CIO

MARCH 22, 2022

Despite national conversations about a lack of women in tech, women remain largely underrepresented in STEM roles , according to a study by the National Science Foundation. And the pipeline doesn’t suggest a near-term correction, as only 19% of computer science degrees were awarded to women in 2016, down from 27% in 1997. Women also typically make less than their male counterparts in science, engineering, mathematics, and computer science occupations — with an average median salary of $66,000 pe

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2022

Smartphone cameras have gotten quite good, but it’s getting harder and harder to improve them because we’ve pretty much reached the limit of what’s possible in the space of a cubic centimeter. Glass is a startup looking to fundamentally change how the camera works, using a much bigger sensor and an optical trick from the depths of filmmaking: anamorphic lenses.

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Agile Alliance

MARCH 22, 2022

Pull back the curtain on organizations’ strategic plans and you’re likely to find one or more transformation initiatives. These include adopting Agile methods, modern engineering practices, DevOps, API design, microservices, and cloud architectures. Successful transformations require learning that is hard to achieve through traditional approaches to training.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2022

Less than seven months after closing on a $57 million Series B , fast-growing fintech Jeeves has raised $180 million in a Series C round that values the company at $2.1 billion. Financial technology companies raising multiple rounds in a short period of time has become more the norm than an exception as of late. Still, the velocity of Jeeves’ growth and increase in valuation is impressive.

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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.

Artificial Inteligence

Agile Alliance

MARCH 22, 2022

Do you believe you and your team could release new features to production 2 times a day with no bugs discovered in production over a year and a half? In this talk I will tell you my team and I formed the important habits that took us from hundreds of bugs in production, to zero … Continued. The post Improving technical quality with Mob Programming and collective habits first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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Agile Alliance

MARCH 22, 2022

COVID-19 is unsettling for everyone, but the impact is even greater for underserved communities. Black people are dying from the virus at a higher rate – in fact, cities like Detroit, Milwaukee, Chicago, and New Orleans have reported more than 50% of virus deaths were black. Business and government leaders hold an important role in … Continued.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2022

D-ID , the Israeli company leveraging artificial intelligence to create unique, viral experiences like “Deep Nostalgia ,” which animates the faces of long-lost relatives in your old photos, announced today the raise of a $25 million Series B round of funding led by Macquarie Capital. The additional funds shortly follow D-ID’s recent launch of its Deep Nostalgia follow-up project, LiveStory , which adds audio to the animated photos, allowing the people in the photos to narrate t

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Hacker Earth Developers Blog

MARCH 22, 2022

Two years of the world adapting to new ways of working and the tech industry has pretty much seen it all. From working fully remote to transitioning to hybrid work models , recruiters know what kind of technology they need to streamline their hiring processes. Be it virtual coding assessment tools or online coding interview tools , the recruitment tech stack has vastly been improved to keep up with the ever-changing hiring landscape.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2022

Firefly Aerospace’s roller coaster ride could soon send the rocket startup to the public market via a merger with a special purpose acquisition company, a recent filing with the FCC suggests. Aerospace private equity firm AE Industrial Partners (AEI) announced last month that it had reached an agreement to acquire a “significant stake” in Firefly after its largest shareholder, Ukrainian Max Polyakov, was forced to sell his shares over national security concerns.

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Analytics

Agile Alliance

MARCH 22, 2022

Flight Levels take off - literally. More and more organisations are moving away from local agile sub-optimisation. They are using Flight Levels to enable the entire organisation to act agile in the market. In this session, I will present how you can use Flight Levels to implement the corporate strategy to make sure that the … Continued. The post The Organisations missing link to Business Agility first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2022

We’ve been hearing the concept of “community” lately in different aspects of startups and venture capital. From Lolita Taub taking a community-first focus in venture capitalism to Archive tapping into community for marketing buying power. In Latin America, where being a part of a community is important, we see startups, like Trela in Brazil and Muni in Colombia, bringing people together under a common need — in Muni’s case, the purchase of everyday essentials.

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Agile Alliance

MARCH 22, 2022

MVP, short for Minimum Viable Product is a concept that emerged in Silicon Valley and became very famous from many successful stories such as Facebook, Zappos, Dropbox, amongst many others. The post How to Plan the Minimum Viable Product first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2022

To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. PT, subscribe here. Hello and welcome to Daily Crunch for Tuesday, March 22, 2022! Excited to announce that we’re bringing in a few other folks to help bring this newsletter for you. Christine Hall helped write the Big Tech and Startups sections today, for example.

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Agile Alliance

MARCH 22, 2022

Leading global transformation engagements is always a challenge. The issues are not just a matter of international geography, time zones and language. Even when we can agree on a common language for the engagement, we find that native and non-native speakers do not speak the same language. Divisions within the same company may feel like … Continued.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2022

As the use of aircraft like drones, electric vertical take-off and landing vehicles and uncrewed aerial vehicles take off, Japanese startup Terra Drone wants to make sure trafficking the skies doesn’t get overlooked. “Our airspace is going to get more crowded than ever, but most companies today are concentrating only on hardware development,” said Terra Drone CEO and founder Toru Tokushige , who is also serving as the CEO of Terra Motors, which develops electric vehicles.

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Agile Alliance

MARCH 22, 2022

Based on recent research into systemic biases in software development, this panel will discuss some of the current challenges faced by underrepresented groups in tech, actions that are yielding positive change, and recommendations for fostering diversity. equity, and inclusion in Agile teams that Agile practitioners should pay particular attention to.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2022

Vijay Chattha. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Vijay Chattha is a general partner in VSC Ventures and is the founder and CEO of VSC, a communications and content platform for early-stage technology startups. More posts by this contributor. Establishing ethical guidelines for marketing cryptocurrencies. Jay Kapoor. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Jay Kapoor is a general partner at VSC Ventures, where he invests in seed and early-stage companies, helping them break out with value-add support on PR,

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Generative AI

Agile Alliance

MARCH 22, 2022

In this talk, I will tell why I consider that inclusion of diversity is a chemical X that has unexpected benefits in different areas such as design teams, design thinking processes for the creation of products or services, and even in organizations. An essential part of the content addresses information about extreme users, who they … Continued.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2022

Brian Spanswick. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Brian Spanswick is the chief information security officer (CISO) and head of IT at Cohesity. If there’s one thing that recent earnings reports from Microsoft, Google and Amazon made clear, it’s that their cloud businesses are booming. While the shift to the cloud is well underway, many companies aren’t paying attention to a critical aspect of this growth: the dramatic increase in data generated by SaaS that is not adequately protected.

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CloudGeometry

MARCH 22, 2022

When developing a SaaS product plan, it’s important to recognize two foundational principles. First, SaaS is a business strategy, not a technology strategy. Second, there is no one-size-fits-all SaaS architecture (the second principle is a corollary of the first). The challenge is to build common ground between business and architecture so as to translate business assumptions into critical technical solution inputs.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2022

Forge Global will begin to trade on the New York Stock Exchange today, having completed its merger with Motive Capital Corp as part of a SPAC combination. TechCrunch covered the blank-check tie-up when it was announced last September. Our first look at the deal’s metrics is here. To say that the IPO market has changed since last September is an understatement; the pace of public offerings from tech startups has slowed to a crawl in the wake of a sharp repricing of the value of technology s

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Aqua Security

MARCH 22, 2022

When developing new software, a key element of improving security is providing security feedback as early and seamlessly as possible. One way to do this is embed security tools directly into the development environment. Recently, Aqua’s open source scanner Trivy has added this functionality, integrating with popular developer tools Visual Studio Code and JetBrains to provide infrastructure-as-code (IaC) scanning as you write your software.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2022

Over the past decade, some of the biggest names in the tech, VC, automotive and aerospace industries have poured millions of dollars into developing electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft. And that investment trend shows no sign of slowing any time soon. Just some of these investors include Google co-founder Larry Page, United Therapeutics founder Martine Rothblatt, UP.Partners co-founder Cyrus Sigari and Kitty Hawk CEO Sebastian Thrun — along with corporations such as Airbus, A

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Dataiku

MARCH 22, 2022

The COVID-19 global pandemic forced us to experiment with how and where we work in an extensive way and many struggled with this transition. But the experience was definitely eye-opening on many levels. While some realized that they were not made for school teaching or Zoom happy hours, others explored new ways to balance their lives between work and personal activities.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2022

Primary healthcare provider Cityblock Health has named co-founder Toyin Ajayi as its new CEO. The company, which has raised nearly $900 million and has a valuation just shy of $6 billion, focuses on delivering comprehensive, quality care to the underserved population relying on Medicare and Medicaid in the U.S. Having previously served as the company’s president, Ajayi takes over from co-founder Iyah Romm, who took a temporary leave late in 2021 to focus on his own experience with “d

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Applications

DevOps.com

MARCH 22, 2022

With supply chain security becoming more of a focus, the SBOM is now viewed as a critical element in shoring up supply chain security. SBOM stands for software bill of materials. At a very elementary level, an SBOM is a list of ingredients. Think about how every food product in the supermarket lists ingredients so, […]. The post Secure Software Summit: Behold the SBOM appeared first on DevOps.com.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2022

Harness , the developer-focused startup from Jyoti Bansal , has been working hard to build a more complete modern tooling platform for developers while taking a distinct shift into open source more recently. That started with the acquisition of Drone.io in 2020. Today, the company took another open source step with the acquisition of ChaosNative , best known for the open source chaos engineering product LitmusChaos , which has been nurtured by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF).

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DevOps.com

MARCH 22, 2022

As more organizations focus on digital transformation as the centerpiece of their growth strategy, software developers and IT teams are under heightened pressure to perform—quickly and efficiently. That begs two questions: Can we do better? And if so, how can we do better? The answers can be elusive, especially for DevOps teams that have over-relied […].

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