Ron Miller    Whether you’re building a chip or an airplane, you need to measure the effectiveness of the product at each step of the manufacturing process, much like you do with developing software. Flojoy, an early stage startup, wants to help with a new open source tool that lets companies typically left out...

Frederic Lardinois    Microsoft today announced the public preview of Python in Excel, which will allow advanced spreadsheet users to combine scripts in the popular Python language and their usual Excel formulas in the same workbook. This feature will first roll out to Microsoft Insiders as part of the Excel for...

Kyle Wiggers    Douwe Osinga and Jack Amadeo were working together at Sidewalk Labs, Alphabet’s venture to build tech forward cities, when they arrived at the conclusion that most spreadsheet software doesn’t scale up to today’s data challenges. Data science tools like Pandas and Jupyter Notebooks do, but they...

Paul Sawers    Pydantic, the popular Python library and open source data validation framework used by some of the world’s biggest companies, has a new commercial namesake and the backing of one of Silicon Valley’s most storied venture capital VC firms. Pydantic Services Inc. emerges from stealth today with . ...

Zack Whittaker    Ax Sharma Contributor Share on X Ax Sharma is a security researcher and reporter. His areas of interest include open source software security, malware analysis, data breaches and scam investigations. If combating attacks and hijackings of legitimate software on open source registries like npm weren...

Frederic Lardinois    At its Data AI Summit, Databricks today made the requisite number of announcements one would expect from a company’s flagship developer event. Among those are the launch of Delta Lake . , the next version of its platform for building data lakehouses, MLflow . , the next generation of its...

Frederic Lardinois    At its re:Mars conference, Amazon today announced the launch of CodeWhisperer, an AI pair programming tool similar to GitHub’s Copilot that can autocomplete entire functions based on only a comment or a few keystrokes. The company trained the system, which currently supports Java, JavaScript and...

Anita Ramaswamy    What’s one of the hottest areas within fintech today Funnily enough, it’s fintech for fintechs say that a few times fast . Fintech startups have absolutely proliferated in the past few years, but it’s still a highly fragmented space which is where fintech for fintech companies come in....

Ram Iyer    Recruiting a winning engineering team can be intimidating, especially for first time and non technical founders. TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

Frederic Lardinois    TruEra, a startup that offers an AI quality management solution to optimize, explain and monitor machine learning models, today announced that it has raised a million Series B round led by Menlo Ventures. Existing investors Greylock Partners, Wing Venture Capital which led its million...

Natasha Lomas    Decipad, a no code startup that’s aiming to disrupt spreadsheets with accessible tools that empower people to play around with numbers, has nabbed million in seed funding. Put simply, it’s building an interactive notebook to help non technical people do data modelling. We are building for...

Ram Iyer    Differential privacy doesn’t just better protect privacy, it can also power data sharing solutions that facilitate cooperation across departments or companies. TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

Natasha Lomas    For this year’s STEM toy gift guide we’ve split out our recommendations by age for easier navigation. TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

Taylor Hatmaker    This week, a handful of academic researcher teams will gain access to a new tool from Facebook designed to aggregate near universal real time data on the world’s biggest social network. When it comes to who gets access to Facebook data and how, the company now known as Meta is still feeling...

Anna Heim    Arbisoft is the latest addition to our series profiling startup software consultants. Its CEO Yasser Bashir shared thoughts on agile development, data science, customer and employee satisfaction, etc. TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

Danny Crichton    The tech industry has made a full degree turn with regard to open source in the years since Matt Mullenweg founded Automattic, the commercial backer of open source CMS, WordPress. TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

Frederic Lardinois    Databricks today announced that it has acquired German startup Labs, the company behind bamboolib, a popular GUI for the Python based Pandas data analysis and manipulation tool. Bamboolib allows data scientists to quickly and easily explore their data and transform it without having to write...

Sarah Perez    Byteboard, a service designed to replace the pre onsite technical interview part of a company’s hiring process with a web based alternative, will be spinning out of Google, TechCrunch learned and Google confirmed. The product was originally incubated as part of the company’s internal R D lab known...

Christine Hall    Bodo.ai, a parallel compute platform for data workloads, is developing a compiler to make Python portable and efficient across multiple hardware platforms. TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

Zack Whittaker    Apple has encountered monumental backlash to a new child sexual abuse material CSAM detection technology it announced earlier this month. The system, which Apple calls NeuralHash, has yet to be activated for its billion plus users, but the technology is already facing heat from security...