I have recently stumbled upon an article reporting that Facebook is using Artificial Intelligence to fight “revenge porn” - a phenomenon of sharing intimate photos on social networks without people’s permission. This is one of the downsides of the development of new technologies and social networks. This great TED talk from one of the victims explains why it is a serious problem that needs strong measures.
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Creating digital products is great – the possibilities of modern web offer nearly unlimited power to connect with customers. But for me as a specialist working in the industry both as a copywriter and software developer it was always tough to manage digital content in a proper way. There are many solutions available on the market, but the facts are indisputable – Content Management Systems were always the black sheep of the digital products family. Mostly because they were connecting two worlds – content creation (editors with no programming skills) and website code. But now a new cool kid has appeared: the headless CMS.
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Managing projects can be a bit confusing - you are juggling a lot of tasks, and it’s hard to name one main thing you are responsible for. Let’s try and see what makes up a PMs week at Netguru - hopefully, this will let you understand the role a bit better!
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As Project Managers at Netguru, one of our responsibilities is to help our teams in planning and tracking the progress of development. We strongly believe that the tools we use should facilitate our process and needs and not the other way around. That is why we chose JIRA as one of our project management tools.
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If you want to develop a successful product, you need to have trusted people on board. You may have the best idea for a new app the world has ever seen. You’ve chosen Node.js as your JavaScript runtime environment, because you’re expecting big traffic and want your app to be scalable. You’ve done your market research, and know for absolute certain that there’s a keen and eager customer base practically bursting at the seams to get their hands on the very solution you’ll soon be launching in app stores. However, if you don’t have the right people behind your project, the chances of your application even reaching the launch stage - let alone taking app stores by storm - are slim to none.
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“We Need to See a Shift Towards Global Thinking”. An Insider Look at the NY Fintech Scene
Tomasz Grynkiewicz
Whereas most people think of Silicon Valley as the promised land for startups, when it comes down to fintech, the landscape changes. The numbers speak for themselves - New York has beaten San Francisco in terms of fintech funding to become one of the strongest fintech hubs in the world.
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The idea of creating apps using only one paradigm for all platforms sounds a bit unreal. However, React Native enables to accelerate the process of building apps across different platforms, thanks to the possibility of reusing most of the code between them. Taking into account all the pros and cons, no wonder that many companies settle upon React Native for their mobile app development. Here is a list of examples of those that have leveraged this framework in production.
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The answer, of course, may vary. I hope I won’t surprise or disappoint anyone by pointing out that all I’m sharing here are my experiences and thoughts - there are no definite answers for such a question in a complex environment.
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Machine Learning Automation – What Kind of Tasks Can Be Improved and Automated in the Near Future
Mateusz Hapon
Machine learning brings a wide range of new possibilities to nearly all industries. A number of tasks that can be automated or improved with machine learning-based algorithms is growing day to day. Let’s dive deeper and try to establish factors that enable a specific task to be improved with ML, so we can understand better how your business and processes can leverage artificial intelligence.
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Let us tell you a story about a small startup that once only dreamed of growth and scaling up… and then succeeded on such a level that it even developed a full-fledged community of its own - in a way that extends far beyond the business itself.
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