Dataiku

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Insurance is one of the many industries that has been tremendously shaken by the events of 2020. These unprecedented happenings are significantly reshaping the insurance market, pushing insurers to review their approach to numerous sectors and risks. This market shock should not overshadow the longer trends at play which are sustainably transforming the insurance business, across all business lines (P&C, life, savings, and commercial): longevity, health conditions, climate change, and the co

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Titan , a startup that is building a retail investment management platform aimed at millennials, has closed on $12.5 million in a Series A round led by VC heavyweight General Catalyst. A bevy of other investors put money in the round, including Sound Ventures (actor Ashton Kutcher and Guy Oseary’s VC firm), Scribble VC, Y Combinator, South Park Commons, Instagram founder Mike Krieger, Lee Fixel and others. .

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Agile Alliance

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

The “ITSM Tornado” has been defined as the “whirlwind of requests for Platforms, IT Service Management, and infrastructure support that come in from many different directions, by the minute or even second, which requires combing through and prioritizing based on severity and who’s screaming the loudest.” It’s the Tornado that leads many shared services folks … Continued.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Pex , a startup aiming to giving rightsholders more control over how their content is used and reused online, has raised $57 million in new funding. The round comes from existing investors including Susa Ventures and Illuminate Ventures, as well as Tencent, Tencent Music Entertainment, the CueBall Group, NexGen Ventures Partners, Amaranthine and others.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Read Andrew Eversden take a look at how Anduril Industries’ artificial intelligence-powered autonomous surveillance is helping Marines on C4ISR Net : A few years ago, Marines had to patrol a […].

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FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Read Kenneth Reiners take a deep dive into the world of blockchain and state that Chainlink is the greatest asymmetric risk/reward investment of our lifetime on Hackernoon : It is […].

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Founded in late-2014, Salt Lake City-based Zencastr has become a kind of lifeline for many podcasters, as the pandemic pushed formerly in-person podcasts online. The startup is hardly a household name, but the company says it’s used by around 6% of all podcasts, based on an estimated 800,000 to 1.2 million active shows in the world. I can certainly say, anecdotally, that just about every podcaster I’ve spoken to has tried the service, which offers a more specialized solution than video chat prog

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TechBeacon

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

If you have not yet seen the Threat Modeling Manifesto, then you’re missing out. The manifesto project resulted from the gathering of 15 passionate threat modeling people, with whom I was honored to work, throwing all of their collective knowledge, wisdom, and experience into a blender. We then negotiated for six months to define the values, principles, patterns, and anti-patterns for threat modeling.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Talkshoplive is a startup that’s worked with stars like Paul McCartney and Garth Brooks, as well as small businesses, to host shopping-focused live videos. Today, it’s announcing that it has raised $3 million in seed funding led by Spero Ventures. CEO Bryan Moore founded the company with his sister Tina in 2018. Moore previously led social media efforts at Twentieth Television (previously known as Twentieth Century Fox) and CBS Television, and he said he was inspired to launch Talks

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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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DevOps.com

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Patch management has been a thorn in IT’s side for decades. While it is undeniably necessary for security and stability purposes, the staggering array of patches that are available make managing them effectively nearly a full-time job – or a job better left to users. Few IT professionals want to be the “patch person,” and […]. The post DevSecOps Implementation: Patch Management appeared first on DevOps.com.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

This morning Citadel ID announced a combined $3.5 million raise for its income and employment verification service. The startup provides an API to customer companies, allowing them to rapidly verify details of consumer employment. The capital came from a blend of venture firms and angels. On the firm side, Abstract and Soma VC were in there, along with ChapterOne.

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DevOps.com

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

A global survey of 950 developers published today finds more than a third (38%) of developers spend up to a quarter of their time fixing software bugs, with slightly more than a quarter (26%) spending up to half their time fixing bugs. Conducted by the market research firm Propeller Insights on behalf of Rollbar, a […]. The post Survey: Fixing Bugs Stealing Time from Development appeared first on DevOps.com.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

After working as a general manager for Uber in Nevada, Jason Radisson realized the need for a way to connect blue-collar workers to companies looking to employ them. So in late 2018, the idea for Shift One — a marketplace aimed at pairing workers and employers — was born. The startup is focused on last-mile logistics and delivery, e-commerce fulfillment and large-scale event management.

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InfoQ Culture Methods

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

The book The Toyota Way, 2nd Edition by Jeffrey Liker provides a view of the Toyota Production System with fourteen management principles for continuous improvement and developing people. The book, including the 4P model (Philosophy, Processes, People, Problem solving) and principles, has been updated to reflect new insights in systems thinking. By Ben Linders, Jeffrey Liker.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Krisp , a startup that uses machine learning to remove background noise from audio in real time, has raised $9M as an extension of its $5M A round announced last summer. The extra money followed big traction in 2020 for the Armenian company, which grew its customers and revenue by more than an order of magnitude. TechCrunch first covered Krisp when it was just emerging from UC Berkeley’s Skydeck accelerator, and co-founder Davit Baghdasaryan was relatively freshly out of his previous role

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Confluent

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

One of the most common relational database systems that connects to Apache Kafka® is Oracle, which often holds highly critical enterprise transaction workloads. While Oracle Database (DB) excels at many […].

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Tens of thousands of students and professionals move out of India each year to pursue higher education and for work. Even after spending months in a new country, they struggle to get a credit card from local banks, and end up paying a premium to access a range of other financial services. Banks in the U.S., or in most other countries for that matter, rely on local credit scores to determine the worthiness of potential applicants.

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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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CEO Insider

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

When combating fraud, most businesses turn their attention outward, defending against anonymous cybercriminals who may be hacking into their systems. However, it is equally important to identify the threats within your organization. Whether deliberately or not, your employees could be stealing from your company month after month. In fact, employee theft costs U.S. businesses an […].

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

One of the new space startups with the loftiest near-term goals has raised $130 million in a Series B round that demonstrates investor confidence in the scope of its ambitions: Axiom Space, which has been tapped by NASA to add privately-developed space station modules to the ISS, announced the new funding led by C5 Capital on Tuesday. This is the latest in a string of high-profile announcements for Axiom, which was founded in 2016 by a team including space professionals with a history of demonst

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DevOps.com

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

LinearB, a provider of an analytics application for software delivery projects, announced today it has allied with Clubhouse, a provider of a project management application that includes built in collaboration tools. LinearB’s analytics application uses code, Git logs and releases to automatically construct and visualize detailed timelines without requiring any manual input.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

TechCrunch is excited to announce that Zoom chief revenue officer (CRO) Ryan Azus is joining us at TechCrunch Early Stage on April 1. Azus has worked at Cisco, RingCentral and most recently Zoom. In his previous roles he held a number of sales titles, including his final role at RingCentral where he was its executive vice president of global sales and services.

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TechBeacon

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

As teams try to adopt a faster, more iterative, incremental style of software delivery using the latest performance engineering techniques, the state of the art can hold them back.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Knoq (formerly known as Polis) was a startup that recruited representatives to go door-to-door in their neighborhoods, talking up client products and services. So for obvious reasons, it faced challenges in 2020. “We stopped knocking on doors in February, and this summer, we were trying to figure out what the path forward was,” founder and CEO Kendall Tucker told me.

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Kaseya

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Automation is making waves in many industries worldwide and encompasses a wide range of technologies including endpoint management, robotic process automation (RPA), artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML). Automation allows organizations to get more things done at a lower cost. It increases the efficiency of individuals, teams and companies as a whole, and is likely to revolutionize the way organizations function.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

If we are not careful, every entry of this column could consist of SPAC news. Special purpose acquisition companies, or blank-check companies, whatever you prefer to call them, are enormous business today. But they aren’t the only thing going on, and we’ll get to other things shortly. Consider this an apology for having written about SPACs twice in two days.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Quantum computing is likely to become practical soon, with the capability to break many encryption algorithms. Organizations should plan to upgrade to TLS 1.3 and quantum-safe cryptographic ciphers soon. Big […].

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

A new breed of startups is acquiring and growing small but promising third-party merchants, and building out their own economies of scale. And while there are a number of such startups based in the U.S. and Europe, none had emerged in the Latin American market. Until now. Valoreo , a Mexico City-based acquirer of e-commerce businesses, announced Tuesday that it has raised $50 million of equity and debt financing in a seed funding round.

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CTOvision

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

After several attempts over the last few days, Bitcoin finally broke above $50,000 on Tuesday for the first time to mark a new record high. The digital token was trading at […].

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