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John Carmack’s AGI startup raises $20M from Sequoia, Nat Friedman, Patrick Collison and others

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John Carmack, the game developer who co-founded id Software and served as Oculus’s CTO, is working on a new venture — and has already attracted capital from some big names. Carmack will still continue to consult with Meta on VR matters, but his work with the social juggernaut, he said, will consume only 20% of his time.

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8 open source companies from YC Demo Day Winter ’22

TechCrunch

Founders: Co-founders Jeremy Dorn and Graham McNicoll both used to work at Education.com as chief architect and CTO respectively. Founders: CTO Dillon Carns and CEO Alex Feiszli left their software engineering gigs to develop Netmaker. Founders: Maxim Perumal built Relativity, an open source VR headset, at age 15.

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Storytelling for CIOs: From niche to bestseller

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I take what I learned in the scriptwriting seminar about passion and the narrative arc into every meeting I attend,” one chief technology officer said. The consulting giant said it was buying the 29-person, London-based company to help clients articulate and activate their vision and change strategies.

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The 4 most overhyped technologies in IT

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“The anticipation and fear of the impact of generative AI in particular, and its relationship to artificial general intelligence (AGI), makes it overhyped,” says Daryl Cromer, vice president and CTO for the PCs and smart devices division at Lenovo. The number of use cases and utility values are limited, impacting the potential.

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Le 10 tecnologie più sopravvalutate nell’IT di oggi

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Il metaverso e l’AR/VR sono tecnologie paragonabili, in un certo senso, alla blockchain, dove all’inizio c’è stato molto clamore, che si è, poi, rapidamente affievolito ed è stato soppiantato dall’AI”, racconta Thomas Phelps IV, CIO di Laserfiche e membro del comitato consultivo del SIM Research Institute.

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Apiumhub among top IT industry leaders in Code Europe event

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This year you will have 6 unique tracks: Cloud Computing: IaaS, PaaS, SaaS DevOps: Microservices, Automation, ASRs Cybersecurity: Threats, Defenses, Tests Data Science: ML, AI, Big Data, Business Analytics Programming languages: C++, Python, Java, Javascript,Net Future & Inspire: Mobility, 5G data networks, Diversity, Blockchain, VR.

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22 Health IT Experts Reveal the Single Best Way to Simplify Interoperability in Healthcare IT

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Zach Alam is the Chief Blockchain Consultant at onboard.one. Prior to serving as a Chief Innovation Officer with Managed Solution , Jeremy founded Gordian IT Healthcare in 2011, where he oversaw the overall strategic direction, customer retention approaches, and growth strategies. propelzach. to automate. Dary Merckens.