GeekWire

OCTOBER 24, 2020

Apollo 17’s lunar rover sits at its resting place at the Taurus-Littrow landing site in 1972. (NASA Photo). Three spots on the moon are now official Washington state historic landmarks, thanks to a unanimous vote by a state commission. The thumbs-up, delivered on Friday during a virtual public hearing organized by the Washington State Advisory Council on Historic Preservation, provided state landmark status to the rovers that Boeing built during the 1960s at its facilities in Kent, Wash.,

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The Verge

OCTOBER 24, 2020

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge. Epic Games fired back against Apple yet again in a new court filing , saying the iPhone maker “has no rights to the fruits of Epic’s labor,” the latest salvo in the ongoing battle between the two companies. A quick recap: Back in August, Epic introduced a new direct-payment system in its wildly popular Fortnite game to bypass Apple’s 30 percent fee.

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TechSpot

OCTOBER 24, 2020

The information comes from analyst firm SlashData's latest developer survey. JavaScript came in first-place once again, and boasts an ever-increasing 12.4 million active software developers—a gain of some 5 million since mid-2017. Python was found to have 9 million active developers and came in second-place, but the researchers also highlighted.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 24, 2020

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge. In its latest teardown video, iFixit took apart an iPhone 12 and iPhone 12 Pro, and found that the devices look pretty similar to each other on the inside. The displays are interchangeable, iFixit found, and so are the 10.78 Wh batteries. iFixit. The iPhone 12 is on the left, the iPhone 12 Pro is on the right. When they removed the camera shield on the iPhone 12, iFixit found a plastic spacer where the iPhone 12 Pro has its telephoto lens and LiDAR sensor.

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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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GeekWire

OCTOBER 24, 2020

Remote back-to-school in September includes an iPad and a kitten. (GeekWire Photo / Lisa Stiffler). Seattle Public Schools will continue remote education through the first semester until Jan. 28. The district said its decision was based on increasing COVID-19 cases in King County , which have sharply risen over the past month amid record-breaking case counts nationwide.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 24, 2020

Kerry Brown / Netflix. In 1939, Alfred Hitchcock came to Hollywood. The English master of suspense would ply his trade in sunny California, and Rebecca , his first American film, would win him his first and only Oscar. Despite the acclaim, Hitchcock hated Rebecca , as it was his first encounter with American censors and their stodgy Production Code, which made it nearly impossible to accurately adapt the Daphne du Maurier book on which it was based.

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Venture Beast

OCTOBER 24, 2020

Researchers developed an environment to test embodied AI agents on their ability to understand goals and help accomplish them. Read More.

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TechSpot

OCTOBER 24, 2020

Almost immediately after Microsoft unveiled the Xbox Series X, the refrigerator memes started rolling in. Although it was surely unintentional, the XBSX really does resemble a tiny refrigerator, and Microsoft took the kidding about it in stride, even posting a meme of its own to Twitter.

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Venture Beast

OCTOBER 24, 2020

Keith Lee, CEO of Counterplay Games, described the journey from small indie game company to making a PlayStation 5 launch title, Godfall. Read More.

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OCTOBER 24, 2020

Javier Zarracina/Vox. Why this computer scientist thinks reality might be a video game. Are we living in a computer simulation? The question seems absurd. Yet there are plenty of smart people who are convinced that this is not only possible but perhaps likely. In an influential paper that laid out the theory, the Oxford philosopher Nick Bostrom showed that at least one of three possibilities is true: 1) All human-like civilizations in the universe go extinct before they develop the technological

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OCTOBER 24, 2020

The DoJ filed an antitrust lawsuit against Google this past week. But it won't be an easy fight for DoJ attorneys. Read More.

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Gizmodo

OCTOBER 24, 2020

Just because a children’s app looks innocuous doesn’t mean it’s not doing some shady stuff in the background. Google has reportedly taken action against three children’s apps in the Play Store—Princess Salon, Number Coloring and Cats & Cosplay—for allegedly violating its data collection policies, according to a report… Read more.

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 24, 2020

Peter Kern has been the CEO of Expedia Group since April. (Expedia Photo). “The day there’s a vaccine announced, that people really believe in, will be our highest booking day in history.”. That was Peter Kern, the CEO of Expedia Group, the Seattle-based online travel giant, speaking this week at the GeekWire Summit. On this episode of the GeekWire Podcast, we’re featuring highlights from our conversation with Kern about the future of travel and big cities, and his thoughts on virtual trav

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OCTOBER 24, 2020

The Meg , an action vehicle for both Jason Statham and prehistoric sharks , is getting a sequel. But someone else will be stepping up to the director’s chair. Read more.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 24, 2020

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge. The Italian Data Protection Authority has started an investigation into the widespread use of bots that generate fake nude images on messaging app Telegram. The news follows an investigation by security firm Sensity , which found that as of July 2020 more than 100,000 faked images had been generated and shared in public Telegram channels.

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OCTOBER 24, 2020

Drops made a game out of learning a language, and it's paying off. The company said it has hit 25 million users. Read More.

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Gizmodo

OCTOBER 24, 2020

Riker’s appearance. as Jean-Luc’s faithful friend and former subordinate was a highlight of the first season of Picard. Dude just has great vibes. There’s a reason, after all, that he’s such a popular character, beyond his chronic inability to sit in chairs correctly. So it’s only fitting that the newest novel in the … Read more.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 24, 2020

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge. Food delivery platform DoorDash has partnered with a restaurant for the first time to build a new brick-and-mortar store, the San Francisco Chronicle reported. Burma Bites, a spin off of Oakland, California-based Burma Superstar, was designed for delivery and takeout, and will offer versions of menu items from the parent restaurant as well as new items in environmentally-friendly to-go containers, DoorDash said.

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OCTOBER 24, 2020

Facebook’s trying to muzzle a group of academic researchers working to shine a light on the company’s notoriously opaque political-ad targeting practices. It’s threatened the team with “enforcement action” if they don’t pull the plug on the project and wipe all data gathered so far, according to a Wall Street Journal… Read more.

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OCTOBER 24, 2020

GamesBeat Decides episode 169 is here and so is the PlayStation 5. and some other stuff. Please skip that part of the podcast. Read More.

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Gizmodo

OCTOBER 24, 2020

Although your first instinct when you see these photos might be, “Oh god,” we promise that it’s not an upcoming extreme weather event or some alien species coming to invade Earth. (Given that it’s 2020, you’re forgiven for thinking anything that’s not obviously good is probably horrific.) In fact, these are actually… Read more.

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OCTOBER 24, 2020

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge. Welcome to the weekend. In tech deals world, this week consisted mostly of a few notable Prime Day 2020 leftovers that hung around after Amazon’s big shopping event. Even those are mostly done now, but in their place are some fresh, new deals you might not have seen before — that is, unless you’ve been deal-hunting on The Verge earlier this week.

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“Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI” is an extensive guide for integrating generative AI into product strategy and careers featuring over 150 real-world examples, 30 case studies, and 20+ frameworks, and endorsed by over 20 leading AI and product executives, inventors, entrepreneurs, and researchers.

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Gizmodo

OCTOBER 24, 2020

State and federal investigators are planning to slap Facebook with antitrust charges as soon as November, four people familiar with the matter told the Washington Post. Such a lawsuit would mark the government’s latest crackdown on the biggest names in the tech industry, including Apple, Google, and Amazon, for … Read more.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 24, 2020

Samsung. Samsung would like you to believe its new 85-inch Interactive Display can bridge the gap between students in the classroom and students studying at home, now that blended-learning is the new normal across the country. In reality, it’s just a slightly bigger digital whiteboard — but assuming it doesn’t cost too much, the tweaked vision does sound intriguing.

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TechSpot

OCTOBER 24, 2020

After a 20 year hiatus, Intel is returning to the discrete graphics card market. They've divided their GPUs, collectively marketed as Xe, into four categories: low-power (LP), high-performance gaming (HPG), high-performance (HP), and high-performance compute (HPC).

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OCTOBER 24, 2020

The latest jaw-dropping Half-Life: Alyx mod brings the iconic world of BioShock’s Rapture to VR for the first time. Read More.

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 24, 2020

Angela Jones and her youngest son Don picking pumpkins in October 2020. (Photo courtesy of Angela Jones). In the often dark, disorienting days of COVID-19, Angela Jones finds a twinkle of hope in her plastic, Costco-bought Christmas tree. As the pandemic took root last winter, she left the holiday vestige standing with its lights intact, minus the ornaments.

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Gizmodo

OCTOBER 24, 2020

Recently I was going through what should have been a rather straightforward announcement from Sony detailing which streaming services the PS5 will support at launch. And while things ended up being a bit messier than need be, the image of the PS5's Media Remote at the top of the press release has been stuck in my… Read more.

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 24, 2020

Dental floss is used to tie a small radio tracker to an Asian giant hornet near Blaine, Wash. (WSDA Photo). A researcher from the University of Washington, using tiny technology, has been playing a big role in helping state entomologists tackle a giant problem. Giant hornets, in fact. The Washington Department of Agriculture finally located a nest of Asian giant hornets — or “murder hornets” — near Blaine, Wash., this week and did so by trapping a few of the insects alive and then ta

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Gizmodo

OCTOBER 24, 2020

The Louisiana National Guard stepped in to thwart a series of cyberattacks after several government offices across the state were targeted in recent weeks, according to a Friday Reuters report. Read more.

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Speaker: Nicholas Zeisler, CX Strategist & Fractional CXO

The first step in a successful Customer Experience endeavor (or for that matter, any business proposition) is to find out what’s wrong. If you can’t identify it, you can’t fix it! 💡 That’s where the Voice of the Customer (VoC) comes in. Today, far too many brands do VoC simply because that’s what they think they’re supposed to do; that’s what all their competitors do.