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Testing for bias in your AI software: Why it's needed, how to do it

TechBeacon

When it comes to artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) in testing, much of the interest and innovation today revolves around the concept of using these technologies to improve and accelerate the practice of testing. The more interesting problem lies in how you should go about testing the AI/ML applications themselves. In particular, how can you tell whether or not a response is correct?

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Flourish, a startup that aims to help banks engage and retain customers, raises $1.5M

TechCrunch

It’s not uncommon these days to hear of U.S.-based investors backing Latin American startups. But it’s not every day that we hear of Latin American VCs investing in U.S.-based startups. Berkeley-based fintech Flourish has raised $1.5 million in a funding round led by Brazilian venture capital firm Canary. Founded by Pedro Moura and Jessica Eting, the startup offers an “engagement and financial wellness” solution for banks, fintechs and credit unions with the goal of helping them engage and reta

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Decision intelligence: The new BI

CIO

Business intelligence (BI) platforms are evolving. By adding artificial intelligence and machine learning, companies are transforming data dashboards and business analytics into more comprehensive decision support platforms. This movement toward “decision intelligence” sees its sophisticated mix of tools increasingly embedded into enterprise workflows, when and where decision-makers need them most.

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Coursera is planning to file to go public tomorrow

TechCrunch

Coursera, an online education platform that has seen its business grow amid the coronavirus pandemic, is planning to file paperwork tomorrow for its initial public offering, sources familiar with the matter say. The company has been talking to underwriters since last year, but tomorrow could mark its first legal step in the process to IPO. The Mountain View-based business, founded in 2012, was last valued at $2.4 billion in the private markets, during a Series F fundraising event in July 2020.

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Top 5 Challenges in Designing a Data Warehouse for Multi-Tenant Analytics

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.

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Motivate Your Team: Use Data to Drive Not Drown

Let's Grow Leaders

Used poorly, data can overwhelm and dishearten, but when you use it judiciously, data is a vital tool to motivate your team and get results. There are four steps you can take to avoid data’s dark side. I was talking with Adam, […]. The post Motivate Your Team: Use Data to Drive Not Drown appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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Types of Recursion With Examples

The Crazy Programmer

In this article, we will look into the different types of Recursion generally seen in programming to solve various problems. We will look at description of each type with example through code for better understanding. First of all, let’s have a quick recap of Recursion. In general, Recursion is an approach to solve problems where the solution depends on the solutions of smaller instances or sub-problems of the same problem.

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A new asynchronous video startup, Weet, helps employees communicate on their own schedule

TechCrunch

For founder Najette Fellache, coming to the Bay Area a few years ago from Nantes, France was a way to grow a company she’d founded and which was already beginning to count major U.S. corporations like GE, Tesla, Amazon, and Medtronics as customers. What that six-year-old outfit, Speach , sells is essentially knowledge-sharing between colleagues via videos produced by the employees themselves, often to augment written instructions.

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From Agile to DevOps to DevSecOps: The Next Evolution

DevOps.com

As the workforce shifts to remote locations, networks are becoming more diffuse as the edge gets farther away. At the same time, the number of devices and applications on those networks continues to rise. Some estimates suggest that, by 2030, there will be 15 connected devices for every person on the planet. The rapid expansion […]. The post From Agile to DevOps to DevSecOps: The Next Evolution appeared first on DevOps.com.

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Snapcommerce raises $85M to make over your mobile shopping experience

TechCrunch

People are not only shopping digitally more than ever, they’re also shopping using their mobile phones more than ever. And for mobile-first companies like Snapcommerce , this is good news. Snapcommerce , formerly known as SnapTravel , has raised $85 million in what the company is describing as a “Pre-IPO” growth round to help further its mission of “changing the way people shop on their phones.”.

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7 Pitfalls for Apache Cassandra in Production

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.

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Software 2021: The Rise of the Cloud

Battery Ventures

Software-company valuations are in the stratosphere these days. The median valuation for a public software-as-a-service (SaaS) company in 2010 was three times forward revenue; now the figure is 15 times forward revenue, according to CapIQ data, with many companies trading above 30 times next-12-months revenue. We sit today at an all-time high. So, why is this happening?

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Indonesian logistics startup SiCepat raises $170 million Series B

TechCrunch

SiCepat , an end-to-end logistics startup in Indonesia, announced today it has raised a $170 million Series B funding round. Founded in 2014 to provide last-mile deliveries for small merchants, the company has since expanded to serve large e-commerce platforms, too. Its services now also cover warehousing and fulfillment, middle-mile logistics and online distribution.

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How Aerospike achieves fine-grained global replication

CTOvision

Read explain how Aerospike’s XDR makes use of asynchronous replication to attach two or extra Aerospike clusters situated at a number of geographically distributed websites on Pirate Press : Fashionable […].

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Jungle Scout raises $110M, acquires Downstream Impact to help 3rd parties sell on marketplaces like Amazon

TechCrunch

There has been a rapid proliferation of roll-up companies armed with wallets full of money to consolidate promising smaller merchants that sell on Amazon and other marketplaces, the idea being to create economies of scale to help them sell more effectively and grow. Today, a company that is somewhat doing the opposite — building tools to help Amazon sellers work better on their own — is announcing significant funding to keep growing its business.

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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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Excellence Now (And Forever) With Tom Peters

Steve Farber

Tom Peters, yes, THE Tom Peters is on the show! And he has a new book to share to the world called Excellence Now: Extreme Humanism. If you’re one of those people who have yet. Read more. The post Excellence Now (And Forever) With Tom Peters first appeared on Steve Farber.

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Deliveroo confirms anticipated floatation in London, will be among first to use ‘dual shares’ structure

TechCrunch

Food delivery startup Deliveroo has today confirmed its stock market floatation in London, something which was on the cards previously. The latest valuation in June last year was over $7 billion. The eight-year-old company is hoping to use “dual-class” shares, which although currently precluded from the premium segment of the exchange, could transfer over if the latest regulatory recommendations are approved.

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Looking Good: Chainlink Promises ’10x Data’ With New ‘Off-Chain Reporting’ Overhaul

CTOvision

Off-chain data aggregation is coming to the Chainlink network with promises of up to 10 times the speed over the current tech stack. Chainlink has unveiled its newest Off-Chain Reporting (OCR) […].

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This pan-African freelance platform is the first Zimbabwean startup backed by Techstars

TechCrunch

On the 25th of January, Techstars Seattle announced its 12th class featuring 10 startups from different parts of the world. The accelerator, which has accepted only a handful of African startups, included one from Zimbabwe in this class. AfriBlocks is a global pan-African marketplace of vetted African freelance professionals. The startup was founded by Tongayi Choto and Roger Roman in July 2020 and has offices in Harare and Los Angeles.

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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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Crypto: The Graph Adds Support for Binance Smart Chain

CTOvision

The Graph, the indexing and querying protocol for the Web3 ecosystem, has added support for Binance Smart Chain. Binance announced the move via its blog earlier today. The Binance-owned chain is […].

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Backed by Blossom, Creandum and Index, grocery delivery and dark store startup Dija launches in London

TechCrunch

Dija , the London-based grocery delivery startup, is officially launching today and confirming that it raised £20 million in seed funding in December — a round that we first reported was partially closed the previous month. Backing the company is Blossom Capital, Creandum and Index Ventures, with Dija seemingly able to raise pre-launch. In fact, there are already rumours swirling around London’s venture capital community that the upstart may be out raising again already — a fig

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IaC Frameworks: Vendor-Specific or Multi-Cloud?

DevOps.com

Over the past few years, I have been watching the shift to infrastructure as code (IaC) frameworks closely. With the shift from monolithic to microservices, and with the shift from mostly virtual machines (VMs) to cloud-native architecture, applications are much more complicated, making it much more important to automate infrastructure to respond with speed.

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With $19M A round, Halo Dx combines data streams to better diagnose cancers, dementia and more

TechCrunch

Healthcare is one of the most complex industries out there, creating frustration on the consumer side but also the opportunity for huge improvements from, in a way, rather simple methods. Halo Diagnostics (or Dx for short) has raised a $19M series A to improve diagnosis of several serious illnesses by crossing the streams from multiple tests and making the improved process easily available to providers.

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Monetizing Analytics Features

Think your customers will pay more for data visualizations in your application? Five years ago, they may have. But today, dashboards and visualizations have become table stakes. Turning analytics into a source of revenue means integrating advanced features in unique, hard-to-steal ways. Download this white paper to discover which features will differentiate your application and maximize the ROI of your analytics.

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Threat Alert: Monero Miners Target Cloud Native Dev Environments

Aqua Security

In September 2020, Aqua’s Team Nautilus detected a campaign that targeted the automated build processes of GitHub and Docker Hub. At that time we notified the affected services and they blocked the attack. Now, this campaign has resurfaced with vengeance. Just in four days, the attackers set up 92 malicious Docker Hub registries and 92 Bitbucket repositories to abuse these resources for cryptocurrency mining.

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Social commerce startup Elenas raises $6M and plans for international expansion

TechCrunch

Colombian startup Elenas says it’s helping tens of thousands of women make money by selling products online. And today, it announced that it has raised $6 million in Series A funding. That’s on top of the $2 million seed round that Elenas announced last fall. Founder and CEO Zach Oschin said that demand continues to grow, particularly with high unemployment levels ( particularly among women ), while consumers remain nervous about in-person shopping during the pandemic. “We̵

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Search News: Elastic Announces Web Crawler for Elastic App Search and Support for Box in Elastic Workplace Search

CTOvision

Elastic, the company behind Elasticsearch and the Elastic Stack, recently announced new capabilities and updates across the Elastic Enterprise Search solution. Expanded capabilities include the beta release of the Elastic […].

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InsurGrid raises pre-seed financing to help modernize legacy insurance agents

TechCrunch

Insurance agents spend hours handling paperwork and grabbing client information over the phone. A new seed-stage startup, InsurGrid , has developed a software solution to help ease the process, and make it easier for agents to serve existing clients — and secure new ones. InsurGrid gives agents a personalized platform to collect information from clients, such as date of birth, driver’s license information and policy declaration.

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IDC Analyst Report: The Open Source Blind Spot Putting Businesses at Risk

In a recent study, IDC found that 64% of organizations said they were already using open source in software development with a further 25% planning to in the next year. Most organizations are unaware of just how much open-source code is used and underestimate their dependency on it. As enterprises grow the use of open-source software, they face a new challenge: understanding the scope of open-source software that's being used throughout the organization and the corresponding exposure.

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Ideas On Bitcoin vs Ethereum: Performance Growth Analysis

CTOvision

Read PM Dev compare the performance and analyze the growth options for Bitcoin and Ethereum on Investing : Bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum (ETH) are two of the world’s top cryptocurrencies […].

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Hopin confirms $400M raise at $5.65B valuation

TechCrunch

This morning Hopin , a virtual events platform and video-focused software service, announced that it has closed a $400 million Series C. The new capital values Hopin at $5.65 billion. Both numbers match prior TechCrunch reporting that the company was targeting a $400 million raise at a valuation of between $5 billion and $6 billion. Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) and General Catalyst (GC) co-led the round, as TechCrunch reported was likely.

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Spectre returns to haunt us: Exploit hides in plain sight

TechBeacon

Remember the Spectre side-channel info-disclosure bug? Hackers do. We’ve always feared they’d find a practical exploit, allowing them to, say, steal secrets from kernel memory—passwords, private keys, tokens, etc.

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