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Texas Power Companies Are Remotely Raising Temperatures on Residents' Smart Thermostats

Gizmodo

Texas is one of several states suffering through a record-breaking heat wave that’s pushing electric grids to their limits. The Electric Reliability Council of Texas, or ERCOT, has urged residents to do their part by raising the temperature on their thermostats, but several smart thermostats owners say their devices… Read more.

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Candy Shop Slaughter is a video game concept created by AI

Venture Beast

Elevate your enterprise data technology and strategy at Transform 2021. It is possible for artificial intelligence to create a video game. Contrary to popular opinion and hopes for humanity, an AI came up with the basic design for a video game called Candy Shop Slaughter. The game has all of the elements needed for success in the competitive mobile… Read More.

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Thousands Have Signed an Online Petition for Jeff Bezos to Buy and Eat the Mona Lisa

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For some bizarre reason, thousands of people want Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos to buy and eat the Mona Lisa. To clarify, the Mona Lisa in question is not food, it’s probably the same Mona Lisa you’re thinking of—the painting by Leonardo da Vinci that lives in the Louvre Museum in Paris. Read more.

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Evolution, rewards, and artificial intelligence

Venture Beast

AI systems replicate functions of natural intelligence such as classifying images, navigating physical environments, or completing sentences. Read More.

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Peak Performance: Continuous Testing & Evaluation of LLM-Based Applications

Speaker: Aarushi Kansal, AI Leader & Author and Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO at Aggregage

Software leaders who are building applications based on Large Language Models (LLMs) often find it a challenge to achieve reliability. It’s no surprise given the non-deterministic nature of LLMs. To effectively create reliable LLM-based (often with RAG) applications, extensive testing and evaluation processes are crucial. This often ends up involving meticulous adjustments to prompts.

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Airspeeder says it had the first successful test flight for its electric flying racecar

The Verge

Airspeeder. Airspeeder says its electric “flying” race car, the Alauda Mk3, has had its first unpiloted test flights in southern Australia. The craft, an electric vertical takeoff multicopter (abbreviated eVTOL for e lectric v ertical t ake o ff and l anding) was remotely controlled and the test flights took place under the supervision of Australia’s Civil Aviation Safety Authority.

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Williams F1 drives digital transformation in racing with AI, quantum

Venture Beast

Williams F1 invests in AI to drive data-led digital transformation in auto racing. Quantum computing will likely join the race down the road. Read More.

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Why UX should guide AI

Venture Beast

Automatize the tedious and boring parts of the experiences you offer, but always leave users in control. Read More.

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California Launches Website to Help Residents Get Digital Vaccine Record, Insists It’s Not a Passport

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A new website in California will give the public a way to access their digital covid-19 vaccine record and share their proof of vaccination. While that may sound awfully close to a vaccine passport, which is a contentious topic in some states , California insists that it’s not. Read more.

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Samsung Exynos + AMD Radeon reveal pushed back to July, leaks show off Mali-beating performance

TechSpot

The plans for a Samsung SoC featuring Radeon graphics been talked about aplenty since the initial reveal in 2019, but it’s back in the limelight after AMD CEO Dr. Lisa Su brought it up during her Computex 2021 keynote.

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Google’s health care data-sharing partnership is a problem

Venture Beast

These kinds of data sharing agreements aren’t innocent. And we need to raise awareness of the real risks they pose. Read More.

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GEP Procurement & Supply Chain Tech Trends Report

The technological landscape is dynamic and changes quickly. And for procurement and supply chain leaders looking to harness the power of technology to navigate complex challenges and an uncertain business environment, keeping up with the latest trends can be its own obstacle. So, what’s on the technological horizon for procurement and supply chain for the year ahead?

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Black Widow Could Be the First of Many Prequel Films According to Kevin Feige

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Fans have been asking for a Black Widow movie since the first Avengers , but it never came. Now that Endgame has come and gone, we finally have a Black Widow solo film. Read more.

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Sea of Thieves: A Pirate’s Life — 5 details you’ll want to know

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This new adventure for Sea of Thieves will give players a chance to adventure with Pirates of Caribbean star Captain Jack Sparrow. Read More.

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Don’t Connect Your iPhone to This Wifi Network

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If you have an iPhone, beware of a strange wifi network with the name “%p%s%s%s%s%n.” This name causes a burdensome bug. Do not connect to this network unless you want your phone’s wifi functionality to break. Read more.

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FCC updates how some emergency alerts will look on phones

The Verge

Image: FEMA. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) said it has combined two categories of text message alerts into one: the “ Presidential Alerts ” and alerts from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). The two will now be in a new “National Alerts” category, active on all devices that receive Wireless Emergency Alerts (WEA). The goal of the alerts is to warn the public of natural disasters and other crisis situations, “and are of ever-increasing importance given the emergencies a

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7 Pitfalls for Apache Cassandra in Production

Apache Cassandra is an open-source distributed database that boasts an architecture that delivers high scalability, near 100% availability, and powerful read-and-write performance required for many data-heavy use cases. However, many developers and administrators who are new to this NoSQL database often encounter several challenges that can impact its performance.

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Facebook Will Clarify Its ‘Satire Exception’ for Moderating Content

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Facebook announced that it would add information to its community standards about its so-called satire exception when moderating content. The change was made in response to a recent decision by its Oversight Board that required it to reinstate a comment with an adaption of the “two buttons” meme commenting on Turkey’s… Read more.

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Google searches for new measure of skin tones to curb bias in products

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Alphabet's Google told Reuters this week it is developing an alternative to the industry standard method for classifying skin tones. Read More.

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The Award for the WORST Anime Dub of All Time Goes to…

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To me, Angel Cop is a classic among vintage Japanese anime. However, anime fans remain divided on it, with some calling it boring and others calling it a staple of 80s Japanese animation. One thing everyone agrees on about Angel Cop is the English dubbed version dialogue is bad. Like real bad. But it’s so damn funny,… Read more.

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New Trailers: LFG, Summer of Soul, Titans, The Morning Show, and more

The Verge

The USWNT won four World Cups but were still being paid less than their male counterparts | Photo by Richard Heathcote/Getty Images. So I completely devoured Hacks (fantastic), watched the season four finale of The Handmaid’s Tale (wow) and episode two of Loki (fun!) and I still feel like there are a lot of shows I’m missing? But, I have to sleep sometime.

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20 Common Mistakes Made by Inexperienced Project Managers

You’ve read the PMBOK® Guide several times, taken the certification exam for project managers, passed, and you are now a PMP®. So why do you keep making rookie mistakes? This whitepaper shows 20 of the most common mistakes that young or inexperienced project managers make, issues that can cost significant time and money. It's a good starting point for understanding how and why many PMs get themsleves into trouble, and provides guidance on the types of issues that PMs need to understand.

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Suicide Squad's King Shark Was a Pain in the Ass for James Gunn

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James Gunn knows how to make VFX look realistic. His work on Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy with creating Rocket Raccoon and Groot has made the characters a staple of the MCU. Read more.

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Evaluate the utility company’s AI maturity curve to determine next steps

Venture Beast

Utilities acknowledge the transformational power of data, but where they are on the AI maturity curve determines how effectively they use it. Read More.

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Ms. Marvel Comic Miniseries to Hit Shelves This September

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Kamala Khan , aka Ms. Marvel, is the hero we need right now! It’s exciting to see her a part of the MCU with the new Disney+ show , but don’t forget the comics because a new series of books is upon us. Read more.

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Week in Review: Most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of June 13, 2021

GeekWire

Get caught up on the latest technology and startup news from the past week. Here are the most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of June 13, 2021. Sign up to receive these updates every Sunday in your inbox by subscribing to our GeekWire Weekly email newsletter. Most popular stories on GeekWire. Curiosity brings out the crowds at opening of Amazon’s first full-size cashierless grocery store.

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How to Migrate From DataStax Enterprise to Instaclustr Managed Apache Cassandra

If you’re considering migrating from DataStax Enterprise (DSE) to open source Apache Cassandra®, our comprehensive guide is tailored for architects, engineers, and IT directors. Whether you’re motivated by cost savings, avoiding vendor lock-in, or embracing the vibrant open-source community, Apache Cassandra offers robust value. Transition seamlessly to Instaclustr Managed Cassandra with our expert insights, ensuring zero downtime during migration.

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The Motorola Moto G Stylus 5G is a good phone with a too-short shelf life

The Verge

For $399, it doesn’t do enough to stand apart from the less expensive 4G-only version The Motorola Moto G Stylus 5G, as you may have pieced together, is a phone with a built-in stylus and 5G. It’s a slightly upgraded version of the 4G-only, 2021-edition Moto G Stylus (I’m sorry, that’s really how these phones are named). The Stylus 5G includes a few more hardware upgrades in addition to 5G connectivity, including a bigger battery, more storage and RAM (256GB and 6GB on the version I tested, resp

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