Xebia
OCTOBER 20, 2022
Fostering knowledge transfer. Fostering knowledge transfer requires some transparency in distinguished competencies and knowledge areas. And ways to gain knowledge or share knowledge. At my current client, we hypothesized that help is not requested or late within the team. Therefore, at least finishing work takes longer lead times than potentially possible.
CIO
OCTOBER 20, 2022
Retailers are not the only people looking forward to the holiday season. It will be a busy time for scammers and fraudsters too as they send out coupons, deals and offers to consumers, and even thank-you vouchers to employees, purporting to come from organizations and brands they trust. In fact, CIO has reported that it takes only a few minutes for experienced hackers to set up a social engineering attack against enterprises (and their managed service providers) that consider themselves to be se
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TechCrunch
OCTOBER 20, 2022
TechCrunch Disrupt 2022 — the first in-person Disrupt in three years — is in the books. And as always, we end it by crowning the winner of Startup Battlefield. It began with 20: As seasoned TechCrunch readers will know, startups participating in the Startup Battlefield were handpicked to compete in the event. During the first two days of Disrupt, the companies pitched before judges — multiple groups of VCs and tech leaders — for a chance to win $100,000 and the coveted Ba
CIO
OCTOBER 20, 2022
“The foundation of our business is rooted in sustainability. From the products we offer to the services we provide, our aim is to provide the highest levels of business continuity responsibly. Moving workloads to the cloud has been proven to reduce enterprises’ energy usage and their carbon footprint by at least 30%. To be known as a company that is doing all it can to tread lightly carries real weight and matters greatly.” – Andrew Cruise, managing director of Routed Offering enterprises across
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TechCrunch
OCTOBER 20, 2022
A month after Adobe announced its plans for acquiring Figma, the popular digital design startup, Figma CEO and co-founder Dylan Field sat down with our own enterprise reporter Ron Miller at Disrupt 2022 to discuss the deal and his motivations for selling to Adobe, a company that Figma’s own marketing materials have not always described in the most glowing of terms. “We were having a blast — we are having a blast — but then we started talking with Adobe and Adobe is a foun
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TechCrunch
OCTOBER 20, 2022
Sensat , a platform that helps physical infrastructure companies map and visualize all their data, has raised $20.5 million in a Series B round of funding. Founded in 2015, London-based Sensat is one of a number of so-called “digital twin” software companies that serve construction, mining, energy and similar industries with tools to replicate their physical footprint in the digital sphere.
DevOps.com
OCTOBER 20, 2022
Ideally, DevOps should retain a lean footprint, but avoiding technical debt is easier said than done. As such, over half of IT leaders report technical debt is a big or critical problem. Without routinely addressing technical debt, DevOps teams can easily face inconsistencies during deployments. Versioning can get out of hand without consistent upgrades and […].
TechCrunch
OCTOBER 20, 2022
BeReal, the photo-sharing app, has been a huge hit with Gen Z and beyond. Now with other big social apps rushing to clone some of its no-frills ethos, it’s put together a war chest to work on its next chapter. TechCrunch has learned that the startup closed a round of $60 million earlier this year. The funding is coming in the form of a Series B and it values Paris, France–based BeReal at a valuation north of €600 million — which at today’s exchange rates is just under $587 mill
TechBeacon
OCTOBER 20, 2022
"Shift-everywhere" security is beginning to take hold in corporate America as organizations move to fortify their software supply chains, according to the latest release of Synopsys' annual Building Security in Maturity Model (BSIMM) report.
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.
TechCrunch
OCTOBER 20, 2022
Worker burnout is real. Reports suggest that work-related chronic stress could be costing businesses up to $190 billion annually in reduced output and sick days, not to mention the much-discussed “ Great Resignation ” where workers are jumping ship in search of a greater work-life balance. In 2019, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared burnout an “occupational phenomenon,” adding it to its International Classification of Diseases.
DevOps.com
OCTOBER 20, 2022
In this week’s The Long View: A S. Korean conflagration leads to a ridiculously long outage, and the price of public cloud is skyrocketing. The post Fire at Data Center Causes Chaos | 20% Costlier Cloud appeared first on DevOps.com.
TechCrunch
OCTOBER 20, 2022
A new AI research company is launching out of stealth today with an ambitious goal: to research the fundamentals of human intelligence that machines currently lack. Called Generally Intelligent , it plans to do this by turning these fundamentals into an array of tasks to be solved and by designing and testing different systems’ ability to learn to solve them in highly complex 3D worlds built by their team. “We believe that generally intelligent computers will someday unlock extraordinary p
Harvard Business Review
OCTOBER 20, 2022
New tools make it easier to empower small-scale innovation among the employees who work most closely with suppliers, customers, and other stakeholders.
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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.
TechCrunch
OCTOBER 20, 2022
Last month, on International Equal Pay Day, the International Labour (ILO) Organization revealed that on average, women globally are paid about 20 percent less than men. This pay gap is even bigger for Black and Hispanic women, where Black women were found to earn over 63% less than white men, and Hispanic or Latina women 57.3% less. In survey after survey, this blatant sexism is continually proved evident in the technology industry, and a new survey has provided yet another dismal glimpse into
CableLabs
OCTOBER 20, 2022
Wi-Fi can be frustrating! It sometimes works and sometimes doesn’t. Identifying the problems can be difficult, and people often just turn Wi-Fi off on their device and instead use their cellular data connection. In doing so, they miss out on the potentially much higher throughput, and hence the faster Internet connection, that a Wi-Fi connection can provide.
TechCrunch
OCTOBER 20, 2022
It’s no secret the pandemic has pushed healthcare to become virtual, in theory making it easier for patients to attend appointments and access the care they need. But Rebecca Weisinger, CEO and co-founder of Equipt Health , has seen plenty of patients falter in the long process of qualifying for devices they need. Equipt is a home medical equipment company; it aims to streamline the process for providers and patients to access medical equipment needed for care.
DevOps.com
OCTOBER 20, 2022
At the Open Compute Project (OCP) Global Summit conference, Cisco announced it developed an 800-gigabit switch that consumes significantly less power than the previous generation of its networking equipment. Thomas Scheibe, vice president of product management for cloud networking for Cisco’s Nexus and ACI product line, said the throughput provided by the latest 7-nanometer iteration […].
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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.
TechCrunch
OCTOBER 20, 2022
Meet Netmaker , a startup that can help you create and manage a virtual overlay network that works across the internet. In other words, Netmaker is a layer that makes it feel like different machines are right next to each other and connected to the same local network. Behind the scenes, Netmaker relies heavily on WireGuard , a VPN protocol with great performances.
InnovationM
OCTOBER 20, 2022
Waterfall Model:- The Waterfall Model was the first Process Model to be launched. It is also called the successive life cycle model. It is very easy to understand and use. In the waterfall model, each phase must be completed before the next phase begins and there is no overlap in stages. The Waterfall model is the first SDLC method used in software development.
TechCrunch
OCTOBER 20, 2022
Challenger bank N26 is launching a new trading feature in its app — N26 Crypto. Users will be able to easily trade crypto assets using money in their N26 account. Behind the scenes, N26 is partnering with Bitpanda to handle trading and custody. N26 is going to slowly roll out N26 Crypto across Europe. At first, only some users in Austria will be able to access the new feature.
thoughtLEADERS, LLC
OCTOBER 20, 2022
Our reader poll today asks: How decisive are the leaders in your organization? Extremely: They make decisions quickly as soon as they have enough information 11.90%. Very: They make rapid decisions but can occasionally get bogged down 37.30%. Somewhat: It takes a lot of effort to move them to make a decision 30.27%. Not very: They’re hesitant to make decisions and only do so when forced 13.51%.
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“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.
TechCrunch
OCTOBER 20, 2022
It almost sounds too good to be true: Take basalt dust that today is wasted in the manufacturing of things like asphalt shingles, sprinkle it on farmers’ fields, and it raises crop yields while also removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Where’s the catch? For the entire thing to work, farmers need to add just the right amount of basalt. Too little and they don’t capture much carbon and their crops don’t see any benefits.
Ivanti
OCTOBER 20, 2022
Out of 10 key metrics tracked quarterly to establish the state of ransomware activity, only one metric stayed static from Q1 to Q3 2022. The other nine all worsened. That’s an alarming trend, especially given that many business leaders hoped to see ransomware activity taper off after a historic surge during the peak of the pandemic. Ivanti, together with Cyber Security Works and Cyware, collaborated on the just-released report.
TechCrunch
OCTOBER 20, 2022
Banyan , a platform for product purchase data that allows customers such as banks, fintechs, hotels and merchants to automate expense management and more, today announced that it raised $43 million in a Series A funding round — $28 million in equity and $15 million in debt — led by Fin Capital with participation from M13, FIS Impact Ventures and TTV Capital.
TechSoup
OCTOBER 20, 2022
Now that we're well into the final quarter of 2022, many nonprofit fundraisers are working to find a fundraising strategy that is flexible enough to respond to COVID and its newest variants while also drawing in donors who are feeling some major Zoom fatigue.
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TechCrunch
OCTOBER 20, 2022
When venture markets flip from greed to fear, there’s a meme that goes around in startup circles that flat is the new up. It’s shorthand for the idea that in more difficult market conditions, a startup defending its prior valuation in a proximate venture round is as good as raising new capital at a higher valuation in better investing conditions.
Harvard Business Review
OCTOBER 20, 2022
The most valuable data is the data your competitors don’t have.
TechCrunch
OCTOBER 20, 2022
Organic chemist Manuela Oliverio was working on a new drug when he noticed that test results on mice weren’t consistent, because the molecule being administered was always different depending on the chemist who produced it. It occurred to him that automation and robotics could make the drug development process more predictable, and so he founded Katakem , one of the startups in the TechCrunch Disrupt Battlefield 200.
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