TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2021

Will Clem knows all too well about restaurant workers not showing up for a shift. At least one person would have car trouble or need to stay home with sick children, and it became a common occurrence on the weekends for the co-founder of Memphis Meats and owner of Baby Jacks BBQ in Memphis. Needing to fill a shift one Friday night, Clem decided to prop his laptop in the drive-thru lane of one of his restaurants and took orders from home by remoting into the system.

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AUGUST 11, 2021

Business intelligence is not an oxymoron like jumbo shrimp. It’s not dead. And it’s not being superseded by artificial intelligence.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2021

Lawrence Kosick. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Lawrence Kosick is the co-founder of GetSetUp , the largest online learning community designed specifically for older adults. The technology industry is often thought of as being the domain of the young and the new. We see an emphasis on young founders (“40 Under 40”), innovative ideas and disruptive challenges to legacy brands, incumbent companies and “old” ways of thinking.

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AUGUST 11, 2021

“I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” – Maya Angelou. These words of Maya Angelou ring loud, even more so in the wake of a global pandemic. At the start of COVID, the tech industry faced new challenges, and then some, when it came to adapting to the “new normal” of remote work.

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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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TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2021

Orbital manufacturing startup Varda Space Industries is moving fast. Only a few weeks after announcing a $42 million Series A, Varda has signed a deal with launch company Rocket Lab for three Photon spacecraft to support the startup’s initial missions. The first spacecraft will be delivered in the first quarter of 2023, with the second to follow later that year and the third in 2024.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2021

VerSe Innovation, the parent firm of popular news aggregator Dailyhunt and short video app Josh, said on Thursday it has raised over $450 million in a new financing round, just five months after securing $200 million , as the Indian startup looks to expand its offerings to international markets. Siguler Guff, Baillie Gifford, affiliates of Carlyle Asia Partners Growth II and others financed VerSe Innovation’s Series I round, while existing investors Sofina Group, Qatar Investment Authority and B

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CTOvision

AUGUST 11, 2021

The global chip shortage has impacted everything from the production of game consoles and smartphones to computers and home appliances. One of the industries affected the most is tech, which saw an uptick in demand for PCs and laptops when Covid pivoted employees and students to work remotely. Even Dell Technologies, which has a global […].

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2021

AppWorks , the Taipei-based venture capital firm focused on Taiwan and Southeast Asia, announced today it has closed its oversubscribed third fund, raising $150 million. AppWorks Fund III’s limited partners include Taiwan Mobile, Axiom Asia Private Capital, Fubon Life, TransGlobe Life, Hongtai Group, Wistron, Cathay Life, Phison Electronics and Taiwan’s National Development Fund.

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AUGUST 11, 2021

Read explain why Bitcoin managed to break past the crucial $46,000 barrier despite the ongoing Senate debates on cryptocurrency as a part of the yet-to-be-passed infrastructure bill on CNBC : The price of bitcoin broke past $46,000 on Monday morning after a high-stakes weekend for the crypto industry as the Senate continued debating the details […].

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AUGUST 11, 2021

Toni Eliasz. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Toni Eliasz is the program manager of the Disruptive Technologies for Development Program (DT4D) that supports the innovation and adoption of technology-driven solutions in World Bank Group operations. In addition, Toni works on several digital-economy-related initiatives that support the scaling of digital businesses, stimulate startup ecosystems and accelerate the digital transformation of key industries in Africa, Asia, the Caribbean and the Middle

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DevOps.com

AUGUST 11, 2021

There is a mindboggling amount of data today; to even measure it requires using a byte measurement called a zettabyte, which is one sextillion bytes (that’s 21 zeros). Currently, because such a ridiculous amount of data exists, there is a growing urgency to end wasteful data processes. From this environment, DataOps was born. Similar to […]. The post DataOps vs.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2021

Trust wants to give smaller businesses the same advantages that large enterprises have when marketing on digital and social media platforms. It came out of beta with $9 million in seed funding from Lerer Hippeau, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Upfront Ventures and Upper90. The Los Angeles-based company was started in 2019 by a group of five Snap alums working in various roles within Snap’s revenue product strategy business.

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DevOps.com

AUGUST 11, 2021

Google today launched a GitHub app that provides automated continuous enforcement of security best practices for GitHub projects. Kim Lewandowski, a product manager for open source software security at Google, said the Allstar application enables IT teams to assess any project on GitHub to check for security policy adherence. In addition, Allstar sets desired enforcement […].

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2021

Doxel , which has developed software that uses computer vision to help track and monitor progress on construction job sites, announced today that it has raised $40 million in Series B funding. Insight Partners led the round, which included participation from existing backers Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) and Amplo and brings the startup’s total raised to $56.5 million since its December 2015 inception.

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Dzone - DevOps

AUGUST 11, 2021

Every dev knows the drill — you’re sitting down to get cracking on your new coding assignment and first things first, it’s time to build your toolchain. And this is where the headaches begin — selecting the tools and plugins, creating the integrations, piecing it all together. Not to mention the licensing and versioning headaches. After some fidgeting, manual setups, and bridgework, the toolchain is ready. for now.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2021

Cart.com , a Houston-based company providing end-to-end e-commerce services, brought in its third funding round this year, this time a $98 million Series B round to bring its total funding to $143 million. Oak HC/FT led the new round of funding and was joined by PayPal Ventures, Clearco, G9 Ventures, Mercury Fund, Valedor Partners and Arsenal Growth.

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Aqua Security

AUGUST 11, 2021

Team Nautilus, Aqua Security’s threat research team, has uncovered several supply chain attacks that use malicious container images to compromise their victim. These five container images were found on Docker Hub, which we scan daily for signs of malicious activity. The images hijack organizations’ resources to mine cryptocurrency and can be used as part of a supply chain attack targeting cloud native environments.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2021

Joby Aviation is now public, 12 years after JoeBen Bevirt founded the company at his ranch in the Santa Cruz mountains. The air taxi developer began trading on the New York Stock Exchange on Wednesday under the ticker symbol “JOBY,” after completing a merger with special purpose acquisition company Reinvent Technology Partners. As of 10:00 AM ET, the price per share was at $11.01, up 9.8% from its prior-day closing amount.

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Dzone - DevOps

AUGUST 11, 2021

This article was published with permission from freelance writer, Justin Reynolds. Companies today face increasing challenges around reducing the time and cost of software development. Many are thus using DevOps methodologies, which combine software development and IT operations to achieve continuous delivery and shorter production cycles. Yet as useful as DevOps is, it fails to account for a critical need: security.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2021

China’s technology scene has been in the news for all the wrong reasons in recent months. In the wake of the scuttling of Ant Group’s IPO , the Chinese government has gone on a regulatory offensive against a host of technology companies. Edtech got hit. On-demand companies took incoming fire. Ride-hailing? Check. Gaming? You bet. The result of the government fusillade against some of the best-known companies in China was falling share prices.

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Lacework

AUGUST 11, 2021

Jared Stroud Cloud Security Researcher – Lacework Labs Key Points: Kubernetes Audit Policies are critical for cluster-level visibility. Kubernetes Annotations allow for arbitrary storage and can be abused for malicious activity. Kubernetes API endpoints create a novel C2 channel that may be difficult to audit or detect within organizations. Introduction to Kubernetes Audit Log [.].

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2021

Students around the country are about to return to school after the summer holiday, and they’re doing so at a time when both coronavirus transmission and the effects of climate change are mounting. Last year, HopSkipDrive , a rideshare platform for kids, had to let go much of its staff amid school lockdowns. Now, the company is betting that demand for its rideshare service will increase as parents send their kids back to school.

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Dzone - DevOps

AUGUST 11, 2021

The last decade has seen massive shifts in software engineering tools, processes, roles, and teams as developers seek to streamline and automate processes to improve the speed of software releases and facilitate continuous delivery. Teams (especially those scaling up) are looking for ways to boost productivity but prevent an influx of burnout, technical debt, and organizational instability.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2021

Sophie Alcorn. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Sophie Alcorn is the founder of Alcorn Immigration Law in Silicon Valley and 2019 Global Law Experts Awards’ “Law Firm of the Year in California for Entrepreneur Immigration Services.” She connects people with the businesses and opportunities that expand their lives. More posts by this contributor. Dear Sophie: Which immigration options allow me to launch my own startup?

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Dzone - DevOps

AUGUST 11, 2021

This week, I want to take a break from my Start Rust series and focus on a different subject. I've already written about my blogging stack in detail. However, I didn't touch into one facet, and that facet is how I generate the static pages from Jekyll. As I describe in the blog post, I've included quite a couple of customizations.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2021

Hello and welcome back to Equity , TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast, where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. This week we were back to full strength, with Danny Natasha and Alex joined by Chris to chat through the latest venture capital brouhaha. Namely whether or not venture capital is about to get shaken to its core, or if we’re really parsing some long-term economic trends that will eventually revert.

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Dataiku

AUGUST 11, 2021

Dataiku’s end-to-end platform gives our users the ability to turn raw data into business-impacting decisions using advanced predictive analytics. In addition, Dataiku serves a large variety of user personas, technical skills, industries, and use cases. In this blog post, we're going to show you how you can expand Dataiku’s value within your organizations even further by integrating with your BI tool of choice to uplevel from prescriptive to predictive analyses.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2021

Sydney, Australia-based Fable Food is the latest plant-based food startup to announce funding. The company, which uses mushrooms in its meat alternatives, has raised $6.5 million AUD (about $4.8 million USD) in a seed round led by Blackbird Ventures, the Australian venture capital firm whose portfolio also includes Canva, Culture Amp and SafetyCulture.

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