TechCrunch
SEPTEMBER 4, 2023
Large language models (LLMs) like OpenAI’s ChatGPT all suffer from the same problem: they make stuff up. The mistakes range from strange and innocuous — like claiming that the Golden Gate Bridge was transported across Egypt in 2016 — to highly problematic, even dangerous.
CIO
SEPTEMBER 4, 2023
The technology industry is made up of just 26% women, compared to a nearly equal split at 49% across the total workforce. Most notably, that number hasn’t done much besides decrease over the past 30 years , hovering around the same percentage and dipping slightly in recent years. But the lack of women in tech is a deeper issue that stems all the way back to childhood — with gender stereotypes that have historically, and inaccurately, suggested that women and girls are less skilled at math, scien
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TechCrunch
SEPTEMBER 4, 2023
Anchor, a Nigerian banking-as-a-service (BaaS) provider, has raised $2.4 million in seed investment. Justin Kan’s Goat Capital led the financing round which also welcomed participation from FoundersX, Rebel Fund and some existing investors, including Y Combinator and Byld Ventures. The fintech emerged from stealth a year ago with over $1 million in pre-seed funding.
Let's Grow Leaders
SEPTEMBER 4, 2023
To Lead Highly Productive Teams: Keep Them Focused on What Matters Most If you want to increase productivity at work, maintain a relentless focus on what matters most in four areas. First, ensure your team understands their big strategic priorities – the outcomes that matter most for the organization. Next, get clear about the specific initiatives and projects that support the strategic priorities.
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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
SEPTEMBER 4, 2023
Of the many lofty promises of cryptocurrency, one of the most commendable ones is its potential to bring financial inclusion to underserved users. Nairobi-based Kotani Pay is a crypto payments startup with a vision to make cross-border remittances easier for the large underbanked populations in Africa.
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TechCrunch
SEPTEMBER 4, 2023
Telecom operators in India, the second largest wireless market, would like internet companies to compensate for using their networks, a recommendation they’ve made to the local regulatory body, echoing a viewpoint that is gaining some momentum in other parts of the world.
Harvard Business Review
SEPTEMBER 4, 2023
This article explores three common traps that managers fall into when measuring their strategy’s performance and explains how to avoid them. The first trap is when the strategic framework and measurement system don’t align. To fix it, you must organize both around key stakeholders. The second trap is when companies measure what they do rather than what they achieve.
TechCrunch
SEPTEMBER 4, 2023
Protestors gathered Monday outside Cruise’s headquarters in San Francisco after reports of one of its robotaxis blocking an ambulance with a patient on board who later died. The incident, which the San Francisco Fire Department reported last week, happened on August 14, when a driver hit a pedestrian in the city around 11 p.m.
thoughtLEADERS, LLC
SEPTEMBER 4, 2023
Women face exceptional challenges in the workplace. To succeed, women must understand that they can have it all by defining their “why.” Today’s guest post is by Raquel Gomes, Founder & CEO — Stafi When Spanx founder Sara Blakely was a door-to-door fax machine saleswoman, she abhorred the thought of having to wear pantyhose in the sweltering Florida heat, but that same frustration gave birth to an idea — one that would eventually make her a billionaire.
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IT leaders know the importance of compliance at every level, but the database often gets left behind as other environments are automated for robust protection. This whitepaper emphasizes the importance of robust, auditable, and secure database change management practices for safeguarding organizational compliance. Learn how automating database compliance: Mitigates risk Protects against security vulnerabilities Helps avoid regulatory penalties Aligns database workflows with app lifecycle Turns d
TechCrunch
SEPTEMBER 4, 2023
Butternut Box, a U.K.-based startup that prepares and ships healthy food and supplements for dogs, is raising £280 million ($354 million) in a round of funding from General Atlantic and L Catterton.
The Daily WTF
SEPTEMBER 4, 2023
Tracking the performance of an application matters. Too often, developers will try and tune and optimize an application based on their instincts about where the performance is bad- instincts which are frequently wrong. Remy L 's company included performance tracking blocks in their code, enabled by a debug flag. According to the performance stats, their program performed incredibly well.
TechCrunch
SEPTEMBER 4, 2023
Money sent home by migrant workers not only helps their families, but also enables entire economies to develop. But transferring money comes at a high cost to workers, with remittance fees averaging about 6.5%.
Perficient
SEPTEMBER 4, 2023
In the previous part of this blog, we’ve seen what Salesforce Survey is, how to enable it and how to create a Salesforce Survey form. If you are not aware of Survey forms , you can go with this link. In this part of this blog, we are going to explore the ways through which we can send the created survey forms to customers. So, without waiting, let’s get started.
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.
TechCrunch
SEPTEMBER 4, 2023
Some of India’s biggest fintech startups are making deeper inroads into soundboxes, unveiling new push to the pocket-sized devices whose chimes are fast becoming the new ‘ka-ching’ for millions of Indian merchants.
Dataiku
SEPTEMBER 4, 2023
As data, analytics, and AI programs expand across organizations, various teams, systems, and methods can limit trust and success. New technology, like Generative AI chatbots and services, can further the problem by introducing another set of choices and technologies for teams to manage. Instead of considering these new technologies separate from other advanced analytics, data teams should leverage existing AI platforms as they bring Generative AI into their organization and projects.
TechCrunch
SEPTEMBER 4, 2023
Taste is something that continues to be a challenge for plant-based protein companies. If it tastes more like meat, it's a winner, according to new stats from Good Food Institute.
Tenable
SEPTEMBER 4, 2023
Why is CISA urging cyber teams to prepare for quantum attacks? What’s with the recent surge in ransomware attacks? Interested in helping to influence policy solutions for open source software? We’ve got you covered in this week’s edition of the Tenable Cyber Watch, our weekly video news digest highlighting three cybersecurity topics that matter right now.
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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
SEPTEMBER 4, 2023
Envisics, a UK-based holographics company building in-car technology that projects navigation, safety alerts and other data onto the inside of a windscreen, has closed a $100 million Series C round. The company announced the round’s first $50 million tranche in March, which brought Envisics up to a $500 million valuation.
Dzone - DevOps
SEPTEMBER 4, 2023
Welcome to the first post in our new series exploring the world of MQTT broker clustering. If you're involved in the IoT (Internet of Things) space or have embarked on any journey involving real-time data transfer, you've probably come across MQTT (Message Queuing Telemetry Transport). MQTT is a lightweight, publish-subscribe network protocol that transports messages between devices, often known as the backbone for IoT.
TechCrunch
SEPTEMBER 4, 2023
Tinrocket, makers of popular apps such as Waterlogue and Olli, have released a new camera app called Cinemin to shoot animated photos and videos without the help of any AI filters. The app, available for free, uses inspiration from traditional animated art and films for its filters.
TurnKey Labs
SEPTEMBER 4, 2023
When you’re running a startup or tech company, it’s hard enough keeping the cogs of your software development efforts turning without worrying about adding new partners and vendors to that mix.
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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
SEPTEMBER 4, 2023
Hero MotoCorp, the world’s top two-wheeler maker, said on Monday it plans to invest up to $66.5 million in Ather Energy, a promising electric vehicle startup in India whose fast-growing fortune had to hit brake after a local policy change. Hero MotoCorp, which already owns a 33.
TurnKey Labs
SEPTEMBER 4, 2023
In our last (brilliant and informative) blog, we talked about the differences and similarities between Offshoring and Outsourcing. And we introduced the concept of Yourshoring, which is a term we at TurnKey have coined to describe what we do (we make it all about YOUR product, YOUR team, YOUR deliverable, YOU get the picture).
TechCrunch
SEPTEMBER 4, 2023
TechCrunch Disrupt, our flagship startup event, returns to San Francisco on September 19–21, and you can bet TechCrunch+ will be in the house. With excitement and pride, here’s what we have in store for you on the Builders Stage at Disrupt on what I predict will be the most whip-ass stage at the event.
John Snow Labs
SEPTEMBER 4, 2023
Often in Natural Language Processing (NLP), we often judge a model’s success based on how accurate it is. But this approach can be misleading because it doesn’t show how well the model handles real-world language. To truly know if a model is good, we need to test its robustness — how well it deals with different kinds of changes in the text it’s given.
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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
SEPTEMBER 4, 2023
As has been pointed out many, many times, lack of diversity is an ongoing problem in the tech startup and VC landscape. It’s a fact that’s long been recognised in the US, and it’s of equal concern in Europe. Zoom in on the Nordics region, and the lack of diversity sadly becomes even more acute.
John Snow Labs
SEPTEMBER 4, 2023
The field of Natural Language Processing (NLP) has been greatly impacted by the advancements in machine learning, leading to a significant improvement in linguistic understanding and generation. However, new challenges have emerged with the development of these powerful NLP models. One of the major concerns in the field is the issue of robustness, which refers to a model’s ability to consistently and accurately perform on a wide range of linguistic inputs, including those that are not typical.
TechCrunch
SEPTEMBER 4, 2023
Founders chatted with us about construction tech trends so we could get a basic idea of where the industry is headed.
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