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Beacon Power Services raises $2.7M to improve electricity access for sub-Saharan African cities

TechCrunch

Founder and chief executive officer Bimbola Adisa , an aerospace engineer, started the company in 2014 after working several years for a power turbine manufacturer and as an investment banker covering the power sector in the U.S. Adisa launched BPS in 2014 to address the inadequate electricity supply from power distribution companies.

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Peak AI nabs $21M for a platform to help non-tech companies make AI-based decisions

TechCrunch

It was founded in 2014, a time non-tech enterprises were just starting to grasp how the concept of AI could apply to their businesses but felt it was out of their reach. It was founded in 2014, a time non-tech enterprises were just starting to grasp how the concept of AI could apply to their businesses but felt it was out of their reach.

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Zipline raises $250M at $2.75B valuation to build out its instant logistics service

TechCrunch

The company, which launched in 2014, is vertically integrated – meaning it designs and manufactures the unmanned drones, the logistics software, and the accompanying launch and landing system. This latest round has vaulted the company’s valuation to $2.75 or the battery pack, or the aircraft itself.

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Motivated Team Of Mission Focused Technologists From Software AG Wins Rapid Integration Challenge of Plugfest

CTOvision

By ChrisScott Plugfest is a new phenomenon in the national security technology community, where participants compete in judged evaluations showing how well (and fast) they can create trusted situational awareness in a chaotic/realistic scenario using off the shelf software and existing data sets/streams. Precious time is wasted.

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Securing voting machines means raising funds

The Parallax

Experts say there is a straightforward response, however, to vulnerable voting-machine software. The problem is that it involves cooperation in Congress. This map shows which electronic voting systems are in use across the U.S., based on data from VerifiedVoting.org. Illustration by Pinguino Kolb/The Parallax. Following the 2016 election, the U.S.

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Interpreting predictive models with Skater: Unboxing model opacity

O'Reilly Media - Data

There is also a trade off in balancing a model’s interpretability and its performance. A deep dive into model interpretation as a theoretical concept and a high-level overview of Skater. There is often a need to verify the reasoning of such ML systems to hold algorithms accountable for the decisions predicted.

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NIST Cybersecurity Framework – Everything You Need to Know

Kaseya

of the NIST CSF was released in February 2014. of the NIST CSF was released in February 2014. To help prepare and protect companies from these cyber risks, the U.S. Government has issued guidance in the form of a framework from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), called the NIST Cybersecurity Framework.