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OpenStack, the open-source infrastructure-as-a-service project that helps enterprises manage their on-premises data centers, was never known to be easy to install and operate. That meant that very few enterprises set up their own OpenStack deployments, working with third-party vendors and consultants instead, and that small-scale deployments weren’t really viable. With Sunbeam, Canonical (the company behind […]

Canonical’s Sunbeam makes OpenStack more viable for small-scale deployments by Frederic Lardinois originally published on TechCrunch

Many companies collect an enormous amount of geospatial and time data, but they’re unable to unlock enormous value from that information due to a lack of an easy-to-use, dedicated geospatial database platform. Scottsdale, Arizona-based Wherobots aims to change that with its spatial compute and AI engine, which allows users to develop geospatial analytics applications and […]

Wherobots is building a data platform to treat spatial data as a “first-class citizen” by Aria Alamalhodaei originally published on TechCrunch

Music streaming giant Spotify is facing a fine of around €5 million ($5.4M) in Sweden years after it was accused of breaching the data access rights of users in the European Union by not providing full information about personal data it processes in response to individual requests. While the size of the fine is unlikely […]

Spotify fined in Sweden over GDPR data access complaint by Natasha Lomas originally published on TechCrunch

Interview with honeygrow CEO/Founder about having a timeline to make mistakes, learning to manage up, and finding joy in your work.

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The financial services industry is poised for robust long-term growth, driven by growing demand for digital financial services worldwide. Leading financial services stocks PayPal (PYPL) and Regional Management (RM) should…

MLOps, or DevOps for those working with machine learning models, has seen a boom of interest in the last year, and that should come as no surprise: organizations want to bring more machine learning to bear in their data science stacks, but that requires building and training models, cleaning up data and making sure they […]

Striveworks snaps up first funding of $33M to build tools for machine learning operations by Ingrid Lunden originally published on TechCrunch

Pollen is a new professional membership for those who have, or want, independent careers.

Pollen’s approach to setting freelancers up for success is nothing to sneeze at by Christine Hall originally published on TechCrunch

On Father’s Day, we may not spend as much as on Mother’s Day. Still, according to the National Retail Federation, consumers plan to spend an average of $171.79 on gifts…