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Porch makes stock market debut, raising $322M to fuel its ambitions in home services technology

GeekWire

Serial entrepreneur Matt Ehrlichman was inspired to start Porch after encountering challenges during the construction of his family’s home. In this file photo provided by Porch in 2013, Porch CEO Matt Ehrlichman stands outside his home, under construction at the time. How Porch pivoted.

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Big Data: The Hadoop Business Case

CTOvision

The Internet is overloaded with definitions, characteristics, and benefits; however, few discussions synthesize all three of these topics in one place. Scour the internet and you will find that there are other, less commonly discussed but relevant characteristics associated with Big Data to include Veracity and Volatility [2].

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10 emerging innovations that could redefine IT

CIO Business Intelligence

Physical security of digital systems When most IT people think of computer security, they think of clever hackers who infiltrate their systems through the internet. The world of locking doors and protecting physical access is left to locksmiths, carpenters, and construction managers.

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The Supreme Court hands down very good news for pretty much everyone who uses a computer

Vox

But the law was also enacted more than three decades ago, long before the internet shifted much of human society to the virtual world. Enacted in 1986, the law is intended to prevent individuals from accessing computer systems or individual files that they are not permitted to see — think of it as an anti-hacking law.

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Choosing LambdaTest for Selenium Automation

Galido

license that can be downloaded and used free of charge. Check that a user interface or a Web application, in general, is able to function properly on all the most popular browsers for Internet browsing is one of the burdens connected to the developer’s work. It is an open source software under the Apache 2.0

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Life-Like Identity: Why the Internet Needs an Identity Metasystem

Phil Windley

Summary: Sovrin is an identity metasystem that provides the Internet's missing identity layer. By creating a general-purpose system for constructing context-specific identity systems, the metasystem represents a universal trust framework. Digital identity is broken because the Internet was built without an identity layer.

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- ePark, gooPark, noPark

Chief Seattle Greek Blog

This map also shows video from every traffic camera in the City and real-time alerts for transportation issues and construction. The travel times are calculated through license plate recognition. A traffic camera in one place records license plates of cars passing through its field of vision.

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