Tag: engineering

How CTOs can win over the board room

Join leaders in San Francisco on January 10 for an exclusive night of networking, insights, and conversation. Request an invite here. As a VP of engineering or CTO in a board meeting, it can be tough to watch the chief revenue officer (CRO) present. Sales have had years of experience translating their operational metrics to […]

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Why developer productivity isn’t all about tooling and AI

VentureBeat presents: AI Unleashed – An exclusive executive event for enterprise data leaders. Hear from top industry leaders on Nov 15. Reserve your free pass Building software is precise, imaginative work. That’s why developers are most productive in interruption-free environments. In fact, eliminating distractions will do more to optimize engineers’ efforts than most changes you […]

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DeepMind’s ‘remarkable’ new AI controls robots of all kinds 

VentureBeat presents: AI Unleashed – An exclusive executive event for enterprise data leaders. Network and learn with industry peers. Learn More One of the big challenges of robotics is the amount of effort that has to be put into training machine learning models for each robot, task, and environment. Now, a new project by Google […]

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7 Technologies for Fighting Climate Change

1. Reengineer Electric Motors To replace a gas engine car, you have to match or exceed it in power. The key to that, today, is motors built with rare-earth metals. With exotic names like neodymium, dysprosium, terbium, and praseodymium, rare earth elements go into so-called permanent magnets. They have persistent magnetic fields and are considered […]

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