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Amazon is ditching Nvidia GPUs in favor of their own silicon

TechSpot

Amazon has already shifted about 80% of Alexa processing onto Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) Inf1 instances, which use the new AWS Inferentia chips. Compared to the G4 instances, which used traditional GPUs, the Inf1 instances push throughput up by 30% and costs down by 45%. Amazon reckons that they're the.

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Samsung’s new Smart Monitor is like a TV for your PC

The Verge

This is what the $400 Smart Monitor M7 looks like. | Samsung. Samsung is no stranger to releasing quirky computer monitors, such as last year’s Space Monitor that articulates like the Microsoft Surface Studio desktop. For late 2020, the company is releasing the Smart Monitor, which it claims is the first monitor to combine over-the-top media services, mobile connectivity, and remote PC capabilities.

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Killing of Rare Canadian ‘Spirit’ Moose Sparks Outrage, Sadness and a Search for Those Responsible

Gizmodo

When a rare white female moose was found dead in northern Ontario, Canada, along a remote service road last month, nearby indigenous residents were shocked. The animal is considered sacred by indigenous peoples in the region, and hunting it is banned in the areas where the slain animal was found. Then came outrage,… Read more.

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iFixit’s iPhone 12 mini teardown looks at how Apple fit so much into such a tiny device

The Verge

The iPhone 12 mini | Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge. Orders for the new iPhone 12 mini have started arriving for customers, and the team at iFixit did a two-part teardown—of both an EU and US model— to figure out how Apple managed to include 5G hardware and the usual iPhone components into such a little device. The first thing you notice looking at the internal images is the smaller battery in the mini, which measures up to similar iPhone models surprisingly well, iFixit finds, with 8.57 Wh.

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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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Call of Duty: Black Ops — Cold War sets digital sales record

Venture Beast

Call of Duty: Black Ops — Cold War set a new record for the highest first-day digital sales in the franchise’s history. The game debuted across current-generation consoles, next-generation consoles and the PC on Friday. Activision Blizzard Europe/Middle East/Africa managing director Anna Malmhake said in a statement on Sunday that the t… Read More.

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Leaked specs of the Samsung Galaxy S21 suggest the Ultra model will support S Pen

The Verge

Photo by Maciej Luczniewski/NurPhoto via Getty Images. Samsung’s Galaxy S21 is anticipated to debut in January, and Android Police has a slew of leaked specs for the forthcoming phone. The usual caveats about leaked information apply, but most of it lines up with what you’d expect. Android Police says its leaker confirmed that earlier renders of the S21 — which show the same camera bump of the Galaxy S20— are accurate.

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Google’s Pixel 5 camera app comes to older Pixel phones

The Verge

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge. Google has started to push out version 8.1 of its Google Camera app to Pixel phones, meaning owners of older devices will be getting some of the functionality from the new Pixel 5. Version 8.0 of the app was previously only available on the Pixel 5, but 9to5Google reports that 8.1 should work on phones as old as the Pixel 2 and 2 XL.

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Sylvester Stallone Is Playing a Mysterious Role in The Suicide Squad

Gizmodo

The Suicide Squad already has one of the most stacked rosters in action movie memory. Margot Robbie, Jai Courtney, Joel Kinnaman, John Cena, Idris Elba, Nathan Fillion. Now Sylvester Stallone joins the team. Read more.

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PSA: Games Done Quick’s week-long all-women speedrunning event starts today

The Verge

Games Done Quick’s (GDQ) all-women speedrunning community, the Frame Fatales, will be hosting the Fleet Fatales event to raise money for charity this week. It kicks off today at 4PM ET on the Games Done Quick Twitch channel. The schedule is live now , and there are some great runs to look forward to. I’m particularly interested the Hades run on Monday, the run for a game called McDonald’s Treasure Land Adventures for the Sega Genesis on Tuesday (no, I had never heard of that game until now, eith

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Peter Stormare Says Movement Is Happening on a Constantine Sequel

Gizmodo

Hell yeah. Literally, hell. Read more.

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GEP Procurement & Supply Chain Tech Trends Report

The technological landscape is dynamic and changes quickly. And for procurement and supply chain leaders looking to harness the power of technology to navigate complex challenges and an uncertain business environment, keeping up with the latest trends can be its own obstacle. So, what’s on the technological horizon for procurement and supply chain for the year ahead?

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Supplier Management: The Good, the Bad, and the Solutions

SecureWorld News

Co-written by Glenn Kapetansky, Chief Security Officer at Trexin. The journey to the cloud was well underway, with years ahead of it—and then a pandemic hit. Over a period of months, the value proposition for pay-as-you-go computing services (versus owning your own servers/software, as well as a big chunk of networking and staff) tilted strongly toward "let's do it, and let's do it quickly.".

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Week in Review: Most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of Nov. 8, 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 Nov. 8, 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. Ex-Microsoft engineer gets 9 years in prison after using digital currency scheme to buy $1.6M lakefront home, $160K Tesla.

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Sunday's Best Deals: Smart Home Products, At-Home DNA Ancestry Kits, Oral-B Guide Smart Toothbrush, Crest Whitestrips, Motorola Razr 5G, Baby Yoda AirPods Case, Office Supplies, and More

Gizmodo

A sale on smart home products and an unlocked Motorola Razr 5 lead Sunday’s best deals. Read more.

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New COVID-19 restrictions in Washington state: Inslee bans indoor social gatherings, indoor dining

GeekWire

Washington Gov. Jay Inslee speaks at a press conference on Sunday. (TVW screenshot). Washington state is setting further restrictions as COVID-19 case counts reach new highs and hospitalizations rise again. Washington Gov. Jay Inslee announced Sunday that indoor social gatherings and indoor dining will be banned across the state, effective Monday, Nov. 16 until Dec. 14.

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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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Never Get Locked Out of Your House or Leave the Lights On Again With Up to 40% Off Smart Home Products Today

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SYLVANIA Smart+ Wi-Fi Color Dimmable Lightbulbs (4-Pack) | $24 | Amazon Read more.

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‘Unbiased’ Social Media Platform Parler Is Unsurprisingly Found to Be Backed by Conservative Megadonor

Gizmodo

Parler, the social media network that describes itself as the “world’s premier free speech platform,” which is apparently another way to say a space for misinformation and conspiracy theories like QAnon, is unsurprisingly backed by conservative megadonor Rebekah Mercer, the Wall Street Journal has found. Read more.

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Wait. Did Ron Watkins Just Rat His Dad Out as Q?

Gizmodo

There’s been a mass exodus of conservatives from Twitter and Facebook amid complaints of censorship and “free speech” dog-whistling in the wake of the 2020 presidential election. Many have found a new home on Parler, a platform founded in 2018 and reportedly backed by Trump donors that sells itself as “unbiased social… Read more.

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Trump: Biden Won But 'I Concede NOTHING!'

Gizmodo

President Donald Trump acknowledged for the first time on Sunday that Democratic challenger Joe Biden won the election. He then agreed to a peaceful transition of power and wished good old “sleepy” Joe the best of luck during his White House tenure. Read more.

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20 Common Mistakes Made by Inexperienced Project Managers

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.