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Mozilla acquires Active Replica to build on its metaverse vision

TechCrunch

Ervin is a software engineer by trade, having held roles at AR/VR startups Metaio, Liminal AR and Occipital. Denis has a history in project management — he worked for VR firms including BackLight, which specializes in location-based and immersive VR experiences for brands.

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Improve the productivity of your customer support and project management teams using Amazon Q Business and Atlassian Jira

AWS Machine Learning - AI

Effective customer support and project management are critical aspects of providing effective customer relationship management. Ge Jiang is a Software Development Engineer Manager in the Amazon Q and Amazon Kendra organization of Amazon Web Services.

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How engineering managers can effectively support engineers, teams, and organizations

CircleCI

The typical job description for many engineering manager roles is action-packed. It is a mix of hands-on coding, technical leadership and decision making, process and project management, product oversight, people management, finding and hiring talent … the list goes on. What do engineers need to thrive at work?

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16 best entry-level IT certifications to launch your career

CIO

It’s a valuable certification for anyone interested in becoming a Scrum master, but it’s also useful for anyone on the path to becoming a software engineer, business analyst, or project manager. Here are 16 IT certifications to launch your career, whether you have recently graduated or have decided to make a career change.

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AI-based Travel Assistant Wins AltexSoft’s GenAI Hackathon

Altexsoft

It helped engineers, managers, and admin staff learn large language models (LLMs) capabilities and train at building products based on LLM APIs. It accesses the Jira project management environment via an API and retrieves tasks, assignees, and task details based on natural language requests.

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Productivity platform Loopin helps work teams wrangle meetings

TechCrunch

Before Loopin, Varma was a product lead at Venture Highway at Upgrad, Pareek was a product lead at Samsung and Dudi worked as an engineering manager at Freshworks. The startup, backed by Venture Highway and angel investors, was founded in April 2021 by college friends Anurag Varma, Parth Pareek and Mehul Dudi.

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10 ways AI can make IT more productive

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Scale more efficiently AI can automate an array of routine tasks, ensuring consistent operations across the entire IT infrastructure, says Alok Shankar, AI engineering manager at Oracle Health. He notes that AI can also automatically create pull requests and integrate with project management software.