Tag: Business and emerging tech
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NFTs for Designers: Introduction
Posted on July 20, 2022, Level beginner Resource Length medium
The global NFT market relies on designers to support artists, Web3 platforms and marketplaces, and major global brands. Toptal designer Gabor Molnar offers insights from his experience breaking into this emerging field. By Gabor Molnar @toptal.com.
Tags miscellaneous product-and-design frontend-and-mobile leadership-and-career business-and-emerging-tech
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Automated farming robots: Five awesome use cases
Posted on June 24, 2022, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Automation has found its way into almost all industries. Many industries have adopted automation to reduce human efforts and boost productivity to meet customer demands. Recently, automated farming robots are being used for various agricultural practices. They minimize the intensive hard work required for farming and save a lot of time. By Amna Faryad.
Tags business-and-emerging-tech ai-and-machine-learning data-and-analytics
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A technique to teach bimanual robots stir-fry cooking
Posted on June 23, 2022, Level beginner Resource Length short
As robots make their way into a variety of real-world environments, roboticists are trying to ensure that they can efficiently complete a growing number of tasks. For robots that are designed to assist humans in their homes, this includes household chores, such as cleaning, tidying up and cooking. By Ingrid Fadelli , Tech Xplore.
Tags business-and-emerging-tech miscellaneous cloud-and-infrastructure ai-and-machine-learning data-and-analytics
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Things a city needs to become a startup hub
Posted on June 22, 2022, Level beginner Resource Length medium
It's common sense that being part of a thriving startup community can bring immense advantages to your own project. Yet, not all startup founders have the opportunity or desire to move to Silicon Valley, New York, London, Beijing, or any of the other big startup hubs. By Abdo Riani.
Tags business-and-emerging-tech miscellaneous cloud-and-infrastructure leadership-and-career
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Why managed container services help startups and tech companies build smarter
Posted on June 21, 2022, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Learning how to install and manage Kubernetes clusters can be a big obstacle between your organization and all the potential magic of a container orchestration platform. You have to consider tasks like provisioning machines, choosing OS and runtime, and setting up networking and security. By Fer De Oliveira @google.
Tags business-and-emerging-tech product-and-design cloud-and-infrastructure leadership-and-career
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Blockchain scalability: Execution, storage, and consensus
Posted on June 10, 2022, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
Trust minimization is a valuable security property that blockchain technology is uniquely positioned to generate—replacing handshakes, brand reputation, and paper contracts with guarantees based on computer code, cryptography, and decentralized consensus. These superior guarantees provided by blockchains form the basis of cryptographic truth. By chain.link.
Tags cloud-and-infrastructure business-and-emerging-tech leadership-and-career software-engineering data-and-analytics
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Web3: What is it and what it means for freelancers
Posted on June 1, 2022, Level beginner Resource Length long
It is being said that Web3 is the future of the internet which promises a decentralised, immutable version of the global web -- free of intermediaries and equipped with the same cryptographic verifiability as cryptocurrencies and non-fungible tokens (NFTs). But what does that really mean? By Stefania Volpe.
Tags cloud-and-infrastructure business-and-emerging-tech how-to leadership-and-career
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Stacks vs. Solana vs. Polygon: How do they compare from a developer perspective?
Posted on May 31, 2022, Level beginner Resource Length long
What's the best blockchain for building Web3 applications? It depends on what you want to prioritize across the blockchain trilemma. The trilemma argues that blockchains can only provide two of the three properties of decentralization, security, and scalability, and that no matter where you build, you'll be making a tradeoff. By Joe Bender.
Tags business-and-emerging-tech cloud-and-infrastructure how-to miscellaneous software-engineering
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DuckDuckGo vs. Google: An in-depth search engine comparison
Posted on May 8, 2022, Level beginner Resource Length long
Which search engine is better at finding the information you want, fast? We compare the features of DuckDuckGo and Google. By Sam Hollingsworth.
Tags business-and-emerging-tech how-to miscellaneous data-and-analytics leadership-and-career
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Automation isn't the biggest threat to US factory jobs
Posted on May 4, 2022, Level beginner Resource Length medium
German factories have more robots than their US counterparts - so why are Americans four times more likely to leave their manufacturing jobs? By Anna Waldman-Brown.
Tags business-and-emerging-tech leadership-and-career miscellaneous
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Applying product thinking to slack's internal compute platform
Posted on March 16, 2022, Level beginner Resource Length long
When creating a platform, it's critical to have clearly defined customers and products that will benefit from it rather than building in a vacuum. By Javier Turegano Director, Software Engineering @slack.
Tags product-and-design frontend-and-mobile leadership-and-career business-and-emerging-tech
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Bringing agile to quantum hardware
Posted on March 15, 2022, Level beginner Resource Length medium
We want to build the best, highest-performance quantum computers, all while making processors available to clients so that they can experiment with quantum and find potential benefits to their organizations. Achieving this goal requires a new way of thinking about hardware development methodology. By Markus Brink.
Tags leadership-and-career cloud-and-infrastructure business-and-emerging-tech