Vox

APRIL 18, 2021

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg testifies remotely at a congressional hearing in July 2020. | Mandel Ngan/Getty Images. Announcements are coming on Monday, but some products won’t show up for a while. Facebook wants you to start talking, and listening, on Facebook. Sources say the social network is planning to announce a series of products — some of which won’t appear for some time — under the umbrella of “social audio” on Monday.

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GeekWire

APRIL 18, 2021

Students participate in SWE Hacks at the University of Washington, spending 24 hours collaborating, coding and designing an innovative project in competition with other teams. (Photos courtesy of Society of Women Engineers at UW). A hackathon hosted by the Society of Women Engineers at the University of Washington later this month wants to play a role in helping close the gender gap both in education and the tech industry.

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The Verge

APRIL 18, 2021

KPRC2 Houston. Authorities in Texas say two people were killed when a Tesla with no one in the driver’s seat crashed into a tree and burst into flames, Houston television station KPRC 2 reported. The cause of the crash, which happened at about 9PM local time in Spring, Texas (near Houston), is under investigation. According to KHOU in Houston, first responders had to use 30,000 gallons of water over four hours to put out the fire, as the Tesla’s battery kept reigniting.

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Venture Beast

APRIL 18, 2021

Cambridge Quantum Computing's new hire signals it may be looking at ways quantum computing could be used for natural language processing. Read More.

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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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Gizmodo

APRIL 18, 2021

Two men died after the Tesla they were riding in, which local authorities believe had no one in the driver’s seat, crashed into a tree and burst into flames in the north of Houston on Saturday. Read more.

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Venture Beast

APRIL 18, 2021

Consumers have loaded up on paid subscriptions during the pandemic, but they're frustrated with fragmentation in services offered. Read More.

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TechSpot

APRIL 18, 2021

Today we're testing the newly supported Resizable BAR feature on Nvidia GeForce GPUs by benchmarking an Asus ROG Strix RTX 3080 OC graphics card. How does it compare to AMD's SAM implementation?

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The Verge

APRIL 18, 2021

Photo by Roger Ressmeyer/Corbis/VCG via Getty Images. Charles “Chuck” Geschke, a co-founder of Adobe who helped develop the PDF, has died at age 81, the company said in a statement. “This is a huge loss for the entire Adobe community and the technology industry, for whom he has been a guide and hero for decades,” Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen said in an email to Adobe employees. ”As co-founders of Adobe, Chuck and John Warnock developed groundbreaking software that has revolutionized how people cre

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Venture Beast

APRIL 18, 2021

Playable Worlds is building a cloud-native massively multiplayer online game with venture capital funding. Read More.

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The Verge

APRIL 18, 2021

Here come the zombies in Army of the Dead | Netflix. I finished This is a Robbery , and I won’t spoil the ending but if you’re thinking there will be a huge reveal at the end, well, you might be disappointed. What I found interesting throughout the four-part series was how the storyline relied on the voices of newspaper reporters who have covered the heist —and its aftermath —over the years.

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Gizmodo

APRIL 18, 2021

Domino’s, the eager company that’s always looking for new ways to get you its pizza, is at it again. To ensure that you are not without its pizza, the company has dispatched a delivery robot at one of its stores that it says will take the pizza right to customers. Read more.

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Venture Beast

APRIL 18, 2021

GameRefinery analyzed the top 200 grossing iOS games in the U.S. and China to learn the best ways to monetize on mobile. Read More.

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Gizmodo

APRIL 18, 2021

After cryptocurrency prices soared this week amid hype leading up to Coinbase’s direct listing , the market took a nosedive over the weekend. Bitcoin prices tanked by roughly 14% in 24 hours, from $61,530 to $52,829, the token’s biggest one-day drop since February, before rebounding slightly, according to the… Read more.

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The Verge

APRIL 18, 2021

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge. Federal officials are investigating a security breach at software auditing company Codecov, which apparently went undetected for months, Reuters reported. Codecov’s platform is used to test software code for vulnerabilities, and its 29,000 clients include Atlassian, Proctor & Gamble, GoDaddy, and the Washington Post.

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Gizmodo

APRIL 18, 2021

Charles “Chuck” Geschke, a co-founder of the leading software company Adobe who invented PDFs, died Friday at age 81, the company said in a statement. Read more.

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APRIL 18, 2021

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Kitaboo

APRIL 18, 2021

eBooks have come as a boon to authors, publishers, and readers. Revenues from eBook sales show strong promise and keep growing all over the world. . eBook sales increased by 7.3% in the first five months of 2020 in the US. The industry generated more than $435 million in a few months as people stayed inside their homes. The growth is still strong, and more publishers are looking to create eBook stores.

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GeekWire

APRIL 18, 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 April 11, 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. Washington state governor expected to sign new bill ending prohibition on municipal broadband.

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Nutanix

APRIL 18, 2021

Nutanix® Calm is an application orchestration solution that our customers use to deliver infrastructure and applications to their end business units.

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The Verge

APRIL 18, 2021

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge. Facebook, Twitter, and Snap are among the companies that will assist with the Biden administration's promotional campaign for vaccine eligibility, Axios reported. The White House had set a date of May 1st for states to open coronavirus vaccine eligibility to all adults, but later pushed it to April 19th. The White House is hoping to reach populations who may have higher rates of vaccine hesitancy with the effort.

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