CIO
MAY 10, 2022
CIOs know they must be business leaders, but the business knowledge they must bring to the proverbial table is something of a moving target. There are, of course, the management fundamentals and the longstanding executive skills that remain constant must-haves. But there are, too, a list of topics that bubble up and dominate based on current trends and present-day realities.
TechCrunch
MAY 10, 2022
Adam Oliner, co-founder and CEO of Graft used to run machine learning at Slack, where he helped build the company’s internal artificial intelligence infrastructure. Slack lacked the resources of a company like Meta or Google, but it still had tons of data to sift through and it was his job to build something on a smaller scale to help put AI to work on the dataset.
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Agile Alliance
MAY 10, 2022
The Agile Kata is an Agile approach to an Agile transformation that nurtures and fosters an Agile culture throughout the transformation process. The post Practicing Business Agility with the Agile Kata first appeared on Agile Alliance.
TechCrunch
MAY 10, 2022
As more individuals join the NFT market, a common complaint exists around the accessibility and user experience for non-crypto natives. But Paper , a crypto-focused payments processing company launched in February, is working to make buying, using and holding NFTs easier for the everyday customer or fan trying to buy a digital collectible, James Sun, co-founder and CEO of the company, told TechCrunch.
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Hacker Earth Developers Blog
MAY 10, 2022
The pandemic has resulted in a new kind of workplace burnout—making employee well-being more critical than ever. An Indeed survey reports 67% of all workers believe the pandemic has worsened burnout. Paradigm shifts across all industries in how they work, post-COVID, and an unprecedented talent shortage due to the Great Resignation are sure-fire indicators of employee burnout.
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DevOps.com
MAY 10, 2022
In this week’s The Long View: Agile and Scrum are increasingly getting a bad reputation, being associated with the worst aspects of toxic workplace culture. The post Agile/Scrum is a Failure – Here’s Why appeared first on DevOps.com.
TechCrunch
MAY 10, 2022
Mylerz , a Cairo-based e-commerce fulfillment startup, plans to enter three new markets in North Africa and expand across Egypt over the next three months against the backdrop of the $9.6 million funding it has just secured. The startup also has its eyes on the growing e-commerce market in East Africa, with the long-term goal of growing into a pan-African shipping logistics provider – by tapping the e-commerce market in Africa, which has experienced 18% annual growth since 2014.
O'Reilly Media - Ideas
MAY 10, 2022
Several weeks ago, I had a great conversation with Sebastian Hassinger, now at Amazon, about the state of quantum computing. It’s exciting–but also, not what a lot of people are expecting. I’ve seen articles in the trade press telling people to invest in quantum computing now or they’ll be hopelessly behind. That’s silly. There are too many people in the world who think that a quantum computer is just a fast mainframe.
TechCrunch
MAY 10, 2022
Hardware, as the saying goes, is hard; but there remains an opportunity for startups that focus on specific niches to build viable businesses. In the latest example, reMarkable , the Oslo, Norway-based maker of a simple and slick $299 e-paper tablet of the same name, says that it has passed 1 million devices sold since 2017 and recently raised money at a $1 billion valuation after making revenues of $300 million and operating profits of $31 million in 2021.
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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.
DevOps.com
MAY 10, 2022
Red Hat today announced general availability of a managed instance of the Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform on the Microsoft Azure cloud. Announced at the Red Hat Summit 2022 event, this offering makes it possible to deploy the control plane for Ansible on the Microsoft Azure cloud as an alternative to existing support for Amazon […]. The post Red Hat Adds Managed Ansible Service on Azure appeared first on DevOps.com.
TechCrunch
MAY 10, 2022
Faire, which has built a marketplace connecting retailers to indie brands globally, has raised a $416 million extension to its Series G financing , more than doubling the size of the round, the company confirmed to TechCrunch today. With the additional capital, Faire is now valued at $12.59 billion post-money, or just under $200 million more than its valuation in November, according the company.
Dzone - DevOps
MAY 10, 2022
What Is White-Box Testing? White Box Testing is a product evaluation method based on the application's internal code structure. White-box testing uses an insider's perspective of the framework and programming skills to configure test cases. Typically, this testing is done at the unit level. The code of the application under test is visible to testers here.
TechCrunch
MAY 10, 2022
Hunting down a beat-up-looking shared electric scooter that has the germs of goodness-knows-who all over the handlebars is not Unagi’s idea of sexy shared micromobility. Instead, the e-scooter manufacturer is launching a more exclusive version that will see its slick e-scooters available to rent at hotels, luxury apartments and coworking spaces. “Unagi on Demand,” as the offering is called, is kicking off at t he Hoxton Hotel in Los Angeles, as well as Common Luxury Apartments,
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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.
Honeycomb
MAY 10, 2022
The book is done. The book is FINISHED. There will be no more writing of the book! Holy macaroni. If you think you might be sensing just a SMIDGE of relief, you wouldn’t be wrong. We started writing this book, Observability Engineering: Achieving Production Excellence, three whole years ago, in the summer of 2019. Remember that? To refresh your memory, Sarah Sanders was leaving the White House, Denver legalized magic mushrooms, and Lil Nas X’s “Old Town Road” was just three months into its lengt
TechCrunch
MAY 10, 2022
Automating customer service tasks, particularly those that require agents to speak with customers on the phone, is something of a holy grail in the enterprise. According to a survey by OnePoll commissioned by call center software vendor TCN, customers are willing to wait on hold for six minutes on average when waiting to speak to a customer representative.
SecureWorks
MAY 10, 2022
REvil Development Adds Confidence About GOLD SOUTHFIELD Reemergence Updated samples indicate access to original source code and active development, signaling that GOLD SOUTHFIELD has resumed operations. Updated samples indicate access to original source code and active development, signaling that GOLD SOUTHFIELD has resumed operations.
TechCrunch
MAY 10, 2022
Canoo’s first-quarter earnings shows a company burning through cash, no near-term revenue and a warning that it may not have enough money to stay in business. Shares of Canoo, which were down 5% Tuesday, fell another 17.5% in after-market trading following the release of its earnings. It has since recovered and is now down more than 11%. Canoo has had a tumultuous and short history.
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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.
DevOps.com
MAY 10, 2022
Today, every organization wants a website that loads quickly and looks sharp. The reasons go much deeper than cosmetic motivations, though—even a slight delay in loading can cause users to exit a page prematurely and site performance plays an important role in search engine rankings. Meanwhile, threats like ransomware and phishing are everywhere and are […].
TechCrunch
MAY 10, 2022
Data science teams are stymied by disorganization at their companies, impacting efforts to deploy timely AI and analytics projects. In a recent survey of “data executives” at U.S.-based companies, 44% said that they’ve not hired enough, were too siloed off to be effective and haven’t been given clear roles. Respondents said that they were most concerned about the impact of a revenue loss or hit to brand reputation stemming from failing AI systems and a trend toward splash
Tenable
MAY 10, 2022
Microsoft addresses 73 CVEs in its May 2022 Patch Tuesday release, including two zero-day vulnerabilities, one of which was exploited in the wild. 6 Critical. 66 Important. 0 Moderate. 1 Low. Microsoft patched 73 CVEs in its May 2022 Patch Tuesday release, with six rated as critical, 66 rated as important and one rated as low. This month’s update includes patches for: NET and Visual Studio.
TechCrunch
MAY 10, 2022
South Korean startup Seadronix wants to reduce the issue of marine accidents, 75% of which are caused by human error, according to a 2019 Allianz safety and shipping report. The company just secured a $5.8 million Series A extension to scale its AI-based ship berthing monitoring and navigation systems to help cargo ships navigate safely and assist port operators anchoring their vehicles at harbor.
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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.
Tenable
MAY 10, 2022
The SEC’s proposed rule on cybersecurity promotes transparency and encourages free market forces. The days of cyber negligence are numbered. While nobody can expect perfect cybersecurity, a vast supermajority of the painful breaches we learn about are the result of known vulnerabilities, lackadaisical security practices and poor cyber hygiene -- things that could have been avoided with diligence and care.
TechCrunch
MAY 10, 2022
Berlin-based GetHenry , a startup that provides electric last-mile delivery bikes to couriers and logistics companies, has raised a $17.4 million (€16.5 million) seed round to expand its business across Europe. The startup currently operates in Germany, Austria, Italy and France, but plans to use its latest funding to move into Spain, the Netherlands and the UK over the next two quarters, according to a GetHenry spokesperson.
Daffodil Software
MAY 10, 2022
As a Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of an organization, who is either driving the technology team of a startup or leading IT operations in a megacorp; continuously innovating is the goal. If you’re leading the software engineering cycle of a product or a software development firm, then the struggle to get answers to the following questions must be constant.
TechCrunch
MAY 10, 2022
Supabase , which bills itself as an open source alternative to services like Google’s Firebase , today announced that it has raised an $80 million Series B funding round led by Felicis Ventures. Coatue and Lightspeed also participated in this round, which brings the company’s total funding to date to $116 million. The service can’t, of course, match Firebase on a feature-by-feature basis, but it offers many of the core features that developers would need to get started, includi
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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.
Daffodil Software
MAY 10, 2022
In today's advanced competitive world, the most valuable commodity is data. Data has many forms, from pictures of people and places to patient records and banking transactions. Machine Learning is a branch of Artificial Intelligence that can fully leverage this data to learn from it and enhance a business' bottom line.
TechCrunch
MAY 10, 2022
To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. PT, subscribe here. It is Tuesday the 10th of May, and the end of an era as Apple officially retires the iPod after a 20-year run of swinging our tushes, white earbuds dangling against brightly colored backgrounds. – Christine and Haje. The TechCrunch Top 3.
Aqua Security
MAY 10, 2022
Digital innovation in the finance sector is an incredibly stressful proposition. The terms digital wallet and GDPR both fit into the same sentence; however, even this heavily regulated segment must turn to digital transformation to stay competitive and keep customers loyal. Enter Bayad, the largest multi-channel payment platform in the Philippines, and the country’s pioneer in outsourced payment collection.
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