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Those fake baseball fans are creeping people out

The Verge

As part of an attempt to make Major League Baseball games in this weird, coronavirus-shortened season seem as close to normal as possible, Fox Sports decided to create virtual fans , digital versions of cheering people who would react to the games broadcast on Fox the way real fans do. | Photo by Joe Sargent/MLB Photos via Getty Images.

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Polestar’s Precept concept becomes Polestar 5 electric sedan

The Verge

The company first revealed the Precept in concept form back in February, with sporty intentions, a software system powered by Google’s Android, and an interior chock-full of sustainable material. For what it’s worth, the Polestar 2 sports a 78kWh battery pack, which enables 291 miles (470 kilometers) of range.

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Vizio files to go public, has sold over 80 million TVs

The Verge

We will continue our successful hardware business, iterating on models as we’ve done before, and at the same time build our name in smart TV software,” Wang said. But the future is more so about software and platforms than it is about selling TVs, where the profit margins are often scant. percent from $36.4 million in 2018 to $147.2

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Smartsheet shares soar 12% with $98.9M in Q3 revenue, up 38%; company reveals new CFO

GeekWire

million for its fiscal third quarter with a non-GAAP net loss of $0.12. based company, which sells collaboration work management software, nearly doubled the amount of customers with annualized contract values of more than $100,000, to a total of 504. based startup that sells digital asset management software.

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Enhancing customer care through deep machine learning at Travelers

CIO Business Intelligence

s a pressing issue not unique to Travelers, but Mannoochahr sees that in order to deliver on those disciplines advancing analytics to foster a healthier business, he and his team recognize the need to cast a wider net. This is kind of a team sport for us, so itâ??s And I would say this is kind of a team sport for us, so itâ??s

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Amazon-backed EV company Rivian hiring for more than 40 engineering roles in Seattle region

GeekWire

based Rivian has at least 40 jobs posted for the area, with titles such as Cybersecurity Threat Detection Engineer, Software Engineering Manager (Charging), and UX Producer, Enterprise & Fleet. Launch and delivery of the R1S sport utility vehicle will begin in December, the company said. Irvine, Calif.-based

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Law firm is strictly watching the Houser LLP data breach

Dataconomy

We also implemented multi-factor authentication for Outlook 365, Net Extender VPN tunnel and remote desktop connection,” Houser said. “We We also added ransomware detection software, implemented the use of phishing simulation software and conducted vulnerability assessment and penetration testing.”

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