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Psychedelics startups are on a long journey to consumer markets, but these 5 VCs are taking the ride

TechCrunch

Previously relegated to underground communities and rave culture, drugs like ketamine, MDMA (commonly known as ecstasy) and psilocybin are now being studied to develop therapies to treat everything from PTSD to cluster headaches. We are most excited by drug developers. “Today, there are 400+ ketamine clinics in the U.S.,

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Radar trends to watch: December 2021

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

What’s concerning isn’t the bad advice so much as the naiveté of the research project. Without a huge step forward in natural language understanding, and in the ability to reason about the history of human thought, why would anyone expect an AI system to do more than parrot back bad ethical advice that it finds in bulk on the web?

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AoAD2 Practice: Whole Team

James Shore

This is a pre-release excerpt of The Art of Agile Development, Second Edition , to be published by O’Reilly in 2021. Visit the Second Edition home page for information about the open development process, additional excerpts, and more. Whole Team. The Hole Team. Modern software development takes a lot of skills.

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Metadata Management: Process, Tools, Use Cases, and Best Practices

Altexsoft

Another example is labeling and categorizing objects in any scientific field, be it archeological finds, chemical samples, or living things in biology. Metadata storage usually implies developing a specialized repository. Some schemas were developed by national and international communities and adopted for wider usage.

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How femtech startup Inne rebooted its hardware launch after COVID-19 chaos

TechCrunch

But the coronavirus pandemic created a cascade of new challenges for Rapti and her team around supply chain and logistics — upsetting their careful calculations on unit economics. As well a s having shelled out to set up a production line it suddenly had to suspend, Inne had also doubled the size of its team to prepare for scaling.

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Data's day of reckoning

O'Reilly Media - Data

These incentives have been front and center in the conversations around the roles that social networks have played in the 2016 U.S. Chemists and biologists have had to address the use of their research for chemical and biological weapons. Security is usually taught as an elective, isolated from other classes about software development.

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Cyber Canon Candidate Book Review: The Internet of Risky Things: Trusting the Devices That Surround Us

Palo Alto Networks

However, as I continued reading through it, I found a number of very practical aspects that would help any IoT startup, technical group or security team looking to architect their IoT security strategy. The book also looks discusses the broader social and ethical discussions, such as: .