TechSpot
AUGUST 21, 2021
Graphics cards are still quite difficult to purchase at reasonable prices in most regions, but the month of August in particular has seen a number of developments that are worth talking about.
GeekWire
AUGUST 21, 2021
Microsoft Photo. An upcoming price increase for Microsoft 365 business software subscriptions, announced this week , promises to boost its business by as much as $5 billion annually, one analyst predicts. Microsoft plans to boost the price for its business software subscriptions, including its core Office 365 suite, starting on March 1, 2022. The company calls it “the first substantive pricing update” since it launched Office 365 back in 2011, shifting from traditional licenses to su
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The Verge
AUGUST 21, 2021
Samsung now lets you store your vaccine card in Samsung Pay | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge. Samsung devices that support Samsung Pay can now store digital versions of users’ COVID-19 vaccination cards, through a partnership with healthcare nonprofit The Commons Project, the smartphone company announced. Users have to first download the free CommonHealth app from the Google Play store, and follow the instructions to access their COVID-19 vaccine record, from participating pharmacies, h
GeekWire
AUGUST 21, 2021
GeekWire’s hybrid recording setup at our office in Seattle. (GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop). The last 18 months have been an audio-visual adventure, requiring many of us to improve and refine our at-home tech setups for virtual meetings and remote work. And just when we thought we’d figured it out, we were hit with an entirely new scenario: hybrid work, with some people together in the office, and others dialing in from home.
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Many organizations today are unlocking the power of their data by using graph databases to feed downstream analytics, enahance visualizations, and more. Yet, when different graph nodes represent the same entity, graphs get messy. Watch this essential video with Senzing CEO Jeff Jonas on how adding entity resolution to a graph database condenses network graphs to improve analytics and save your analysts time.
Gizmodo
AUGUST 21, 2021
As safe as you might feel sitting at your laptop, happily typing and posting and scrolling, we all know the truth: the internet is actually a giant hellscape full of spies, criminals, ransomware, and all kinds of other dangerous s**t. Read more.
The Verge
AUGUST 21, 2021
Drivers held a protest against Prop 22 in October. The measure passed in November, however. | Photo by FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP via Getty Images. California’s gig workers law, which allows companies like Uber and Lyft to treat workers as independent contractors— not employees— has been ruled unconstitutional and unenforceable by a judge. Voters approved the law as ballot initiative Proposition 22 in November, with companies like Uber, Lyft and DoorDash spending more than $200 million to campaign fo
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Venture Beast
AUGUST 21, 2021
Jensen Huang believes the physical world can be simulated in a metaverse, and the two can be connected as one. Read More.
TechSpot
AUGUST 21, 2021
Apple Arcade’s exclusive, Tetris Beat, is breathing new life into one of gaming’s most popular and successful puzzlers. The game offers a rhythm-based Tetris experience to new players as well as a classic Tetris mode for long-time Tetris enthusiasts. The game features 18 songs created exclusively for Tetris Beat’s new.
Venture Beast
AUGUST 21, 2021
Michael Voegele, a PMI executive, explained how his team is introducing cloud and data technologies to improve decision-making processes. Read More.
TechSpot
AUGUST 21, 2021
TechPowerUp's sources familiar with the ransomware attack on Gigabyte provided them with a block diagram of the AM5 socket, showing its connections to other components. AM5 is the socket used for AMD's upcoming Zen4 Ryzen 6000 CPUs, reportedly codenamed Raphael. The diagram shows many PCIe 4.0 connections, but none of which are 5.0.
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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.
The Verge
AUGUST 21, 2021
Clubhouse has removed some info from users in Afghanistan as a safety measure | Clubhouse. Social audio app Clubhouse has joined other social platforms in taking steps to protect the privacy and safety of its users in Afghanistan. Earlier this week, the platform reset tens of thousands of its Afghan users’ bios and photos, and made their accounts more difficult to discover in search.
Venture Beast
AUGUST 21, 2021
SailPoint adds no-code tool to make it easier for IT teams to manage workflows based on employee identities. Read More.
Gizmodo
AUGUST 21, 2021
WandaVision actress Elizabeth Olsen didn’t quite know what to make of the series pitch. In a post-Thanos-snap world, she wasn’t sure how a show that starts in the 1950s relates to anything that previously happened to the Avengers. However, once Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige and Jac Schaeffer told her their… Read more.
The Verge
AUGUST 21, 2021
This weekend, it’s not just the red Apple Watch Series 6 getting a discount. | Vjeran Pavic / The Verge. The red Apple Watch Series 6 has already seen an array of big discounts, but you don’t always get nice pricing on the more subtle colorways. Amazon and Walmart are both currently offering $75 off the handsome navy-colored watch, as well as the white model, bringing them down to $325.
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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.
Venture Beast
AUGUST 21, 2021
Abrakam Entertainment loves to tweak game genres, as it did with its first game, Faeria, and now with Roguebook, a riff on Slay the Spire. Read More.
The Verge
AUGUST 21, 2021
China has passed a user data privacy law | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge. China has passed a new privacy law aimed at protecting users’ personal data, state media reported. The new law comes as Chinese tech firms have come under renewed scrutiny in the country, and sets rules around how companies handle users’ information. The law takes effect on November 1st.
Gizmodo
AUGUST 21, 2021
Candyman director Nia DaCosta, Monkeypaw Productions, and Universal Pictures have launched #TellEveryone, a social media initiative connected to the film. Read more.
GeekWire
AUGUST 21, 2021
Jelani Memory, founder and CEO of A Kids Company About, with the book that launched it all. (A Kids Company About Photo). There are the conventional ways to start, fund and run a business, and then there’s Jelani Memory’s way of doing it. The CEO of A Kids Company About launched his Portland, Ore.-based business in 2019. The media venture began with a book that Memory wrote for his children called “A Kids Book About Racism.” Memory, who is Black, is dad to a blended famil
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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.
Gizmodo
AUGUST 21, 2021
Hurricane Henri is expected to make landfall “at or near hurricane strength” somewhere around New York’s Long Island or southern New England by Sunday afternoon, according to the National Hurricane Center. Henri strengthened from a tropical storm on Saturday as it built up steam over the Atlantic with maximum… Read more.
Gizmodo
AUGUST 21, 2021
Disney/Marvel has tapped actor/writer Yassir Lester as head writer on the upcoming Disney+ show Armor Wars. Read more.
Gizmodo
AUGUST 21, 2021
Netflix’s animated adaptation of Magic: The Gathering has a new creative team. Read more.
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