How CIO, CHRO, and CFO Energize HR and Finance with Gen AI Innovation
When you gather 10,500 organizations worldwide using Workday and 16,000 HR, finance, and IT professionals for a few days of knowledge sharing, you can learn key insights about leading talent management, guiding financial performance, and delivering AI-driven business value. I came to Workday Rising with questions about where the CIO
Read moreThor and Harbinger Motors’ new hybrid RV will let you spend more time at the campsite
Legacy automakers are experiencing a sort of existential crisis as they grapple with whether to stick to plans to go all-electric or hedge with hybrids. This sudden appetite for options across the industry is creating opportunity for EV startups like Los Angeles’ Harbinger Motors, which announced Monday that it has
Read moreThe new Reeder app is built for RSS, YouTube, Reddit, Mastodon and more
For the longest time, RSS readers have followed an “Inbox Zero” design philosophy by showing an unread count against each source. If you have more than a dozen feeds plugged into your RSS reader, good luck getting that to zero. Silvio Rizzi, the developer who built the popular RSS app
Read moreDavid Energy is going up against Goliath energy incumbents
James McGinniss has been obsessed with decarbonization and the energy grid since he was a high schooler over a decade ago. Now, his startup David Energy has a lofty goal: getting the energy grid to run entirely on clean energy in the next 10 years. Brooklyn-based David Energy is a
Read moreKestra raises another $8M for its open-source orchestration platform
Data orchestration platform Kestra just raised an $8 million funding round led by Alven, with existing investors Isai and Axeleo participating once again. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Read moreJump raises $12M to help freelancers get benefits just like employees
Jump offers full-time contracts to freelancers looking for some stability and the benefits involved with a full-time job. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Read moreSoftBank’s Masayoshi Son has been planning his comeback
A new Financial Times profile of Mayayoshi Son opens with SoftBank CEO seeming to hit bottom, staring at his “ugly” face on Zoom and telling himself, “I have done nothing I can be proud of.” The scene is presented as the prelude to a hoped-for a comeback, with Son largely
Read moreError in Ramanujan’s approximation for ellipse perimeter
Ramanujan discovered an incredibly accurate approximation for the perimeter of an ellipse. This post will illustrate how accurate the approximation is and push its limits. As with all computations involving ellipses, the accuracy of Ramanujan’s approximation increases as eccentricity increases. But the error increases slowly, and in fact is bounded.
Read moreMatt Mullenweg calls WP Engine a ‘cancer to WordPress’ and urges community to switch providers
Automattic CEO and WordPress co-creator Matt Mullenweg unleashed a scathing attack on a rival firm this week, calling WP Engine a “cancer to WordPress.” Mullenweg criticized the company — which has been commercializing the open source WordPress project since 2010 — for profiteering without giving much back, while also disabling
Read moreSynex founder, once detained at the border with a 80-pound magnet, is building portable MRIs to test glucose
Synex Medical just raised $21.8 million to build a portable MRI capable of testing glucose and other important molecules without the need to extract blood. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
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