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Key Pharmaceutical Use Cases for Embracing AI

Dataiku

According to a survey of 1,200 global companies sponsored by Dataiku in September 2020, 66% of life sciences or pharmaceutical organizations believe AI is either considerably or very important to the future of their business. This goes to show the immense potential that AI and machine learning have in the pharmaceutical industry. Amongst other things, pharmaceutical organizations can leverage these technologies to: expedite the time-consuming task of medical information collection and processing

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Six tips for SaaS founders who don’t want VC money

TechCrunch

Aytekin Tank. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Aytekin Tank is the founder of JotForm , an online form builder. Established in 2006, JotForm allows customizable data collection for enhanced lead generation, survey distribution, payment collections and more. Over the past decade, venture capital has become synonymous with entrepreneurship. Founders from around the world arrive in Silicon Valley with visions of record-setting A rounds and billion-dollar valuations.

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OK this is huge: Ethereum mining revenue breaks $1 billion for the first time in February

CTOvision

Ethereum mining revenue grew 65.1% between January and February. During that time, transaction fees grew 122.1%. Ethereum mining revenue often features a relatively high ratio of transaction fees to block subsidies. […].

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Uber spins out delivery robot startup as Serve Robotics

TechCrunch

Postmates X, the robotics division of the on-demand delivery startup that Uber acquired last year for $2.65 billion , has officially spun out as an independent company called Serve Robotics. TechCrunch reported in January that a deal was being shopped to investors. Serve Robotics, a name taken from the autonomous sidewalk delivery bot that was developed and piloted by Postmates X, has raised seed funding in a round led by venture capital firm Neo.

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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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Chainlink rolls out Off Chain Reporting (OCR) system upgrade, reducing gas costs tenfold

CTOvision

Read take a look at Chainlink’s newly released Off-Chain Reporting, or OCR system upgrade and how it will help ease the burden on the blockchains on Coin Telegraph: Chainlink has […].

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AWS Used By Bad Guys: SolarWinds Hackers Used Elastic Compute Cloud

CTOvision

Amazon Web Services admitted Thursday that hackers used its systems in the SolarWinds campaign but reiterated the cloud computing giant wasn’t itself infected with malware. “The actors used EC2 [Amazon Elastic […].

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Flipboard expands its local coverage to more than 1,000 cities and towns

TechCrunch

News aggregator Flipboard ‘s local coverage is making what product lead Brian Gottesman described as a “quantum leap,” expanding from 60 topics (a.k.a. cities, towns and communities that you can follow) to more than 1,000. While Flipboard has allowed users to follow stories focused on major cities like New York for years, it launched a broader initiative around local news at the beginning of last year.

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Snowflake names VMware veteran Jon Robertson as APJ boss

CTOvision

Data platform vendor Snowflake has appointed Jon Robertson as its president of Asia-Pacific and Japan. In the newly created role, Robertson is responsible for driving the adoption and expansion of Snowflake’s […].

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West Tenth’s app encourages women to start home businesses, not join MLMs

TechCrunch

A new digital marketplace called West Tenth , now backed by $1.5 million in seed funding, wants to give women a platform to start and grow their home-based businesses. Through its mobile app, women can promote their business to others in the local community, then field inquiries and requests through the app’s integrated messaging platform, as well as finalize transactions through in-app payments.

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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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Structured Logging That Makes Everybody Happy

Xebia

When we run our software, we obviously want to see and understand what is happening and how well our software performs. To achieve this, we need observability as a key characteristic for our software. Observability is a measure of how well internal states of a system can be inferred from knowledge of its external outputs. This definition, borrowed from control theory, infers that metrics, tracing, and logging are key topics to be implemented in your software system.

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Instacart raises $265M at a $39B valuation

TechCrunch

On-demand grocery delivery platform Instacart has raises a $265 million funding ground from existing investors, including Andreessen Horowitz, Sequoia Capital, D1 Capital Partners and others. The new funding, which, like its past few rounds, isn’t assigned a Series alphabetical designation, pushes the company’s valuation to $39 billion – more than double its $17.7 billion valuation when it raised is last financing, a $200 million venture round in October 2020.

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Structured Logging That Makes Everybody Happy

Xebia

When we run our software, we obviously want to see and understand what is happening and how well our software performs. To achieve this, we need observability as a key characteristic for our software. Observability is a measure of how well internal states of a system can be inferred from knowledge of its external outputs. […]. The post Structured Logging That Makes Everybody Happy appeared first on Xebia Blog.

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Vestiaire Collective raises $216 million for its second-hand fashion platform

TechCrunch

Vestiaire Collective announced a new funding round. The company has raised $216 million, or €178 million — it has reached a valuation above $1 billion, making it a unicorn. French fashion and luxury group Kering is leading the round with Tiger Global Management. Kering now owns 5% of Vestiaire Collective. The startup operates an online marketplace where you can find pre-owned luxury and fashion items.

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Entity Resolution Checklist: What to Consider When Evaluating Options

Are you trying to decide which entity resolution capabilities you need? It can be confusing to determine which features are most important for your project. And sometimes key features are overlooked. Get the Entity Resolution Evaluation Checklist to make sure you’ve thought of everything to make your project a success! The list was created by Senzing’s team of leading entity resolution experts, based on their real-world experience.

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Another Sign Of A Shift: Citi says Bitcoin is at a tipping point and could become ‘currency of choice’ for global trade

CTOvision

Citi thinks bitcoin is at a “tipping point” and could one day “become the currency of choice for international trade” as companies like Tesla and PayPal warm to it and […].

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Sequoia Capital India’s Surge invests $2M in sales engagement platform Outplay

TechCrunch

Outplay’s team members on a video call. Sales engagement platforms (SEP) help sales teams automate and track the large number of tasks they need to do each day as they contact leads and home in on potential deals. Focused on small-to-medium-sized companies, SEP startup Outplay announced today it has raised $2 million from Sequoia Capital India’s Surge program for early-stage startups.

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More Integrations for The Graph: Now Supports Fantom Network

CTOvision

Another huge partnership in the DeFi space has happened. This time around, popular indexing and querying blockchain platform The Graph has disclosed the inclusion of Fantom Network to its list […].

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Flink, the Berlin-based grocery delivery startup that operates its own ‘dark stores’, raises $52M

TechCrunch

The on-demand grocery delivery industry in Europe (and beyond) continues to heat up amidst the pandemic, including a plethora of startups taking a vertical approach by operating their own delivery only — or “dark” — stores. The latest to show its hand is Berlin-based Flink , which today is announcing that it has raised a hefty $52 million in seed financing.

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The Big Payoff of Application Analytics

Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business. That’s what drove the five companies in this e-book to change their approach to analytics. Download this e-book to learn about the unique problems each company faced and how they achieved huge returns beyond expectation by embedding analytics into applications.

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Palantir sees slowing growth in 2021, but upbeat on expanding its enterprise

CTOvision

Palantir Technologies said revenue growth in 2021 is expected to slow to about 30% in 2021 compared to 47% in 2020. The company reported better-than-expected fourth-quarter sales and logged more than […].

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Retail Zipline raises $30M as it helps retailers adapt to the pandemic

TechCrunch

When I first wrote about Retail Zipline in 2019, the startup was focused on building a communication platform that would help corporate decision-makers in retail communicate with individual stores. As you’d probably guess, the startup saw some changes in 2020. “When COVID first hit, you might think a company that’s primarily focused on retail would be in trouble,” said co-founder and CTO Jeremy Baker.

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DevOps demands quality engineering. Is your team ready?

TechBeacon

For DevOps teams, quality assurance isn’t enough: You need to up your game to quality engineering if you expect to increase velocity and improve quality through continuous integration.

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SpineZone is the latest health tech startup to raise millions in the musculoskeletal space

TechCrunch

SpineZone is a startup that creates personalized exercise programs and treatment for neck and back pain. The company uses an online platform and in-person clinics to deliver a curriculum that, ideally, helps patients avoid the need for prescription drugs, injections and surgeries, and providers then avoid the cost of all of the above. Co-founded by brothers Kian Raiszadeh and Kamshad Raiszadeh, the company tells TechCrunch that it has raised $12 million in a Series A round led by Polaris Partner

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LLMOps for Your Data: Best Practices to Ensure Safety, Quality, and Cost

Speaker: Shreya Rajpal, Co-Founder and CEO at Guardrails AI & Travis Addair, Co-Founder and CTO at Predibase

Large Language Models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT offer unprecedented potential for complex enterprise applications. However, productionizing LLMs comes with a unique set of challenges such as model brittleness, total cost of ownership, data governance and privacy, and the need for consistent, accurate outputs. Putting the right LLMOps process in place today will pay dividends tomorrow, enabling you to leverage the part of AI that constitutes your IP – your data – to build a defensible AI strategy fo

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Languages and DevOps: Web Development

DevOps.com

Web development has changed a lot since DevOps first hit the scene. The languages used have shifted, where languages are used has shifted, the likely back-end hosting environment has changed – but DevOps has folded these issues in and just kept plugging along. We’re going to approach this from two angles – what languages you’re […]. The post Languages and DevOps: Web Development appeared first on DevOps.com.

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Amsterdam’s Crisp, an online-only supermarket, raises €30M Series B led by Target Global

TechCrunch

Crisp , an Amsterdam-based, online-only supermarket focused on fresh produce, has raised €30 million in a Series B financing led by leading Target Global and joined by Keen Venture Partners and the co-founders of Adyen and Takeaway.com. Crisp has now raised a total of €42.5 million to date. It plans to use the money to expand in the Netherlands, and eventually across Europe.

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To Pull or to Push Your Data with Kafka Connect? That Is the Question.

Confluent

Today, every company is a data company. There are many different data pipeline, integration, and ingestion tools in the market, but before you can feed your data analytics needs, data […].

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SkyMul’s drones secure rebar on the fly to speed up construction

TechCrunch

There are many jobs in the construction industry that fall under the “dull, dirty, and dangerous” category said to be ripe for automation — but only a few can actually be taken on with today’s technology. One such job is the crucial but repetitive task of rebar tying, which a startup called SkyMul is aiming to completely automate using fleets of drones.

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How To Package & Price Embedded Analytics

Just by embedding analytics, app owners can charge 24% more for their product. How much value could you add? This framework from Software Pricing Partners explains how application enhancements can extend your product offerings. You’ll learn: How to take a disciplined approach to pricing The three elements of the Packaging Decision Framework Ways to structure your new embedded analytics offering Download the White Paper to learn about How To Package & Price Embedded Analytics.

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Cloud Migrations Demand Risk and Compliance Maturity

DevOps.com

The COVID-19 pandemic brought undeniable disruptions for organizations and their employees whether business, personal or otherwise. Across the globe, businesses and governments alike were forced to try and manage these disruptions. For nearly all organizations, digitization initiatives were accelerated in a short period of time, from implementing work-from-home policies and launching new applications to support […].

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What to expect tomorrow at TC Sessions: Justice 2021

TechCrunch

Get ready to engage in essential conversations about some of the most important issues facing the tech industry — diversity, equity, inclusion and labor. TC Sessions: Justice 2021 — a day-long virtual symposium — begins tomorrow, March 3, and we’re here to highlight just a few of the powerful people, presentations and fireside chats you won’t want to miss.

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Datadog to Meld Observability and DevSecOps

DevOps.com

Datadog is planning to expand the scope of the security and observability services it provides following the acquisitions of Sqreen, an application security platform provider, and Timber Technologies, a provider of a tool, called Vector, for collecting and normalizing log data. Ilan Rabinovitch, vice president of product and community for Datadog, said Vector makes it […].