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The challenges of truly embracing cloud native

The challenges of truly embracing cloud native

There is a tendency at any conference to get lost in the message. Spending several days immersed in any subject tends to do that. The purpose of such gatherings is, after all, to trade the company or technologies being featured.

Against the pretty background of the city of Barcelona last week, we got the full cloud native message at KubeCon and CloudNativeCon. The Cloud Native Computing…

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Move over Ready Player One — the future of AR might be in furniture

Move over Ready Player One — the future of AR might be in furniture

Last week Modsy, a san Francisco-based startup, raised a big amount of funding — $37 million in C-circular funding to be specific. And that followed a $23 million successions B circular in December 2017.

Why the big amounts I hear you question? Well, Modsy is developing a platform that lets property owners create virtual renderings of rooms and restyle them in real moment. So that means 3D…

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IBM-Maersk blockchain shipping consortium expands to include other major shipping companies Last year IBM and Danish shipping conglomerate Maersk announced the limited availability of a blockchain-based shipping equipment named…

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MacKenzie Bezos pledges to give away more than half her $37B fortune to charity and philanthropy

MacKenzie Bezos pledges to give away more than half her $37B fortune to charity and philanthropy

MacKenzie Bezos, the world’s third-richest female following her divorce from Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos, has signed the Giving Pledge — a commitment that will see her giving away more than half her wealth to philanthropy or charitable causes, either during her lifetime or in her will.

Bezos recently made headlineswhen she gave ex-husband Jeff 75% of their joint Amazon stock, and voting…

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Glovo faces safety protests after delivery rider killed on the job

Glovo faces safety protests after delivery rider killed on the job

Spanish on-demand delivery startup Glovo is facing furious protests from couriers on its platform following the death of a 22-year-old motorist on Saturday in Barcelona where the business is headquartered.

Local press reports that the man, a nepalese national named Pujan Koirala, had been substituting for a registered Glovo courier at the moment he was struck and killed by a garbage truck. It…

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Huawei reassesses FedEx relationship over ‘misrouted’ packages Huawei is understandably reexamining a number of relationships in the wake of a recent U.S. sell ban.

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Paladin Drones picks up $1.3M to give first responders a live feed of emergencies In emergency situations, minutes can mean the difference between life and death. Paladin Drones, a company launching out of Y Combinator, wants to use technology to minimize the amount of moment between a 911 call and a response through autonomous drones.

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Q&A with J Crowley, Head of Product at Airbnb Lux, on what makes a great PM

Q&A with J Crowley, Head of Product at Airbnb Lux, on what makes a great PM

The role of Product Manager can mean very distinct things at various companies. Should a product manager be technical? Scientific? Opinionated?

J Crowley has run product at three big-name companies. At Foursquare, he led the rebuild of Swarm after a rocky initial launch and eventually became Head of Product. He then moved on to Blue Apron as Head of Product, overseeing growth and monetization.…

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Out of stealth, Stratio emerges with predictive AI to stop your bus from breaking down Remember that future we were promised where our car magically tells us that we’re about to break down?

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DJI launches a new onboard drone computer for enterprise users DJI this morning announced the latest model of its Manifold on-board drone computer. The second-generation appliance can be programmed for myriad disparate enterprise purposes, from research to routine inspections.

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Google makes mobile-first indexing the default for all new domains At the end of 2018, Google said mobile-first indexing — that is, using a website’s mobile model to index its pages — was being used for more than half the web pages in…

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Super Mario Maker 2 builds on Nintendo’s rich history

Super Mario Maker 2 builds on Nintendo’s rich history

In 1992, Nintendo released Mario colourant. The SNES title was a weird departure, even as far as the distinct and wide-ranging gameplay of Mario’s world goes. For one thing, it shipped with a mouse, perhaps the unsexiest of all Nintendo peripherals.

For another, it was far more focused on creation than gameplay — drawing, song, animation. The title provided a cursory glimpse at the creation side…

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Amazon defeated shareholder’s vote on facial recognition by a wide margin

Amazon defeated shareholder’s vote on facial recognition by a wide margin

Efforts by shareholders to instruct Amazon to stop selling its facial recognition technology to government customers failed by a wide margin, according to a brand-new corporate filing with regulators.

About 2.4% of shareholders voted for the proposal, a fraction of the 50% necessary to pass. The measure needed to come a 5% threshold for it to be re-introduced to shareholders again.

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SeedLegals closes $4M Series A, led by Index Ventures, to automate startup fundraisings

SeedLegals closes $4M Series A, led by Index Ventures, to automate startup fundraisings

When SeedLegals launched in 2017 in the U.K., I’d say many of us thought, “why has that not been done before?” After all, two things have happened that make this an obvious concept for a startup: startup funding rounds are now so common that there is no reason big amounts of automation could not be done. If you can purchase a divorce online, surely you can organise funding rounds?

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Apple announces a new… iPod touch

Apple announces a new… iPod touch

Apple is updating the iPod tap with an a10 Fusion system-on-a-chip. Other than that, it looks beautiful much like the old iPod tap with a four-inch display, a classic home button and many dissimilar color options.

The A10 Fusion chipwas first introduced with the iPhone 7. In other words, the brand-new iPod tap performs more or less just like an iphone 7. Just like the previous model of the iPod…

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Indonesia’s vegetable hawkers are going digital thanks to a new startup

Indonesia’s vegetable hawkers are going digital thanks to a new startup

Few things are more intriguing than the convergence of old and brand-new. It’s with that in mind that we once again look to Indonesia, where East Ventures, an early-stage VC that’s behind a project to digitize the country’s road vendors, has backed a brand-new startup that is modernizing road vendors who vend fresh produce.

In Indonesia — and other parts of Southeast Asia — road-based vendors…

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India’s Ather Energy raises $51 million to grow its electric scooters business

India’s Ather Energy raises $51 million to grow its electric scooters business

There’s more cash racing into India’s increasingly competitive two-wheeler marketplace after electric scooter maker Ather power said today it has raised $51 million in brand-new funding.

The circular was led by early backer Sachin Bansal, the co-founder of Flipkart, who invested $32 million. The rest of the cash was provided by conqueror MotoCorp, which added $19 million in convertible debt, and…

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