The Verge

JUNE 6, 2021

Tesla CEO Elon Musk tweeted Sunday that the automaker’s Model S Plaid Plus is “canceled,” since the basic Plaid is “just so good.”. Tesla has been teasing its Model S Plaid since 2019, and Musk said late last month that delivery for the vehicle — which will have top speeds of 200 mph and range between 390 and 412 miles— would be pushed to June 10th as it needed “one more week of tweak.”.

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TechSpot

JUNE 6, 2021

The 2.0 revision of the NVMe (non-volatile memory express) standard brings with it new functionality and improved performance as expected, but it also brings support for the humble hard drive.

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Venture Beast

JUNE 6, 2021

The DeepSloth attack technique targets adaptive deep neural networks and is optimized for fast and sensitive operations. Read More.

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The Verge

JUNE 6, 2021

A mockup of what Twitter Super Follows could look like | Twitter. Twitter announced earlier this year it was working on a Super Follows feature that would allow some users to charge followers and give them access to extra content. On Sunday, app researcher Jane Manchun Wong tweeted screenshots of what she says it will look like. According to Wong’s research, which is typically very accurate , the Super Follows program will be limited to Twitter users with at least 10,000 followers, who have post

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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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Venture Beast

JUNE 6, 2021

Autodesk is aggressively moving beyond engineering workstation software, taking its digital twins to the building industry. Read More.

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Gizmodo

JUNE 6, 2021

Top officials in Turkey have vowed to defeat a plague of “sea snot” that has coated a shoreline near Istanbul in a slimy film of beige sludge that reeks. Read more.

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The Verge

JUNE 6, 2021

Apple needs a distraction, and it needs one fast. On Monday, the company will hold its annual Worldwide Developers Conference ( WWDC 2021 ) during one of the most fraught moments for developer relations in Apple history. While Apple emerged from the Epic v. Apple trial in a seemingly strong legal position , its reputation took a body blow. Evidence revealed the company doesn’t “treat every developer the same” — it cut special deals with big companies like Amazon and Hulu and made arbitrary , cut

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Venture Beast

JUNE 6, 2021

Twitch is celebrating its 10th anniversary, and one of the people who has been there most of time is Marcus "djWHEAT" Graham. Read More.

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Gizmodo

JUNE 6, 2021

El Salvador may soon become the first sovereign nation in the world to adopt bitcoin as a legal tender, Salvadorian President Nayib Bukele announced Saturday. Read more.

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Venture Beast

JUNE 6, 2021

Veri has raised $4 million from ProFounders to create a sensor that monitors your blood sugar for preventative health. Read More.

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Gizmodo

JUNE 6, 2021

It appears that not just anyone will be able to make bank for the time they spend on Twitter. If you’re looking to get people to pay you for your “exclusive” Twitter content and become your Super Followers, you might have to meet a certain set of criteria and fill out an application. Read more.

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Venture Beast

JUNE 6, 2021

The European Union and Great Britain launched formal antitrust investigations over how Facebook Marketplace shared user data. Read More.

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TechSpot

JUNE 6, 2021

When is a GPU not that same GPU? When it's in a laptop!

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GeekWire

JUNE 6, 2021

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 May 30, 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. Q&A: Facebook’s new chief in Seattle on 23 years at Microsoft and the future of engineering centers.

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Gizmodo

JUNE 6, 2021

A Quiet Place is becoming a cinematic universe as Paramount Pictures gave the greenlight to a spin-off film set in the same universe. Read more.

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The Verge

JUNE 6, 2021

Fossil. Fossil executives Greg McKelvey and Steve Prokup said in an interview with CNET that the company’s existing Wear OS watches won’t get upgraded to the new combined Wear software platform from Samsung and Google. Instead, Fossil is planning a premium watch that Prokup said would have “pretty major hardware upgrades,” and existing watches will probably be discounted as budget options.

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Gizmodo

JUNE 6, 2021

The MCU is no stranger to time travel. It’s woven within the fabric of many of its stories, with Avengers: Endgame using it to change the course of Marvel. Read more.

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Venture Beast

JUNE 6, 2021

Maximum Games CEO Christina Seelye shares what she's learned about dealing with retail and digital sales and managing people in a pandemic. Read More.

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Gizmodo

JUNE 6, 2021

One day after it banned Twitter, Nigeria announced that authorities would arrest and prosecute users who attempted to use the social network, whose app and website were still available to some in the country on Saturday despite the ban. Read more.

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Gizmodo

JUNE 6, 2021

What do Doctor Strange , Anthony Bourdain, and Indiana Jones have in common? Well, writer Michael Waldron, of course. Read more.

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JUNE 6, 2021

Ryan Murphy’s American Horror is coming back for a 10th season! Read more.

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