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Harness, a software delivery platform, announced a handful of significant updates on Wednesday aimed at helping developers speed up delivery with AI and automation, as well as helping organizations lower their cloud computing costs. The updates were announced as part of the company's annual developer conference, {Unscripted} 2021 . After emerging from stealth in 2017, the San Francisco-based Harness now has a $1.7 billion valuation . The company's customers include Kohl's, McAfee, National Bank of Canada, UK Home Office, and Citigroup. While Harness has a number of competitors, like GitLab and CircleCI, the DevOps market is expected to grow quickly: IDC projects that the market will reach $15 billion in 2023, up from $5.2 billion in 2018. The new updates contribute to Harness' overarching aim of providing a unified pipeline for software delivery, sped up with intelligent features. The four new components of the Harness platform include Test Intelligence, Feature Flags, … [Read more...] about Harness updates platform to speed up software delivery, lower cloud costs

Having recently secured $36 million in seed funding, Rainforest is looking to acquire more Amazon third-party sellers as well as fast-growing brands that sell on Asian e-commerce platforms. And it is hoping to differentiate itself by offering tools to help these sellers centrally manage their transactions across the different marketplaces. Since kicking off its operations in January 2021, the Singapore-based e-commerce aggregator had acquired three brands that sold through Fulfilment by Amazon (FBA). These included a Singapore-owned brand that sold bedding products on the US e-commerce marketplace. Founded in 2020, Rainforest last month raised $6.5 million in equity financing and $30 million debt facility from a US debt fund. It said it would use the funds to acquire more Amazon FBA brands, bring in new hires, and develop its technology stack. Noting that Amazon's third-party gross merchandise value topped $300 billion last year, up 50% from 2019, Rainforest CEO J.J. Chai said … [Read more...] about Singapore e-commerce aggregator eyes interoperability across APAC marketplaces

Being fashionable usually comes at a cost, and stylish people toward the end of the Middle Ages in Britain paid a steep price for wearing pointy shoes. Pointy-shoe wearers often developed bunions, a type of foot deformity in which a bony mass forms at the base of the big toe and pushes that toe inward at an angle. While many factors can cause bunions, known medically as hallux valgus, this condition was far less common in the 13th century and earlier, when footwear styles were less extreme, according to a new study. As these fashion victims grew older, they incurred other injuries, too. Bunions can lead to balance problems, and an examination of medieval skeletons showed that older individuals with bunions were also likely to have fractures in their upper limbs, from falls that were serious enough to break their bones. Related: The 7 biggest mysteries of the human body "The remains of shoes excavated in places like London and Cambridge suggest that by the … [Read more...] about Pointy shoes destroyed rich people’s feet in medieval England

TL;DR: For all the problems Cyberpunk 2077 has had since launch, the worst is arguably its performance on last-gen consoles. The game performs so poorly on the PlayStation 4 that it was pulled from the PlayStation Store. Now, over six months later, CD Projekt Red's title is returning, albeit with a warning that performance issues on the PS4 remain. It was back in mid-December, just a week after launch, that Cyberpunk 2077 was pulled from the Sony store "until further notice" following a massive backlash against a PlayStation 4 version that had horrendous performance problems, game-breaking bugs, graphical issues, and more. Despite the many bug fixes, patches, and CD Projekt Red's insistence that it wants Cyberpunk 2077 to be a game it can be " proud of ," the RPG has remained absent from Sony's store. But IGN yesterday reported that it was once again listed, though only for wishlisting and not for purchase. CD Projekt later confirmed in a regulatory announcement that it … [Read more...] about Cyberpunk 2077 returns to the PlayStation store next week with “performance issues” on PS4

A hot potato: How much of an impact did cryptominers have on the graphics card market during the first quarter? Quite a lot, according to a new report. It’s estimated that 700,000 high-end and midrange gaming cards that shipped in Q1 went to miners—about $500 million worth of product. Analyst Jon Peddie Research writes that those figures mean 25% of all graphics cards shipped between January and March ended up being used to mine crypto. The company looks at the attach rate of AIBs (add-in boards) to PCs, which had fallen as low as 25% before recently jumping to 50%, and uses the difference between the trending normal attach rate and the current rate to calculate the mining use of AIBs. JPR makes the assumption that most miners already own dedicated rigs and buy cards for them, though some amateurs do buy entire systems for mining. The company admits its formula isn’t as precise today as a few years ago due to the global component shortage that has seen scalpers and miners using … [Read more...] about 700,000 graphics cards that shipped in the first quarter went to cryptominers