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Bangladesh’s garment-making industry is getting greener
Pollution from textile production—dyes, chemicals, and heavy metals like lead and cadmium—is common in the waters of the Buriganga River as it runs through Dhaka, Bangladesh. It’s among many harms posed by a garment sector that was once synonymous with tragedy: In 2013, the eight-story Rana Plaza factory building collapsed, killing 1,134 people and injuring…
Edtech Saasguru wants to fix the cloud talent shortage at scale
Cloud tech companies are facing a significant cloud skills shortage, making it hard to hire people and difficult to make sure their current workforce’s skills are up to date. Australia- and US-based Saasguru wants to narrow the gap with an edtech platform designed for new graduates and tech workers who want to become better at […]
Edtech Saasguru wants to fix the cloud talent shortage at scale by Catherine Shu originally published on TechCrunch
For $20 a month, you can host meetings in Mozilla’s mini metaverse
Mozilla’s Hubs offering has been kicking around for several years now. Lucas described a 2018 preview of the service thusly, “It’s not Second Life, or even Facebook Spaces; it’s pretty low-key. You’re just a humble robot hanging with other robots who are hopefully your friends.” The service has expanded features since then (including the arrival […]
For $20 a month, you can host meetings in Mozilla’s mini metaverse by Brian Heater originally published on TechCrunch
Amazon introduces AWS Supply Chain to help bring order to supply chain chaos
Over the last several years, we’ve seen supply chain disruptions the likes of which we haven’t seen previously. The pandemic led to a series of issues that spiraled into a full-blown supply chain crisis. Amazon wants to put AWS technology to work on the problem, and today the company announced a new supply chain solution […]
Amazon introduces AWS Supply Chain to help bring order to supply chain chaos by Ron Miller originally published on TechCrunch
AWS gets data clean rooms for analytics data
AWS today launched a new service that will help users inside an advertising or marketing organization share data with other employees inside their company or with outside partners, all without running the risk of inadvertently sharing personal data. This new service is part of Amazon’s new AWS for Advertising & Marketing initiative, which aims to […]
AWS gets data clean rooms for analytics data by Frederic Lardinois originally published on TechCrunch
AWS SimSpace Weaver can run city-sized simulations in the Cloud
At this morning’s Re:Invent keynote in Las Vegas, Amazon unveiled AWS SimSpace Weaver, a computing service that allows developers to run city-sized simulations at scale in the cloud. The service is designed to free simulation developers from the constraints of their own hardware. Amazon’s proposed applications here are city managers simulating a natural disaster to […]
AWS SimSpace Weaver can run city-sized simulations in the Cloud by Brian Heater originally published on TechCrunch
AWS now supports natural language forecasting queries in QuickSight Q
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has announced some notable new natural language querying capabilities that enable non-analysts to forecast future business outcomes. By way of a quick recap, AWS first introduced its QuickSight business intelligence service back in 2015, allowing customers to visualize their data through dashboards and reports without requiring the technical prowess of a […]
AWS now supports natural language forecasting queries in QuickSight Q by Paul Sawers originally published on TechCrunch
Amazon announces preview of new Inf2 instances designed for larger models
As companies build more complex machine learning models, the cost of training and running these models becomes a real issue. AWS has created a series of custom instances to help bring down the cost, and today it introduced a preview of an all-new Inf2 instance for EC2 designed to process data from larger workloads more […]
Amazon announces preview of new Inf2 instances designed for larger models by Ron Miller originally published on TechCrunch
TechCrunch+ roundup: Fundraising under scrutiny, optimizing LTV, visa bulletin update
The idea that there’s a “good” time to launch a startup is just a bedtime story investors tell founders.
TechCrunch+ roundup: Fundraising under scrutiny, optimizing LTV, visa bulletin update by Walter Thompson originally published on TechCrunch
Amazon Security Lake is a standards-based data lake for security data
AWS today announced Amazon Security Lake, a new purpose-built data lake for security-related data. It can aggregate data from cloud and on-premises infrastructure, firewalls and endpoint security solutions. It helps enterprises centralize all of their security data in a single data lake, using a standards-based format, and manage the lifecycle of this data. Security Lake […]
Amazon Security Lake is a standards-based data lake for security data by Frederic Lardinois originally published on TechCrunch