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Waymo-Zeekr robotaxi poised for US testing by end of 2023

TechCrunch

Nearly two years after Waymo and Geely struck a deal to develop robotaxis for the U.S. market, we are seeing concrete progress in the collaboration. According to a job post posted on LinkedIn, Zeekr, the young electric car brand started by Chinese auto giant Geely, is hiring a logistics manager in the U.S.

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How to overcome Docker Hub rate limiting using AWS ECR and AWS CloudFormation

Xebia

In this blog post, you will see how AWS ECR and AWS CloudFormation overcome the rate limiting imposed by Docker Hub and provide full control over your base images. The popular registry Docker Hub is home to thousands of useful container images, used by many software delivery processes. Unfortunately, the registry enforces a rate limit for anonymous and free-tier users.

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Zendesk emerges from last year’s turbulence with strong outlook

TechCrunch

After some recent turbulence, it would be easy to think that Zendesk's overall financial performance suffered as a result, but that really wasn’t the case.

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Executive Onboarding: How to Set Up Your New Execs for Success

N2Growth Blog

When it comes to the success of new executives in your organization, just about nothing plays as critical a role as onboarding. Sure, a new hire could be a highly-skilled, perfect-match leader eager to start. But without proper onboarding, these executives are far less likely to excel in their roles, resulting in high and costly turnover. This is especially true for senior-level placements requiring a robust and comprehensive executive onboarding process.

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12 Reasons Snowflake Costs Get Out of Control — And How to Solve It

With no barriers to entry you can get started with Snowflake for next to nothing, but as you may already know, costs can quickly spiral out of control. While usage costs can be better managed for your internal BI use case, Snowflake costs skyrocket for SaaS providers because the need to deliver real-time, interactive analytics in a multi-tenant environment is always on.

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Tech group calls India’s proposed guidelines against dark patterns ‘regulatory overlap’

TechCrunch

An industry group representing several major U.S. tech companies has opposed the Indian government’s proposal against dark patterns, which are used to deceive online users, and said the move would adversely affect the state promise of enabling “ease of doing business” in the economy and bring “regulatory overlap” with existing laws.

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To attend or not to attend: We asked 52 founders whether events are useful or a waste of time

TechCrunch

There are many founder-focused events but are they actually helpful or just a distraction? Founders need to strike a balance.

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CodeSOD: Type of Expression

The Daily WTF

Several months ago, Rebecca 's predecessor wrote some Perl code to traverse a JSON-esque data-structure. It was an hash map that could contain values, arrays, or more hashes. Said predecessor wrote the code, had it reviewed, and tested it. It rolled out in production, and for three months, everything was fine. Three months was also long enough for predecessor to take a new job elsewhere, which left Rebecca as the sole support when it broke. sub spider_reference { my ( $reference ) = @_; if (

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Virgio’s fast-fashion dream is over

TechCrunch

Fast-fashion startup Virgio, founded by former Myntra chief, is contemplating shutting down its operations less than a year after raising funds at a valuation of over $160 million, according to two investor sources familiar with the matter.

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People don’t care about NLP, TA, and other tools and methods – why do we get so besotted by them?

Rapid BI

People don't care about NLP The majority of our customers do not care if we use NLP, TA, Solution focus, ID, ABC or 123 methods. 99% of the time they just think this is irrelevant jargon - they just want their problem removed or the job they want to do easier or increased performance The post People don’t care about NLP, TA, and other tools and methods – why do we get so besotted by them?

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Navigating the Future: Generative AI, Application Analytics, and Data

Generative AI is upending the way product developers & end-users alike are interacting with data. Despite the potential of AI, many are left with questions about the future of product development: How will AI impact my business and contribute to its success? What can product managers and developers expect in the future with the widespread adoption of AI?

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Here’s how fintech Rainforest, a budding Stripe rival, aims to win over software companies

TechCrunch

Rainforest raises $8.5M and PayPal gets hit with a lawsuit. We take a look at this and other hot fintech news from the previous week.

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Implementing Schema.org in the Custom Breadcrumb Rendering

Perficient

As we have discussed about Schema.org in Sitecore and it’s benefits in my previous blog. We will be exploring the implementation of schema.org on components. In this blog, I am taking a scenario where I will be implementing Schema.org on the Custom Breadcrumb component in Sitecore. Prerequisites: Sitecore 9.1 and above SXA I am creating a clone of Breadcrumb (Out of the box) rendering in SXA and will modify the rendering to implement Schema.org in it.

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World Bank’s IFC backs Indian insurtech startup Onsurity in $24M funding

TechCrunch

Onsurity, an Indian startup that offers monthly subscription-based insurance solutions to micro, small and medium enterprises, startups and growing businesses, has raised $24 million in a funding round led by the World Bank’s International Finance Corporation (IFC). The Series B round also saw the participation from existing investors Nexus Venture Partners and Quona Capital.

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Securing Your CI/CD: An OIDC Tutorial

Dzone - DevOps

Let's start with a story: Have you heard the news about CircleCI's breach ? No, not the one where they accidentally leaked some customer credentials a few years back. This time, it's a bit more serious. It seems that some unauthorized individuals were able to gain access to CircleCI's systems, compromising the secrets stored in CircleCI. CircleCI advised users to rotate "any and all secrets" stored in CircleCI, including those stored in project environment variables or contexts.

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12 Reasons Snowflake Costs Get Out of Control — And How to Solve It

With no barriers to entry you can get started with Snowflake for next to nothing, but as you may already know, costs can quickly spiral out of control. While usage costs can be better managed for your internal BI use case, Snowflake costs skyrocket for SaaS providers because the need to deliver real-time, interactive analytics in a multi-tenant environment is always on.

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Women and underrepresented founders aren’t going to wait for the VC industry to transform itself

TechCrunch

You will only have one shot to impress your future financial backers — make sure you are confident and ready.

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Selecting Between a Self-Developed CMS and a Pre-Built CMS

Storm Consulting

If you’re in online journalism, digital marketing or utilize a large business or authorities company you very likely use a CMS in some shape. These systems allow non-technical staff to upload and alter content without the need for any website programmer. They can likewise control the content’s framework without changing the actual Web coding for the page.

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European Digital insurtech startup Getsafe acquires Luko’s German portfolio, reaches 550,000 customers

TechCrunch

Getsafe, a German-based digital insurtech startup, has acquired the German portfolio of Luko, a French insurtech startup that recently neared insolvency before agreeing to be acquired by British insurer Admiral Group in a transaction that didn’t include its German or Spanish operations. Getsafe is now present in four countries since its expansion into France.

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Unleashing Innovation: 10 Docker Alternatives for Container Supremacy

Dzone - DevOps

Containerization is rapidly gaining popularity for becoming the sure-shot way to deploy and manage applications. And Docker has been the ultimate poster boy of this technology for the past few years. Docker is a widely adopted containerization platform that allows developers to package applications and their dependencies into a single container image.

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How Embedded Analytics Gets You to Market Faster with a SAAS Offering

Start-ups & SMBs launching products quickly must bundle dashboards, reports, & self-service analytics into apps. Customers expect rapid value from your product (time-to-value), data security, and access to advanced capabilities. Traditional Business Intelligence (BI) tools can provide valuable data analysis capabilities, but they have a barrier to entry that can stop small and midsize businesses from capitalizing on them.