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8 Most in Demand Programming Languages of 2021

The Crazy Programmer

The year 2021 brings in new hope and changing trends in many industries across the world. The following is the TIOBE Index for February 2021. Most in Demand Programming Languages of 2021. Apart from the above, there are a few other programming languages that are trending in 2021: Ruby (on rails).

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IonQ acquires quantum networking specialist Entangled Networks

TechCrunch

IonQ , the trapped ion quantum computing company that went public via a SPAC in late 2021, today announced that it has acquired Entangled Networks , a Toronto-based startup that helps industrial and academic users build and optimize multi-quantum-processor solutions, using specialized networking techniques.

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Lightning Labs raises funding to enable stablecoin transfers through Bitcoin network

TechCrunch

Lightning Labs is building infrastructure that would enable users to send money across the world almost instantaneously and at a low cost through the Bitcoin network. Bitcoin’s Lightning Network is currently used by El Salvador, which recognizes the cryptocurrency as legal tender and major companies and crypto exchanges such as Kraken.

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Forward Networks raises $50M for digital twin technology to help model, manage and secure complex enterprise networks

TechCrunch

Digital twins — virtual representations of actual systems — have become an important component in how engineers and analysts build, visualize and operate AI projects, network security and other complicated architectures that might have a number of components working (or malfunctioning as the case may be) in tandem.

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Cisco to acquire startup Valtix to beef up its multicloud network security

TechCrunch

“As a strategic investor in Valtix since 2020, Cisco supports Valtix’s commitment to simplify network security, protecting workloads no matter which cloud they are created or consumed in,” Cisco security business group SVP and chief product officer Raj Chopra wrote in a blog post announcing the deal. Valtix launched in 2020.

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Aztec Network takes on encrypted blockchains with $100M round led by a16z

TechCrunch

Aztec Network, a privacy layer for web3, has raised $100 million in a Series B round led by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), the startup’s co-founders Zac Williamson and Joe Andrews exclusively told TechCrunch. “At The capital will mainly be used to hire more engineers globally to build the network, Andrews said.

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6 African women CEOs discuss how they raised more than $1M in 2021

TechCrunch

raised more money from venture capitalists in 2021 than ever. But according to data from PitchBook, less than 2% of VC funding went to all-women-founded teams in 2021. On the bright side, founding teams counting both women and men as members raised 17% of VC investments in Africa in 2021. Women-founded companies in the U.S.