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9 Free Azure Training Resources

ParkMyCloud

If you’re looking to tune up your Microsoft Azure knowledge, contemplating a cloud computing career, or want to show value to a potential employer, there’s never been a better time than now to seize the opportunity to learn with a few free Azure training resources. Whether you’re relatively new to Azure or you’re a pro, there’s always more to learn.

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7 investors discuss augmented reality and VR startup opportunities in 2020

TechCrunch

For all of the investors preaching that augmented reality technology will likely be the successor to the modern smartphone, today, most venture capitalists are still quite wary to back AR plays. The reasons are plentiful, but all tend to circle around the idea that it’s too early for software and too expensive to try to take on Apple or Facebook on the hardware front.

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Starting and Sustaining Your Technical Career in a Pandemic

Agile Alliance

As a result of the pandemic, many technologists are unexpectedly job searching. The process of seeking a new role can be unsettling and anxiety-inducing. The recruiting process is often opaque to job seekers. How can you get noticed by a technical recruiter or hiring manager? What can you do to increase your chances of lining … Continued.

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Soleadify secures seed funding for database that uses machine learning to track 40M businesses

TechCrunch

Usually, databases about companies have to be painstakingly updated by humans. Soleadify is a startup that uses machine learning to create profiles for businesses in any industry. The first of the company’s products is a business search engine that keeps over 40 million business profiles updated, currently used by hundreds of companies in the USA, Europe and Asia for sales and marketing activities.

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Get Better Network Graphs & Save Analysts Time

Many organizations today are unlocking the power of their data by using graph databases to feed downstream analytics, enahance visualizations, and more. Yet, when different graph nodes represent the same entity, graphs get messy. Watch this essential video with Senzing CEO Jeff Jonas on how adding entity resolution to a graph database condenses network graphs to improve analytics and save your analysts time.

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How big data and IoT connection has transformed the automotive industry

CTOvision

Read Alex M and Ramesh A explain how big data and the Internet of Things connected devices are changing the automotive sector on Financial Express: Internet of Things (IoT) makes […].

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How to Pinpoint Rogue IoT Devices on Your Network

CTOvision

Read Kelly Sheridan take a look at the rogue Internet of Things devices on networks that can cause great misery on Dark Reading: A Raspberry Pi floating on your network […].

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Meadow launches a powerful mobile marketing tool for cannabis dispensaries

TechCrunch

Meadow was once called the Amazon of weed. Now it’s trying to be the Salesforce of weed, too. Meadow, the maker of a popular point-of-sale system for cannabis dispensaries, is today launching new tools for its clients. Called the Meadow Platform, it includes two key tools for dispensaries: a customer relationship manager (CRM) and a text messaging platform for mobile marketing.

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Cybersecurity Awareness Month: 5 ways to get your org up to speed

TechBeacon

National Cybersecurity Awareness Month (NCSAM) is upon us again, but the pandemic makes this October like no other in the 17 years that cybersecurity firms and associations have used the month to prompt businesses to think about their approach to cybersecurity.

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Sym raises $9M Series A for its security workflow platform

TechCrunch

Sym , a new platform that makes it easier for developers to integrate security and privacy workflows into their process, today announced that it has raised a $9 million Series A round led by Amplify Partners. Earlier this year, the company announced its $3 million seed round lead by Andy McLoughlin of Uncork Capital and Robin Vasan of Mango Capital.

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Streamlining Database Compliance with CI/CD Integration

IT leaders know the importance of compliance at every level, but the database often gets left behind as other environments are automated for robust protection. This whitepaper emphasizes the importance of robust, auditable, and secure database change management practices for safeguarding organizational compliance. Learn how automating database compliance: Mitigates risk Protects against security vulnerabilities Helps avoid regulatory penalties Aligns database workflows with app lifecycle Turns d

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cookieStore: Async Cookie API

David Walsh

One pattern in the JavaScript API world that web development veterans will notice is that we’ve been creating new methods to accomplish what older, grosser APIs once achieved. XMLHttpRequest became the fetch API, some APIs like Battery became async, and there are dozens of other examples. Another API desperately in need of updating is the cookie API…and we’ve finally go it: cookieStore.

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Jam raises $3.5 million to Figma-tize product collaboration

TechCrunch

The web of collaboration apps invading remote work toolkits have led to plenty of messy workflows for teams that communicate in a language of desktop screenshots and DMs. Tracing a suggestion or flagging a bug in a company’s website forces engineers or designers to make sense of the mess themselves. While task management software has given teams a funnel for the clutter, the folks at Jam question why this functionality isn’t just built straight into the product.

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Webinar Recap: Feature Management as a DevSecOps Best Practice for the Public Sector

LaunchDarkly

Empowering the public sector to achieve flexible releases and greater control of user experiences. As a solutions engineer who works closely with federal teams, I’ve become familiar with the unique challenges faced by the public sector when adopting new technologies. Recently, I had the pleasure of hosting a discussion with several LaunchDarkly public sector customers to explore how their teams have changed their DevSecOps culture, gained flexibility, and reduced risk using an enterprise feature

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Synthetaic raises $3.5M to train AI with synthetic data

TechCrunch

Synthetaic is a startup working to create data — specifically images — that can be used to train artificial intelligence. Founder and CEO Corey Jaskolski’s experience includes work with both National Geographic (where he was recently named Explorer of the Year ) and a 3D media startup. In fact, he told me that his time with National Geographic made him aware of the need for more data sets in conservation.

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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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Reducing Cloud Infrastructure Complexity

DevOps.com

The impact of the cloud and its role in mainstream IT is undeniable. According to IDC, global cloud IT infrastructure spending is projected to reach US$92 billion (SG$126 billion) in 2023. Notably, cloud spending is exceeding the spending on non-cloud IT infrastructure, underscoring the influence of the cloud in modern IT deployments. Fast Forward to […].

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Stotles secures funding for platform which brings transparency to government tenders, contracts

TechCrunch

The public sector usually publishes its business opportunities in the form of “tenders,” to increase transparency to the public. However, this data is scattered, and larger businesses have access to more information, giving them opportunities to grab contracts before official tenders are released. We have seen the controversy around U.K. government contracts going to a number of private consultants who have questionable prior experience in the issues on which they are winning contrac

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Optimizing Corporate Intelligence

CTOvision

This post is part of our Intelligent Enterprise series, which providing insights aimed at corporate strategists seeking competitive advantage through better and more accurate decision-making. The first post provided foundational insights into A Practitioner's View of Corporate Intelligence. This one dives into actionable recommendation on ways to optimize a corporate intelligence effort.

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Beam is building a web browser that gathers knowledge from your web activity

TechCrunch

Remember Netscape Navigator and Internet Explorer ? Those applications from the 1990s used emphatic metaphors in their names to talk about a simple task — browsing the web. Today, nobody would say that Google Chrome is a web explorer. Browsing the web has become an effortless — and often mindless — task. You grab your phone or computer, you open a new tab and you type a few words in the address bar.

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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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Article: In the Search of Code Quality

InfoQ Culture Methods

Software development process being a convoluted interplay of technical, business, sociological and psychological forces makes it very hard to understand. This leads to a multitude of myths and hypes. Recent scientific research challenge many commonly held beliefs and intuitions. By Jacek Sokulski.

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As startups accelerate in record Q3, Europe and Asia rack up huge VC results

TechCrunch

Venture capital activity in Europe and Asia saw a strong return to form in Q3, data indicates. The two continents enjoyed more venture capital investment into their local startups than in some time, underscoring that strong VC results the United States saw in the third quarter were not a fluke, but part of a broader trend. The Exchange explores startups, markets and money.

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How will blockchain impact the global economy?

CTOvision

An analysis by PwC shows blockchain technology has the potential to boost global gross domestic product (GDP) by $1.76 trillion over the next decade. That is the key finding of […].

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Austin-based Verifiable raises $3 million for its API toolkit to verify healthcare credentials

TechCrunch

Before Nick Macario launched Verifiable , the Austin-based company that just raised $3 million for its API toolkit that verifies healthcare credentials, he ran a series of other businesses designed to offer public credentials for professionals. His first foray into the world of identity management services was the personal website builder, branded.me.

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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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Kosmotime Reinvents The To-Do List By Combining Task And Calendar Management With Distraction Blocking

DevOps.com

KosmoTime helps busy, multitasking professionals to reach their full productivity potential NEW YORK, October 20, 2020, KosmoTime today launched its new task management tool that reinvents the to-do list by automatically establishing work time on the calendar and blocking distracting notifications. When busy professionals create a to-do list in KosmoTime, it does more than capture […].

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Vectary, a design platform for 3D and AR, raises $7.3M from EQT and BlueYard

TechCrunch

Vectary , a design platform for 3D and augmented reality (AR), has raised a $7.3 million round led by European fund EQT Ventures. Existing investor BlueYard (Berlin) also participated. Vectary makes high-quality 3D design more accessible for consumers, garnering over one million creators worldwide, and has more than a thousand digital agencies and creative studios as users.

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How Digital Transformation is Reshaping Our World

Dell EMC

This week we’re excited to be joined by customers and partners around the globe for Dell Technologies World Digital Experience. Here are just a few of the amazing and inspiring success stories we're hearing from our customers this year.

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Robotic kitchen startup YPC raises a $1.8M seed round

TechCrunch

Montreal-based YPC Technologies today announced that it has raised a $1.8 million seed round. Led by Hike Ventures and Real Ventures, the funding includes participation from Toyota AI Ventures and Uphill Capital, among others, designed to help the company pilot its kitchen robotics technology. Toyota AI Venture’s funding came as part of the company’s “Call of Innovation,” which finds it investing in early-state AI, robotics and other cutting-edge technologies.

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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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The ultimate guide to tech certifications

Gitprime

With coverage for the top cloud, IT, security and project management certifications around the world, Pluralsight has everything you need to learn, pass exams and keep your skills relevant. Explore several useful resources, courses and free on-demand webinars.

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Call analytics platform Invoca expands into sales, e-commerce and customer experience

TechCrunch

Invoca , which helps companies extract and use data from customer phone calls, is expanding today with the launch of products for e-commerce, customer experience and sales teams, as well as a new Invoca Exchange , where businesses can find all of the platform’s third-party integrations. The company is making these announcements as part of its virtual Invoca Summit.

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#ClouderaLife Spotlight: Otho Lyon, Director of Support, Public Sector 

Cloudera

There are some people who will tell you, “you can do anything you want to do in life”, and then there are some people who can show you that’s true. Otho Lyon – Director of Support, Public Sector – is one of those people. . For over four years, Otho has been Cloudera’s Director of Support – Public Sector. He leads the charge in the support strategy and execution of our most sensitive and secure government agency clients.