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Singapore-based caregiving startup Homage raises $30M Series C

TechCrunch

Homage , the caregiving-focused startup, has raised a $30 million Series C led by Sheares Healthcare Group, which is wholly-owned by investment firm Temasek. Other participants included new investors DG Daiwa Ventures and Sagana Capital, and returning backers East Ventures (Growth), HealthXCapital, SeedPlus, Trihill Capital and Alternate Ventures. The new funding will be used to develop Homage’s technology, continue integrating with aged and disability care payer and provider infrastructure and

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How to Build a Better Network of Peer Relationships

Let's Grow Leaders

Don’t Overlook The Importance of Peers in Your Network of Strategic Advisors. When it comes to building a network of strategic advisors, it’s natural to look to people with more position power, access, and influence as your primary go-to’s. Yes, you want a productive relationship with your boss, a mentor who will challenge you, and—if you’re really lucky—a genuine sponsor opening doors.

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Mobius Labs nabs $6M to help more sectors tap into computer vision

TechCrunch

Berlin-based Mobius Labs has closed a €5.2 million (~$6.1M) funding round off the back of increased demand for its computer vision training platform. The Series A investment is led by Ventech VC, along with Atlantic Labs, APEX Ventures, Space Capital, Lunar Ventures plus some additional angel investors. The startup offers an SDK that lets the user create custom computer vision models fed with a little of their own training data — as an alternative to off-the-shelf tools which may not have

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Three Security Highlights For Terraform on AWS

Xebia

So, you want to build your infrastructure in AWS and use Terraform for your Infrastructure as Code? And you want to do it securely? In this blog we highlight three things you should pay attention to from a security perspective: your IAM roles and trust relationships, your Terraform state, and your detection & monitoring. Of course, each of these topics deserve their own in-depth blog, but we’ll start highlighting three key touchpoints.

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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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Path to Continuous Test Automation Using CI/CD Pipeline

Dzone - DevOps

Introduction to CI/CD. The continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipeline has become the primary approach in the software development life cycle (SDLC). As a matter of fact, CI/CD pipeline tools have evolved a lot in the past few years. However, developers, QA, and other technical peeps still find challenges in implementing an effective CI/CD pipeline.

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Diving Into Digital Transformation With Deloitte Consulting’s Managing Director of Applied AI

Dataiku

As the competitor and consumer spaces shift to adapt to emerging innovations, companies have developed a thirst for machine learning (ML) investment, hoping to apply ML as a prime AI enabler. Organizations are jumping to fill their digital canvases, but many are struggling to define exactly what that looks like and approach the journey with clarity.

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Stress Testing In Software Development Life Cycle

Openxcell

Testing has evolved along with software development ‘s numerous improvements. Each software comes with different needs and has distinct requirements. Testing examines software for factors such as stability, quality, etc. Results of which are fewer software app faults, improved security, and improved app speed. Today, let’s know about Stress Testing.

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GoExpedi transforms the digital supply chain

Beyond B2B

GoExpedi likes to describe itself as the “Uber-meets-Amazon” of the energy industry - and aims to do for industrial parts and tools what Amazon did for books.

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5 Trends that are Influencing the Adoption of DevOps in 2021

Kovair - DevOps

Know about the trends that influence the rise of the adoption of DevOps (Technology seems to change and adapt itself to the newest opportunity. Let’s.

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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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Data Recovery in the Face of Disaster: 4 Ways to Prepare for the Worst

Arcserve

If you think disaster won’t strike your organization, you may want to think again. The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) lists 31 declared disasters in July and August of 2021 alone. From the massive destruction of Hurricane Ida across the South and Northeast to the massive Dixie Fire—the second-largest in California history miles as of.

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Diving Into Digital Transformation With Deloitte Consulting’s Managing Director of Applied AI

Dataiku

As the competitor and consumer spaces shift to adapt to emerging innovations, companies have developed a thirst for machine learning (ML) investment, hoping to apply ML as a prime AI enabler. Organizations are jumping to fill their digital canvases, but many are struggling to define exactly what that looks like and approach the journey with clarity.

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Vaccinated or Unvaccinated: Should You Mandate?

CEO Insider

As the Fall approaches what was to be a welcomed Covid recovery season feels more like an endless New Year’s Eve hangover. Instead of following its 1918 Spanish Flu brethren and fading away inside 18 months, the new Covid “Delta” variant which is far more contagious and on the rise is digging in. In fact, […]. The post Vaccinated or Unvaccinated: Should You Mandate?

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The early signs of ransomware: A blitz game

Darktrace

When it comes to tackling the problem of ransomware, attack is the best form of defense. This blog explores how to spot the early indicators of ransomware, which can prove a pivotal advantage as the game develops.

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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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August Changelog: What's New at Netlify

Netlify

Hi folks! This August was all about the Jamstack ecosystem with new Netlify partner integrations, guides, and a special Architecting with Next.js event last week, all building towards a massive Jamstack Conf coming up on October 6-7. And don’t forget to create your Jamstack Conf badge! We also shipped lots of exciting product updates. Read on to discover what’s new at Netlify.

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CodeSOD: Insertion

The Daily WTF

Shalonda inherited a C# GUI application that, if we're being charitable, has problems. It's slow, it's buggy, it crashes a lot. The users hate it, the developers hate it, but it's also one of the core applications that drives their business, so everyone needs to use it. One thing the application needs to do is manage a list of icons.

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COBOL Development – How to Manage Legacy Code

InfoBest

As developers, we want to work with the latest, bleeding-edge technology, and create from scratch our setup and architecture. We love to be able to control the build without too many issues. Unfortunately, legacy code is a fact of life and we need to deal with it. It is estimated that around 220 billion lines of COBOL are still being used today. Considering the programming language has had its heyday and it is not popular among young programmers, maintaining it has become quite a task.

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The new CompreFace version 0.6 release

Exadel

The new CompreFace version 0.6 is live on our GitHub. Try it out and share your feedback with us! In this release, we worked hard on a redesign of CompreFace, adding a face mask detection plug-in and more! Let’s take a closer look. Redesign. CompreFace now looks much nicer! But this isn’t the only UI improvement: With our new responsive design, it’s much more comfortable to use CompreFace on small resolutions; you can even use it on mobile devices.

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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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A Few Ways To Start Your Entrepreneurial Lifestyle

Strategy Driven

Being an entrepreneur is something that you ever want or you don’t. When you are an entrepreneur you commit to working for yourself and do whatever you can’t make yourself and your company or companies in some cases succeed. There are lots of different ways to become an entrepreneur and lots of different levels to start at, you need to find what’s right for you with your age and budget that you have and what level of investment you want to make, to begin with.

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H2O Hospitality secures $30M Series C to expedite hotel digital transformation

TechCrunch

The pandemic has triggered more demand for contactless and staff-less operations in the hospitality sector, and now H2O Hospitality , the unmanned hotel management company, has closed a $30 million round on the back of that boost. The South Korea and Japan-based startup automates front and backend processes including accommodation reservation, room management and front desk duties, and it will be using the funds to continue expanding its business.

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3 Questions To Ask Yourself Before Hiring Your First Employee

Strategy Driven

Hiring your first employee is a big step for a new business. Things are going well and the workload is increasing so you think that now is the right time to start bringing more people on board, but that isn’t always the case. If you start expanding the business and hiring people too early, you might end up in a difficult financial situation and it could be the end of the business entirely.

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How To Build Marketplace App Like eBay In 3 Easy Steps

Xicom

Regardless of what type of app a business owner wants to develop – be it an app like Uber or a bidding platform like eBay – the question they mostly ask is – “How much time will it take to develop?” and “How much will it cost?”. So, if you have an eCommerce idea but are confused where to start yet, you have come to the right place.

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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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Now That People Are Going Back To The Office, How Do You Keep It Clean?

Strategy Driven

Most offices employed cleaning agencies to give everything the once over in the morning before staff arrived at their desks before the pandemic. But now that COVID-19 is an issue, keeping the office pristine is more critical than it ever was in the past. The number of germs and bacteria in offices is truly remarkable. Data suggest that there are around 30,000 of them per square inch on surfaces: that’s a lot.

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FSI Member Spotlight Episode #16 – Shmulik Fishman

Praxent

FSI Member Spotlight Episode #16: How lenders can leverage continuous employment data to reduce underwriting risk and loan origination friction. In a recent FSI Member Spotlight, Praxent had the opportunity to meet with Shmulik Fishman, CEO & Founder at Argyle, a leading employment data platform. Argyle provides a trusted way to connect employment records to applications in real-time with user consent and provides continual up-to-date information on employment and how much they are being pai

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Talking Shop – What Your Ecommerce Site Can’t Do Without

Strategy Driven

If you’re reading this then you know that the future of shopping is well-and-truly online. But not every shop is created equal. The ecommerce businesses that keep the tips below in mind are going to see much more success with their customers. Focus on the user experience first and foremost. This should be a given for any site but in the world of ecommerce, it’s actually easier to lose customers.