Burst your bubble: using machine learning to change the world
Xebia
MARCH 17, 2021
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Xebia
MARCH 17, 2021
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TechCrunch
MARCH 17, 2021
Michael Li. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Tianhui Michael Li is founder of The Data Incubator , an eight-week fellowship to help Ph.D.s and postdocs transition from academia into industry. Previously, he headed monetization data science at Foursquare and has worked at Google, Andreessen Horowitz, J.P. Morgan and D.E. Shaw. More posts by this contributor.
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DevOps.com
MARCH 17, 2021
Teleport announced today it has added support for databases to a security gateway, delivered as a cloud service, that is currently used to secure Linux servers and Kubernetes clusters. Ev Kontsevoy, CEO, said Teleport intends to extend the reach of the security gateway up the entire stack of IT infrastructure that developers routinely use to […].
TechCrunch
MARCH 17, 2021
Policybazaar has raised $75 million as the Indian online insurance platform looks to expand its presence in UAE and Middle East. Sarbvir Singh, chief executive of Policybazaar, told TechCrunch that the startup had raised $75 million, but didn’t elaborate. Falcon Edge Capital led the new tranche of investment in the Indian startup, which has raised about $630 million to date, according to research firm Tracxn.
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.
InfoQ Culture Methods
MARCH 17, 2021
At the QCon London last year, Holly Cummins innovation leader in IBM Corporate Strategy provided a session titled: Cloud-Native is about Culture, not Containers. In this article, Holly will discuss the role of culture in cloud-native architecture. Furthermore, she will dive into various topics around cloud-native ranging from its definition to CI/CD and operations.
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DXC
MARCH 17, 2021
E-skimming has been an online shopping threat for a long time, keeping pace with the growth of e-commerce overall. The current global crisis presents another big opportunity for hackers to launch these strikes as people increasingly shop online. The nefarious cybercrime targets online payment systems to collect or “skim” the payment details of customers’ payment […].
TechCrunch
MARCH 17, 2021
Existing remote desktop solutions like LogMeIn and TeamViewer can be complicated to set up and use, and can feel dated. A new startup called Cohere , now backed by $3.1 million in seed funding, aims to improve on the remote desktop and screen-sharing experience. With Cohere’s technology, businesses can help customers in seconds by taking instant control of their screen without any downloads or setup on the customer’s end.
TechBeacon
MARCH 17, 2021
Imagine you work for a company that has hundreds of developers pushing new code to production at any time, on any given day. The developers get there because every person on the dev team has a role in quality and testing.
TechCrunch
MARCH 17, 2021
One of the biggest gripes about investing apps is that they are not acting responsibly by not educating users properly and allegedly letting them fend for themselves. This can result in people losing a lot of money, as evidenced by the number of lawsuits against Robinhood. Today, an eight-year-old company that has been focused on nothing but financial education is now offering trading and banking services in the U.S.
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DevOps.com
MARCH 17, 2021
One of the places development has made significant changes is in the land of APIs. These days, a program almost isn’t considered a proper application unless it offers APIs to do most of what can be done via UI (and even command line). This is a big deal for several reasons; first and foremost, the […]. The post Languages and DevOps: API-First appeared first on DevOps.com.
TechCrunch
MARCH 17, 2021
Ultra-precise cancer therapies! Human-like hair grown from plants! A way to potentially save the bees! The spectrum of companies coming out of IndieBio has always been pretty wild, and its latest batch definitely doesn’t disappoint. As the early-stage, biology-focused accelerator arm of SOSV, IndieBio gives the companies in its program $250,000+, mentorship and full access to a biology lab to bring their ideas to life.
Xebia
MARCH 17, 2021
Social media has been blamed for locking people in a bubble, only showing them news that is in line with their beliefs. This divides society into different groups that have almost nothing in common. People read what they think they want to read, never seeing a different opinion. At the same time governments and influencers have started to call for filtering.
TechCrunch
MARCH 17, 2021
This Friday at its annual Digital Day , the European Commission will be launching a “legislative instrument” called the EU Startup Nations Standard (SNS). Now, before you think I’m about to bore you to death, you might like to know that the SNS is a huge political initiative. It will aim to make the European Union the most attractive place to create a startup, in comparison with obvious global leaders like the U.S.
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CEO Insider
MARCH 17, 2021
Most CEOs recognize the need for their firms to be customer-focused. A focus on customers is a business truism. The evidence for those that do it well is unambiguous. They are more successful on almost every measure that counts in business, from profitability to growth to employee engagement (Kirca et al. 2005). “Market-driven firms are, […].
TechCrunch
MARCH 17, 2021
The adoption of financial apps is surging in Southeast Asian markets like Indonesia , the region’s most populous country. Founded by fintech veterans last year, Brick develops APIs that make it easier for tech companies to add identity verification and access financial data from their users. It is currently partnered with Indonesia’s seven largest banks, covering more than 90% of the country’s bank accounts, and plans to expand into all Southeast Asia countries.
DevOps.com
MARCH 17, 2021
Logz.io announced today the general availability of a cloud service, based on Prometheus, that can collect and analyze metrics alongside its existing log management service. Jonah Kowall, CTO, Logz.io, said the goal for Prometheus-as-a-Service is to provide IT teams with a centralized approach to analyzing data collected from instances of Prometheus running on local servers […].
TechCrunch
MARCH 17, 2021
French startup PayFit has raised a $107 million series D funding round (€90 million). Eurazeo Growth and Bpifrance’s Large Venture fund are leading today’s round. Existing investors Accel, Frst and Xavier Niel are participating once again. PayFit has been building a payroll and HR software-as-a-service platform. It lets you manage your payroll from a web browser and automate as many steps as possible.
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
DevOps.com
MARCH 17, 2021
Benchmark achieved with 45 nodes enables extraordinary TCO and business insights from streaming data SAN MATEO, Calif., March 17, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Hazelcast, the fast cloud application platform, today announced that it successfully achieved a stream processing performance milestone of one billion events per second with 26-millisecond latency on 720 virtual CPUs (vCPUs) in a public cloud […].
TechCrunch
MARCH 17, 2021
OctoML , a Seattle-based startup that offers a machine learning acceleration platform build on top of the open-source Apache TVM compiler framework project , today announced that it has raised a $28 million Series B funding round led by Addition. Previous investors Madrona Venture Group and Amplify Partners also participated in this round, which brings the company’s total funding to $47 million.
High Scalability
MARCH 17, 2021
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TechCrunch
MARCH 17, 2021
Capdesk , an equity management platform, has raised a £5 million Series A extension led by Fidelity International Strategic Ventures and MiddleGame Ventures. This followed a first raise of £3 million in 2020, led by Fuel Ventures, and brings the Series A total to £8 million, and total funding raised to £11.7 million. Capdesk’s clients include startups such as Gousto, Secret Escapes, Privitar, Voi Technology and Billie.
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The Accidental Successful CIO
MARCH 17, 2021
CIOs need a bring-your-own-device plan to attract more millennials Image Credit: IAB UK. CIOs who think that BYOD (bring-your-own-device) is a fad that is starting to fade away are wrong. CIOs who think they can abandon the practice of creating BYOD polices risk upsetting an important and growing constituency of their workforce: millennials, who are also known as GenY.
TechCrunch
MARCH 17, 2021
Copy.ai , a startup building AI-powered copywriting tools for business customers, announced a $2.9 million round this morning. The investment was led by Craft Ventures. Other investors took part in the deal, including smaller checks from Li Jin’s newly-formed Atelier Ventures , and Sequoia. The startup is notable for a few reasons. First for its model of building in public.
Coding Dojo
MARCH 17, 2021
Pre-Dojo : Worked as a Cyber Security Engineer, Splunk Team Lead. Always desired learning how to code and felt the. … Read more >>. The post Proof: People Who Take Their Careers Seriously Choose Coding Dojo appeared first on Coding Dojo Blog.
TechCrunch
MARCH 17, 2021
LA and Bangalore-based space startup Pixxel has closed a $7.3 million seed round, including newly committed capital from Techstars, Omnivore VC and more. The company has also announced a new product focus: Hyperspectral imaging. It aims to provide that imaging at the highest resolution commercially available, via a small satellite constellation that will provide 24-hour, global coverage once it’s fully operational.
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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.
DevOps.com
MARCH 17, 2021
HPE introduces the HPE Ezmeral Data Fabric as a standalone offering HPE unveils new HPE Ezmeral Marketplace and Technology Ecosystem Program bringing together the top ISVs and open-source projects HPE Ezmeral provides edge to cloud solutions for data scientists, developers, and IT with an industrialized, enterprise-ready platform for driving AI, ML, and data-intensive workloads […].
TechCrunch
MARCH 17, 2021
When we think about getting access to an application, we tend to focus on the authentication side — granting or denying people (or devices) entry. But there is another piece to this, and that’s authorization. This is related to what you can do once you are inside the application, and Oso , an early stage startup, has created an open source library for developers to make it easier to build authorization in their applications.
TechSoup
MARCH 17, 2021
It was in March 2020 when the pandemic hit hard and everything started to close down, including schools across the country. Schools having to hold virtual classes exposed a massive digital divide across the country. In 2019, the FCC reported that 21.3 million Americans (or 6.5 percent of the population) lacked access to broadband Internet. Microsoft estimated that the digital divide was much worse than that.
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