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GreenForges digs deep to farm underground

TechCrunch

Vertical farms usually look up. Aerofarms, Plenty, Gotham Greens — these companies are trying to revolutionize agriculture by looking toward the sky, with tall warehouses full of growing equipment extending upward. But Philippe Labrie is looking down. Labrie is the CEO and founder of the pre-seed startup GreenForges , an underground farming company founded in 2019 looking to take vertical farming technology underneath buildings.

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Difference between Data Warehousing and Data Mining

The Crazy Programmer

Data warehousing and data mining are two popular and essential techniques to store and analyze data. Data warehousing refers to the compiling and organizing of the stored data in the company’s database. However, data mining represents extracting essential and relevant data from the database. So, the marketing or other departments can get some crucial insights and plan their strategy accordingly.

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Y Combinator-backed MentalHappy app launches to make mental health care accessible

TechCrunch

On the heels of World Mental Health Day, an app called MentalHappy is launching with the goal of making mental health care accessible, affordable and stigma-free. “I’ve been on both sides of the spectrum where I can afford the $175 an hour for therapy, and where I couldn’t afford it,” said founder and CEO Tamar Blue. “We all need help navigating the life events that we go through, but how do we do that with an expert, not pay a fortune for it, be accessible, and do

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How Can I Have More Fun at Work? Asking For a Friend Video- Dr. Bob Nelson

Let's Grow Leaders

Practical Ideas for Having More Fun at Work. In this week’s Asking For a Friend, I interview Dr. Bob Nelson. author of Work Made Fun Gets Done , and discuss how to have more fun at work! Dos and Dont’s For Fun at Work. Do… Be playful; choose to have fun. Be open & flexible. Experiment; try new things. Learn, refine & reapply.

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Peak Performance: Continuous Testing & Evaluation of LLM-Based Applications

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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Plume raises $300M as it passes 1.2B devices in 35M homes using its smart Wi-Fi service

TechCrunch

Plume — a communications startup that partners with carriers to provide smart mesh Wi-Fi to improve broadband connectivity in homes, and then offers other smart home services on top of that network — has been in the middle of a massive boom in its business fueled by the rapid uptake, use and complete reliance on broadband in the home working as best as it can.

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India’s CarDekho becomes unicorn with $250 million fundraise

TechCrunch

CarDekho, an Indian search and e-commerce platform for new and used cars , has become the latest startup in the world’s second-largest market to reach the unicorn status. The 14-year-old startup said on Wednesday it has raised $250 million — $200 million in equity and $50 million in debt — in its Series E financing round. The round, which valued the Jaipur-headquartered firm at $1.2 billion, was led by LeapFrog Investments.

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5 Steps to Succeed With Blue-Green Deployment

DevOps.com

By allowing teams to maintain two production-ready environments at the same time, the blue-green deployment technique can significantly boost reliability. But blue-green deployment can also be difficult to execute and manage. Let’s unpack how blue-green deployment works, why it’s important and which best practices to follow for blue-green deployment success.

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VanMoof teases new high-speed electric bike

TechCrunch

E-bike manufacturer VanMoof recently raised a $128 million funding round. And the company is already using some of that cash to develop a brand new product — the VanMoof V. This is a new product in the VanMoof lineup, a high-speed bike. The VanMoof V isn’t available just yet. Instead, the company teased the new bike in a live YouTube video. The company plans to release the VanMoof V by the end of 2022.

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Software Development Is a Team Sport - Kubernetes Co-Founder, Joe Beda

Dzone - DevOps

Introduction. We recently had the opportunity to interview VMware’s principal engineer, Joe Beda, one of the creators of Kubernetes, as well as the Google Compute Engine. Joe is an experienced software engineer who has worked at both Microsoft and Google. He also co-founded the cloud-native leader, Heptio, which is now a part of VMware. We have included the entire interview transcript below, and we hope you enjoy it!

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How to Migrate From DataStax Enterprise to Instaclustr Managed Apache Cassandra

If you’re considering migrating from DataStax Enterprise (DSE) to open source Apache Cassandra®, our comprehensive guide is tailored for architects, engineers, and IT directors. Whether you’re motivated by cost savings, avoiding vendor lock-in, or embracing the vibrant open-source community, Apache Cassandra offers robust value. Transition seamlessly to Instaclustr Managed Cassandra with our expert insights, ensuring zero downtime during migration.

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Nelo joins the BNPL rush, with $20M in new funding and the Mexican market in its sights

TechCrunch

Buy now, pay later (BNPL) has been making headlines all over the place this year — from Square’s planned acquisition of Afterpay to Affirm going public. Still, Latin America remains an under-penetrated market in the increasingly crowded space. Nelo , a startup founded by former Uber international growth team leads, began offering buy now, pay later services to Mexico earlier this year.

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7 Lessons You Learned in Kindergarten That’ll Help You With DevOps

Dzone - DevOps

We learn important concepts in kindergartens like colors, shapes, and even the weather. It is also the place where so many of us start to understand the benefits and motivation derived from collaborative, productive, and creative work environments. Who doesn’t remember the pride felt during Show & Tell? Or that art project where you had to navigate the opinions and communication styles of a few classmates for the first time?

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Jow raises $20 million for its meal and grocery planning service

TechCrunch

French startup Jow has raised a $20 million funding round led by Eurazeo. Jow wants to make it easier to cook at home by taking care of menu ideas and helping you manage your online orders of groceries. The company has partnered with national food retailers so that your oder is seamlessly processed by your usual grocery store. In addition to Eurazeo, existing investors Headline, DST and Stride.VC are also participating in today’s funding round.

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The Quality of Auto-Generated Code

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

Kevlin Henney and I were riffing on some ideas about GitHub Copilot , the tool for automatically generating code base on GPT-3’s language model, trained on the body of code that’s in GitHub. This article poses some questions and (perhaps) some answers, without trying to present any conclusions. First, we wondered about code quality. There are lots of ways to solve a given programming problem; but most of us have some ideas about what makes code “good” or “bad.”

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Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI

“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.

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Venture capital is going to need a record-breaking run of IPOs to clear its own decks

TechCrunch

The Exchange is digging into the Chinese venture capital market this week, but getting folks to chat about business and China on the record is turning out to be slightly harder than we anticipated. More on that later this week. The Exchange explores startups, markets and money. Read it every morning on Extra Crunch or get The Exchange newsletter every Saturday.

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Tracee Runtime Security Series: Easy Installation on Kubernetes

Aqua Security

Despite best efforts to harden Kubernetes environments, prevention will never be enough and attackers are finding ways to evade shift-left and other preventative capabilities. It is critical to be able to detect and respond in real time to attacks within Kubernetes clusters. Tracee , an open source runtime security tool, is a great way to get up and running quickly with the visibility required to see these attacks in progress.

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Alviere lands $70M in funding to help brands offer bespoke financial products and services

TechCrunch

Alviere , an embedded finance startup that aims to help any brand deliver financial products and services to its customers and employees, announced today it has closed $70 million of new funding. In April, New York-based Alviere closed a $20 million Series A led by Viola Ventures and Viola Fintech, with the participation of CommerzVentures, Mitsubishi Capital Corporation, Wix.com Capital, Draper Triangle Ventures, Cross River Bank Capital, CERCA Partners and others.

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Security is About People, not Technology

DevOps.com

Just a random thought of the day: We have the world’s best example of how many of our security woes are actually people problems, not technology problems. We all know that. We’ve all discussed it—but let’s consider this example and have a quick discussion about 2FA. Epic Games had a problem not unlike the rest […]. The post Security is About People, not Technology appeared first on DevOps.com.

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Entity Resolution Checklist: What to Consider When Evaluating Options

Are you trying to decide which entity resolution capabilities you need? It can be confusing to determine which features are most important for your project. And sometimes key features are overlooked. Get the Entity Resolution Evaluation Checklist to make sure you’ve thought of everything to make your project a success! The list was created by Senzing’s team of leading entity resolution experts, based on their real-world experience.

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SoWork just convinced investors (and Tinder) that virtual co-working is here to stay

TechCrunch

Vishal Punwani , the CEO and co-founder of SoWork, is building a business based off of a feeling that he stumbled upon by accident. SoWork, a virtual co-working startup, began after Punwani and his co-founders decided to build a machine learning edtech company. While building, Punwani’s team, who ironically met while playing World of Warcraft just 17 years ago, needed a better way to communicate.

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Article: Better Scrum Through Essence

InfoQ Culture Methods

Scrum is easy to explain and hard to do well. The majority of Scrum Teams struggle to do Scrum well. The OMG Essence standard promises to make practices more accessible and to free them from the tyranny of formal methods and frameworks. This article explains how Essence Scrum practices produced by Ian Spence and Dr Jeff Sutherland can help your teams get better at Scrum regardless of the context By Ian Spence.

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Dott launches bike-sharing service in Paris

TechCrunch

Nearly a year after Dott originally announced plans to launch a bike-sharing service, the new offering is going live in Paris. Dott is better known for its scooter-sharing service across dozens of European cities. It is adding electric bikes to complement its service. In addition to Dott, Lime and Tier also have scooters currently available in Paris.

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The World’s Most Influential CEOs And Business Executives Of 2021

CEO Insider

?CEOWORLD magazine has revealed its annual list of the most influential CEOs and Business Executives in the world. The issue features CEOs and top business executives, including Tesla CEO Elon Musk, and Tech honchos like Apple CEO Tim Cook, and NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang. Unsurprisingly, Elon Musk came first in the CEOWORLD magazine’s global ranking […].

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The Big Payoff of Application Analytics

Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business. That’s what drove the five companies in this e-book to change their approach to analytics. Download this e-book to learn about the unique problems each company faced and how they achieved huge returns beyond expectation by embedding analytics into applications.

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Cytrio launches with $3.5M to help SMEs meet data privacy regulation demands

TechCrunch

Cytrio , a Boston-based data privacy and compliance startup, has launched its software-as-a-service privacy rights management platform after landing $3.5 million in seed funding. The funding was secured from angel investors and institutional seed investors, including Dreamit Ventures , Food Retail Ventures and Rockwood Group, and values the company at “north of $10 million”, Cytrio co-founder and CEO Vijay Basani told TechCrunch.

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Microsoft’s October 2021 Patch Tuesday Addresses 74 CVEs (CVE-2021-40449)

Tenable

3 Critical. 70 Important. 0 Moderate. 1 Low. Microsoft patched 74 CVEs in the October 2021 Patch Tuesday release, including three rated as critical, 70 rated as important and one rated as low. This is the eighth month in 2021 that Microsoft patched fewer than 100 CVEs. This month’s update includes patches for: NET Core & Visual Studio. Active Directory Federation Services.

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Doist redesigns Twist, the Slack alternative focused on async work

TechCrunch

Doist , the company behind Todoist and Twist , has revamped its internal communication product Twist. When I first covered Twist, I said it was like Slack without the annoying distractions. With today’s redesign , the company is doubling down on that idea. The result is an opinionated tool for internal conversations that should help you focus and keep the team on track.

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6 critical mistakes guaranteed to delay your software releases

TechBeacon

When writing code, how many times have you had to tear everything up and start over? How many times have you refactored, revised, or rewritten that one buggy function that seems to break down every five minutes?

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A Tale of Two Case Studies: Using LLMs in Production

Speaker: Tony Karrer, Ryan Barker, Grant Wiles, Zach Asman, & Mark Pace

Join our exclusive webinar with top industry visionaries, where we'll explore the latest innovations in Artificial Intelligence and the incredible potential of LLMs. We'll walk through two compelling case studies that showcase how AI is reimagining industries and revolutionizing the way we interact with technology. Some takeaways include: How to test and evaluate results 📊 Why confidence scoring matters 🔐 How to assess cost and quality 🤖 Cross-platform cost vs. quality tr

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TechCrunch+ roundup: 3 flavors of BaaS, growth marketing fixes, NerdWallet IPO

TechCrunch

Most of the people who poured into California during the Gold Rush have been long forgotten. We remember Levi Strauss, however: Before he and Jacob Davis patented those denim jeans, he sold shovels and other supplies to fortune-seekers. Today’s banking-as-a-service startups are similarly placed — instead of digging for treasure in the crowded consumer financial services marketplace, BaaS companies offer fintech companies access to APIs, compliance tools and other software needed to move money ar

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Digital Twins and Their AI Use Cases

Dataiku

Barry Boehm, perhaps the most influential software engineer of his generation, was delivering software to a military submarine in the early 1970s in the form of a big three-foot long metal tray filled with paper punch cards. An officer asked if the software would be on the boat when they sailed. Boehm said yes, it’s part of a new system they’ll be testing on this voyage.

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Atomic aims to give consumers more control over their income with payroll-connecting APIs

TechCrunch

Fintech startup Atomic announced this morning that it has closed a $22 million Series A. Core Innovation Capital led the round, which saw participation from preceding investors. The company has raised just under $39 million to date. The company’s API-delivered product, which focuses on payroll data, helps power a number of fintech startups that we track — Dave and Bond , among others — making it an interesting company to dig into.

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