TechCrunch Early Stage: What you need to know about raising a Series A

TechCrunch Early Stage: What you need to know about raising a Series A

TechCrunch Early Stage Do you have visions of Series A funding in your future? A lot of hard work and preparation goes into securing your first round of VC funding. TechCrunch Early Stage founders are no strangers to hard work — especially those who’ve raised their seed round. But Series A prep is a different beast altogether. And economic headwinds always make things more…interesting. Here’s just one example of how the two rounds differ. Raising…

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Seattle Coffee Gear Diletta Bello espresso machine review – TechToday

Seattle Coffee Gear Diletta Bello espresso machine review – TechToday

  Seattle Coffee Gear Diletta Bello: One-minute review The Seattle Coffee Gear Diletta Bello espresso machine isn’t a typical espresso machine that most people use in their homes, and you’ll know that as soon as you take it out of the box. There are no buttons here to push, no dials for programming settings. This, my friends, is a next-level espresso machine, not quite an industrial-grade one you expect to see at coffee shops but…

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Women in STEM are being commemorated as Barbie Role Models

Women in STEM are being commemorated as Barbie Role Models

Women in STEM STEM: Dr. Maggie Aderin-Pocock, space scientist and presenter of BBC One’s The Sky at Night and CBeebies Stargazing, is being honored with a Barbie Role Model. Ahead of International Women’s Day on Wednesday, Aderin-Pocock — who was declared the new chancellor at the University of Leicester(Opens in a new tab) earlier this month — is one of a group of STEM professionals celebrated by Barbie and its parent company Mattel. SEE ALSO:Viola…

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The Food System Is Awful for the Climate. It Doesn’t Have to Be

The Food System Is Awful for the Climate. It Doesn’t Have to Be

As people’s incomes rise, they tend to switch from “starchy staples” like grains, potatoes, and roots to meat and dairy products. “You’d think there would be big cultural differences across human populations in these patterns,” says Thomas Tomich, a food systems economist at the University of California, Davis, who wasn’t involved in the new paper. “There are some, but it is surprising how almost universal this shift is: how increasing income, especially going from poor to…

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Researchers From Oxford Open-Source WhisperX: A Time-Accurate Speech Recognition System With Word-Level Timestamps

Researchers From Oxford Open-Source WhisperX: A Time-Accurate Speech Recognition System With Word-Level Timestamps

Weakly supervised and unsupervised training approaches have shown outstanding performance on various audio processing tasks, including voice recognition, speaker recognition, speech separation, and keyword spotting, thanks to the availability of large-scale online datasets. Researchers at Oxford developed a speech recognition system called Whisper that makes use of this extensive database on a larger scale. Utilizing 125,000 hours of English translation data and 680,000 hours of noisy speech training data in 96 additional languages, they demonstrate…

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Decommissioning Usage Meter 4.3 – VMware Cloud Provider Blog

Decommissioning Usage Meter 4.3 – VMware Cloud Provider Blog

Why is this blog important? This blog information is for all the Cloud Providers still operating version 4.3 (or lower) of the Usage Meter appliance. Starting on July 31, 2023, Usage Meter 4.3 will no longer be compatible with the cloud processing used to generate reports.  What the Cloud Providers must do? Partners should upgrade immediately to the latest version (preferably v4.6 or v4.7 in May). And just as a reminder, Usage Meter 4.X is…

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Twitter images and links are currently broken

Twitter images and links are currently broken

Twitter is experiencing issues once again. Multiple users, including folks on the TechCrunch team, are currently unable to view links and images on the social network. According to reports on third-party web monitoring service Downdetector, the issues began at around 11:50 a.m. ET. Clicking on a link brings up an error message that says “Your current API plan does not include access to this endpoint, please see https://developer.twitter.com/en/docs/twitter-api for more information.” The link in the error…

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Plotting Network Graphs using Python | by Wei-Meng Lee | Mar, 2023

Plotting Network Graphs using Python | by Wei-Meng Lee | Mar, 2023

Learn how to use the NetworkX package to visualize complex networks Photo by Alina Grubnyak on Unsplash A network graph is a form of visualization that enables you to visualize and analyze the relationships between entities. For example, the following figure shows the contribution of Wikipedia editors to the various Wikipedia language versions during one month in the summer of 2013. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graph_theory#/media/File:Wikipedia_multilingual_network_graph_July_2013.svg From the network graph, you can gather a few observations: English (en)…

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Three Ways to Save Your Organization on Cloud Costs in 2023

Three Ways to Save Your Organization on Cloud Costs in 2023

Organizations of all sizes are currently navigating their plans to avoid the recent surge in cyber-attacks and data breaches and preparing for unforeseen setbacks. Building a sensible backup and recovery strategy needs to be a top priority in the current landscape. At the same time, businesses now find themselves facing significantly higher data storage costs—and even costly overage fees. With only three out of 10 organizations knowing exactly where their cloud costs are going, it’s critical for organizations…

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Healthcare workers still think about quitting often, even on well-staffed teams – TechToday

Healthcare workers still think about quitting often, even on well-staffed teams – TechToday

Some telling new statistics from the Qualtrics XM Institute’s latest research on customer-facing employees show healthcare workers are less likely than the global average to say their teams are understaffed (7% versus 11%). But these workers are also far more likely to report they think of leaving their jobs multiple times per month, even with adequate staffing levels (32% versus 21%). Qualtrics surveyed full-time or part-time employees who interface in their roles, as well as…

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