GPT-4 and DALL-E 3, by OpenAI’s board of directors. Then, the company’s longtime president and co-founder, Greg Brockman, resigned — as did three senior OpenAI researchers. […] © 2023 TechCrunch.
Ooda Loop
JANUARY 5, 2024
Over the course of 2023, we posted a series of post on the issues and risks which Boards of Directors should consider related to emerging technology and cybersecurity. Global polycrises, exponential technological disruption, and unprecedented historical uncertainty aside: From OpenAI to FTX, the market and the media narrative have proven that fiduciary responsibility and corporate governance still matter.
TechCrunch
JANUARY 5, 2024
CES 2024 is almost upon us, and a team of TechCrunch reporters and experts will be on the ground in Las Vegas to give you the biggest news out of the consumer electronics show. Though CES’s influence has ebbed and flowed over the years, we’re still expecting a bunch of announcements, especially when it comes […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved.
Honeycomb
JANUARY 5, 2024
For developers, understanding the performance of shipped code is crucial. Through the last decade, a tablestake function in software monitoring and observability solutions has been to save and track app metrics. Engineers love tools that get out of your way and just work, and the appeal of today’s best-in-class application performance monitoring (APM) suites lies in a seamless day zero experience with drop-in agent installs, button click integrations, and immediate metrics collection.
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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.
TechCrunch
JANUARY 5, 2024
While micromobility companies around the globe have been in limbo and hitting snags like bankruptcy, shutdown and layoffs, a Seoul-based shared e-scooters and e-bikes operator called Gbike is gearing up to go public on the Korean stock market and is reviewing acquisition targets. In an exclusive interview with TechCrunch, Walter Yoon, CEO and founder of Gbike, said the startup is […] © 2023 TechCrunch.
Dzone - DevOps
JANUARY 5, 2024
Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) have revolutionized the way we approach problem-solving and data analysis. These technologies are powering a wide range of applications, from recommendation systems and autonomous vehicles to healthcare diagnostics and fraud detection. However, deploying and managing ML models in production environments can be a daunting task.
TechCrunch
JANUARY 5, 2024
Welcome to Startups Weekly. Sign up here to get it in your inbox every Friday. Hello, and welcome to the very last Startups Weekly ever. Don’t worry! We’re not going far — the newsletter continues, but next week we’re getting a shiny new name and a brand-new lick of paint. As Brian, Mary Ann and […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Dzone - DevOps
JANUARY 5, 2024
OAuth 2.0 is an authorization framework that enables users to safely share their data between different applications. It is an industry standard that addresses the API security concerns associated with sharing user credentials while providing simple, well-defined authorization flows for web, mobile, desktop, and IoT applications. What Is the History of OAuth 2.0?
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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.
TechCrunch
JANUARY 5, 2024
The countdown to launch is on. United Launch Alliance’s Vulcan Centaur rocket has been rolled to the launch pad at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station ahead of its early Monday morning launch, a mission that could end with the first fully private spacecraft landing on the moon. Vulcan’s primary payload is Astrobotic’s Peregrine lunar lander. […] © 2023 TechCrunch.
InfoWorld
JANUARY 5, 2024
Machine learning is a complex discipline but implementing machine learning models is far less daunting than it used to be. Machine learning frameworks like Google’s TensorFlow ease the process of acquiring data, training models, serving predictions, and refining future results. Created by the Google Brain team and initially released to the public in 2015, TensorFlow is an open source library for numerical computation and large-scale machine learning.
TechCrunch
JANUARY 5, 2024
For two years, Netflix subscribers have been able to download tons of mobile games, all included for free with their subscription. Netflix has developed more than 75 mobile games, boasting popular IPs like Grand Theft Auto, Love Is Blind, Monument Valley and Oxenfree, among many others. Now, Netflix could potentially be exploring ways to generate […] © 2023 TechCrunch.
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