TechCrunch
AUGUST 5, 2021
In the world of robotic startups, acquisition is often as good an outcome as any. And when it comes to robotic tractor startups, you could do worse than being acquired by John Deere. The agricultural technology giant announced today that it’s set to acquire Bear Flag Robotics for $250 million. The Bay Area-based firm, which specializes in autonomous farming heavy machinery, was founded in 2017.
Agile Alliance
AUGUST 5, 2021
Tim Abbott talks about the importance of not letting fatigue get in the way of doing important activist work necessary at all levels. The post Tim Abbott first appeared on Agile Alliance.
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TechCrunch
AUGUST 5, 2021
Micromobility startup Voi has raised $45 million, funds it says will be used to research and develop technology that will improve safety, keep users from riding on sidewalks and ensure scooters are properly parked. The funding comes a month after Voi launched a pilot in Northhampton, UK with Irish startup Luna to test how computer vision technology might be used to solve parking and sidewalk riding issues.
The Crazy Programmer
AUGUST 5, 2021
Motherboard is an important feature of your computer. For proper stability, you need to invest in a good motherboard and also make sure that it has some features if you want to use your computer for a specific task. For example, if you’re into animation, you may have to select NVMe SSD for faster rendering times. But, to use NVMe SSD, you have to make sure your motherboard has got NVMe M.2 slot.
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Many organizations today are unlocking the power of their data by using graph databases to feed downstream analytics, enahance visualizations, and more. Yet, when different graph nodes represent the same entity, graphs get messy. Watch this essential video with Senzing CEO Jeff Jonas on how adding entity resolution to a graph database condenses network graphs to improve analytics and save your analysts time.
TechCrunch
AUGUST 5, 2021
As Latin America attracts record-breaking venture capital totals, education technology startups in the region are given new opportunities to grow. In the past week, Coderhouse, a live cohort-based learning platform, and Crehana, an on-demand skills development service for the enterprise, both announced financing rounds. The back-to-back raises are a reminder that edtech’s relevance in LatAm isn’t just growing in classrooms, but also within organizations across LatAm.
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TechCrunch
AUGUST 5, 2021
The indoor growing industry is starting to scale. Farms that utilize hydroponics (grow produce without soil, usually in large warehouses) and traditional greenhouses have started to become integral parts of our food supply chain, mainly for leafy greens like lettuce, spinach and arugula. . Vertical hydroponic farming is often seen as a sustainable alternative to traditional growing.
Tenable
AUGUST 5, 2021
Cisco releases patches for Critical vulnerabilities in its line of Small Business VPN Routers. Background. On August 4, Cisco released several security advisories , including an advisory for two vulnerabilities in a subset of its line of Small Business VPN Routers. CVE Description CVSSv3 CVE-2021-1609 Web Management Remote Code Execution and Denial of Service Vulnerability 9.8 CVE-2021-1610 Web Management Command Injection Vulnerability 7.2 The table below lists which routers in the Small Busine
TechCrunch
AUGUST 5, 2021
Sudheesh Nair. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Sudheesh Nair is CEO of ThoughtSpot , a business intelligence company that has built an intuitive Google-like interface for data analytics. Before ThoughtSpot, Sudheesh was president at Nutanix. In a company’s early days, the difference between C-level executives and the rest of the organization is simple — employees can walk away from a failure, but the leaders cannot.
DevOps.com
AUGUST 5, 2021
After over a year of business disruptions, modern enterprises have realized that speed and agility are the only way forward. In fact, according to Gartner’s Top Strategic Technology Trends for 2021 eBook, “Organizations that don’t focus on efficiency, efficacy, and business agility will be left behind.” In order to stay future-ready, organizations across all industries are moving to adopt an operating […].
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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
TechCrunch
AUGUST 5, 2021
For Emily Elyse Miller, founder and CEO of OffLimits , launching during a global pandemic was “interesting to navigate,” but in the end, worked out. “Unfortunately, ‘fun cereal’ is associated with being unhealthy, and I wanted people to have fun with their food again, but in a healthy way,” Miller told TechCrunch. “There are a few startups in the space tackling the healthy side of cereal, but I wanted to take on the culture of breakfast.”.
DevOps.com
AUGUST 5, 2021
DevOps has changed the game in almost every aspect of testing: who, what, when, where and even why. What’s working, what needs to change immediately, and what challenges—and opportunities—lie ahead? In this DevOps Unbound episode, hosts Alan Shimel and Mitch Ashley are joined by Abel Wang from Microsoft, Tracy Miranda from CDF, Caroline Wong from […].
TechCrunch
AUGUST 5, 2021
Swapnil Shinde. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Swapnil Shinde is the co-founder and CEO of Zeni , the first AI-powered finance concierge for startups. The startup world can be a rollercoaster. While investment continues to pour in — with both founders and investors looking for the next unicorn — the reality is that 90% of startups fail , with over half of those going under in the first three years.
Dzone - DevOps
AUGUST 5, 2021
Long story short, in order to raise the morale of a remote team, let them shift attention away from routine tasks and have some fun. We as a team are what we do. That is why we should do something interesting altogether. Remote work is not a blocker. This is a story of how I organized a hackathon for an IT company located in Malaysia during the first several months of the COVID pandemic.
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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.
TechCrunch
AUGUST 5, 2021
Last summer, in the wake of George Floyd’s murder, Best Buy committed to “do better ” when it came to supporting communities of color. As part of the retail giant’s self-proclaimed mission to better address underrepresentation and technology inequities, the company announced today that it is investing up to $10 million in Brown Venture Group. Minnesota-based Brown Venture Group is a three-year-old venture capital firm that has pledged to exclusively back Black, Latino and Indigenous techno
Aqua Security
AUGUST 5, 2021
Even with Kubernetes’ new, longer release cycle in place, it doesn’t seem long since the last version came along with all its new features, but 1.22 is upon us. As ever, there’s an interesting mix of new features that are starting their maturation process as alpha releases and other features that are graduating to beta or stable. Here are some of the highlights, from a security perspective, of this release.
TechCrunch
AUGUST 5, 2021
During the pandemic, especially when we were in lockdown, just about every retailer had to build its online presence and do it quickly. As people move to shop online in larger numbers, being able to personalize that experience has become more crucial. That made the pandemic a pivotal moment for Bluecore , an e-commerce personalization platform, and today the company announced a $125 million Series E on a $1 billion valuation.
Tenable
AUGUST 5, 2021
Pulse Secure has patched CVE-2021-22937, a patch bypass for CVE-2020-8260, in its Connect Secure products. Background. On August 2, Pulse Secure published an advisory and patches for several vulnerabilities, including CVE-2021-22937, a post-authentication remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability in Pulse Connect Secure virtual private network (VPN) appliances.
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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.
TechCrunch
AUGUST 5, 2021
Matt Cohen. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Founder and managing partner at Ripple Ventures , Matt Cohen is a business operator turned early-stage investor. Tony Conrad. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Having founded about.me and Sphere (both acquired by AOL), Tony brings founder and startup leadership expertise to his partner role at True. Many VCs tout their mentorship and hands-on approach to founders, especially those who run early-stage startups.
Dzone - DevOps
AUGUST 5, 2021
Introduction. The software architecture system portrays the system's structure and provides a detailed explanation of how it works and behaves. The system can represent the collection of components that are capable of accomplishing a specific function or a set of functions. In simple terms, it can be stated that the software architecture offers the basic foundation on which the software can be developed.
TechCrunch
AUGUST 5, 2021
Telehealth company Lucid Lane raised $16 million in Series A funding to continue developing its platform that enables real-time intervention for people with medication dependence and substance-use disorders. Adnan Asar, co-founder and CEO of Lucid Lane, started the company five years ago after watching his wife struggle to stop taking medication she was prescribed following an illness.
DevOps.com
AUGUST 5, 2021
With digitization the topic of discussion in almost every boardroom since the onset of COVID-19, it’s no coincidence that migration to the cloud has skyrocketed in tandem. In fact, at the onset of the pandemic, 87% of IT decision-makers noted that the remote restructuring of the workplace would push their organizations to accelerate cloud migrations. […].
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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.
TechCrunch
AUGUST 5, 2021
Refurbed , a European marketplace for refurbished electronics which raised a $17 million Series A round of funding last year , has now raised a $54 million Series B funding led by Evli Growth Partners and Almaz Capital. They are joined by existing investors such as Speedinvest, Bonsai Partners and All Iron Ventures, as well as a group of new backers — Hermes GPE, C4 Ventures, SevenVentures, Alpha Associates, Monkfish Equity (Trivago Founders), Kreos, Expon Capital, Isomer Capital and Creas Impac
CEO Insider
AUGUST 5, 2021
Millennials have been struggling to generate wealth when compared to previous generations, with the average Baby Boomer holding up to 7x the wealth of Millennials at the same age. Add in the pandemic, and financial futures of “the unluckiest generation in U.S. history” are grim. According to a recent survey from Deloitte, two-thirds of Millennials […].
TechCrunch
AUGUST 5, 2021
Data science platform Dataiku announced today it has raised a $400 million Series E, bringing its valuation to $4.6 billion. The round was led by Tiger Global, with participation from returning investors like ICONIQ Growth, CapitalG, FirstMark Capital, Battery Ventures, Snowflake Ventures and Dawn Capital. New investors included Insight Partners, Eurazeo, Lightrock and Olivier Pomel, the chief executive of Datadog.
Dzone - DevOps
AUGUST 5, 2021
Introduction. Designing a user interface is a nuanced process that requires you to test your ideas and balance them against user goals. To offer a world-class experience with quality software, you need to build an understanding between your product and the customer. Make your customers part of the product design process by testing out prototypes and using feedback to improve.
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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.
TechCrunch
AUGUST 5, 2021
In Africa, chartering vessels and processing ocean freight can be challenging. The sector is largely inefficient and fragmented. Merchants also struggle to access finance to perform cross-border trade in the continent. A couple of digital freight companies are tackling this problem, like Nigerian-based MVX. The company today is announcing its $1.3 million seed round to bolster its efforts.
thoughtLEADERS, LLC
AUGUST 5, 2021
Our reader poll today asks: When you encounter a small service issue with a supplier, how do you handle it? I always let it go — there are bigger things to spend time and energy on: 14% I let it go once, but after that, I bring it up for repeat offenses: 53% I bring it up immediately — it needs to be nipped in the bud: 33% Fix issues quickly.
TechCrunch
AUGUST 5, 2021
Most of the time when people get loans, it’s for big life purchases such as a house or a car. But not every big purchase is a necessity. Some are more for fun, and the financing options for those types of buys — such as motorcycles and ATVs — are more limited. Today, Octane Lending , a company that embarked seven years ago on remedying that, announced it has raised $52 million in a Series D round of funding that values the company at over $900 million.
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