The Verge

DECEMBER 6, 2020

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and Cargo Dragon spacecraft will launch Sunday from Kennedy Space Center | SpaceX. This morning, SpaceX is set to launch its latest batch of cargo and supplies to the International Space Station, but the company is using a slightly different spacecraft for this flight than resupply missions of the past. SpaceX is flying its newly upgraded Dragon capsule to transport the goods to space — the same vehicle that the company has been using to fly astronauts to the station.

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TechSpot

DECEMBER 6, 2020

For GPU enthusiasts, it's been a long two year wait. But now that Nvidia's Ampere RTX 3000 GPUs are out, as are AMD's Radeon RX 6000 series, it's time to take a deep look at how these chips work. Is one of them fundamentally better than the other?

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The Verge

DECEMBER 6, 2020

YouTuber Logan Paul has struck a deal to fight former boxing megastar Floyd Mayweather Jr. in a “special exhibition” match on February 20th. The bout will be streamed as a pay-per-view on Fanmio. Mayweather is an undefeated champion with a 50-0 record, multiple world titles in five weight classes, and an Olympic bronze medal. Paul is best known for his controversial YouTube video where he filmed a dead body in a Japanese forest.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 6, 2020

Qumulo’s Molly Brown and family vacationing in Montana. (Photo courtesy of Brown). For Qumulo’s Molly Brown , graduating from an all-girls high school turned out to be a great preparation for studying and working in the male-dominated field of computer engineering. “When I got into the engineering school and got into lecture halls where there weren’t many women, I did what I knew to do,” Brown said. “I raised my hand.”.

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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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Venture Beast

DECEMBER 6, 2020

Game brands in November saw a 76.65% increase in estimated outlay on TV ads at $49.7 million, led by Sony's PlayStation 5 ad blitz. Read More.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 6, 2020

As drones get smarter and the Federal Aviation Administration issues more waivers for its drone regulations, we’re likely to see more law enforcement agencies using them in their day-to-day, including for 911 calls. The formidable Cade Metz writes for The New York Times about what this looks like in practice, and to be perfectly honest, it’s extremely disconcerting, as Chula Vista, California officers “chase” a “suspect” using a drone: When the man left the car, carrying a gun and a bag of heroi

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TechSpot

DECEMBER 6, 2020

Portable apps are lightweight versions of applications that don't use an installer, so you can run them from a USB drive or a cloud folder. We've assembled a collection of the best and most useful portable apps across a variety of categories.

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Venture Beast

DECEMBER 6, 2020

Bombay Play, a Bangalore, India-based game studio, has raised $1 million to make social games for global markets. Read More.

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Gizmodo

DECEMBER 6, 2020

Police drones are already a dystopian horror story straight out of the pages of 1984 , but now they’re even beginning to think for themselves. Read more.

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Venture Beast

DECEMBER 6, 2020

If we know our models learn bias from data, perhaps de-biasing data is the best approach to solving the problem. Read More.

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Gizmodo

DECEMBER 6, 2020

No one really, uhh, wanted Batman Beyond. It seemed like a weird idea, mandated by corporate executives. But it worked , and it worked really well. It’s a cool story. Read more.

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DECEMBER 6, 2020

As the power of AI soars, the ethics of how we use AI is becoming an increasingly pressing issue, which as a futurist I speak about frequently. In working with the intelligent automation company Pega I have learned about some of their extremely interesting approaches to ‘Responsible AI’ In a conversation with Jo Allen of Pega, she discusses in particular two important concepts embedded into how Pega uses AI.

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Gizmodo

DECEMBER 6, 2020

After six years of traveling and exploring, the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency’s Hayabusa2 probe on Saturday sent a capsule back to Earth filled with what scientists hope is at least a 100 milligram-sample of the asteroid Ryugu, which is located about 186 million miles (300 million kilometers) from Earth. … Read more.

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TechSpot

DECEMBER 6, 2020

It's been a busy weekend for mishaps.

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Gizmodo

DECEMBER 6, 2020

Shaken? Stirred? No, no: streamed. Read more.

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I'm not lost, I'm wondering

DECEMBER 6, 2020

I recently joined a community of writers, more accurately a community of people getting together to support each other as we write and work on our writing. Part of this are fortnightly writing prompts, one fiction and one non-fiction. Though most (ok, all) of what I usually write is firmly in the non-fiction category, I thought it would be good to give the non-fiction prompt a go, and see what happened.

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Gizmodo

DECEMBER 6, 2020

The Art of Star Trek: Discovery , written by experienced Trek writers Paula M. Block and Terry J. Erdmann, looks to be an extremely exciting collection. It’s a coffee table book full of the show’s concept art and design work, with interviews from the creators and a huge dose of behind-the-scenes information. Read more.

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I'm not lost, I'm wondering

DECEMBER 6, 2020

I recently joined a community of writers, more accurately a community of people getting together to support each other as we write and work on our writing. Part of this are fortnightly writing prompts, one fiction and one non-fiction. Though most (ok, all) of what I usually write is firmly in the non-fiction category, I thought it would be good to give the non-fiction prompt a go, and see what happened.

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Gizmodo

DECEMBER 6, 2020

A Samsung 55-inch LED 4K UHD Smart Tizen TV and an Instant Pot Duo Nova lead Sunday’s best deals. Read more.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 6, 2020

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge. This past week I’ve been watching eBay, trying to decide if I should sell my PS5. I wouldn’t dream of becoming a scalper, but it’s getting hard to ignore just how much it’s worth. My daughter and I had beaten Astro Bot and Miles Morales , so I thought I’d peek at the resale market. Wow, are they worth a lot! And it’s not just the PlayStation 5 — I found that Xbox Series X and S , Nvidia’s RTX 3090 , 3080 , 3070 , and 3060 Ti graphics cards, and AMD’s rival RX 6

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 6, 2020

Editor’s note: This is an excerpt from a new book Undercurrents: Channeling Outrage to Spark Practical Activism by Steve Davis, co-chair of the World Health Organization’s Digital Health Technical Advisory Group and a Distinguished Fellow at the World Economic Forum. Davis is also a lecturer at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and is the former CEO of PATH and Corbis. .

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Gizmodo

DECEMBER 6, 2020

White House coronavirus task force coordinator Dr. Deborah Birx said she’s frustrated that viral covid-19 “ myths ” like those spread by the president and other high-profile politicians continue to undermine public perception about the severity of covid-19, even now eight months into the pandemic after the virus has… Read more.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 6, 2020

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 Nov. 29, 2020. Sign up to receive these updates every Sunday in your inbox by subscribing to our GeekWire Weekly email newsletter. Most popular stories on GeekWire. Jeff Bezos shows off Blue Origin’s BE-7 engine — and makes a bold prediction.

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Gizmodo

DECEMBER 6, 2020

To no one’s surprise, especially given the reckless behavior exhibited by President Donald Trump and those in his orbit, Rudy Giuliani, the president’s infamous personal and campaign lawyer most recently known for farting in the courtroom, has covid-19. Read more.

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