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Construction tech startups are poised to shake up a $1.3-trillion-dollar industry

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Allison Xu is an investor at Bain Capital Ventures, where she focuses on investments in the fintech and property tech sectors. Debates ensued over whether the construction industry’s seven million employees should be considered “essential,” while regulations continued to shift on the operation of job sites. A construction tech boom.

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Report: Technical Debt is Costing You More Than You Think

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Many organizations have been struggling to understand not only the cost of downtime, but how to quantify the quality of their software and what the cost is of poor quality code. A new report from the Consortium for IT Software Quality ( 1 ) covers the cost of poor software quality, shedding light on those topics. ?? NEW POST ??

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Nigerian agritech startup Releaf secures $4.2M to scale its food processing technology

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And though Nigeria’s food processing systems have a keen resemblance to the West with respect to big factories and huge economies of scale in high-demand cities, farmers still suffer from poor logistics networks. When the pair started the company in 2017, the idea behind Releaf was not concrete yet as the team, based in the U.S.,

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TechCrunch+ roundup: eVTOL takes off, pivoting with agility, when to hire a lawyer

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” is a staple of Gen X humor, since it reaffirms the cynical viewpoint that technology frequently fails to deliver on its lofty promises. The industry went from being speculative to competitive in a flash, thanks in large part to advances like composite materials and battery density. Mainstream attention is increasing.

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Tier Mobility lays off 180 people amid poor funding climate

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While Tier has not responded to TechCrunch’s requests for more information, the layoffs appear to span a variety of teams, mostly in Berlin, with the highest concentration of layoffs coming from marketing, market development and technology teams. Tier was previously valued at $2 billion.

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Bobidi launches to reward developers for testing companies’ AI models

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In a 2018 report , Gartner predicted that 85% of AI projects will deliver erroneous outcomes due to bias in data, algorithms or the teams responsible for managing them. The two met at a tech industry function about 10 years ago. the number of edge cases). per hour. .”

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Top 10 cities to hire developers

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According to StackOverflow , the demand for software developers still outpaces the supply. Research reveals that in the US alone, tech talent shortage is predicted to cost the country USD 435.7 Hence, several firms across the globe have started to look beyond their local talent pool and hire software developers online or offshore.