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COVID-19, Automation and You

Forrester IT

The COVID-19 crisis has made automation a boardroom imperative, not just as a mechanism for cost takeout, but also as a tool for risk mitigation and business resiliency.

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Critical Security Features in Microsoft 365 for Admins | Free Webinar

Anoop

Subscribe YouTube Channel [link]. and Facebook Page to get latest updates. [link]. I hope most of us heard about hackers trying to take advantage of lockdown and work from home scenarios. As you know most of the workforce work remotely from the not highly secured networks, unlike office networks. Introduction Moreover, CEOs of most of the organizations around the world don’t want to comprise any security.

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60 Minutes shows Amazon’s virus-killing robot; says company uses AI to enforce social distancing

GeekWire

The rolling, UV-emitting robot is something Amazon is “working on for the future,” according to the 60 Minutes report. (Amazon via 60 Minutes). Amazon is developing a robot that would roll through grocery stores and distribution centers, using banks of ultraviolet light to kill viruses on surfaces. The company provided “60 Minutes” with video of a prototype of the robot for a report Sunday night about Amazon’s response to the COVID-19 crisis, and the backlash from w

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Intel won't benchmark GPUs with more than 768 shaders and 3GB memory

TechSpot

That marketing team flipped the paradigm and introduced an unprecedented level of transparency into the development process. (I’m personally grateful to Intel’s marketing team for giving me so much to write about.) Their ploy has often worked. Early promises of ray tracing and a 10nm production node extinguished concerns based.

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Peak Performance: Continuous Testing & Evaluation of LLM-Based Applications

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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Virtual reality check: Futurists dissect Amazon’s new ‘Upload’ TV series, and its digital afterlife

GeekWire

The new series “Upload” on Amazon Prime Video is set 13 years from now, depicting a future in which people can choose a virtual reality afterlife. (Amazon Prime Video Image). “Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy?” I can’t get Queen’s “Bohemian Rhapsody” out of my head as I ponder what I watched this week in “Upload,” the new Amazon Prime Video series about a not-so-distant future in which humans who are near death can be uploade

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Activision’s Sledgehammer Games bounces back with a multi-city hiring spree

Venture Beast

Sledgehammer Games suffered an exodus after its founders left the Call of Duty studio in 2018. But now the 200-person firm has stabilized and is hiring. Read More.

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Retroit brings spectators into street-driving mayhem

Venture Beast

Black Block's Retroit street-driving game is like playing the car-driving part of Grand Theft Auto, where spectators can drop obstacles in your path. Read More.

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Review: ‘Lies Beneath’ virtual reality horror game from Drifter feels both new and nostalgic

GeekWire

Lies Beneath feels like a throwback to the early 2000s, and I absolutely mean that as a compliment. It’s a lot like the slightly janky horror games of that period, just brought forward into virtual reality. Its pacing is strange and it’s occasionally content to settle for cheap scares, but it’s effectively creepy. Developed by the Seattle-based studio Drifter VR ( Gunheart, Robo Recall ) for the Oculus Quest and Rift, Lies Beneath is styled as if it’s a three-issue story in an interactive horror

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Is Supernatural’s $20-a-month subscription worth it for VR fitness

Venture Beast

After extensive testing, we can now weigh in on the big question: Is Supernatural's VR fitness -- and $20 montly subscription -- worth it? Read More.

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Week in Review: Most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of May 3, 2020

GeekWire

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 May 3, 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. Coronavirus Live Updates: The latest COVID-19 developments in Seattle and the world of tech.

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7 Pitfalls for Apache Cassandra in Production

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.

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Nintendo and PlayStation lead as TV ad spend dips in April — even during pandemic

Venture Beast

The gaming industry’s TV advertising spend saw an overall decrease in April compared to March, to an estimated $16.3 million from $17.3 million. Read More.

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Deception and Forensics for the Next Generation — Part 3: Meet the Deception Network

SecureWorld News

With most of the preliminaries over, we have one more task before us: a brief introduction to deception networks. Over the remaining several posts following this one, I'll integrate digital forensics and we'll look at some use cases. First, though, we need to get an idea of what I mean by a deception net. First, what a deception network isn't. It is not a honeypot or honeynet.

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Trump administration in talks with Intel and TSMC about building U.S. factories

Venture Beast

The Trump administration is in talks with semiconductor companies Intel and TSMC about building chip factories in the United States. Read More.

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