Sat.Jan 23, 2021

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Radio and TV host Larry King dies at 87

The Verge

Photo by: Peter Kramer/NBC/NBC Newswire/NBCUniversal via Getty Images. Longtime TV and radio host Larry King died Saturday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. He was 87. Ora Media, which King co-founded in 2012, confirmed the news in a tweet to the @KingsThings Twitter account. A cause of death was not immediately available Saturday, but he had reportedly been hospitalized recently with COVID-19.

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Gates Foundation gives millions to help persuade ultra-wealthy donors to give more of their billions

GeekWire

Bill and Melinda Gates at the University of Washington in 2017. (GeekWire Photo / Kevin Lisota). In a time of global pandemic, economic crisis and rising unemployment, the Gates Foundation’s most surprising philanthropic target is a group often overlooked by donors: billionaires themselves. In October 2020, The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation gave $5 million to the TED Foundation’s Audacious Project to “research and overcome barriers to large scale giving by ultra-high net worth donors.”.

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Cashierless tech could detect shoplifting, but bias concerns abound

Venture Beast

As cashierless technology becomes normal, it could be used problematically for purposes beyond payment, particularly shoplifting detection. Read More.

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Italian watchdog tells TikTok to block users whose ages can’t be verified

The Verge

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge. Italy’s data privacy authority has ordered video sharing app TikTok to temporarily block the accounts of any users whose ages can’t be confirmed, Reuters reported. The order comes after the death of a 10-year-old girl in Palermo, whose parents told authorities their daughter was participating in a “blackout challenge” she saw on the app.

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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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PlayStation starts 2021 as king of TV ad impressions

Venture Beast

GUEST: PlayStation has continued its domination of gaming industry TV advertising into the new year, racking up over 425.7 million ad impressions from mid-December to mid-January — 44% of the industry’s total. Overall, 16 brands aired 51 spots more than 4,000 times during our measurement window, resulting in 962.7 million TV ad impressions. O… Read More.

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Facebook says ‘configuration change’ caused some users to be logged out unexpectedly

The Verge

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge. Facebook says some users were logged out of their accounts unexpectedly Friday due to a “configuration change,” and the issue has been fixed as of Saturday morning. “On January 22, a configuration change caused some people to be logged out of their Facebook accounts. We investigated the issue and fixed it for everyone earlier today.

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Vicarious Visions, developer of Tony Hawk 1+2, has joined Blizzard Entertainment

TechSpot

Vicarious Visions has been collaborating with Blizzard—the developer behind the World of Warcraft, Diablo, and Overwatch game series—for some time, and according to a statement shared with GamesIndustry, the two companies have formed "a great relationship.

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Microsoft Admits It Messed Up and Axes Xbox Live Gold Price Hike

Gizmodo

On Friday , Microsoft announced that it was going to raise prices for Xbox Live Gold during a pandemic, a statement that rightfully ignited anger among Xbox fans. Just a few hours later, Microsoft furiously backtracked and said it had “messed up.” No price hikes would be coming at this time, the company said. It… Read more.

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Cyberpunk 2077's first major patch launches on all platforms

TechSpot

Cyberpunk Patch 1.1 comes shortly after CD Projekt Red offered a public apology and published a development roadmap for the game. While the anticipated title received positive reviews on PC, the experience of playing Cyberpunk 2077 on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One was less successful: bugs, quirks, and stability issues.

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Astronomers Have Spotted a Weirdo 'Jupiter' With a Four-Day Year

Gizmodo

Nearly 600 light-years from Earth, the exoplanet known as WASP-62b whips around its host star at a breakneck pace. The planet is a hot Jupiter, and despite its gassy constitution, its atmosphere is completely cloudless, according to a study published this month in the Astrophysical Journal Letters. 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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3 tech trends that COVID-19 will accelerate in 2021

Venture Beast

These trends, driven by COVID, will have a long-lasting impact on our future. Read More.

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Super Bowl 2021 won’t stream in 4K, but these TV deals are still worth it

The Verge

Image: Vizio. In news that’s likely to be devastating to people who are looking for any and all reasons to upgrade their TV, CBS announced that Super Bowl LV won’t be broadcast in 4K HDR. The decision was made because of complications caused by the pandemic. This likely isn’t going over too well with all of the TV manufacturers that use the Super Bowl as the moment to clear out 2020 models at a big discount.

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School Gives Malware Infected Laptops to Students

SecureWorld News

The U.K. government recently sent out roughly 800,000 laptops to disadvantaged students who may not have access to one at home. This is part of its plan to distribute one million laptops in an effort to make remote learning easy and accessible for all. Unfortunately, a number of the laptops sent out were discovered to have malware. English students' laptops infected with malware.

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Stay Cozy With up To 28% off a Turbro Electric Fireplace

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TURBRO Suburbs TS17 Compact Electric Fireplace | $72 | Amazon Gold Box TURBRO Suburbs TS25 Electric Fireplace Heater | $144 | Amazon Gold Box 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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What's the keyboard shortcut to directly open the Windows Task Manager?

TechSpot

If you don't know it, it's about time you learn it.

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Saturday's Best Deals: Razer Accessories, Dyson Hot + Cool Air Purifier, Indoor Electric Fireplace, Yosuda Stationary Bike, Identity Guard Rolling Stamps, and More

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Jump to: Tech | Gaming | Home | Lifestyle | Media Read more.

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Parkinson’s meds are hard to grab, so TikTok users crowdsourced a solution

The Verge

Brian Alldridge’s pill bottle design. | Image: Brian Alldridge. Stitching together a pill bottle prototype Jimmy Choi’s TikTok page is filled with the typical videos of a high-level athlete: clips of himself doing one-armed pushups, climbing ropes, holding planks with weights on his back. If you look closely, though, you’ll notice that even before he begins his feats of strength and endurance, his hands are shaking.

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Microsoft’s Erik Arnold merges passion for tech and philanthropy to help nonprofits gain digital success

GeekWire

(Photo courtesy of Erik Arnold). Erik Arnold likes to joke that for the entire time that he’s been in Seattle, Bill Gates has been responsible for his salary in one way or another. Arnold spent time at the Gates-owned Corbis, at PATH, which has a close partnership with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and now Microsoft, where Arnold is CTO of the company’s nonprofit-focused Tech for Social Impact. “There is no denying that he and Melinda have inspired many in the Seattle

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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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Technician admits to accessing security cameras to watch customers having sex

TechSpot

The technician—35-year-old Telesforo Aviles—worked for home and small office security company ADT in the Dallas, TX area. While pleading guilty to one count of computer fraud and one count of invasive visual recording, Aviles admitted on Thursday to accessing the cameras of over 200 customers on almost 10,000 different occasions.

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What the Biden administration means for tech, from the future of work to regulatory crackdowns

GeekWire

President Joe Biden in the Oval Office this week. (Via Twitter, @POTUS ). As Joe Biden settles into the Oval Office, tech companies in the Seattle region and elsewhere are watching with a sense of optimism to see what the new administration will mean for them and the industry. From the pandemic response to jobs to the climate, there’s no shortage of critical issues for the new administration to address.