TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Activeloop , a member of the Y Combinator summer 2018 cohort , is building a database specifically designed for media-focused artificial intelligence applications. Today the company announced a $5 million seed investment led by 468 Capital and CM Ventures with participation from Tribe Capital, Shasta Ventures and various tech industry angels. Davit Buniatyan, founder and CEO at the company says the company developed out of research he was doing at Princeton where saw the need for a streaming da

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Martin Fowler

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Integrating the necessary security controls and audit capabilities to satisfy compliance requirements within a DevOps culture can capitalize on CI/CD pipeline automation, but presents unique challenges as an organization scales. Understanding the second order implications and unintended consequences caused by the chosen implementation is key to building an effective, secure, and scalable solution.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Everyone’s set of teeth are different enough that orthodontics has traditionally been part artistry, part medical witchcraft. In the late 1990s, Invisalign changed the industry with customizable aligners, but it turns out that aligners only serve 30% of orthodontics patients. For the rest, there hasn’t been much in the way of innovation — until LightForce came along and shook things up.

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Agile Alliance

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Many people seem to have the wrong idea about us. Agile Alliance is more than just a large annual conference. The post Membership Matters first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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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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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

The pandemic drove explosive growth for the connected fitness industry, as gyms shut down and people struggled to find ways to work out without leaving their homes. Along with the likes of Peloton and Mirror, Tempo is one of the companies that has benefitted from the trend. The San Francisco-based company specializes in cardio and strength training through guided workouts using a system of barbells and dumbbells.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Companies are attacking food waste in different ways, from developing a better food supply chain to “skins” for produce to food sharing. And today, Martie officially enters the market with its approach to stop from going into landfills food that is thrown away due to package changes, being a seasonal product or reaching its expiration date before purchase.

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DevOps.com

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Managing a DevOps environment involves a high degree of complexity. The rapid proliferation of data has made it difficult for DevOps teams to effectively onboard, ingest and unlock data and implement information to make good business decisions and deliver delightful experiences. Imagine a team poring over troves of information to identify critical factors that triggered […].

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

TechCrunch held events in China as recently as 2019 , following several years of hosting conferences in the country’s hardware capital, Shenzhen. In the wake of today’s news, TechCrunch.com is no longer available for regular access in China. How quickly things change. This morning, global media noted weekend news that Yahoo, TechCrunch’s parent company, is pulling its remaining services from China.

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TechBeacon

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Despite widespread interest in machine learning (ML), relatively few projects leave the proof-of-concept phase and enter production. In fact, in a 2020 report, Capgemini found that roughly 85% of all ML projects grind to a halt across Capgemini's client organizations—despite successful preliminary models and ample support from executive leaders.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Electric vehicle startup BasiGo has today announced the launch of its operations in Nairobi, bringing clean energy options to Kenya’s public transport industry, currently dominated by fossil-fuel buses. . The startup plans to sell locally assembled electric buses using parts from China’s EV maker BYD Automotive , the company said while announcing it had raised $1 million in pre-seed funding.

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Aqua Security

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

A great way to get started with runtime security in your Kubernetes environments is using Tracee, an open source runtime security and forensics tool for Linux. But as with any alerting and monitoring service, it’s necessary to send alerts to a central point to help operations teams keep track of what’s happening across their environments. Following on from our last post on Tracee’s installation on Kubernetes , once Tracee is up and running, Postee can be used to configure those locations to whic

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Lumigo , a cloud-native application monitoring and debugging platform, today announced that it has raised a $29 million Series A funding round led by Redline Capital. Wing Venture Capital and Vertex Ventures US , together with existing investors Meron Capital , Pitango First and Grove Ventures , also participated in this round, which brings the company’s total funding to $38 million since its launch in 2019.

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DevOps.com

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

As an independent company once again, VMware will focus its efforts on providing management planes that span multiple cloud computing environments after officially spinning out of Dell Technologies. Ray O’Farrell, executive vice president for the cloud-native apps business unit at VMware, said the company now has a unique opportunity to work closely with providers of […].

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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

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Una Brands , the e-commerce aggregator focused on Asia-Pacific brands, announced today it has raised $15 million for its Series A. The full-equity round was co-led by White Star Capital and Alpha JWC, along with participation from returning investors and Ninjavan co-founder Alvin Teo. This news comes only five months after Una launched with a $40 million equity and debt seed round.

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CEO Insider

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

The importance of an inclusive work environment is on the minds of many leaders today. Exclusionary behaviors are dangerous for a business, with the impacts extending from dysfunctional workplaces and difficulties with recruitment all the way to serious legal issues. Exclusionary behaviors can have a significant negative impact on business performance.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

German medical device maker Ottobock today announced that it has entered into a deal to acquire Bay Area-based exoskeleton startup SuitX. The deal is one that makes sense for Ottobock, which builds its own exoskeletons, along with prosthetics and orthotics. SuitX is a spinout from UC Berkeley’s Robotics and Human Engineering Lab, founded by mechanical engineering professor Homayoon Kazerooni.

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O'Reilly Media - Ideas

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

While October’s news was dominated by Facebook’s (excuse me, Meta’s) continued problems (you’d think they’d get tired of the apology tour), the most interesting news comes from the AI world. I’m fascinated by the use of large language models to analyze the “speech” of whales, and to preserve endangered human languages. It’s also important that machine learning seems to have taken a step (pun somewhat intended) forward, with robots that teach themselves to walk by trial and error, and with robots

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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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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Voice-first social media platform Clubhouse has gone back to school to learn itself a baker’s dozen worth of new languages. The company has announced in a press conference in India the addition of 13 new languages to its app, making it more accessible to people who want to see the platform available in their native languages. The app update bakes in localizations for the millions of people who don’t speak English, or who simply prefer a local-language alternative.

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Dzone - DevOps

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

As enterprises are embarking on the route of digital transformation, DevOps has become more crucial than ever. It has come out as the call for the hour for the current IT firms to fill the gap between the development team and the operations team. Apart from encouraging a collaborative culture, DevOps has fostered rapid and reliable software delivery, improved customer satisfaction, enhanced time-to-market, and much more.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

With its latest acquisition Walmart is further investing in technology that will enable shopping via voice and chat. The retail giant announced it’s acquiring “select technology assets” from a startup called Botmock , which had developed a set of tools for designing, prototyping, testing and deploying conversational applications across platforms.

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Dzone - DevOps

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Ginkgo is the testing framework of choice for many projects developed in Golang. Here is an example setup for SonarQube project analysis. Prerequisites. SonarQube server installation: For the purpose of the tutorial I have a docker image running on my machine on [link]. SonarQube project: For the purpose of the tutorial I have created a project with project key com.bdpanajotova.golang-sonar-example and name Golang Sonar Example.

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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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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Whimsical , a startup creating tools for workplace collaboration, announced Tuesday its first funding round, a $30 million Series A investment led by Accel. The company was founded by Kaspars Dancis in 2017 when he saw that the tools most people use for work — the documents, spreadsheets and slide decks — were not conducive to the way people were working, for example, increasingly remote.

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Tenable

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

New features are designed to offer the portability, efficiency and ease-of-use needed to protect the ever-expanding attack surface. The widespread shift to remote work has atomized the attack surface , creating new challenges for the security professionals, penetration testers and consultants tasked with keeping data safe and secure. With most organizations expected to maintain a hybrid working model — in which employees will have the option to work at home or in an office — for the next 12 to 2

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Iron Ox today announced the launch of the crop-assisting mobile robot Grover. According to the Bay Area-based indoor farming firm, the mobile robot is capable of lifting and moving up to 1,000 pounds of payload. The primary cargo is a 6×6-foot module that houses hydroponically fed produce. The modules are moved to a machine for scanning their progress and then transferred to another station for either additional care or harvesting.

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Confluent

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

What will the next important category of databases look like? For decades, relational databases were the undisputed home of data. They powered everything: from websites to analytics, from customer data […].

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

As the Great Resignation builds , corporations and organizations are looking for bigger and better ways to retain talent. One of the most popular ways to do that, right now, is to offer better tools around personal development and career growth to employees. Hone , a startup backed by Cowboy Ventures, is looking to do just that. The company is today announcing the close of a $16 million Series A funding round led by F-Prime Capital, with participation from Cowboy Ventures, NextGen Venture partne

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CEO Insider

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

For over 3,000 years, starting with the ancient Greeks, virtually all businesses have been competing the same way: by “branding.” They create and differentiate their brand from rivals with lots of advertising and promotions. Many business professionals believe that branding is the only and best way to compete. That’s a myth. Branding is neither the […].

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Contra , a professional network for independent workers, unveiled a new payment model Tuesday that lets users accept payments for their services on Contra without paying any commission fees. The new feature comes as the company brings in $30 million in Series B funding, led by NEA, with participation from Unusual Ventures and Cowboy Ventures, both of which invested in Contra’s $14.5 million Series A earlier this year.

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