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Climate tech might be the hot job market in 2024

TechCrunch

While much of the tech world has been besieged by layoffs, climate tech continued to hire. Next year looks no different. © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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Assumption Busters: 7 Questions to Propel Your Team’s Strategic Thinking

Let's Grow Leaders

How to help your team challenge assumptions for better creativity and problem-solving In our Courageous Cultures research, 67% said their manager operates around the notion of “this is the way we’ve always done it.” That’s not just a lack of imagination. It’s hard to solve a problem differently when you’re holding on to outdated assumptions.

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Meta cuts prices for Quest 2 headset and accessories

TechCrunch

Months after Meta launched its Quest 3 headset, the company is slashing prices for its older Quest 2 headset by $50 permanently. The 128GB version drops from $299 to $249 and the 256GB version drops from $349 to $299. Notably, the headset has been on sale at the new prices since Black Friday. However, Meta […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved.

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Teenagers are obsessed with YouTube — and so is everyone else

The Hustle

From cassette players to iPods to smartphones, teenagers have been tuning out the world by pressing play for decades. But social media has brought the addiction to a whole new level, and YouTube in particular is taking off with teens, according to new data from the Pew Research Center. Pew’s 2023 survey of 1.4k+ 13- to 17-year-olds found that: 93% of teens use YouTube. 71% say they visit the platform daily. 16% report being on the site “almost constantly.

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15 Modern Use Cases for Enterprise Business Intelligence

Large enterprises face unique challenges in optimizing their Business Intelligence (BI) output due to the sheer scale and complexity of their operations. Unlike smaller organizations, where basic BI features and simple dashboards might suffice, enterprises must manage vast amounts of data from diverse sources. What are the top modern BI use cases for enterprise businesses to help you get a leg up on the competition?

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Try these apps to reach your New Year’s resolutions in 2024

TechCrunch

As the new year approaches, many of us are reminded of all the things we accomplished this year — getting a promotion, being more productive or even showing up to places on time — as well as things we failed to do. (There may or may not be a barely used foldable WalkingPad collecting dust […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved.

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Open source needs to catch up in 2024

InfoWorld

Open source pioneer Bruce Perens gets one thing right and most things wrong in a recent interview on the future of open source. He’s absolutely correct that “our [open source] licenses aren’t working anymore,” even if he’s wrong as to why. (He says “businesses have found all of the loopholes.”) No, the problem is that open source has never been more important, yet less relevant to the biggest technology trends of our time: cloud computing and artificial intelligence.

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How Some Experts See The Future Of AI In 2024

Ooda Loop

With a rash of artificial intelligence (AI) news making the rounds in the last month of 2023, opinions widely differ on how governments, companies and consumers will use the technology.

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4 key devsecops skills for the generative AI era

InfoWorld

When cloud computing became enterprise-ready, and tools such as continuous integration and continuous delivery , infrastructure as code , and Kubernetes became mainstream, it marked a clear paradigm shift in dev and ops. The work separating dev and ops became devops responsibilities, and collaborative teams shifted from manual work configuring infrastructure, scaling computing environments, and deploying applications to more advanced automation and orchestrated workflows.

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CodeSOD: Making the Thingie Work

The Daily WTF

Alyssa inherited some code from… well, she isn't entirely sure from whom. There are names that come up in git blame , but even for some more recent commits, Alyssa has no idea who they are. Contractors? Interns? Randos pulled in off the street and handed a keyboard? Based on the code quality, the last option is surprisingly likely. const endpoints = mainThingie?

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Prepare Now: 2025s Must-Know Trends For Product And Data Leaders

Speaker: Jay Allardyce, Deepak Vittal, and Terrence Sheflin

As we look ahead to 2025, business intelligence and data analytics are set to play pivotal roles in shaping success. Organizations are already starting to face a host of transformative trends as the year comes to a close, including the integration of AI in data analytics, an increased emphasis on real-time data insights, and the growing importance of user experience in BI solutions.

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Using generative AI to overhaul data integration? Start here

InfoWorld

Technology leaders—it’s time to put yourself first. Really. I’d like you to pause, take a moment, and think about just how important, critical, and relied-upon IT departments have been in the last three years alone. From the shift to work from home back to return to the office and hybrid workplace environments, the introduction of generative AI —via ChatGPT —from zero to 100 million active users in two months , and the constant push to incorporate AI and automation into business processes), your

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A Guide to Cutting Development Costs with Power Apps (2024)

Invid Group

A Guide to Cutting Costs with Power Apps (2024) BY: INVID Organizations are continuously looking for creative ways to reduce development costs and streamline their processes in the quickly changing business environment of today. Microsoft Power Apps stands out as a potent asset in companies’ toolboxes, providing a flexible framework that enables the development of unique apps without requiring a high level of coding knowledge.

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2023 Highlights

Dan Pupius

One more for the road Sidebar I started writing these “ year in review ” posts back in 2014 while working at Medium itself. I’d blogged on and off since the late 90s, but always with some ambivalence. There’s an uncomfortable duality of putting thoughts out on the web: are you talking to yourself in a quiet wilderness or shouting in the middle of a crowded room.

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Digits: A $300m cybercrime bust, Tesla’s crashing dummies, and more newsy numbers

The Hustle

~3.5k: Suspects arrested during Haechi IV, a six-month Interpol operation targeting cybercrimes including voice phishing, romance scams, and ecommerce fraud. Interpol reclaimed $300m in assets across 34 countries and blocked 82k+ suspicious bank accounts. UK authorities also reported numerous cases in which AI was used to scam, harass, and extort victims by impersonating the voices of people known to the victims. 24: Accidents per 1k Tesla drivers from November 2022 to November 2023, making them

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2024 Salary Guide

Procom’s 2024 Salary Guide provides critical insights into the latest hiring trends, in-demand IT roles, and competitive pay rates across Canada and the U.S. It highlights key market dynamics such as the growing demand for remote work, skills-based hiring, and flexible staffing solutions. With detailed pay rate data for top IT positions like Cybersecurity Consultants, Cloud Engineers, and Salesforce Developers, this guide is an essential resource for companies looking to stay competitive in toda

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Humanoid Robots Are Getting to Work

Ooda Loop

Ten years ago, at the DARPA Robotics Challenge (DRC) Trial event near Miami, I watched the most advanced humanoid robots ever built struggle their way through a scenario inspired by the Fukushima nuclear disaster.

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Seize the day or snooze it away? Welcome to 2024 either way

The Hustle

Ah, the first day back after the holidays… If ever there was a divisive day at work, it’s this one. Every office will be filled with two types of people: Those entering a new year energized and feeling so full of possibilities… … and those entering a new year anesthetized, feeling so full, wishing to keep pausing all abilities. No matter if you’re wasting no time laying into 2024, or nursing that holiday hangover, we’ve got stories that’ll lean into your mood.

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OpenAI annualized revenue tops $1.6 billion

Ooda Loop

OpenAI raked in $1.6 billion in annualized income in 2023 according to The Information, which cited people with knowledge of the figure. The figure, up from $1.3 billion in October, comes amid the dramatic ouster and then return of the company’s CEO, Sam Altman.

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Top 6 Security Challenges for CISOs in 2024

Symantec

What to expect for these emerging trends

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Launching LLM-Based Products: From Concept to Cash in 90 Days

Speaker: Christophe Louvion, Chief Product & Technology Officer of NRC Health and Tony Karrer, CTO at Aggregage

Christophe Louvion, Chief Product & Technology Officer of NRC Health, is here to take us through how he guided his company's recent experience of getting from concept to launch and sales of products within 90 days. In this exclusive webinar, Christophe will cover key aspects of his journey, including: LLM Development & Quick Wins 🤖 Understand how LLMs differ from traditional software, identifying opportunities for rapid development and deployment.

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US Supreme Court’s Roberts urges ‘caution’ as AI reshapes legal field

Ooda Loop

Artificial intelligence represents a mixed blessing for the legal field, U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts said in a year-end report published on Sunday, urging “caution and humility” as the evolving technology transforms how judges and lawyers go about their work.