Tag: Business and emerging tech
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The art of automation: Robotic process automation (RPA)
Posted on May 10, 2021, Level beginner Resource Length medium
RPA is made up of three core technologies: workflow automation, screen scraping and AI. The unique combo of these technologies allows RPA to solve the productivity challenge of manual desktop tasks. By Allen Chan, DE & CTO, Digital Business Automation.
Tags ai-and-machine-learning business-and-emerging-tech leadership-and-career
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Defenseless: UVA engineering computer scientists discover vulnerability affecting computers globally
Posted on May 7, 2021, Level beginner Resource Length medium
In 2018, industry and academic researchers revealed a potentially devastating hardware flaw that made computers and other devices worldwide vulnerable to attack. Since Spectre was discovered, the world's most talented computer scientists from industry and academia have worked on software patches and hardware defenses, confident they've been able to protect the most vulnerable points in the speculative execution process without slowing down computing speeds too much. By Audra Book @virginia.edu.
Tags security-and-privacy leadership-and-career miscellaneous software-engineering cloud-and-infrastructure business-and-emerging-tech
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The myth of the young startup founder
Posted on April 27, 2021, Level beginner Resource Length long
While the story of Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook has undoubtedly inspired an entire generation of young entrepreneurs and reshaped their imaginations about what's possible, people too easily forget that a big part of what makes the story compelling is that it's so unusual. Mark Zuckerburg is not only an outlier — he's an outlier among outliers. By Ian Hathaway.
Tags business-and-emerging-tech miscellaneous leadership-and-career data-and-analytics
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WebAssembly to run blockchain using Go
Posted on April 26, 2021, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
Blockchain is a technology with countless applications and a great potential that is not yet fully utilized. It is an ordered list of blocks that are chained together, hence dubbed the name blockchain. By Mahmoud Fathy.
Tags backend-development product-and-design business-and-emerging-tech software-engineering
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The architecture behind a one-person tech startup
Posted on April 24, 2021, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
This is a long-form post breaking down the setup author uses to run a SaaS. From load balancing to cron job monitoring to payments and subscriptions. There's a lot of ground to cover, so buckle up! By Anthony N. Simon.
Tags business-and-emerging-tech product-and-design frontend-and-mobile devops-and-ci-cd
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PyTorch – How to apply Backpropagation with Vectors and Tensors
Posted on April 19, 2021, Level advanced Resource Length long
In Machine learning, a backpropagation algorithm is used to compute the loss for a particular model. The most common starting point is to use the techniques of single-variable calculus and understand how backpropagation works. However, the real challenge is when the inputs are not scalars but of matrices or tensors. By Strahinja Stefanovic.
Tags backend-development data-and-analytics leadership-and-career business-and-emerging-tech miscellaneous software-engineering
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What is fog computing and how does it work?
Posted on April 18, 2021, Level beginner Resource Length medium
The concept of fog computing was developed to combat the latency issues that affect a centralized cloud computing system. The boom of consumer and commercial IoT devices and technologies has put a strain on cloud computing resources. By Jose Gomez.
Tags data-and-analytics business-and-emerging-tech
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Worst nightmare cyberattack: The untold story of the SolarWinds hack
Posted on April 16, 2021, Level beginner Resource Length long
The routine software update may be one of the most familiar and least understood parts of our digital lives. By Dina Temple Raston.
Tags security-and-privacy leadership-and-career software-engineering business-and-emerging-tech cloud-and-infrastructure
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Watch hybrid work: It's complicated
Posted on April 11, 2021, Level beginner Resource Length medium
We're all rooting for a happy medium with WFH and RTO, but to succeed, take note of these takeaways from 2020. By Jon Arnold.
Tags business-and-emerging-tech leadership-and-career miscellaneous
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Monetizing your blog with cryptocurrencies
Posted on March 20, 2021, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Current internet has been dominated by huge corporations, spying on users and selling their data to the advertisement companies. Amount of ads in internet is unbearable, pushing the quality content out in favour of mass produced click baits. By Damian Sosnowski.
Tags miscellaneous business-and-emerging-tech
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French startup demonstrates iodine propulsion in potential boost for space debris mitigation efforts
Posted on January 27, 2021, Level beginner Resource Length short
French startup ThrustMe has performed the first on-orbit tests of an innovative iodine-fueled electric propulsion system, proving its ability to change a CubeSat's orbit. By Benjamin ChessEric Sigler.
Tags business-and-emerging-tech miscellaneous
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Search engine giants like Google could soon face competitions
Posted on December 30, 2020, Level beginner Resource Length medium
The European Union and the United States want to introduce tighter rules for tech giants like Google. Search engine rivals are ready to step up as efforts are made to create a fairer competitive environment. By dw.com.
Tags cloud-and-infrastructure business-and-emerging-tech miscellaneous software-engineering architecture-and-apis frontend-and-mobile leadership-and-career