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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. As one of the least-digitized sectors of our economy, construction is ripe for technology disruption. A construction tech boom. Technology startups are emerging to help solve these problems.

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Case in point: taking stock of the CrowdStrike outages

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And also by improvements to its quality control processes as CrowdStrike added a check for that particular problem after the outage, as well as other tests, deployment layers, and checks. Its worth doing that extra step of diligence because it can save you problems down the road, she says. Trust, but verify.

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CIOs are bullish on AI agents. IT employees? Not so much.

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Most CIOs and CTOs are bullish on agentic AI, believing the emerging technology will soon become essential to their enterprises, but lower-level IT pros who will be tasked with implementing agents have serious doubts. Other AI experts have warned organizations about building AI agents without outside help.

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QA Wolf exits stealth with an end-to-end service for software testing

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“As software developers ourselves — working in health tech and fintech, where even minor bugs could have an outsized impact on people’s lives — we know firsthand how critical robust end-to-end testing is for all software businesses,” Perl said. Neither, obviously, are very desirable scenarios.

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How Can We Stop Under Utilizing a Key User Experience Champion?

Speaker: Miles Robinson, Agile and Management Consultant, Motivational Speaker

In the world of ever-changing technology, customer representation has become a key factor for a product’s success. With quality assurance/control already embedded in our development process, what if we expand the role of our developers to champion usability and customer delight? Review customer feedback surveys.

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Mobot secures capital to grow its fleet of robots that bug-test mobile apps

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And to some outfits, the highest-quality testing simply isn’t available, either due to logistics reasons or the relentless push to reach release. While the tech industry implements hiring freezes and workforce reductions, it helps that Mobot is a “counter-cyclical” business, Goh asserts. ” .

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How Girl Power Talk fires up young tech workers and IT teams

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Girl Power Talk aims to help solve this by offering unique services that can help businesses meet target goals for projects, while empowering and uplifting young women in tech in the process. Initially, I was hesitant about entering the tech world due to my non-technical background,” she says.