TechCrunch

MAY 25, 2021

We previously wrote about Propy using blockchain technology to smooth real-world real estate sales by introducing the concept of smart contracts. Propy was the first blockchain startup to make that work. Now the company is pushing the boundaries again, by auctioning a real apartment as an NFT. Although one might want to brush this aside as a stunt, the event is designed to make the point that it could well be done legally.

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CTOvision

MAY 25, 2021

Read explain how the IBM – Palantir Technologies, Inc. partnership will help IBM offer hybrid cloud and artificial intelligence offerings to its clients on Tech Target : IBM’s never-ending tour espousing the strategic importance of hybrid clouds and AI made its latest stop at the Think conference where the company debuted products that extend and […].

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TechCrunch

MAY 25, 2021

E-commerce is on the rise, but that also means the risk, and occurrence, of e-commerce fraud is, too. Now, Forter , one of the startups building a business to tackle that malicious activity, has closed $300 million in funding — a sign both of the size of the issue and its success in tackling it to date. The new funding, a Series F, values Forter at $3 billion — notable not least because the funding is coming only about six months since Forter’s previous round , a $125 million S

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MAY 25, 2021

Our Express.js REST API series ends with a bang! Learn how to add a Dockerized MongoDB instance, Mongoose, JWT authentication, user permissions, and automated testing with Mocha, Chai, and SuperTest.

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TechCrunch

MAY 25, 2021

New York City-based vertical farming startup Bowery Farming this week has announced a $300 million Series C. The round, which brings its total funding north of $472 million, values the company at $2.3 billion. Fidelity Management & Research Company led the beefy round, with participation from existing investors GV (formerly Google Ventures), General Catalyst, GGV Capital, Temasek and Groupe Artémis.

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TechCrunch

MAY 25, 2021

Earlier this year, Turntable.fm’s founder Billy Chasen dusted off the old site and resurrected it for the pandemic age. I know I wasn’t the only one feeling a wistful pang of nostalgia for the service during the long, dull days of sheltering in place. And while March 2020 would have been the best time for a relaunch, March 2021 was pretty good, too.

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O'Reilly Media - Ideas

MAY 25, 2021

OpenAI’s text generating system GPT-3 has captured mainstream attention. GPT-3 is essentially an auto-complete bot whose underlying Machine Learning (ML) model has been trained on vast quantities of text available on the Internet. The output produced from this autocomplete bot can be used to manipulate people on social media and spew political propaganda, argue about the meaning of life (or lack thereof) , disagree with the notion of what differentiates a hot-dog from a sandwich , take upon the

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TechCrunch

MAY 25, 2021

Whatnot exists with one primary goal in mind: to give people a place to buy and sell collectibles (like Pokémon cards, sports cards, pins, etc.) in a safe, authenticated way. The company started out with intentions of being a GOAT/StockX-style resale marketplace, where the products up for sale lived on neat little pages with row after row of static images.

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DevOps.com

MAY 25, 2021

Every IT shop has a “tool chain” – all of the software other than the OS and the application that fills in the gaps and keeps everything running. This includes solutions for monitoring the application, data protection, software development, release management, provisioning and de-provisioning resources and more. These tools build up over time, often evolving […].

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TechCrunch

MAY 25, 2021

Since the pandemic began last year, nearly 61% of adults in the United States gained weight, with the average adult surveyed gaining 15 pounds, according to a report from the American Psychological Association. Likely as a result of that rise in girths, Noom witnessed a surge of demand for its weight-loss app, generating $400 million in revenues in 2020 — almost twice the $237 million it made the year before.

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CTOvision

MAY 25, 2021

An enterprise’s security posture refers to the overall status of your cybersecurity readiness. With tens of thousands of assets in your enterprise and each susceptible to a myriad of attack vectors, there are practically unlimited permutations and combinations in which your organization can be breached. With the sharp increase in attack surface size, cybersecurity teams have […].

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TechCrunch

MAY 25, 2021

Smart Eye, the publicly traded Swedish company that supplies driver monitoring systems for a dozen automakers, has acquired emotion-detection software startup Affectiva for $73.5 million in a cash-and-stock deal. Affectiva, which spun out of the MIT Media Lab in 2009, has developed software that can detect and understand human emotion, which Smart Eye is keen to combine with its own AI-based eye-tracking technology.

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InfoQ Culture Methods

MAY 25, 2021

The DevOps Institute recently released their latest report entitled "Upskilling 2021: Enterprise DevOps Skills Report". The report found that automation and security remain vital to business success. A focus on building the human skills of DevOps was also identified as companies with the best learning cultures were most likely to succeed. By Matt Campbell, Eveline Oerhlich.

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TechCrunch

MAY 25, 2021

Buy now, pay later is everywhere these days, mostly focused on the consumer. Resolve — a San Francisco-based startup in the space specializing in “buy now, pay later” capabilities for B2B transactions — announced today that it has raised $60 million in funding. Initialized Capital led the round — the company’s first funding since its 2019 inception.

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TechBeacon

MAY 25, 2021

While robotic process automation (RPA) promises to lower the cost and increase the efficiency and quality of many back-office and customer-facing processes, it's not without its challenges.

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TechCrunch

MAY 25, 2021

Ben Herman and Adam Gefkovicz launched Jumpstart in 2017 with a clear mission: to make the world more equitable via a more fair and balanced hiring process. The company released its “Diversity Recruitment Platform” in July of 2018 with the aim of helping people earlier in their careers get a “jumpstart” via technology. Over the years, the startup’s mission has evolved beyond helping college grads to helping all employees — regardless of career stage — get a fair shot at jobs.

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CTOvision

MAY 25, 2021

Cryptocurrencies including Bitcoin and Ethereum have racked up huge losses this week, yet some crypto experts say such volatility is normal and to be expected from such a speculative asset class that has already enjoyed immense price appreciation in such a short time. The recent declines in Bitcoin and Ethereum came after the Chinese government’s […].

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TechCrunch

MAY 25, 2021

French startup Matera has announced that is has raised a new $43 million (€35 million) Series B funding round led by Mubadala Capital. Bpifrance, Burda Principal Investments as well as existing investors Index Ventures and Samaipata are also participating. The company is building a vertical SaaS for residential property management. In France, co-owners of the common space of a building can decide to ditch the company that handles residential building management for them and do it themselves.

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CTOvision

MAY 25, 2021

Users and developers of the world’s most-used blockchain have been wrangling with its carbon-footprint problem for as long as it’s been around. Now, they say, several recent breakthroughs will finally enable them to drastically cut energy use in a year or less. Ethereum and better-known-rival Bitcoin both operate using a proof-of-work system that requires a […].

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TechCrunch

MAY 25, 2021

In the latest chunky funding round out of Europe, UK-based email security startup, Tessian , has closed $65 million in Series C funding. The startup applies machine learning to build individual behavior models for enterprise email use that aims to combat human error by flagging problematic patterns which could signify risky stuff is happening — such as phishing or data exfiltration.

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CTOvision

MAY 25, 2021

HSBC is staying away from the cryptocurrency trading game, despite a number of its rivals planning to enter the space. The bank’s chief executive Noel Quinn said it has no plans to launch a cryptocurrency trading desk or offer exposure to digital assets to its clients, due to the extreme price volatility and lack of transparency […].

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TechCrunch

MAY 25, 2021

In a world defined by tons of noise and little signal, startups that make it easier for consumers to make a choice just make sense. Career Karma helps students pick a tech bootcamp, Stackin’ helps millennials navigate the world of neobank and savings apps and a new Boston-based company is helping doctors keep track of the most up-to-date medical devices on the market.

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CTOvision

MAY 25, 2021

Today Hedera announced that Chainlink Labs is the twenty-first member of its governing council, which is dominated by major enterprises. Hedera is a decentralized public network where anyone can build applications, but only nodes operated by governing council members can write to the distributed ledger. Most of the existing council members are large firms such as […].

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TechCrunch

MAY 25, 2021

eYs3D Microelectronics , a fabless design house that focuses on end-to-end software and hardware systems for computer vision technology, has raised a $7 million Series A. Participants included ARM IoT Capital, WI Harper and Marubun Corporation, who will each serve as strategic investors. Based in Taipei, Taiwan, eYs3D was spun out of Etron , a fabless IC and system-in-package (SiP) design firm, in 2016.

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DevOps.com

MAY 25, 2021

The early days of DevOps were filled with pronouncements that we needed to treat our servers as cattle, not pets (kittens). For a year or so, the refrain was everywhere. And we did. We detached servers from dedicated hardware, we made spin up and spin down so easy that we just replaced malfunctioning servers (which […]. The post Cattle, Not Kittens – Revisited appeared first on DevOps.com.

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TechCrunch

MAY 25, 2021

The spinout of video platform Vimeo from IAC completed today , with the smaller company now trading as an independent entity under the ticker symbol VMEO. If you missed the news that the internet conglomerate was spinning out the video service, don’t feel bad; it slipped past many radars. But with the company now trading, with our access to its historical results , and with our minds still enthralled by YouTube’s recent financial performance for Alphabet, it’s worth taking a mo

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CTOvision

MAY 25, 2021

Read Kim Huffman, Vice President at Elastic NV explain how companies can make use of WFH to build a successful data culture on Forbes : As remote work becomes the mainstay in 2021, IT and business leaders must find new ways to ensure their employees have the critical insights they need to make business decisions […].

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TechCrunch

MAY 25, 2021

What’s it like raising a round in 2021? How has it changed over the last few months, as some glimmer of normalcy seems, at least, within reach? What do early-stage founders (and investors!) need to know about the current state of the industry? Few are in a better place to outline this than Avlok Kohli, the CEO of AngelList Venture who will let you know at TC Early Stage on July 8-9.

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