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The End of Programming as We Know It

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

Consumer operating systems were also a big part of the story. That job was effectively encapsulated in the operating system. Yet as the technology grew in capability, successful websites became more and more complex. Big data, web services, and cloud computing established a kind of internet operating system.

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How Pariti is connecting founders with capital, resources and talent in emerging markets

TechCrunch

Their backgrounds, according to Ayele, run the gamut from finance and marketing to product and technology across a range of sectors. I nvestors can run extremely lean operations with access to proprietary deal flow, automated deal filtering and on-demand experts to support due diligence, research and portfolio support.

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Tech News Review 19 July 2016

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By Steven Norton Jul 18, 2016 7:32 pm ET Artificial intelligence is approximating human reasoning more and more closely all the time. The fear of intelligence in something other than the human mind has long been feared by scientists, conspiracy theorists and tech-minded people since the very notion it was possible was thought of.

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Vendease, a food procurement platform for African restaurants, nabs $30M led by Partech Africa and TLcom

TechCrunch

CEO Tunde Kara , in an interview with TechCrunch, said Vendease plans to use the investment to deepen operations, consolidate its presence in eight cities across Nigeria and Ghana (the company recently expanded to the latter), move into new markets and build new products to increase customers’ efficiency. Vendease founders.

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Micromax, smartphone sales stalled, eyes a steer into electric vehicles

TechCrunch

But a mix of stronger (and cheaper) competition, coupled with the rapid pace of technology development and the ongoing market slowdown , have left it spinning. The growth in its business helped the company partner with big tech companies like Google and Microsoft to launch smartphones based on their respective mobile operating systems.

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Verizon’s VPN: security boon or privacy boondoggle?

The Parallax

That’s not surprising, says Travis Biehn, technical strategist and research lead at cybersecurity company Synopsys. And that’s despite a recent concerted effort to hold VPNs more accountable for the services they offer, including comparison charts , annual evaluations , and reviews at respected software review sites.

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Artificial Intelligence – A Guide for Thinking Humans

Henrik Warne

Even though it is aimed at general readers, I found it to be very good in technical content. Perhaps the most famous game playing example is AlphaGo , the program that defeated Lee Sedol in Go in 2016. For example, for a movie review like “A little too dark for my taste” , did the reviewer like the movie or not?