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MARCH 13, 2022

I began work as a professional futurist in 1998, and it has been my full-time avocation (other than entrepreneurial endeavors) since 2006. For many years my reputation and credibility as a futurist has been significantly supported by my 2002 book Living Networks , which anticipated many developments of the last two decades, including pointing to the rise of social networks and micro-messaging before any of today’s social platforms existed.

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The Verge

MARCH 13, 2022

Photo by Nora Tam/South China Morning Post via Getty Images. Foxconn and other manufacturers are suspending operations in the Chinese tech hub of Shenzhen after authorities announced a partial lockdown due to a rise in COVID-19 cases. Businesses providing non-essential services have been ordered to close and everyone in the city of 17 million will be tested for COVID-19 following the reporting of 60 new infections on Sunday.

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Venture Beast

MARCH 13, 2022

Traditional insurance orgs need to seize this moment to leverage the power of their data and own the inevitable disruption of their sector. Read More.

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The Verge

MARCH 13, 2022

The popular Vanced YouTube app is being discontinued, after a legal threat from Google. The creators of Vanced have revealed the project will be shut down in the coming days, with download links set to be removed. While the app will continue to work for anyone who currently has it installed on Android, without any future updates it’s likely to stop working at some point soon.

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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.

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MARCH 13, 2022

Device security firm Armis discovered the APC vulnerabilities. The attack vectors, collectively named TLStorm, provide hackers with the means to execute remote manipulation of the UPS. These devices supply backup power for critical devices and services in data centers, hospitals, and other organizations requiring uninterrupted backup power.

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GeekWire

MARCH 13, 2022

Are people really convinced that it’s safe to just grab and go from a cashierless Amazon Go store? Depends on who they are, as far as “Saturday Night Live” is concerned. The show had a go at Go convenience stores on Saturday night in a fake commercial portraying how white and black shoppers may view Amazon’s technology a bit differently. “At an Amazon Go store, you can just walk in, grab what you want, put it in your bag and just go,” a voiceover says. “

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The Verge

MARCH 13, 2022

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge. Ford will soon start selling and shipping incomplete, but driveable vehicles that come without the chips that power certain non-safety features, according to a report from Automotive News. The automaker will instead ship the semiconductors to dealers within one year, which they will then install in customers’ vehicles after purchase.

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GeekWire

MARCH 13, 2022

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 March 6, 2022. Sign up to receive these updates every Sunday in your inbox by subscribing to our GeekWire Weekly email newsletter. Most popular stories on GeekWire. Amazon suspends Prime Video access and stops taking orders for New World in Russia.

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The Verge

MARCH 13, 2022

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge. The iPhone 14 Pro and 14 Pro Max may be the only models in the upcoming lineup to carry a new A16 chip, according to reliable Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo (via 9to5Mac ). In a tweet , Kuo indicates that the standard iPhone 14 and 14 Max will be left with the A15 chipset that comes in all models of the iPhone 13.

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Gizmodo

MARCH 13, 2022

Overall, 2021 was a pretty great year for animation. Whether you like stories of Italian adolescence , prequels about monster hunters , or emotional closers to the anime of our childhood , animation fans ate pretty good last year. And with last night’s Annie Awards , the annual celebration of the medium gave some love to… Read more.

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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

MARCH 13, 2022

Decision intelligence can help CTOs and technical teams run data projects that deliver quantifiable results for their businesses. Read More.

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Gizmodo

MARCH 13, 2022

Among Kids WB’s many accomplishments, it ended up being a boon for cartoons based on DC Comics characters, ultimately contributing to the creation of the DC Animated Universe. While DC shows would later transition entirely to Cartoon Network for animation, the superhero shows on the network were nothing to shrug at.… Read more.

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Venture Beast

MARCH 13, 2022

Unity has partnered with Insomniac Events to create digital concerts. It's one of the steps toward a musical metaverse. Read More.

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Gizmodo

MARCH 13, 2022

Back in 2019, Amazon released Undone , a pretty trippy (and pretty good) animated series about a young woman named Alma ( Rosa Salazar ) who got into a car crash and discovered she could move through time. Created by BoJack Horseman’s Kate Purdy and Raphael Bob-Waksburg, Amazon renewed the show for a second season that… Read more.

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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.

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Venture Beast

MARCH 13, 2022

We may need synthetic data to remove language bias in the metaverse so that everyone has a voice -- not just those who shout the loudest. Read More.

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The Verge

MARCH 13, 2022

Moderators can remove viewers, report comments, and turn off comments for specific viewers during a Live. | Image by Instagram. Instagram is finally letting Live creators appoint moderators during their streams. Mods will have the ability to report comments, remove viewers from the stream, as well as turn off comments for a specific viewer. Streamers + Mods = Dynamic Duo ??

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Venture Beast

MARCH 13, 2022

Eilert Hanoa, CEO of Kahoot, talks about how the children's digital education market is booming and Kahoot continues to grow. Read More.

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Gizmodo

MARCH 13, 2022

The Commonwealth ’s Lance Hornsby is a man with a plan. A very devious plan. A plan that will very likely prove deadly to others. But, above all, it is a very, very silly plan, and I am here for it. Read more.

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Venture Beast

MARCH 13, 2022

Empowered by the explosion of SaaS solutions, high-growth venture-backed technology companies have created their version of a middle office. Read More.

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The Verge

MARCH 13, 2022

Image by Samsung. Samsung has started sending out invites for its second event of the year, which is set to air online on Thursday, March 17th, 2022 at 10AM ET. It’s called the Awesome Galaxy A Event on the invite, and it’s dedicated to the phonemaker’s midrange A-series devices, in case you couldn’t tell. The Galaxy A73 and A53 may both come with 5G.

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Venture Beast

MARCH 13, 2022

With demand rising for intelligent creatives and not enough supply, you must know how to encourage and keep these vital members of your team. Read More.

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The Verge

MARCH 13, 2022

In 2008, Macworld devoted five pages to the kind of midtower Mac that Apple refused to make. | Photo by Jason Snell. The myth of xMac, the midrange Mac tower that never was Apple’s announcement of the Mac Studio on Tuesday may have fulfilled a dream that some Mac users have been clinging to for a couple of decades. Finally, there’s a modular desktop Mac that’s more powerful than the Mac mini without carrying the Mac Pro’s high price tag.

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Gizmodo

MARCH 13, 2022

Throughout the first two seasons of Netflix’s adaptation of The Umbrella Academy , the superpowered Hargreeves kids have gotten themselves mixed up in all sorts of weird time travel nonsense that the superhero genre is generally known for. Having believed they fixed the timeline for good at the end of season two, it… Read more.

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Vox

MARCH 13, 2022

Virginia played Texas Tech in the 2019 NCAA basketball championship game. | Jamie Schwaberow/NCAA Photos via Getty Images. Isn’t anyone worried about the rise of gambling apps? Remember when we decided that spending too much time on our phones was a bad thing? That immersing ourselves in our iPhones could be unhealthy, or even addictive ? That was a couple of years ago.

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