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India, the world’s largest smartwatch market, is getting new smart rings

TechCrunch

The world’s largest smartwatch market is about to get two new smart rings. While wrist-worn wearables are still wildly popular in India, a pair of domestic manufacturers are banking on consumers who are meticulous about health and sleep tracking but are less interested in the form factor. BoAt and Noise are entering the smart ring market after putting up a tough fight against Apple, Samsung and Huawei with affordable wearables.

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CodeSOD: Array Length Validation

The Daily WTF

Mike sends us some VB.Net code today. For fileDataCount = 0 To 4 Step 1 Try Dim dataValidate As String = fileData(fileDataCount).ToString Catch ex As Exception error = 1 End Try Next We enter a loop from 0 to 4, counting by 1. We don't need to specify that, that's the default behavior, but hey, it doesn't hurt to be explicit. Then, in a try/catch , we create a string variable and try and extract an element from the array via the loop counter.

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Sure AI is hot, but is it an actual market or a platform piece?

TechCrunch

Companies of all stripes have begun embracing generative AI as a way to increase productivity and possibly even replace some workers. But the base technology has been around for decades.

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The New Business Model: How Mompreneurs Are Crushing Entrepreneurship

Women on Business

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Generative AI Deep Dive: Advancing from Proof of Concept to Production

Speaker: Maher Hanafi, VP of Engineering at Betterworks & Tony Karrer, CTO at Aggregage

Executive leaders and board members are pushing their teams to adopt Generative AI to gain a competitive edge, save money, and otherwise take advantage of the promise of this new era of artificial intelligence. There's no question that it is challenging to figure out where to focus and how to advance when it’s a new field that is evolving everyday. 💡 This new webinar featuring Maher Hanafi, CTO of Betterworks, will explore a practical framework to transform Generative AI prototypes into

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Disrupt is around the corner — Here are the fintech players taking the stage

TechCrunch

In this week’s edition of The Interchange, we touch on the resilience of BaaS in a sometimes messy fintech space, earnings highlights, and much more. If you want to receive this in your inbox every Sunday, sign up here. It’s hard to believe it but TechCrunch Disrupt — only one of the most engaging, fun, well-attended startup events in the world — is around the corner, taking place September 19–21!

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The space industry is starting a green revolution

TechCrunch

Martin Coates Contributor Martin Coates is the CEO of U.K.-based spaceflight company Orbex and is an engineering and technology management veteran with more than 30 years’ experience. He is also a Chartered Engineer and a Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET). Rocket launches are nothing short of spectacular. Whether we grew up in the Apollo era, the space shuttle era or the private space era, most of us can easily bring to mind a rocket launch with the roar of its engine

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How To Tackle 6 Big Data Challenges

KitelyTech

Working with big data is a challenge that every company needs to overcome to see long-term success in increasingly tough markets. Dealing with big data isn’t just one issue, though. It is dealing with a series of challenges relating to everything from how to acquire data to what to do with data and even data security. Here are ways to tackle six big data challenges that any company can use to make big data management much easier.

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Double-Loop Learning: How Can Workplaces Benefit From It?

Apiumhub

You have probably heard of the term Double-Loop Learning before, but did you know that when applied correctly in the workplace, this learning theory can be beneficial to the company culture? Keep reading to learn more about this concept and its application in the workplace. Let’s Start From The Beginning… Before we start talking about the concept of double-loop learning, it is important to go back a bit and talk about the creator of this theory, Chris Argyris.

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Cruise and Waymo score a win and a surprising deal between electric aircraft rivals

TechCrunch

Welcome back to The Station, your central hub for all past, present and future means of moving people and packages from Point A to Point B. All eyes were on San Francisco this week as critics and supporters of deploying self-driving cars on public roads awaited a vote from the California Public Utilities Commission. Tl;dr: it was a win for the autonomous vehicle industry.

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Embedding BI: Architectural Considerations and Technical Requirements

While data platforms, artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and programming platforms have evolved to leverage big data and streaming data, the front-end user experience has not kept up. Holding onto old BI technology while everything else moves forward is holding back organizations. Traditional Business Intelligence (BI) aren’t built for modern data platforms and don’t work on modern architectures.