Wed.Oct 27, 2021

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Nubank files to go public

TechCrunch

This morning Brazilian neobank Nu, better known as Nubank, announced that it has filed to go public. Today its S-1 filing remains private, but the announcement of its existence implies that Nu is on track to go public soon, perhaps inside of 2021. The company filed with both the American Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Comissão de Valores Mobiliários (CVM) in Brazi, it saidl.

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Difference between Session and Cookie

The Crazy Programmer

Do you have any idea how sessions are different from cookies? If you don’t, then no worries; in this article, we will compare session and cookie and learn about them. Session and cookies are the programs used to store the data of the users. Both cookies and sessions store the data of the user to ensure a personalized experience with the site. The key difference between session vs cookie is that session stores the user’s data on the server side.

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Gitai successfully demos autonomous robot inside the International Space Station

TechCrunch

Tokyo space startup Gitai Japan successfully conducted a technology demonstration of its autonomous robotic arm inside the International Space Station last week, a key milestone as the company prepares to provide robotics as a service in space. The S1 robotic arm performed two tasks: operating cables and switches, and assembling structures and panels.

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Digital transformation fails: Are you automating the wrong processes?

TechBeacon

Process mining is the secret sauce in digital transformation: A recent survey of 1,220 IT decision makers worldwide shows that many organizations have automated the wrong procedures, wasting time and money.

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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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QOA brings in seed round to do for chocolate what Oatly did for milk

TechCrunch

Munich-based QOA is gearing up to be among the first to bring a chocolate product to market that is 100% cocoa free. It is also now backed by $6 million in seed funding in an investment round led by Cherry Ventures with participation by 50years, World Fund, Nucleus Capital, Trellis Road, Pioneer Fund and Tet Ventures. The company kicked off this year, founded by the sister-and-brother team of Drs.

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Truepill’s latest funding boosts valuation to $1.6B as it works on B2B side of healthcare

TechCrunch

After developing a network of telehealth, diagnostics and pharmacies for consumers, digital health company Truepill is targeting healthcare incumbents like health payers, providers and employer groups. The new focus is buoyed by the close of its $142 million Series D funding round, led by an undisclosed partner, with participation from existing investors Initialized Capital and TI Platform Management.

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What No One Tells You About Starting Your Own Fintech Startup

CEO Insider

These days, there is a global surge in technological awareness as many people are becoming more conversant with technology and its use in solving critical issues. Especially in the commercial industry, where customers’ needs are being satisfied from any corner of the world with the touch of a button. Now, people perform financial transactions locally […].

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Groopit announces $2M pre-seed to help execs access crowd-sourced company data

TechCrunch

Groopit , an early stage startup from a 20-year Microsoft veteran, wants to help companies crowdsource data from information supplied by employees working in the field. Today, the company announced a $2 million pre-seed round led by Ascend.vc with participation from a group of investors that includes Voyager Capital and Vulcan Capital. The startup has raised $3.1 million since inception, according to the company.

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Hacker Earth Developers Blog

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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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Employees detail rising tensions at Ro as healthcare unicorn struggles to grow beyond first win

TechCrunch

Ro , one of the most valuable privately owned health tech startups, isn’t subtle about its mission to deliver vertically integrated, affordable healthcare with consumers in mind. And while a patient-centric healthcare system is undoubtedly overdue, Ro is first dealing with a massive challenge: its own inability to monetize meaningfully outside of Roman, its erectile dysfunction vertical.

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Dataiku’s Role in the Modern Data Stack

Dataiku

Any small or midsize business (SMB) that’s serious about making the use of data, analytics, and AI everyday behavior for everyone is using a version of the modern data stack architecture. It can even make sense in the enterprise context for teams just getting started on their AI journey.

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InCloudCounsel raises $200M, rebrands as Ontra to expand its automation tools for contract management

TechCrunch

A typical enterprise grapples with hundreds or thousands of agreements, contracts and other legal documents every year, and it usually engages costly legal counsel either inside or outside the company to assess those documents on their behalf. Now, a startup called InCloudCounsel that is part RPA and part BPO — it has built tools to both automate and, in some cases, outsource this work — is announcing a Series B round of $200 million, money that it will be using to meet demand for it

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Intel Woos DevOps Teams with API and Processor Advances

DevOps.com

During the online Intel Innovation 2021 event, Intel announced today a unified Developer Zone for accessing application programming interfaces (APIs) that it makes available via a oneAPI toolkit to IT teams that want to more easily invoke a wide range of processor types and classes. At the same time, the company also revealed it is […]. The post Intel Woos DevOps Teams with API and Processor Advances appeared first on DevOps.com.

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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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Bolt to expand EV option in South Africa

TechCrunch

Estonian on-demand transport firm Bolt is set to roll out electric taxi options in South Africa four months after introducing e-bike food delivery services in the country. Bolt’s plan follows the introduction of a ‘green category’ – which lets riders hail an electric or a hybrid vehicle. This comes as the company expands its services to environmentally friendly modes of transport.

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Observability Vs. Monitoring: What’s the Difference?

DevOps.com

As more and more IT organizations pivot from strategies rooted in monitoring to ones that aim to achieve observability, one of the first questions that teams need to answer is, “What is the difference between the two?” That’s a somewhat loaded question because there are some differences of opinion out there regarding what, exactly, distinguishes […].

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The voracious fight for your salad bowl

TechCrunch

There are several plastic clamshells sitting in front of me on a conference room table — around 20 or so boxes, labels facing forward, with a plate of turnips and a tub of those R&D strawberries we saw back in part two. It’s a nice photo opportunity, backdropped by Bowery Farming’s impressive grow system and a good visual representation of the product’s life cycle.

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Sysdig Adds Cloud Access Controls to DevSecOps Platform

DevOps.com

Sysdig announced today that it is adding a Cloud Infrastructure Entitlements Management (CIEM) capability to its Secure DevOps platform as part of an effort to better enforce least-privilege access within the context of a larger zero-trust approach to cybersecurity. Nick Fisher, vice president of product marketing for Sysdig, said this addition to the company’s core […].

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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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Bowery Farming is forcing us all to look up at the future of vertical agriculture

TechCrunch

Food is the very nourishment of life, but it’s also becoming increasingly challenging to grow at scale. A combination of explosive and unsustainable population growth, human-made climate change and depleted sources of clean water is contributing to overcultivation across the world. For its many advocates, vertical farming is a critical piece to solving that puzzle, even as skeptics cite its intensive power demands as a major hurdle toward achieving the long-term positive climate impact it promis

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BMC Looks to Advance ServiceOps Approach to Managing IT

DevOps.com

During an online BMC Exchange event, BMC announced it expanded its portfolio of IT management offerings as part of an ongoing effort to unify traditional IT service management and DevOps processes under an integrated ServiceOps framework. The latest additions to the BMC portfolio includes an update to its Control-M workload automation platform that adds observability […].

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Daring Foods bites into third round in 12 months as plant-based chicken product enters Walmart

TechCrunch

Daring Foods closed on $65 million in Series C funding Wednesday as the plant-based chicken startup launches its products into 3,000 Walmart stores nationally. Daring offers four plant-based chicken products, including Original, Lemon & Herb, Cajun and Breaded, that looks, cooks and tastes like its chicken counterpart. CEO Ross Mackay told TechCrunch that the goal of the company is to provide a product that can be “a true one-to-one substitute for chicken” that is also healthy.

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Is Balancing Complex Retail and CPG Supply Chains a Total Fantasy?

Teradata

Recent events have illustrated the fragility of ultra-lean supply chains. Chief Supply Chain Officers must figure out how to navigate these crises to manage costs, speed & quality of service.

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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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Can LEDs ultimately replace the sun?

TechCrunch

Agriculture has a 10,000-year history, and it’s predominantly a history of technology. Developments from the plow and wheel to enclosures and the modern mechanical miracles of gas-powered tractors and sorters have consistently improved crop yields, allowing humanity to expand from tens of millions of people to a global population projected to top 10 billion this century.

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The Great Escape: A Blast Radius Analysis of Container Attacks

Aqua Security

In 2021, container attacks have been on the rise. We observed numerous attacks that were designed to escape container environments to the underlying host, increasing the impact of the attack. But how much damage can be caused when an attacker manages to escape a container? To answer this question, we conducted an analysis of real-world container attacks to determine their blast radius.

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Hacking lettuce for taste and profit

TechCrunch

“The first thing you notice is just the smell,” chief science officer of Bowery Farming Henry Sztul says excitedly. “It’s got that smell, right?” There’s a kind of visceral sense memory that hits you as you enter Farm Zero, a Proustian moment that overtakes the senses after years of living in a major city. It smells like greenhouses and grow rooms: fresh, alive and a dramatic contrast from the world immediately outside the building here in Kearny, New Jersey.

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Digital Transformation: Accelerating The Speed of Business

Mentormate

Think about this for a minute… besides being our clients, what do AstraZeneca , Foss Swim Schools , and Mr. Jim‘s Pizza have in common? They are all digital product companies now… and they never expected to be. AstraZeneca is a global pharmaceutical company. Foss Swim Schools teaches children to swim in custom-built facilities. And Mr.Jim’s Pizza, well, he makes a delicious pizza.

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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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Skyryse brings in $200M to make flying an aircraft as simple as swiping a touchscreen

TechCrunch

Five-year-old startup Skyryse has raised a $200 million Series B to develop FlightOS, a flight automation technology stack that the company says will help experienced pilots operate new types of aircraft and allow complete novices to quickly learn the ropes of flying. Most importantly, the company says FlightOS will be able to be retrofitted onto any aircraft — potentially unlocking flight controls to anyone that can operate a touchscreen and a joystick.

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CSS GRID

InnovationM

CSS Grid is a powerful tool that allows for two-dimensional textures to be built on the web. This guide is designed as a tool to help you better understand and read the Grid, and is organized in a way that I think makes a lot of sense as you read. Grid Container Create a grid container by setting the display item by grid value or inline-grid. All direct children of grid containers become grid.

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Extend raises $40M for its virtual card offering to help banks better compete with fintechs

TechCrunch

We’ve written a lot about fintechs that aim to help other fintechs and traditional banks launch products and services. . But it feels like we have written far less about fintechs that exist solely to help the incumbents better compete with fintechs. Extend is one such company. The New York-based startup, which provides digital payment infrastructure for financial institutions so they can offer virtual cards to their users, has raised $40 million in a Series B funding round led by March Capital.

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