Tech Republic Security
FEBRUARY 7, 2021
Data loss is the number one result of a fruitful phishing campaign, but account compromises and ransomware attacks can threaten your organization as well, says Proofpoint.
Tech Republic Cloud
FEBRUARY 7, 2021
Dr. Ashwini Zenooz, MD, GM & chief medical officer as Salesforce, joins TechRepublic's Bill Detwiler talk about the company's new vaccine cloud technology, and how Salesforce is helping to vaccinate more than two billion people around the world by the end of 2021.
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GeekWire
FEBRUARY 7, 2021
Tanium CEO Orion Hindawi recently moved the company’s headquarters to Kirkland. (Tanium Photo). Tanium co-founder and CEO Orion Hindawi may not be as well known as Jeff Bezos, Steve Ballmer, Bill Gates or other Seattle area billionaires. After all, it was just a few months ago that Hindawi and his family left the San Francisco Bay Area for Seattle’s Laurelhurst neighborhood, bringing his $9 billion cybersecurity company to the region along with him.
The Verge
FEBRUARY 7, 2021
You could have been forgiven for missing Reddit’s Super Bowl ad tonight — it was only five seconds long. The ad mostly consisted of a text message that would’ve been pretty difficult to read in the moment, claiming that the company spent its “entire marketing budget on five seconds of airtime.”. “One thing we learned from our communities last week is that underdogs can accomplish anything when they come together around a common idea,” Reddit says by way of explanation, in a clear nod to the Game
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TechSpot
FEBRUARY 7, 2021
The price of Ethereum increased fourfold in 2020, and after a sudden acceleration in January it exceeded its previous all-time high from late 2017. The rise has helped the cryptocurrency mining industry experience an unfortunate renaissance that could lead to a repeat of the 2017 disaster.
The Verge
FEBRUARY 7, 2021
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge. Police in Minneapolis got a search warrant that ordered Google to provide account data on people who were near a protest that turned violent two days after the killing of George Floyd last year, TechCrunch reported. The search warrant required Google to provide account data for anyone “within the geographical region” of an AutoZone store on May 27th, 2020, to police, according to TechCrunch.
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Venture Beast
FEBRUARY 7, 2021
Autonomous vehicle startup Pony.ai has raised $100 million more, bringing its total raised to over $1 billion at a $5.3 billion valuation. Read More.
Gizmodo
FEBRUARY 7, 2021
Minneapolis law enforcement used Google location data to help track down suspects accused of inciting violence during protests of the police killing of George Floyd last May, according to a weekend TechCrunch report. Read more.
The Verge
FEBRUARY 7, 2021
Super Bowl 2021 — the 55th Super Bowl — is happening today. The championship game pits the Kansas City Chiefs, the defending Super Bowl champs, against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Eric Church and Jazmine Sullivan will sing the national anthem, while The Weeknd will perform in the halftime show. If you are planning to watch the football game, you have a few options, and many of them are free.
Gizmodo
FEBRUARY 7, 2021
I don’t know from sports, but I know my supes, and as far as I’m concerned, the Super Bowl was between the New York City Falcons and the Brooklyn Bucky-neers. They both won and so did we. Read more.
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.
The Verge
FEBRUARY 7, 2021
Marvel/Disney Plus. We had an inkling that there might be big movie news during the Super Bowl and there was: Marvel released a new trailer for The Falcon and The Winter Soldier , a six-episode series that debuts on Disney Plus March 19th. The show takes place after the events of Avengers: Endgame. Steve Rogers has retired from as Captain America, in an attempt to live a simple life in an alternate reality with his love, Peggy Carter.
Venture Beast
FEBRUARY 7, 2021
Jackbox Games CEO Mike Bilder talks about the studio's huge year and how it used that success to give back to people in need. Read More.
The Verge
FEBRUARY 7, 2021
CBS All Access app appeared to be having problems as users tried to watch Super Bowl LV on Sunday. Users reported seeing an error message that read the app was “experiencing technical difficulties” and that “an error has occurred.”. Down Detector showed a spike in complaints for CBS All Access at around 6PM ET Sunday. Numerous users were complaining on Twitter that they could not see the game at all.
Gizmodo
FEBRUARY 7, 2021
Nearly 1,200 baby Cape cormorants are currently being nursed and cared for by a rescue center in Cape Town, South Africa after being abandoned by their parents on Robben Island last month. The seabirds are considered an endangered species, and were found starving on the island. Read more.
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The Verge
FEBRUARY 7, 2021
Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge. After weeks of speculation, Hyundai and subsidiary Kia have again sought to downplay rumors and reporting that they are working with Apple on an autonomous electric car project. The companies say they are no longer in talks, according to Reuters and Bloomberg , though that doesn’t mean the discussions won’t reopen later.
GeekWire
FEBRUARY 7, 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 Jan. 31, 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. Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos to step down this year, replaced by AWS chief Andy Jassy in stunning turn for tech giant.
Gizmodo
FEBRUARY 7, 2021
China released new anti-monopoly protocols on Sunday aimed at cracking down on the country’s tech giants, Reuters reports. The guidelines, which finalize drafted legislation originally released in November, are intended to “stop monopolistic behaviours in the platform economy and protect fair competition in the… Read more.
The Verge
FEBRUARY 7, 2021
Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge. Every DualSense controller has 40,000 tiny PlayStation symbols When my colleague Andrew Webster reviewed the PlayStation 5, he explained how Sony’s next-generation of video games is something you can’t see — you have to touch. Part of that is how the amazing DualSense controller’s clever motorized triggers and intensely precise vibrations can recreate the crunching sensation of strutting across a sandy beach or the pitter-patter of rain.
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Gizmodo
FEBRUARY 7, 2021
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GeekWire
FEBRUARY 7, 2021
Zillow Group didn’t have a Super Bowl ad, yet it may have come away from the weekend with the biggest marketing bump thanks to Saturday Night Live. The Seattle real estate giant was the subject of a hilarious SNL sketch that poked fun at how home-browsing on Zillow is a replacement for sex, particularly for people in their late 30s. “The pleasure you once got from sex now comes from looking at other people’s houses,” was one of several LOL-worthy lines.
Gizmodo
FEBRUARY 7, 2021
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FEBRUARY 7, 2021
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