Hollard Makes Strategic Investment in Life Insurance Disruptor
Disruption in the world of Insurance is the buzzword of the day in the industry. In a move poised to shake up the South African mass-market life insurance landscape, the Hollard Group makes a significant strategic investment in South African based insurtech, Simply Financial Services. Simply, a registered FSP and
Read MoreMicrosoft launches Radius, an open-source application platform for the cloud-native era
Microsoft today announced the launch of Radius, a new open-source, language-agnostic application platform for building and running cloud-native applications. The project is being spun out of the Microsoft Azure Incubation team, the same group that previously launched open-source projects like Dapr for building microservices, the KEDA event-driven autoscaling solution, and
Read More5 investors on the pros and cons of open source AI business models
As a part of TC's ongoing AI survey series, we spoke to a group of five investors about the pros and cons of open source AI business models. © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Read MoreGoogle bulks up Android’s malware defenses to combat new tricks, including AI
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Google is upgrading Android’s Play Protect malware protection system to help it spot malicious apps that change their identifiable features to avoid detection, the company has announced. “This enhancement will help better protect users against malicious polymorphic apps that leverage various methods, such
Read MoreMocking in Kotlin Multiplatform
The Road to Mockative 2A Brief History of Kotlin MultiplatformWhen Kotlin first came to the scene, it was purely a JVM language. This changed with the introduction of Kotlin/JS, Kotlin/Native, and Kotlin/Wasm, which allowed developers to use Kotlin to target just about anything. Targeting multiple of these platforms with the
Read MorePlaid taps former Expedia exec as its new chief financial officer, says ‘no timeline’ for IPO
Fintech startup Plaid has hired former Expedia CFO Eric Hart to serve as its first chief financial officer. When asked if the move meant that the company was planning to go public, a spokesperson told TechCrunch: “We do not have any plans to IPO at this time…It will be a
Read MoreMy First Experience as a Speaker in an AWS Conference
My experience at the AWS UG Peru Conference 2023Last Saturday, I had the opportunity to share my knowledge as a speaker at the AWS UG Peru Conference 2023. It was a wonderful experience; I will share it in this post.Promotional banner for my talkAn Event Huger Than ExpectedWhen I postulated to be a
Read MoreUsing Pre-Scripts and Tests in Postman to easily handle Auth-Token
generated with DALL-E 3Let’s say you have to deal with an API where you first need a token that is only valid for a few minutes. So while you are testing specific calls with “postman” it’s very annoying to make a Call, grab something from the result, and paste it in
Read MoreThe Pros and Cons of Microservices Architecture
Here, we’ll discuss whether microservices are a good fit for your development needs.Microservices architecture has become increasingly popular in recent years, taking center stage among other app architectures. This architectural style, first introduced in 2011, offers a solution to many current IT challenges, such as app performance speed-up, scalability, and
Read MoreThe Element of Machine Hallucinations in AI-Generated News
NewsGPT, the AI-powered news generator and the world’s first fully AI-driven 24/7 news channel – is a revolutionary platform that leverages advanced machine learning, deep learning, and proprietary algorithms to automate all aspects of the news production process, including story selection, research, content generation, and delivery through AI avatars. It
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