TechCrunch

MAY 30, 2022

Ayoken, an NFT marketplace for creatives, has raised $1.4 million pre-seed funding to enable users grow their revenue streams through digital collectibles. The startup’s marketplace, Ayokenlabs , will feature digital collectibles from musicians, sports brands and influencers from all over the world. Ayoken founder and CEO, Joshua King , told TechCrunch that the marketplace is a bridge between fans and artists, and gives supporters a sense of ownership in the success of their idols.

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The Crazy Programmer

MAY 30, 2022

Data Science has become quite an attractive field today. Not just is it very profitable, but it also provides huge utility to many other fields. Besides, data science can also be used to predict possibilities, determine new trends, prescribe behaviour, and make any predictions based on hidden patterns. Among researchers and students, there is huge interest in the field, for this reason, so many courses are available online.

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TechCrunch

MAY 30, 2022

Strong Compute , a Sydney, Australia-based startup that helps developers remove the bottlenecks in their machine learning training pipelines, today announced that it has raised a $7.8 million seed round. The round includes a total of 30 funds and angels, including the likes of Sequoia Capital India, Blackbird, Folklore and Skip Capital, as well as Y Combinator, Starburst Ventures and founders and engineers from companies like Cruise, Waymo, Open AI, SpaceX and Virgin Galactic.

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Toptal

MAY 30, 2022

gRPC, REST’s up-and-coming competitor, approaches synchronous communication from another angle, offering protocol buffers and typed contracts. What does that mean for your project?

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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

MAY 30, 2022

Whether to power translation to document summarization, enterprises are increasing their investments in natural language processing (NLP) technologies. According to a 2021 survey from John Snow Labs and Gradient Flow, 60% of tech leaders indicated that their NLP budgets grew by at least 10% compared to 2020, while a third said that spending climbed by more than 30%.

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TechCrunch

MAY 30, 2022

Egypt-born and Dubai-headquartered mobility startup SWVL is planning to lay off 32% of its workforce it said in a statement today. The company’s LinkedIn profile shows it has over 1,330 employees. Letting go of over 30% of its workforce means that around 400 people will lose their jobs at the mobility company. Tech companies, private and public, have faced a reckoning in the past few months with their valuations taking a beating.

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Xicom

MAY 30, 2022

It’s no secret that mobile apps are the future of business and communication, and in many ways, this trend has already taken over the world. So, with that in mind, what if you wanted to create an app just for your jewelry company? Would it be worth it? Would you have the resources to do it? The answers might surprise you – and they might help you see your business in an entirely new light!

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TechCrunch

MAY 30, 2022

HitPay has almost everything SMEs need to run their businesses. In addition to being an online payment gateway, it also offers tools like point-of-sale software with card readers, plugins, payment links and no-code online stores. The Y Combinator alum announced today that it has raised $15.75 million in Series A funding led by Tiger Global, with participation from returning investors Global Founders Capital and HOF Capital.

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Confluent

MAY 30, 2022

What we’ve done to evolve from cloud Kafka to Confluent Cloud, a data streaming platform that’s 10X better than Kafka in elasticity, storage, resiliency, and more.

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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

MAY 30, 2022

Mintlify , a startup developing software to automate software documentation tasks, today announced that it raised $2.8 million in a seed round led by by Bain Capital Ventures with participation from TwentyTwo Ventures and Quinn Slack, Sourcegraph’s co-founder. CEO Han Wang says that the proceeds will be put toward product development and doubling Mintlify’s core, three-person team by the end of the year.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2022

They can unlock a new level of communication in the remote workplace.

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TechCrunch

MAY 30, 2022

About 80% of household retail in sub-Saharan Africa is delivered through informal channels, which perennially face several challenges like stockouts, leading to an instability in earnings, and a lack of attractiveness to financiers. These challenges befall millions of micro-retailers across the continent, and Betastore , a B2B retail marketplace for informal retailers, is working to resolve in Nigeria, Ivory Coast and Senegal.

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DevOps.com

MAY 30, 2022

The post Future Forward appeared first on DevOps.com.

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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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Dataiku

MAY 30, 2022

According to the World Economic Forum , women make up only an estimated 26% of workers in data and AI roles globally. So, how can we change that narrative in practice? The answer lies in increasing representation and diversity in the ideation and development of analytics and AI projects. Ultimately, this should lead to better products that integrate a broad spectrum of skill sets and backgrounds and provide a common ground for people that hail from both the business and technical sides of an org

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The Daily WTF

MAY 30, 2022

Matt P was spending a few hours trawling through a Java code base, working through the poorly documented logic and the bugs and the odd conventions. It was the kind of code base that rightly eschewed "magic numbers", favoring constants, but was also the kind of code base which took that to an extreme which arguably didn't help readability.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2022

Done well, they can be a powerful force for inclusion.

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CloudSphere

MAY 30, 2022

Data privacy is an enterprise priority that is getting renewed C-Suite attention lately. Senior executives are increasingly, and rightly, viewing data privacy as a major concern and shareholder priority for compliance and risk management. There is even a global Data Privacy Day, every January 28, to underscore the issue’s importance. This is all welcome attention for something increasingly governed through the WTO , GDPR , and a growing list of other regulations.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2022

An ambitious young leader learns how to set short-term career goals that will help her reach the C-suite.

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Coding Dojo

MAY 30, 2022

If you’ve just started learning Python , you’ve probably come across Python data structures. Though they might seem complicated at … Read more >>. The post Top 3 Python Data Structures Explained appeared first on Coding Dojo Blog.

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Nutanix

MAY 30, 2022

Nutanix products continue to meet DISA rigorous Cybersecurity and CVE Testing

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Altexsoft

MAY 30, 2022

In the modern world, there’s hardly a business that doesn’t need a communication channel with its customers. Here’s the catch though. According to Meta (formerly Facebook), 64 percent of people would prefer to message rather than speak to a human call center agent on the phone. Besides that, customers want timely responses to whatever questions they have.

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