Sat.May 15, 2021 - Fri.May 21, 2021

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6 Negotiation Techniques You Should Add to Your Playbook

thoughtLEADERS, LLC

Your negotiation strategy can make or break a deal. Learning negotiation tactics is key to becoming a more strategic negotiator. Over the years, I’ve learned some great negotiating techniques and tactics. I’d like to share them now. The Invisible Man The first is called The Invisible Man. You can use this technique when you’re in the heat of a deal and you don’t want to give an answer right now, or you don’t like the position that the other party is taking.

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NVIDIA RAPIDS in Cloudera Machine Learning

Cloudera

Introduction. In the previous blog post in this series, we walked through the steps for leveraging Deep Learning in your Cloudera Machine Learning (CML) projects. This year, we expanded our partnership with NVIDIA , enabling your data teams to dramatically speed up compute processes for data engineering and data science workloads with no code changes using RAPIDS AI.

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Somewhere Good just raised $3.75M to make your somewhere good

TechCrunch

Nearly every social media experience today is built on the same premise: Humans identify with individuality. Users create a profile, upload an avatar picture, write a short biography and can then scream into the ether to other users on behalf of their digitally sculpted selves. Naj Austin , the founder behind Ethel’s Club, built Somewhere Good last year on an entirely different premise.

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The Blight of Soul-Crushing Useless Negative Feedback

Let's Grow Leaders

Don’t let useless negative feedback sap your team’s motivation. Negative feedback is destructive and all-too-common. There are three common problems that erode the power of these conversations. . My phone buzzed with a text message from Amena, a junior manager. “Just had annual eval – most useless ever. Negative feedback that makes no sense.”.

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Embrace AI: Make Your VoIP Service Stand Out

Dialogview is revolutionizing VoIP services with its AI-powered platform, which is now available for white labeling. Our solution autonomously resolves over 68% of customer queries in more than 40 languages, dramatically reducing your team’s workload. With advanced conversational AI, Dialogview understands customer sentiments and queries in real time, without any button presses needed by users.

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Top 5 Outsourcing Web Design and Development Benefits

The Crazy Programmer

Run a startup and need a cool website or have a new project that requires web design & development? Either way, first thing you have to decide: whether to hire the specialists yourself or find a great outsource company to delegate it to them. Both ways have their advantages and disadvantages, but recently outsourcing has become an emerging trend.

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In the race for tech talent, the US should look to Mexico

TechCrunch

Gustavo Parés. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Gustavo Parés is CEO of NDS Cognitive Labs , a leader in cognitive computing and AI business solutions. A professor at Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (ITESM), he's partnered with Microsoft, IBM and Google to deliver digital transformation and cognitive technology services. More posts by this contributor.

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Drive Your Career Success – featuring Ed Evarts

Let's Grow Leaders

If you’re ambitious, talented, and ready to take your career to the next level, this episode is for you. Ed Evarts shares several principles of taking responsibility for your career. You’ll get practical ways to build a positive relationship with your boss, vital questions to ask yourself, the power of curiosity to advance your career, and more.

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React SEO Strategies and Best Practices

Toptal

While React is often lauded for making front-end development more efficient, this popular library can be problematic for search engines. In this article, Toptal Data Visualization Engineer Vineet Markan examines why React is challenging for SEO and outlines what software engineers can do to improve the search rankings of React websites.

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The US Cyber Games: More Important For Humanity Than The Olympics

CTOvision

I love the Olympics. They are a source of hope for a future when nation’s will spend more time collaborating on how to achieve a more prosperous future where human rights and liberty is universally accepted. But meanwhile, the interconnectivity of our IT and presence of adversaries in cyberspace is threatening our pursuit of liberty […].

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Streamlining Database Compliance with CI/CD Integration

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

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Don’t tweet about $ASS

TechCrunch

I am not a smart man. Earlier today I tweeted about $ASS , a cryptocurrency named after a dog. In this case, Australian Shepherds. And after doing that obviously stupid thing, my Twitter feed became chock-full of ass-related imagery, memes, and $ASS coin stans breathing on me. It’s all very annoying as I run Tweetdeck on a work laptop which is now very, well, dicey a proposition given what I’m being sent. save me pic.twitter.com/CtmjcfeWdX. — alex (@alex) May 20, 2021.

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How Do I Encourage Courage on My Team? (With Video)

Let's Grow Leaders

To Encourage Courage, Start with a “Fear Forage” Today we bring you ideas for getting started building a courageous culture from backstage at the Mountain West Credit Union Association conference. And how to encourage more courage and innovation on your team. We discuss: How to conduct a “fear forage ” even if you are leading a virtual or hybrid team.

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Will App Dev Become a Normal Competency?

DevOps.com

With a shortage of available developers, companies are considering low-code methods to meet massive application development needs. As a result, by 2024, citizen developers will be responsible for 65% of applications, Gartner predicted. So, if technical ability rises across the board, will application development become an expected skillset for tomorrow’s digital workers?

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Bitcoin Whipsaws Investors in Wild Ride That Crippled Exchanges

CTOvision

Bitcoin took investors on a wild ride Wednesday, plunging as much as 29% before cutting the drop in half in a bout of selling that drew attention across Wall Street and social media. The extreme volatility in an asset known for its swings caused outages on major crypto exchanges and at one point brought Bitcoin’s […].

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How to Migrate From DataStax Enterprise to Instaclustr Managed Apache Cassandra

If you’re considering migrating from DataStax Enterprise (DSE) to open source Apache Cassandra®, our comprehensive guide is tailored for architects, engineers, and IT directors. Whether you’re motivated by cost savings, avoiding vendor lock-in, or embracing the vibrant open-source community, Apache Cassandra offers robust value. Transition seamlessly to Instaclustr Managed Cassandra with our expert insights, ensuring zero downtime during migration.

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Snap acquires AR startup WaveOptics, which provides tech for Spectacles, for over $500M

TechCrunch

Snap yesterday announced the latest iteration of its Spectacles augmented reality glasses , and today the company revealed a bit more news: it is also acquiring the startup that supplied the technology that helps power them. The Snapchat parent is snapping up WaveOptics , an AR startup that makes the waveguides and projectors used in AR glasses. These overlay virtual images on top of the views of the real world someone wearing the glasses can see, and Snap worked with WaveOptics to build its lat

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Next-generation Deploy Previews, plus Netlify acquires FeaturePeek

Netlify

About five years ago, Netlify pioneered the concept of Deploy Previews. We learned a lot from emerging best practices in large development teams and created an automated workflow where every push to Git can generate a unique preview URL. While this made it much easier for teams to share progress, it exposed a new challenge: gathering feedback on that preview.

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Three Ways Machine Learning Can Change Incident Management

DevOps.com

Incident management for important applications has many connotations, many of them negative. Most are well-deserved. Stress, panic, hurry, urgent, drop-everything, all-hands-on-deck, emergency, to name a few. Typically, there is a critical problem, ranging from complete failure to loss of certain functionality or performance. The problem or outage potentially means loss of revenue, loss of customers, […].

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The Army Is Testing Arming Its Light Tactical Vehicles With Drones

CTOvision

The U.S. Army is experimenting with launching the Area-I small Agile-Launch Tactically Integrated Unmanned System drone, or ALTIUS, from an ultralight tactical vehicle. The drone has already been launched from Army MQ-1C unmanned aircraft and UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters, as well as from an Air Force XQ-58A Valkyrie stealthy unmanned aircraft, but this is the […].

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The Big Payoff of Application Analytics

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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Aevum is building a modular autonomous drone for space and terrestrial deliveries

TechCrunch

Logistics and delivery providers are territorially split between Earth and space, with companies like Amazon and FedEx working to master ground, air and drone transportation, and new entrants like SpaceX honing its expertise in space launch. Autonomous transportation startup Aevum wants to do both. And it was just issued a patent that will help it move dexterously between space launch to low Earth orbit, and air cargo and drone deliveries here on Earth.

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Why automation must drive modern app sec testing

TechBeacon

No application is fully ready for public consumption until it has undergone thorough security testing. But with the frequency of software releases on the rise, it has become difficult for security experts to keep pace.

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Confluent CLI Launches Exciting New Features and an Intuitive UI

Confluent

With so many technologies in the modern development ecosystem, a common complaint is having to go through the mental gymnastics of adopting new products and keeping up with ever-expanding feature […].

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Tesla may have to hold its big hoard of Bitcoin for decades

CTOvision

Read David Fickling explain why EV car maker Tesla, Inc. and its CEO, Elon Musk could end up hoarding Bitcoin for more than 10 years on Live Mint : Shouldn’t the world’s biggest electric-car manufacturer know how a power grid works? You’d hope so, but Elon Musk’s latest foray into cryptocurrency commentary makes you wonder. […].

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LLMOps for Your Data: Best Practices to Ensure Safety, Quality, and Cost

Speaker: Shreya Rajpal, Co-Founder and CEO at Guardrails AI & Travis Addair, Co-Founder and CTO at Predibase

Large Language Models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT offer unprecedented potential for complex enterprise applications. However, productionizing LLMs comes with a unique set of challenges such as model brittleness, total cost of ownership, data governance and privacy, and the need for consistent, accurate outputs. Putting the right LLMOps process in place today will pay dividends tomorrow, enabling you to leverage the part of AI that constitutes your IP – your data – to build a defensible AI strategy fo

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Otter.ai’s new assistant can automatically transcribe your Zoom meetings

TechCrunch

A.I.-powered voice transcription service Otter.ai wants to make it even easier for its business users to record their meetings. The company is today introducing a new feature, Otter Assistant, which can automatically join the Zoom meetings on your calendar, transcribe the conversations, and share the notes with other participants. Though Otter.ai is already integrated with Zoom, the assistant is designed to make using transcription something you don’t have to constantly remember to enable

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Improving Your Kubernetes Authorization: Don’t Use system:masters

Aqua Security

When you’re operating Kubernetes clusters, an important area of focus is in ensuring your authorization model is correct and provides users with the least privileges needed for them to carry out their roles. As such, blanket cluster-admin privileges should never be used and in particular the in-built system:masters group should be avoided.

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Double extortion ransomware

Darktrace

With ransomware attacks against AXA ASIA, Colonial Pipeline, and Ireland’s Health Service last week, this blog explores how cyber-criminal groups are exfiltrating data to coerce victims into paying, in what is known as ‘double extortion’ ransomware.

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Our tech empowers customers to instantly fight online fraud

CTOvision

While companies in India continue their digital transformation journey, driven by consumer-driven innovation, Aerospike is fast becoming one of the key technology levers that they are using to accelerate this transformation. Mountain View, California-headquartered Aerospike has been in existence for 10 years globally and for eight years in India. Its revenues and customers have doubled […].

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How to Achieve Product-Market Fit

Speaker: Dan Olsen - Product Management Trainer and Consultant, Author, and Speaker

Everyone working on a product is trying to achieve the same goal: product-market fit. But most products fail to do so. In this webinar, product management expert Dan Olsen will share his simple but effective framework for achieving product-market fit from his book The Lean Product Playbook. He will explain his Product-Market Fit Pyramid and The Lean Product Process, a 6-step methodology that guides you through how to: Determine your target customer Identify underserved customer needs Define your

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Telemedicine startups are positioning themselves for a post-pandemic world

TechCrunch

Telemedicine, in its original form of the phone call, has been around for decades. For people in remote or rural areas without easy access to in-person care, consulting a doctor over the phone has often been the go-to approach. But for a large swath of the world used to taking half a day off work just for a 15-30 minute doctor’s appointment, it may seem like telemedicine was invented only last year.

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AXA’s ransomware gambit comes back to bite

TechBeacon

AXA’s Asian arm has been hit by a ransomware attack. The news comes days after AXA’s French HQ said it planned to stop writing cyber-insurance policies that pay out ransoms to hackers.

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Error Handling Patterns for Apache Kafka Applications

Confluent

Apache Kafka® applications run in a distributed manner across multiple containers or machines. And in the world of distributed systems, what can go wrong often goes wrong. This blog post […].