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10 highest-paying IT skills for 2024

CIO

These roles include data scientist, machine learning engineer, software engineer, research scientist, full-stack developer, deep learning engineer, software architect, and field programmable gate array (FPGA) engineer. It is used to execute and improve machine learning tasks such as NLP, computer vision, and deep learning.

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23andMe set to go public via a Virgin Group SPAC merger

TechCrunch

Genetics testing and genome research company 23andMe is set to go public via a merger with special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) VG Acquisition Corp., a vehicle set up by Richard Branson and his company Virgin Group. billion, close to the total cited by an earlier report detailing the talks leading up to this deal. 23andMe raises $82.5

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How Nvidia became a trillion-dollar company

CIO

Still, software developers seeking to leverage graphics chips for non-graphical applications had to wrangle their calculations into a form that could be sent to the GPU as a series of instructions for either Microsoft’s DirectX graphics API or the open-source OpenGL (Open Graphics Library).

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We are still early with the cloud

Erik Bernhardsson

I encountered AWS in 2006 or 2007 and remember thinking that it's crazy — why would anyone want to put their stuff in someone else's data center? When I run tests, I want to parallelize all of them. Why do I need to SSH into a CI runner to debug some test failure that I can't repro locally? The genesis. I could go on!

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Contracting: Enterprise Edition

The Daily WTF

The first week of those six months were spent waiting for the operations team to provision him a Citrix environment- developers weren't given laptops, they were given dumb terminals that connected to a canonical dev environment hosted in Citrix. Starting in 2006, J2EE became Java EE, which eventually became Jakarta EE.

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Speechmatics raises $62M for its inclusive approach to speech-to-text AI

TechCrunch

The company was originally spun out back in 2006 of AI research in Cambridge by founder Dr. Tony Robinson, and prior to this had only raised around $10 million (Albion and IQ are among those past backers, along with the CIA-backed In-Q-Tel and others). Susquehanna Growth Equity out of the U.S.

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Twitter co-founder Biz Stone joins board of audiovisual startup Chroma

TechCrunch

The company announced today that Twitter and Medium co-founder Biz Stone, previously an angel investor in Chroma alongside Pinterest’s founders, will join the company’s board of directors to contribute his expertise in areas like design, product development, filmmaking, and scaling brands.

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