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Niantic tries its hand at sports with NBA All-World

TechCrunch

Last June, Niantic laid off 8% of its staff — about 85 to 90 people — and canceled four of its projects, including a Transformers game that had already entered beta testing. Why’d the studio choose this sport for its next AR venture? I started with the obvious question: why basketball, now, for Niantic?

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Static vs Dynamic Code Analysis: How to Choose Between Them

OverOps

Let’s start with a sporting analogy to help illustrate the difference between these two methodologies. It tests not only your fundamentals, but your ability to react to different, unexpected situations. These include common developer errors which are often found by “Code Peer Reviews”. There are minimal surprises. Limitations.

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CIOs grapple with the ethics of implementing AI

CIO

Making ethical AI a team sport Plexus Worldwide is one organization using AI to identify fraudulent account creation and transactions, says Alan McIntosh, CIO and CTO of the $500 million global health and wellness company. We continue to iterate and evolve our policy, but it is still in development.

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A year on from Russia’s invasion, Ukrainian startups show astounding resilience

TechCrunch

While some Ukrainian start-ups have relocated, the vast majority have kept at least a part of their operations or team in Ukraine. As the war began, the company relocated the team of 70 to safer regions in western Ukraine and EU. The company continued hiring developers and marketers and raised the team by around 10%.

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Extra Crunch roundup: Unpacking BuzzFeed’s SPAC, curb your meeting enthusiasm, more

TechCrunch

“Declining a bad meeting should never be taboo, and you should reiterate your trust in the team and challenge them to spend their and others’ time with more intention,” Phillips says. “Help them feel empowered to decline a bad meeting.” And we’re really focused on building the team.”.

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Fintech Roundup: Will financial technology startups dodge the venture slowdown?

TechCrunch

Not bad for a company that only publicly launched just over two years ago. For context, Overdorff joined Lightspeed in 2021 to help lead the team’s fintech practice. The credit card giant called the move “one of the first significant technology developments to come out of its acquisition of Finicity.”.

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How to build confidence as an engineer: an interview with Jacque Garcia, CircleCI Software Engineer

CircleCI

I’m a software engineer on the X Team. I’ve been with the X Team for more than half the year, but I’ve been at CircleCI for almost a year and a half now. Do I understand how it will affect other teams? I think a lot of the times when you are creating something, you can end up testing it in a limited way.