CTOvision
JUNE 8, 2021
OODA members have access to a wide range of premium content and research designed to enable optimal decisions in competitive situations. For speed of access members can use the search function or can find relevant research based on the categorization below: Cybersecurity Sensemaking: Strategic intelligence to inform your decisionmaking The OODA leadership and analysts have […].
TechCrunch
JUNE 8, 2021
In today’s GPT-3 world, it’s not uncommon to hear about new software services that deal with text. Compose.ai is one such company, though it built its own language model to help folks write faster. Its early product work was enough for it to land a $2.1 million seed round led by Craft Ventures, it announced this morning. Compose.ai is essentially an auto-complete function that works wherever you browse the web.
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CTOvision
JUNE 8, 2021
Guggenheim Partners, a $315 billion investment firm, could be looking for further access to the crypto market through a new fund, a Tuesday filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission suggests. According to this week’s filing, the firm registered the Guggenheim Active Allocation Fund, which will invest in financial products, such as derivatives, whose value tracks […].
TechCrunch
JUNE 8, 2021
Every startup is trying to fix something but Terraformation is tackling the only problem that must matter to all of us: Climate change. This is why it’s in such a big huge hurry. Its mission — as a ‘forest tech’ startup — is to accelerate tree planting by applying a startup-y operational philosophy of scalability to the pressing task of rapidly, sustainably reforesting denuded landscapes — bringing back native trees species to revive former wastelands and shri
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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.
Hacker Earth Developers Blog
JUNE 8, 2021
For the third year in a row, there is a massive increase in the skills gap across industries, with nearly 80% of organizations saying that their teams lack the necessary skills; as stated by the Global Knowledge IT Skills and Salary report. The ever-increasing skills gap is the bane of IT leaders who aim to build future-ready tech teams. The age of digital disruption dictates the requirements of the current and future workforce and the existing workforce is unprepared to address the emerging tre
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O'Reilly Media - Ideas
JUNE 8, 2021
A few months ago, I was asked if there were any older technologies other than COBOL where we were in serious danger of running out of talent. They wanted me to talk about Fortran, but I didn’t take the bait. I don’t think there will be a critical shortage of Fortran programmers now or at any time in the future. But there’s a bigger question lurking behind Fortran and COBOL: what are the ingredients of a technology shortage?
TechCrunch
JUNE 8, 2021
Liteboxer , the Peloton for boxing, has announced the close of a $20 million Series A funding round led by Nimble Ventures. B. Riley Venture Capital participated, alongside existing investors Raptor Group and Will Ventures. Liteboxer launched publicly to the world in July of 2020, announcing an in-home device that brings gamification, hit music and a touch of entertainment to a boxing workout.
TechBeacon
JUNE 8, 2021
Most developers believe in the value of unit tests, even if they don't always like writing them. Most of them are okay with writing unit tests while doing new development work or practicing test-driven development (TDD), but it's easy to be disciplined with greenfield development.
TechCrunch
JUNE 8, 2021
The continuing saga of Lordstown Motor’s struggles as a public company took a new turn today as the electric truck manufacturer made yet more news. Bad news. Shares of Lordstown are down sharply today after the company reported in an SEC filing that it does not have enough capital to build and launch its electric truck. Here’s the official verbiage (formatting, bolding: TechCrunch): Since inception, the Company has been developing its flagship vehicle, the Endurance, an electric full
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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
CTOvision
JUNE 8, 2021
Read why Biraajmaan Tamuly says that Chainlink investors need to be wary since it is moving into a non-essential bracket on AMB Crypto : Chainlink has been seeing an outstanding 2021. And yet, it is not blowing the competition out of the water like it did in 2020. The crypto-asset has risen by more than […].
TechCrunch
JUNE 8, 2021
“It’s not a nail polish company,” says Fenton Jagdeo of Faculty , the startup he cofounded in 2019 with Umar ElBably. Though their Toronto-based company currently sells just three shades of nail polish along with some nail stickers — that’s it — the products are a wedge to something much larger, says Jagdeo. There will be merchandise, according to the former business management consultant.
CTOvision
JUNE 8, 2021
In a surprise move, one of the world’s best-known anti-virus software makers is adding cryptocurrency mining to its products. Norton 360 customers will have access to an Ethereum mining feature in the “coming weeks”, the company said. Cryptocurrency “mining” works by using a computer’s hardware to do complex calculations in exchange for a reward.
TechCrunch
JUNE 8, 2021
Wagely founders (from l to r): Tobias Fischer, Sasanadi Ruka and Kevin Hausburg. Earned wage access (EWA) platforms that allow workers to withdraw their earnings on demand instead of waiting until payday are proliferating around the world. Today, Indonesian EWA startup wagely announced it has raised $5.6 million in strategic funding, led by Integra Partners (formerly known as Dymon Asia Ventures).
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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.
CTOvision
JUNE 8, 2021
Read Oluwapelumi Adejumo explain how The Graph (GRT) token works in plain and simple English for new investors on Coin Speaker : When The Graph (GRT) was introduced in July of 2018, the visualization of the project was to build a decentralized indexing protocol for Web3. The protocol is the core infrastructure for Web3, a […].
TechCrunch
JUNE 8, 2021
Robotaxis may still be a few years out, but there are other industries that can be transformed by autonomous vehicles as they are today. MIT spin-off ISEE has identified one in the common shipping yard, where containers are sorted and stored — today by a dwindling supply of human drivers, but tomorrow perhaps by the company’s purpose-built robotic yard truck.
CTOvision
JUNE 8, 2021
Snowflake Inc. Chief Executive Officer Frank Slootman said the cloud software maker needs to focus more on merit when hiring and promoting employees rather than diversity goals, even as it takes steps to boost opportunities for workers. “We’re actually highly sympathetic to diversity but we just don’t want that to override merit. If I start […].
TechCrunch
JUNE 8, 2021
Many companies talk the talk when it comes to diversity, but it’s harder to know if a firm is actually going the extra mile to hire more qualified people from underrepresented groups, or if they just make noise about it. Blendoor , a six-year-old startup, wants to put data to work on the problem by giving companies a score based on publicly available data to let the world know just how diverse a company actually is.
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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.
Toptal
JUNE 8, 2021
By embracing skeuomorphic design and retouching 3D assets in Photoshop for extra detail, Predrag Markovic created an icon and logo that stand out from other games in the Apple Arcade.
TechCrunch
JUNE 8, 2021
Toast has raised more than $900 billion and is reportedly valued at over $5 billion. But back in 2011, no one knew this startup would see such meteoric success. It had a few things going for it, of course — founder Aman Narang hailed from Endeca, where he was a software engineer and product lead with a reputation for being able to ship a lot of software quickly.
Synopsys
JUNE 8, 2021
Synopsys acquires Code Dx to extend application security portfolio. Code Dx adds software vulnerability correlation, prioritization, and consolidated risk reporting. The post Code Dx brings game-changing capabilities to Synopsys appeared first on Software Integrity Blog.
TechCrunch
JUNE 8, 2021
New York-based Simulate today announced a $50 million fundraise. Led by Alexis Ohanian’s 776, the Series B brings the meat alternative’s total funding to north of $60 million and values it at $260 million. Simulate’s first product, Nuggs (formerly also the startup’s name ), has already caused a splash, thanks in no small part to aggressive online advertising.
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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.
DataRobot
JUNE 8, 2021
I started a family late in life. I have a three-year-old son and just a couple of months ago, celebrated my fifth wedding anniversary. There are pluses and minuses to starting late. My lifestyle choices don’t neatly fit into customer categories that marketers have been using for decades. Some marketing campaigns assume that if I’m a fifty-something man purchasing a product for a child, I must be a grandfather.
TechCrunch
JUNE 8, 2021
Electric vehicle startup Fisker Inc. has set a moonshot goal of creating its first climate-neutral car by 2027. Fisker has yet to bring a vehicle to market — climate neutral or not — making this an ambitious target. The all-electric Fisker Ocean SUV, which is still on track to go into production in November 2022, will not be climate neutral, according to CEO Henrik Fisker, who laid out the target as part of a broader update Tuesday to investors.
Daffodil Software
JUNE 8, 2021
Machine Learning (ML) is one of the most versatile technologies of Artificial Intelligence (AI). The healthIT sector has realized the importance of ML in the prediction, management, and treatment of various health issues. These days, researchers are coming up with some innovative ways in which machine learning is improving the quality of patient care.
TechCrunch
JUNE 8, 2021
As people live longer and longer and have long-term health issues like cancer and dementia, caring for elderly relatives is becoming a huge societal and political issue. Right now this care is antiquated and run by incumbents, many of which still run off paper and Excel. We are now seeing a new wave of startups turn up to tackle this space by applying Apple’s age-old model of owning the experience end-to-end and running everything on a platform.
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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.
Ivanti
JUNE 8, 2021
Microsoft has just released the June Patch Tuesday updates and it is a hot one! There are 49 unique vulnerabilities, six of which have been detected in exploits in the wild. Many of the exploited vulnerabilities are only rated as Important and have lower CVSSv3 base scores, which can cause them to be missed in prioritization in some organizations. This brings a very important prioritization challenge to the forefront this month.
TechCrunch
JUNE 8, 2021
Last year, Seattle-based network security startup ExtraHop was riding high, quickly approaching $100 million in ARR and even making noises about a possible IPO in 2021. But there will be no IPO, at least for now, as the company announced this morning it has been acquired by a pair of private equity firms for $900 million. The firms, Bain Capital Private Equity and Crosspoint Capital Partners, are buying a security solution that provides controls across a hybrid environment, something that could
Beyond B2B
JUNE 8, 2021
We know that you never want to stop learning - because life never stops teaching. So, with a mission to make learning fun and free, Software AG is investing in product enablement and training for our customers, partners, and the developer community.
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