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Tesla opens ‘Full Self-Driving’ beta software to more customers

The Verge

Tesla opened its “full self-driving” beta to more owners | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge. Despite the head of the National Transpiration Safety Board expressing serious concerns about its safety last week, Tesla has now enabled access to the beta of its “Full Self-Driving” (FSD) program to more Tesla drivers, via a “request” button on Teslas’ dashboard screens.

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Predictive transactions are the next big tech revolution

Venture Beast

Imagine this: An Amazon truck shows up each week with all the things it predicts you need and an easy way to return anything you don't want. Read More.

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Facebook says Instagram is not ‘toxic for teens,’ despite damning WSJ report

The Verge

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge. Facebook has fired back nearly two weeks after The Wall Street Journal reported that Instagram made body image issues worse for one in three teenage girls according to Facebook’s own data. The salvo comes courtesy of Pratiti Raychoudhury, Vice President, Head of Research at Facebook. Raychoudhury’s post on Facebook’s Newsroom claims that The Wall Street Journal ’s characterization of internal research is “not accurate” and blames it all on a poor interpre

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Digital transformation spending is up to $700B per year, but results lag

Venture Beast

Digital transformation is a complex, daunting endeavor for even technology-forward companies, but Digital Adoption Platforms can help. 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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Apple says it will fix issue with ‘unlock with Apple Watch’ feature on iPhone 13

The Verge

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge. Apple says it has identified an issue where the “unlock with Apple Watch” feature might not work with its new iPhone 13 devices. A new note on its support page describes the problem: You might see “Unable to Communicate with Apple Watch” if you try to unlock your iPhone while wearing a face mask, or you might not be able to set up Unlock with Apple Watch.

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The future of software is usage-based pricing

Venture Beast

Thirty-nine percent of SaaS providers already offer usage-based pricing. Soon it will be the de facto standard. Read More.

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Halo: Infinite multiplayer preview — Solid core gameplay

Venture Beast

Like a great many Halo Insiders, I played the Halo: Infinite public test this weekend and it brought back some good memories. Read More.

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Stop Trying to Unlock Your iPhone 13 With Your Apple Watch. It Won't Work

Gizmodo

If you’re tired trying to unlock your iPhone 13 with your Apple Watch only to fail miserably, don’t worry: You are not alone. Read more.

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Week in Review: Most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of Sept. 19, 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 Sept. 19, 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. Remote work already changing Seattle permanently, tech worker survey indicates.

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Online fraud causes confidence gap between customers and retailers, study finds

Venture Beast

The impact of fraud on retailers' bottom lines is severe; 26% of global retailers said fraud is significantly damaging their profitability. Read More.

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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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Turns Out an Unintentionally Funny Walking Dead Episode Is Also a Good One

Gizmodo

AMC’s The Walking Dead , as a rule, isn’t the sort of series that provides a lot of belly laughs. There might be some chuckles during some of its weirdness or the occasional put-down, but mostly it wants to convey the danger and dread that permeates the world of the show. I assume that was also the case with tonight’s… Read more.

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New Trailers: The Tragedy of Macbeth, Invasion, Spencer, and more

The Verge

Denzel Washington stars in The Tragedy of Macbeth | Apple TV. We’re nearing the season finale of Ted Lasso (only two more new episodes!), and it seems like the show’s got a lot of story threads that need to be knitted together after episode 10. Titled No Weddings and a Funeral , episode 10 was solid, but I didn’t quite love it. I’m trying to write about the episode without spoiling it, let’s just say I didn’t love how the session between Ted and Sharon which we’ve been waiting for all season was

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Disaster Comedy Don't Look Up Feels Way Too Real

Gizmodo

The star-studded new film Don’t Look Up has a wild, completely unbelievable premise. Something totally out of the scope of reality. A plot that would never, ever, in a million years happen. It’s about a world where scientists have proof something terrible is happening.and no one believes them. Pfft. Yeah, like that … Read more.

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Backbone offers 3D-printed solution for iPhone 13 Pro camera bump issue

The Verge

Photo by Cameron Faulkner / The Verge. Backbone Labs has acknowledged the issue that hampers the use of its excellent iPhone gaming controller with the new iPhone 13 Pro and 13 Pro Max. As we noticed last week , the iPhone 13 Pro’s thicker camera bump means the phone doesn’t sit neatly in the Backbone One controller, either sticking out on one side or causing the bridge on the back to slightly buckle.

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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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Netflix drops new Witcher trailers and talks Tiger King 2

TechSpot

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How disparities for women and minorities widened during the pandemic

GeekWire

Stephan Blandford (left) and Celestina Barbosa-Leiker. (Photos via Children’s Alliance and WSU). The pandemic has hastened already-existing economic trends, such as the increase in remote work. But at the same time, it is also exacerbating existing economic disparities. Speakers at a recent meeting hosted by the Washington State Academy of Sciences examined how the pandemic is affecting women and increasing racial and socio-economic inequities in Washington state and elsewhere.

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Airtel reduces customer frustration to near-zero levels with AI-driven automated operations

TM Forum

Who: Airtel and Amdocs. What: Introduced AI-driven automated operations to Airtel’s existing business support systems (BSS) and created a unique Customer Frustration Index to measure experience improvements in real time. How: Designed AIOps (AI for IT operations) framework and advanced automation to increase efficiency and speed, coordinated across multiple vendor systems, while leveraging TM Forum’s AIOps toolkits and Business Process Framework.

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Bitcoin mining company buys Pennsylvania power plant to meet electricity needs

TechSpot

Mining the top cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin or Ethereum requires vast amounts of power. A single Bitcoin transaction, including the resources needed to mine the coin and to verify the transaction, can total upwards of 1,700 kilowatt hours (kWh). This ever-increasing power demand has forced large crypto mining outfits to.

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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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Future Wife is a wedding, a play, and the weirdest thing I’ve done in Google Sheets

The Verge

The pandemic has led to a collection of unusual digital experiences, from Google Forms escape rooms to whole virtual, two-dimensional comedy shows. But the interactive digital play / upstate barn wedding I attended last Friday, Future Wife: Party in a Spreadsheet , takes things to a strange new level. The show, co-created by playwright ruth tang and director Sarah Blush, and put on by a cast of game collaborators and theater company New Georges, manages to be playful, confounding, and surprising

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