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8 Different Types of Programmers

The Crazy Programmer

Computer programming has become a significant industry, and because of the various technological advancements are becoming possible. From smartphones to laptops, computers, robots, automated factories, automated machines, and all the other advanced machinery are becoming successful with the help of programmers. If you also want to become a programmer , it is essential to learn about the types of programmers first.

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How the right automation strategy can unlock data silos

CIO

A recent Ernst and Young report found that 81% of organizations embrace the notion that data should be at the heart of all decision making. Yet, in many organization the decision-making process is stalled because data is still kept in silos.

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Types and Functions of Network Interface Card (NIC)

The Crazy Programmer

NIC card or network adapter is the crucial component in devices like computers and servers. They help such devices connect with the network. These devices have several types and crucial roles in operating computers and other similar devices that use the network connection. In this article, you will understand the meaning of network interface card, their working process, and some significant types.

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Loyal raises $27M, aims to give dog owners more time with their pets

TechCrunch

San Francisco startup Loyal is rethinking the concept of longevity and starting with man’s best friend. The company raised $27 million in Series A funding in a round, led by Khosla Ventures and including First Round Capital, Box Group, Collaborative Fund, The Longevity Fund and Lachy Groom — all companies involved in Loyal’s $11 million seed round raised in 2020, as well as a group of angel investors.

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Streamlining Database Compliance with CI/CD Integration

IT leaders know the importance of compliance at every level, but the database often gets left behind as other environments are automated for robust protection. This whitepaper emphasizes the importance of robust, auditable, and secure database change management practices for safeguarding organizational compliance. Learn how automating database compliance: Mitigates risk Protects against security vulnerabilities Helps avoid regulatory penalties Aligns database workflows with app lifecycle Turns d

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How Do You Create Customer Loyalty? (Video with Shep Hyken)

Let's Grow Leaders

Your Most Important Customer Loyalty Metric: Do Your Customers Come Back. In this week’s Asking for a Friend, I talk with Shep Hyken, author of I’ll Be Back , discusses how to build customer loyalty and getting customers to come back again and again. The Basic’s of Customer Loyalty. Karin and Shep talk about how they first met a decade ago while they were both keynoting the International Customer Service Association Conference. 2:40 Shep discusses his current book and the impor

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How Quantum Computing can Solve Real-World Problems

DevOps.com

The history of technology can seem like it was very predictable in retrospect, but the future typically feels more uncertain. Nowhere is this uncertainty more evident than in the domain of quantum computing. When the spectrum of possible outcomes spans from “quantum computers will be one of the most important technology developments of all time” […].

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London’s Jiffy scoops $28M for speedy grocery delivery

TechCrunch

Well that was fast. London grocery delivery upstart, Jiffy — which was only founded in April this year — has nabbed $28 million in Series A funding around half a year after initial £2.6M seed raise. It says it’s now raised a total of $35M. The grocery delivery startup operates a network of its own dark stores to do fulfilment — enabling it to offer the promise of “fresh groceries in 15 minutes” Currently it has eight London stores — now with the funds to

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DataOps: How to Turn Data into Actionable Insights

DevOps.com

Enterprises? ?have? ?struggled? ?to? ?collaborate? ?well ?around? ?their? ?data, which can impact everything from digital transformation to advanced concepts like AI and ML.? ?DataOps is not without challenges; building, managing and scaling data pipelines requires careful thought around reusability, portability across infrastructure and applications and long-term maintenance and governance.

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How Ryan Reynolds has mastered authentic marketing

TechCrunch

Most people know Ryan Reynolds from his movies, but the actor has his hands in a number of entrepreneurial ventures. He owns a majority stake in Mint Mobile , a mobile virtual network operator, which has grown more than 50,000% in the past three years. And he was also invested in Aviation Gin before selling it for a staggering $600 million last year.

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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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Relyance AI Shifts Compliance Left Using ML Algorithms

DevOps.com

Relyance AI emerged from stealth this week to unveil a namesake platform for managing privacy and data governance in real-time within the context of a larger DevOps workflow. Fresh off raising $30 million in seed capital, Relyance AI co-CEO Leila Golchehreh said organizations can now quickly and accurately answer essential privacy questions and ensure compliance […].

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Robotic farming firm Iron Ox raises $53M

TechCrunch

Bay Area-based autonomous farming startup Iron Ox this week announced a $53 million round. The Series C, led by Breakthrough Energy Venture, brings the firm’s total funding up to $98 million. Iron Ox is one of a large number of companies looking to revolutionize farming for the 21st century, amid growing concerns over population growth, climate change, labor shortages and a slew of other mounting concerns.

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Modernize your performance testing: 6 tips for better apps

TechBeacon

The world of application development keeps evolving at breakneck speed with respect to processes, delivery, and methodologies. But it's not just developers who are struggling to keep up with constantly changing software: This evolution is forcing test engineers to modernize their performance testing practices—and to let go of old methodologies that can't keep up.

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Meru Health secures $38M in equity and debt for ‘holistic’ online mental health platform

TechCrunch

The COVID-19 pandemic has undoubtedly been devastating on many levels. But if there’s any silver lining in the global crisis, it could be that it’s less taboo to talk about feeling anxious, depressed or burnt out. Because chances are, the person you’re talking to is feeling one of those things too. So it’s no surprise that therapists and psychiatrists alike are struggling to keep up with demand.

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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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Dell Updates AIOps Platform to Better Automate IT Ops

DevOps.com

Dell Technologies this week updated its IT operations platform infused with artificial intelligence, dubbed CloudIQ, to add support for its PowerEdge servers. In addition, Dell pledged to add support for its PowerSwitch networking hardware next month as part of an ongoing effort to extend the reach of its AIOps platform across the entire Dell EMC […].

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Zola Electric closes $90M funding round to scale technology and enter new markets

TechCrunch

Millions of people in sub-Saharan Africa and emerging markets continue to live without access to electricity. Some reports peg these numbers between 500 million and 2 billion people despite the prevalence of renewable energy providers in these regions. Zola Electric , one such provider, is announcing today that it has closed $90 million in new funding to enter new markets and drive distributed renewable energy.

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Treating Remote Employees Fairly in a Hybrid Workplace

Toptal

Unconsciously favoring in-office employees—also called distance bias—can make top talent quit. Toptal Insights spoke with experts at PwC, Gartner, and more about how to protect your business.

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Latin America finds a champion in SoftBank Group International CEO Marcelo Claure

TechCrunch

SoftBank is gaga for startups in Latin America. Since first announcing it was planting a stake in the ground in the region in early 2019, the Japanese conglomerate has plugged more than $5 billion into the region, and it expects that number to top $8 billion by year’s end. Its capital contributions are meaningful to say the least. In 2019, startups across Latin America raised $5.3 billion in funding, according to CB Insights.

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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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The 3 Reasons Why Entrepreneurs Need Communication Coaching

CEO Insider

When you think about coaching, what’s the first thing that comes to mind? For many entrepreneurs, coaching is synonymous with improving business strategy. And, while they may have heard that coaches are a worthwhile investment, they may feel like they don’t need to spend money hiring a coach, because they already know what a coach […]. The post The 3 Reasons Why Entrepreneurs Need Communication Coaching appeared first on CEOWORLD magazine.

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Ocular Solution brings video chat to the customer journey

TechCrunch

“The pandemic made it visible that there was a missing piece in the customer journey: video chat,” says Fernando Moya , CEO of early-stage Chilean startup Ocular Solution. According to Moya, COVID-19 made it obvious that live chat and chatbots were not enough, as people were still hoping to interact face-to-face with customer agents — just like they do offline.

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Navigating the Data Provider Jungle

Dataiku

We speak a lot about the ways we can use data, transform it, and create powerful models based on advanced machine learning techniques, but we sometimes forget where the data comes from initially. In an organization, data is sourced either internally, like the information flowing out of a CRM database , or externally, when we think about any bytes of data that were provided by a third party.

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Jscrambler raises $15M Series A to help defend against website attacks

TechCrunch

Jscrambler , a Portugal-based startup specializing in cybersecurity products that protect organizations against web data exfiltration attacks, has secured $15 million in Series A funding. The investment, which comes two years after the startup secured $2.3 million in seed funding, was led by Ace Capital Partners and backed by existing investors Sonae IM and Portugal Ventures.

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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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HCRootkit / Sutersu Linux Rootkit Analysis

Lacework

Jared Stroud, Tom Hegel Cloud Security Researchers – Lacework Labs Key Points Lacework Labs identified new samples and infrastructure associated with HCRootkit / Sutersu Linux rootkit activity, building-off its recent initial identification from our colleagues at Avast. Malicious droppers include and deliver additional files, a kernel module, and userland ELF.

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Duolingo doesn’t want to disrupt the college degree

TechCrunch

A lot has changed for Duolingo. The language learning company launched nearly a decade ago on the Disrupt stage with no monetization plans. Today, that scrappy app has matured into a well-known consumer brand and a business that makes a ton of money. This growth fueled the startup’s recent decision to go public , which is rare for a consumer edtech company.

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CSS FLEXBOX

InnovationM

Flexbox – This term is also called the Flexible-Box which was introduced in 2009. It is a CSS3 Layout that provides a way to arrange items within a container, basically, it is a flexible container with several properties namely width, height position, etc. If you’ve used CSS for a while you have probably been using “the old block model(for sections), Table (for 2D table data), Inline(for.

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Livestream video shopping app NTWRK raises $50M from Goldman Sachs, Kering

TechCrunch

NTWRK , a video shopping app that has helped to popularize the idea of livestreamed commerce in the U.S., announced today it has closed on $50 million in new funding led by Goldman Sachs Asset Management and global luxury group Kering, owners of luxury brands Gucci, Yves Saint Laurent, Bottega Veneta and others. The company has been working to capitalize on the growing interest in live commerce and creator content, and shifted into live virtual events and festivals as COVID-19 ravaged the U.S. l

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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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Comparing Your Multicloud Connectivity Options

Megaport

In the recent Gartner report entitled “How to Optimize Network Connectivity into Public Cloud Providers,” Gartner finds that “I&O leaders’ requirements for WAN-cloud connectivity are changing, which requires a greater degree of agility and multicloud interworking than their current solutions can support.” 1 Their recommendations for enterprises is to “Use Software-Defined Cloud Interconnection.

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Nosh uses AI to help people and businesses cut down on their food waste

TechCrunch

When founder Somdip Dey was a computer science masters student at the University of Manchester, his parents got in a terrible car accident. He sent all of his money back to his parents in India to help with their medical bills, but then he faced a problem familiar to too many: If he wasn’t going to get paid for another week, how was he supposed to feed himself?

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Top 4 Hybrid Mobile App Development Frameworks

Dzone - DevOps

Corporates need access to valuable data at their fingertips in the digital world. To control their digital exposure and address crucial issues on the go, more and more organizations are transitioning from desktop websites to mobile applications. Firms have their frameworks and objectives and acquiring the appropriately customized technology stack will help you climb the ladder of success.

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