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10 Innovative Tech Startup Ideas for 2023

Openxcell

Introduction Startups are as rare as diamonds in the rough. However, the ones that are successful shape the tech scenarios as we speak. From basements of Silicon Valley to full-fledged corporate offices employing millions, the journey of a startup is a rollercoaster ride. It’s impossible to build such a journey without having an exceptional, avant-garde idea that when executed nearly perfectly transforms the way its users interact with their environment.

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The Whats and Hows of DevOps Talent Retention

DevOps.com

Figuring out the needs and wants of DevOps talent requires a thoughtful yet considerate approach. Here's what you need to know.

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Prompting Isn’t The Most Important Skill

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

Anant Agarwal, an MIT professor and of the founders of the EdX educational platform, recently created a stir by saying that prompt engineering was the most important skill you could learn. And that you could learn the basics in two hours. Although I agree that designing good prompts for AI is an important skill, Agarwal overstates his case. But before discussing why, it’s important to think about what prompt engineering means.

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Bridging the Bias Gap: Enhancing Technical Recruiting with Psychometric Assessment

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

In the dynamic world of technical recruiting , where skills testing forms the cornerstone of the selection process, we have a potent tool waiting to be harnessed to its fullest potential – Psychometric Assessments. This tool not only complements the skills tests but also promises a bias-free, holistic view of your prospective hires. But what exactly is psychometric testing?

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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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The Dynamic Duo: Shaping Generative AI With Tech-Agnostic Platforms and Governance

Dataiku

There is an abundance of information, both in published sources and from firsthand experiences , that delves into the governance complexities associated with the deployment of Large Language Models (LLMs) or Generative AI. Whether you are examining the ethical repercussions downstream of Generative AI, the concerns surrounding data security and privacy when training a model internally or relying on third-party models, or the considerations related to audit logging and documentation for regulator

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How AI is Revolutionizing Customer Service and Experience

MagmaLabs

Reading Time: 4 minutes AI systems are, by their nature, clever. Or, perhaps it’s the developers who are clever in the way they program the machines to learn things. Then, of course, the AI takes on a life of its own and learns as it goes along. This is precisely why AI is revolutionizing the world of customer service and experience. Interacting with customers is central to many, many websites that offer different services or products to the public.

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How facing unimaginable loss allowed me to become a better leader

CEO Insider

What does it mean to be a better leader? It’s a question I ponder a lot in my role as an executive coach. After all, my job is to help leaders be better. While there has been much written on this topic, my greatest learnings came when I had to face the unimaginable and devastating […] The post How facing unimaginable loss allowed me to become a better leader appeared first on CEOWORLD magazine.

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How to Activate Volunteers as First-Time Donors Through Micro-Donations

TechSoup

Did you know that your volunteers are prime candidates to become lasting donors? According to Funraise's 2020 Global Trends in Giving Report , people are two times more likely to donate to causes and organizations that they volunteer for. And a Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund report from 2009 (PDF) showed that volunteers will donate 10 times more money over their lifetimes than nonvolunteers to the cause they're involved in.

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OpenTelemetry For Humans

Honeycomb

Who is software for? It’s an interesting question, because there’s an obvious answer. It’s for the users, right? If your job is to write software, then it’s implied that the most important thing you should care about is the experience people have when they use your software. I think this is a bit of an over-simplification, though. Yes, we build software for our users, but we also build it for ourselves.

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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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Amazon begins testing Agility’s Digit robot for warehouse work

TechCrunch

At today’s Delivering the Future event, Amazon announced that it will begin testing Agility’s bipedal robot Digit in its facilities. Amazon Robotics Chief Technologist Tye Brady said the testing is in its “very, very early stages,” adding, “We’re taking a lot of care to understand it better and see if there’s a fit for our […] © 2023 TechCrunch.

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7 cloud market trends and how they will impact IT

CIO

The cloud market has been a picture of maturity of late. The pecking order for cloud infrastructure has been relatively stable, with AWS at around 33% market share, Microsoft Azure second at 22%, and Google Cloud a distant third at 11%. (IBM, Oracle, and Salesforce are in the 2-3% range.) Revenue growth remains solid across the industry, but slowing somewhat, with none of the Big 3 outperforming the others enough to materially alter the balance of power.

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Workplace Innovation: The Secret to Getting Better, Remarkable, Usable Ideas

Let's Grow Leaders

Why psychological safety is important, but not enough when it comes to workplace innovation If you’re getting lots of ideas, you’re probably doing a lot of things right when it comes to encouraging workplace innovation —making it safe, asking for input, and responding well. That’s a great start. But how many of these ideas are you implementing? Imagine if you weren’t just getting lots of ideas, but remarkable, practical ones.

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Retrieving files from AWS Glue Job Bookmarks

Xebia

AWS Glue is a service to implement ETL pipelines that can process large amounts of data. Glue has a feature called job bookmarks that keep track of which data is already processed and which data still needs to be processed by a job. For example, in the case of an S3 bucket as a data source, it keeps a list of what files are processed to prevent the re-processing of unchanged data in a bucket.

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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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LinkedIn confirms it will cut a further 668 jobs, bringing the total to nearly 1,400 this year

TechCrunch

Earlier this month, LinkedIn announced that it would roll out a raft of new AI-powered tools across the business. Today, it’s making a different kind of announcement focused on the future: The company is laying off 668 employees. We understand from a reliable source that the majority of the layoffs, some 563, will be in […] © 2023 TechCrunch.

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How to capitalize on ‘Trustworthy AI’

CIO

When a new wave of technology innovation seems to be breaking over the horizon, the fear of missing out — FOMO — can drive hasty decisions on new IT investments. Recent, rapid advances in artificial intelligence (AI) may represent one of the biggest FOMO moments ever , so, it’s critical that decision-makers get out in front of the wave and figure out how to implement Trustworthy AI.

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Maximizing ROI: How to Translate Leadership Training into Behaviors that Last

Let's Grow Leaders

Hi Karin, We just completed our leadership development program, and we’re feeling really good about how we’ve been applying what we’ve learned along the way. The leader-led Challenge and Support groups have been so helpful as we’ve worked to implement what we learned in our leadership training. How do we continue to sustain the momentum?

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AWS Glue ETL Pipeline Tips

Xebia

AWS Glue is a service to implement ETL pipelines that can process large amounts of data. Glue has a feature called job bookmarks that keep track of which data is already processed and which data still needs to be processed by a job. For example, in the case of an S3 bucket as a data source, it keeps a list of what files are processed to prevent the re-processing of unchanged data in a bucket.

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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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I did my expenses in VR and I liked it

TechCrunch

Meta’s Quest 3 has now been available for over a week, and the reviews have largely praised the updated consumer mixed reality headset. In my own first impressions, I shared how it managed to convince me to give the category a second look — many years after I’d all but given up on VR as […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved.

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Addressing the insecurity of verified identities

CIO

Cybersecurity has been identity-centric since the first username and password appeared. During the infancy of personal computers, user identification was considerably simpler. At that time, workplace technology was physically confined to an office and the business network (if one existed). The only people with access were employees and maybe office cleaning staff.

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5 Tactics to Combat a Culture of False Urgency at Work

Harvard Business Review

The headwinds of false urgency can be intense. But they also foster a reactive culture. If everything is urgent, there’s little opportunity for creative and deep work, which tends to flourish only when there’s time and space. In this article, the author offers tips that will help you focus on what’s truly urgent in your organization and enable your team to deliver strong results and sustain high performance over time.

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Prisma Cloud: Darwin Release Introduces Code-to-Cloud Intelligence

Prisma Clud

Cloud applications power the modern enterprise. Still, today’s app economy — propelled by AI-led development — will seem inaugural in retrospect. By 2030, AI could add $13 trillion to global economic output , a significant portion derived from the application economy, according to the McKinsey Global Institute. 1 But applications aren’t without risks — not surprising when you consider that they’re built from a complex combination of software packages assembled across multiple delivery pipelines,

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An Architect’s Guide for Selecting Scalable, Data-Layer Technologies

There’s no getting around it: selecting the right foundational data-layer components is crucial for long-term application success. That’s why we developed this white paper to give you insights into four key open-source technologies – Apache Cassandra®, Apache Kafka®, Apache Spark™, and OpenSearch® – and how to leverage them for lasting success. Discover everything you’ll want to know about scalable, data-layer technologies: Learn when to choose these technologies and when to avoid them Explore h

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Amazon and MIT are partnering to study how robots impact jobs

TechCrunch

Mention automation and someone will invariably (and understandably) mention its impact on jobs. There are a lot of opposing views on the subject, of course, but the one thing everyone seems to agree on is that robotics and AI will have a profound impact on human jobs, going forward. At today’s Delivering the Future event […] © 2023 TechCrunch.

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The 4 pillars of the Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange: Customers share their successes

CIO

We’ve all heard this mantra: “Secure digital transformation requires a true zero trust architecture.” But what exactly does that mean? Zero trust has come a long way. No longer a nebulous, aspirational term equated with the concept “never trust, already verify,” zero trust has evolved into a solid technology framework that enables proactive defense and digital transformation as organizations embrace the cloud and hybrid work models.

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How to Stop Taking Work So Personally

Harvard Business Review

Taking things personally at work is not a sign of weakness, but a reflection of your passion, commitment, and deep sense of responsibility. But what if your professional role has become too intertwined with your sense of self. While equating your value as a person with your performance at work is common, it’s also possible to break free from the pattern.

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Honeycomb Closes Best Quarter in Company History Fueled by Rapid Adoption Among Engineering Teams

Honeycomb

To replicate and scale this success, leading observability solution brings on four new executives including CMO Reet Mand, SVP of Global Revenue Jason Robinson, Director of Open Source Austin Parker, and Senior Director of Product Marketing Josh Pederson. SAN FRANCISCO – OCTOBER 16, 2023 – Honeycomb , the observability platform that enables engineering teams to solve problems they couldn’t before, today announced several growth milestones, signaling strong product fit and market demand despite s

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IT Leadership Agrees AI is Here, but Now What?

IT leaders are experiencing rapid evolution in AI amid sustained investment uncertainty. As AI evolves, enhanced cybersecurity and hiring challenges grow. This whitepaper offers real strategies to manage risks and position your organization for success.

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Ray-Ban Meta sunglasses have ‘influencer’ written all over them

TechCrunch

This is a review-in-progress. More soon! Somewhere between the Ray-Ban Meta and Meta Quest 3 sits an ideal mixed-reality headset. It’s slim, light, offers hand tracking and passthrough and livestreams video when the moment calls for it. It’s designed to be worn inconspicuously outdoors, until the time comes for content capture. The Meta Quest Ray-Ban […] © 2023 TechCrunch.

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CIOs press ahead for gen AI edge — despite misgivings

CIO

OpenAI’s November 2022 announcement of ChatGPT and its subsequent $10 billion in funding from Microsoft were the “shots heard ’round the world” when it comes to the promise of generative AI. If anything, 2023 has proved to be a year of reckoning for businesses, and IT leaders in particular, as they attempt to come to grips with the disruptive potential of this technology — just as debates over the best path forward for AI have accelerated and regulatory uncertainty has cast a longer shadow over

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The Conflict Resolution Skills Every Project Manager Needs

Harvard Business Review

It’s best to start any new project by fostering the right conflict mindset among team members. Productive conflict requires that all parties appreciate the competing demands and necessary trade-offs. But don’t expect stakeholders to show up with clarity about their position or empathy for the needs and demands of others. As a great project manager, you need to foster awareness, understanding, and respect for the different perspectives around the table.