CIO

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

As a household name in household goods, with annual sales of $22 billion, Whirlpool has 54 manufacturing and tech research centers worldwide, and bursts with a portfolio that includes several familiar brands including KitchenAid, Maytag, Amana, Yummly, among others. The company employs 69,000 around the world as well and Danielle Brown, the company’s SVP and CIO, has a unique perspective on how best to lead the company’s digital transformation strategy.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Evernote, the note-taking and task management app founded over 20 years ago, has been acquired by Milan-based app developer Bending Spoons. In a post on Evernote’s newsroom, Evernote CEO Ian Small said that Bending Spoons will take ownership of Evernote in a transaction expected to close in early 2023. “For Evernote, this decision is the next strategic step forward on our journey to be an extension of your brain,” Small wrote. “Teaming up with Bending Spoons will [acceler

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Martin Fowler

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

One of the new features on Mastodon for a recovering twitterer is the CW field for new posts. CW stands for Content Warning. When I’m composing a post, if I press the CW button, I have the option of putting a short phrase into a dialog. Readers will initially only see that short phrase, and need to click a button to see more. But there's a lot of strong opinions on when and how to use it - how do I navigate that?

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

In a major first, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration just offered its safety blessing to a cultivated meat product startup. It completed its first pre-market consultation with Upside Foods to examine human food made from the cultured cells of animals, and it concluded that it had “no further questions” related to the way Upside is producing its chicken.

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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.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Around the world, organisations are fine-tuning the new digital focus brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic. To remain competitive, they have to grapple with multicloud-based data and operations, software as a service and hybrid working, among other trends. In this dynamic environment, those that don’t know exactly how their business-critical applications are behaving and performing at all times are wasting their time and money – and losing ground against competitors.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

As the new year approaches, so will a litany of predictions regarding the biggest issues facing CIOs in 2023. Will cyber security and data privacy threats top the list or will continued worldwide economic uncertainty take center stage? Regardless of what comes our way, CIOs are adept at managing change – and after two years of unprecedented, continuous disruption, we have become even more resilient.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Two years ago, South Korea unveiled a plan to reach carbon neutrality by 2050. Getting there will be another story. A lthough Korean manufacturers say they are trying to change their ways, the country’s GDP is linked to some uniquely pollutive industries, including petrochemical producers, automakers and shipbuilders. Though some businesses may never be truly sustainable, a venture firm in Seoul argues that emerging climate-tech startups will help big manufacturers do better overall.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Speaking at the CIO UK 100 ceremony in London, The Hut Group’s Joanna Drake reveals what it means to be ranked the top CIO in the UK, how automation is helping her IT team become ‘consultants’, and why her sports background made her a better leader.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

If you follow #beautytok, #beautytube or any beauty content on social media platforms, you know that popular product trends are hard to keep up with. Summer International stays ahead of the game by identifying the most influential content creators, and working with them to incubate new brands. Founded in Singapore and based in Los Angeles and South Korea, Summer International announced today it has raised a $5 million seed round from investors including GDP Ventures, Teja Ventures, Gushcloud Int

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DevOps.com

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Foundations and frameworks, concrete and steel—not exciting. But that’s the foundation and framing of pretty much every modern building. Everything else that is part of a building–flooring, wiring, lighting, room placement and so on—is made possible by the foundation and the framework. If you want DevOps to succeed in your organization, you have to start […].

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

There is no doubt that Chrome, Safari, Edge and Firefox attract the majority of browser users. But despite this dominance, smaller browser companies are trying to carve a niche, and even get users to pay for features. London-based SigmaOS is one such startup, which is building a Mac browser for productivity nerds. The company has raised $4 million in seed funding led by LocalGlobe and participation from Y Combinator, 7percent Ventures, Moonfire Ventures, Shine VC, TrueSight Ventures, Pioneer Fun

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DevOps.com

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Seriously. The more you can shift things like security and test to the left, the more responsive the DevOps process will be. Some things are better shifted right … But only while solving the problem with shifted-left work. A good example is blocking zero-day attacks proactively while the development process fixes the code to stop […]. The post Shift That [bleep] Left appeared first on DevOps.com.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

For all its promise, the current state of solid-waste recycling leaves a lot to be desired. Plastic waste is among the worst: It represents about 12% of solid waste in the U.S. , but only about 4.5% of what gets recycled. There are plenty of reasons why we’re terrible at recycling plastics. For one, not all are easily recyclable. The plastics industry hasn’t been doing us any favors , either.

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DevOps.com

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Atlassian today added a range of capabilities to its Jira project management application that make it easier to manage software development projects, including a toolchain page that simplifies tool discovery for any given project. In addition, Atlassian is including a Discover tab on that page that makes it possible to track activities and set priorities […].

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Sophie Alcorn. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Sophie Alcorn is the founder of Alcorn Immigration Law in Silicon Valley and 2019 Global Law Experts Awards’ “Law Firm of the Year in California for Entrepreneur Immigration Services.” She connects people with the businesses and opportunities that expand their lives. More posts by this contributor. Dear Sophie: How can I stay in the US if I’ve been laid off?

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Dzone - DevOps

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

If we were that metaphorical fly on the wall, following an all too common Slack conversation between a software engineer and DevOps engineers, it might go something like this: Software Engineer: This is gonna take forever. “I need a new environment for my app.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

David K Smith. Contributor. Share on Twitter. David Smith is VP of data and analytics at TheVentureCity , a global early-stage venture fund investing in product-centric startups across the U.S., Europe, and Latin America. Of every 100 deals a VC firm considers, about a quarter get a meeting, and only one ends up securing investment. Given the downturn in the markets leading to a startup funding squeeze, getting through the door is a critical first step.

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CEO Insider

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

There is no doubt that today’s CEOs are under duress. Uncertainty in the economy and ongoing turbulence in the current operating environment has created unprecedented challenges and disruptions. Today’s CEOs must forge ahead, moving past what is getting in their way to achieve their investors’ expectations and strategic goals. As a former chief human resources […].

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Back in 2018, Refael Angel, a former security software engineer at Intuit, had an idea for a new approach to protect encryption keys — the random string of bits created to scramble and unscramble data — on the cloud. He met with Shai Onn and then Oded Hareven, with whom Angel had worked five years earlier, to look for signs of product-market fit.

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The Daily WTF

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Chris was given a program and told to improve it by adding tests. That was a good start to a terrible experience. Just getting it to build was a chore, as the build files had absolute paths hard-coded into them. But the real problem Chris ran in to is that it's hard to write tests for something if no one knows what it does or why it does it. The application had no documentation.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

It’s time for another shout-out to recognize more of our partner companies that are dedicating their time and resources to make TC Sessions: Crypto — taking place tomorrow on November 17 in Miami — an awesome experience for everyone. The cure for FOMO: Buy your pass right now to keep your fingers on the pulse of the dynamic cryptoverse. TechCrunch partners do a whole lot more than just cut a check.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Become a leader with executive presence by being vocal, stating ideas with conviction, being decisive, and radiating calm. Today’s post is by Joel Garfinkle, thought LEADERS instructor, executive coach, and author of Executive Presence: Step Into Your Power, Convey Confidence, and Lead with Conviction. (CLICK HERE to get your copy). If you want to advance to high levels in your career—and make the greatest possible impact—you need to become a leader with executive presence.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

We’re thrilled to announce the three early-stage startups that will take the stage and go head-to-head in the pitch competition at TC Sessions: Crypto — this Thursday, November 17, in Miami. There’s still time to be in the room. Buy your pass right now to watch these founders square off in front of a live audience. They’ll have to work hard to impress our expert VC judges — Wen-Wen Lam , partner, Gradient Ventures and Will Nuelle , general partner, Galaxy Ventures.

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Flexagon

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

In this blog article, we will discuss FlexDeploy’s integration with Selenium for Salesforce test automation. Selenium is one of the most popular tools to achieve automated testing for major SaaS Products like Salesforce. With frequent releases, evolving business use cases, and interactive lightning user interfaces, Selenium helps perform various types of test automation for Salesforce implementations.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Well, those Bird results were wrong. It recently came to light that Bird, a former startup unicorn in the once-hot scooter rental market, overstated its revenue for several years, leading to the company stating in a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission that several of its “audited consolidated financial statements [ … ] should no longer be relied upon.” The errors impact the company’s results for 2020 and 2021, along with the first two quarters of 2022.

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CloudZero

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

A good chunk of your Amazon Web Services (AWS) public cloud spending goes to the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) service. Because it is the default compute service on AWS, Amazon EC2 is key to building, running, and scaling your AWS-based applications.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Proteins are the molecules that get work done in nature, and there’s a whole industry emerging around successfully modifying and manufacturing them for various uses. But doing so is time consuming and haphazard; Cradle aims to change that with an AI-powered tool that tells scientists what new structures and sequences will make a protein do what they want it to.

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Cloud That

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

TABLE OF CONTENT. 1. Overview. 2. Use cases. 3. Step-by-Step Demo on Amazon Polly. 4. Conclusion. 5. About CloudThat. 6. FAQs. Overview. Amazon Polly is a cloud service that turns text into lifelike speech, allowing us to create applications that talk and build entirely new categories of speech-enabled products. This service’s Text-to-Speech (TTS) service uses advanced deep learning technologies to synthesize natural-sounding human speech.

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