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Contact centers can now test numbers in 76 countries

Spearline Testing

Until 2009, contact centers and other organizations had to rely on relatives abroad or holidaymakers to call their overseas numbers to make sure they were working and that the line was of sufficient quality to hold a conversation. This was far from a foolproof system, so a cloud-based SaaS solution was developed by Spearline for multinational organizations to test numbers in almost 80 countries, and growing, around the world.

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How Syntropy wants to deliver the real-time metaverse

Venture Beast

Syntropy is attacking latency, or interaction delays on the internet, as a way to eventually deliver the real-time metaverse. Read More.

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Elon Musk won’t join Twitter’s board after all

The Verge

Photo by PATRICK PLEUL/POOL/AFP via Getty Images. Elon Musk is no longer going to join Twitter’s board, Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal has announced in a message to the company. Agrawal last week confirmed that Musk would be appointed to the board following his purchase of 9.2 percent of the company’s shares , but now says that Musk has decided against taking up the seat.

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Mobile carriers halve the price of the Galaxy S22 in South Korea after throttling issues surface

TechSpot

Samsung has included the Game Optimizing Service (GOS) on its phones since 2016. It pre-emptively reduces the SoC's workload in games, but also in apps like Netflix and Spotify to prevent overheating and to lengthen battery life. All phones have power management software with a similar purpose, but GOS attempts.

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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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Kingdom Hearts IV announced at 20th anniversary event

The Verge

Image: Square Enix. Kingdom Hearts IV is officially in the works. Square Enix announced the upcoming installment during an event in Japan to celebrate the series’ 20th-anniversary. You watch its trailer in the video embedded above. The trailer doesn’t immediately start with Kingdom Hearts IV — it also includes clips from the newly-announced mobile game, Kingdom Hearts Missing-Link , so you’ll have to skip to the 4:09 mark to get a glimpse at Kingdom Hearts IV.

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Your Name Director Makoto Shinkai's Next Movie Gets a Beautiful, Cryptic First Look

Gizmodo

Japanese animator and director Makoto Shinkai had been a name in the animation space for decades thanks to works like She and Her Cat and Voices of a Distant Star. But it was 2016's Your Name , and 2019's Weathering With You , that helped turn international viewers onto his filmography. His next movie Suzume no Tojimari … Read more.

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Fast & Furious 10 Enlists Captain Marvel Into Its Cast

Gizmodo

The Fast & Furious franchise has a surprising legacy of superheroes being in their films, whether that’s Vin Diesel as Groot , or the more recent addition of John “Peacemaker” Cena that came with last year’s F9. (This is to say nothing of the real superhero in the cast, which is Tyrese Gibson as a cop in Morbius.) Next… Read more.

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Here’s what happens when cops pull over a driverless Cruise vehicle

The Verge

Police pulled over the Cruise vehicle for not having its headlights on. | Photo by Andrej Sokolow/picture alliance via Getty Images. It’s been a little over two months since Cruise started letting the people of San Francisco catch rides on its driverless robotaxis, and one of its cars already had a run-in with police. In a video originally posted to Instagram last weekend, the user captures the awkward — and somewhat comical — interaction between the San Francisco Police Department and the auton

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Contact can now test numbers in 76 countries

Spearline Testing

Until 2009, contact centers and other organizations had to rely on relatives abroad or holidaymakers to call their overseas numbers to make sure they were working and that the line was of sufficient quality to hold a conversation. This was far from a foolproof system, so a cloud-based SaaS solution was developed by Spearline for multinational organizations to test numbers in almost 80 countries, and growing, around the world.

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Game while sleeping: Check out this motorized bed made for dedicated gamers

TechSpot

After launching a gaming bed and a gaming mattress, Bauhutte just revealed its latest foray into the gaming furniture market, a motorized gaming bed.

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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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Improved optics could help the metaverse become as big as the internet

Venture Beast

For the metaverse to benefit private and professional users, significant hardware improvements are needed for realistic visual experiences. Read More.

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'They Are Robbing Me': Angry Robinhood Users Flood the FTC With Complaints

Gizmodo

In the depths of covid-19 pandemic, a person in dire straits turned to the last people that would hear them out: the Federal Trade Commission. Read more.

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Dispelling myths surrounding citizen developers

Venture Beast

Citizen developers help organizations achieve strategic goals and remain competitive in an increasingly mobile business world. Read More.

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The Owl House is Building Up Its Heroes by Breaking Them Down

Gizmodo

Throughout the first season of Dana Terrace’s The Owl House , it was clear that protagonist Luz Noceda’s biggest strength was her kindness and creativity. While she had trouble fitting in at school in the human world, her love of fantasy and magic YA books have served her well in the world of the Boiling Isles. Not… Read more.

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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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Kingdom Hearts IV announced by Square Enix

Venture Beast

Square Enix announced Kingdom Hearts IV today during a 20th anniversary event for the franchise. Read More.

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Even The Walking Dead Needs a Breather Now and Then

Gizmodo

All good things must come to an end, and that includes The Walking Dead ’s recent streak of fun episodes , it seems. The show closed out its second batch of episodes with a finale that was full of sound and fury, signifying… well, very little. Read more.

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How data scientists can create a more inclusive financial services landscape

Venture Beast

Understanding how bias finds its way into models is a good start when it comes to inclusive financial services. Data science can help. Read More.

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Travel Like a Boss - Road Warrior Tips

Doctor Chaos

Many people who know me know that I have accumulated quite a few frequent flyer miles. Before COVID, I had many years where I would clock in 200k+ air miles in a single year. It was pretty easy to rack up miles when you have a job that requires travel Sunday through Friday. I can’t say I don’t enjoy it. Some of that has to do with the fact that I have learned a few tips to make my travel life easier.

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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.

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7 easy ways to fight the data sprawl

Venture Beast

Sorting out first-party data from the data sprawl can feel like a time-consuming task. So where should companies start? Read More.

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No Duh, Sonic 2 Takes the Weekend Box Office

Gizmodo

After the success of the original Sonic the Hedgehog back in 2020 , it was a foregone conclusion that this weekend’s Sonic 2 would be a hit at the box office. People love Sonic, they love Jim Carrey, and they love themselves some Idris Elba doing surprisingly good in roles you wouldn’t have normally pegged him for. Add… Read more.

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Opt-in is not a replacement for opt-out

Venture Beast

Marketers are faced with a crowded field of would-be solutions. This makes it a lot easier to opt-out rather than opt-in. Read More.

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What Disney TV Show Should Be in Kingdom Hearts?

Gizmodo

Today marks the 20th anniversary of Square Enix and Disney’s Kingdom Hearts franchise , and the developer marked the occasion by announcing Kingdom Hearts 4. The new game marks the start of the franchise’s new “Lost Master” arc, picking up where Kingdom Hearts 3 left off: Sora’s in a modern day Tokyo-alike called the… Read more.

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Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI

“Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI” is an extensive guide for integrating generative AI into product strategy and careers featuring over 150 real-world examples, 30 case studies, and 20+ frameworks, and endorsed by over 20 leading AI and product executives, inventors, entrepreneurs, and researchers.

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Meta will no longer allow the sharing of ‘publicly available’ private home addresses

The Verge

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge. Meta is following the Oversight Board’s recommendation to remove an exception that permitted users to share a person’s residential address as long as it’s “publicly available,” the Facebook parent company announced in an updated post (via Engadget ). Meta’s response comes about a year after the company asked the Oversight Board to weigh in on its handling of private residential information.