TechSpot
DECEMBER 18, 2021
Intel said in a statement that pay restructuring was "designed to enable Intel to win the fierce battle for talent in today’s competitive market," according to The Oregonian, which saw the presentation. It will "reignite" their culture and "drive" the company’s business strategy.
GeekWire
DECEMBER 18, 2021
Motivated by climate concerns, Erin Bryn Fetridge in November installed 20 photovoltaic solar panels on the roof of her Northwest Seattle home. (GeekWire Photo / Kurt Schlosser). When Erin Bryn Fetridge and Ron Darling decided to put 20 solar panels on their roof this fall, one key motivator drove the decision. “We want to have less of a footprint on the planet,” Fetridge said. “It probably sounds cheesy, but it’s the truth of it.”.
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Gizmodo
DECEMBER 18, 2021
More than a year after its unveiling , General Motors proudly announced that it was now delivering its Hummer EV Edition 1 Pickup, a 9,000-pound (4,082 kilograms) luxury electric beast with a 1,000-horsepower motor that can go from 0 to 60 mph (96 kph) in three seconds. The message: You can do your part to save the… Read more.
Venture Beast
DECEMBER 18, 2021
Teradata said the upgrades will drive agility for analytics and ML initiatives, accelerating time-to-value for joint customers. Read More.
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.
Gizmodo
DECEMBER 18, 2021
Dragonlance is one of Dungeons & Dragons’ most iconic settings, brought to life by designers Margaret Weis and Tracy and Laura Hickman. In late 2020, it seemed as though the creators’ relationship with Wizards of the Coast had soured to the point of a lawsuit from the creators concerning breach of contact regarding a… Read more.
Venture Beast
DECEMBER 18, 2021
The more control over risk scoring and prioritization an IT security team has, the more effective they can be in mitigating cyber risk. Read More.
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Gizmodo
DECEMBER 18, 2021
It looks like YouTube just won’t stop fighting with broadcasters and streaming platforms this year. YouTube’s latest squabble with Disney over YouTube TV, however, might really feel like a punch in the gut because of the amount of content it’s losing. Read more.
Venture Beast
DECEMBER 18, 2021
Some important takeaways from the National Association of Insurance Commissioners meeting in San Diego this week. Read More.
TechSpot
DECEMBER 18, 2021
In early November, Raven Software released Warzone Pacific with a new weapon mechanic, aim down sight (ADS) bloom, which added a degree of randomness to shots with certain CoD Vanguard weapons. Last week, the game's developer began scaling back the previously added weapon feature. Much to the community's surprise, the.
Venture Beast
DECEMBER 18, 2021
Who is minding the gates when it comes to securing 'older' foundational open-source programs like Log4j? 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.
Gizmodo
DECEMBER 18, 2021
Two years ago, Bleach fans lost their mind when it was revealed that the anime adaptation of Tite Kubo’s supernatural adventure manga would be making a comeback. The beloved anime concluded all the way back in 2014 with the “Lost Substitute Shinigami” arc, just a few years before the manga would close things out in… Read more.
The Verge
DECEMBER 18, 2021
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge. Nvidia’s upcoming RTX 2050 laptop GPUs don’t sound “new” at all, considering that the company already released the RTX 3050 and 3050 Ti GPUs for laptops earlier this year (via VideoCardz ). But it’s clear that Nvidia isn’t ready to retire its 20 series GPUs just yet — Nvidia says that the RTX 2050 will be available in laptops starting in the spring of 2022.
Gizmodo
DECEMBER 18, 2021
When the first trailer for The Batman hit what feels like forever ago, it didn’t take long for fans to grow attached to the orchestral version of Nirvana’s “Something in the Way.” In the same way that folks now associate Led Zeppelin’s “Immigrant Song” with Thor Ragnarok , Robert Pattinson’s upcoming DC movie has a… Read more.
The Verge
DECEMBER 18, 2021
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge. A troubling report from the Wall Street Journal digs into the personal experiences of young girls who were sent down rabbit holes of extreme weight loss challenges, purging techniques, and deadly diets through TikTok, contributing to the development of eating disorders, or making existing ones worse. The WSJ did its own experiment to see how TikTok’s algorithm can potentially promote this kind of harmful content — its findings may explain TikTok’s sudden
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Gizmodo
DECEMBER 18, 2021
No matter what age you are, houses have the potential to be naturally scary, particularly in the period where you’re just getting used to living there. It makes the setting such a fertile ground for horror, hence excellent films like the original Conjuring or Amityville Horror, or Mike Flanagan’s Haunting shows. … Read more.
The Verge
DECEMBER 18, 2021
Ye’s Stem Player was made in partnership with Kano Computing. | Photo by Jay Peters / The Verge. It’s a powerful and unconventional music device At one point in development, Kano Computing’s new music creation device was going to have finger holes. “‘God created man; man is God’s greatest technology,’” explained Ye, the artist formerly known as Kanye West , as Kano CEO and co-founder Alex Klein remembers it.
GeekWire
DECEMBER 18, 2021
Rajeev Badyal, VP of technology for Project Kuiper, speaks at the project’s Redmond facility. (Amazon via YouTube). Amazon’s Project Kuiper hasn’t yet launched a single satellite, but in a video released this week , it’s talking up what its broadband internet constellation will be able to do for rural connectivity. The video focuses on unmet broadband needs in Cle Elum (pop. 2,037), a town nestled in the Cascade Mountains of central Washington state. “Quite a few pe
The Verge
DECEMBER 18, 2021
Photo by Jeffrey Sauger for General Motor. GM has officially started sending its Hummer EV Edition 1 pickup trucks out of the factory and into the driveways of customers, according to a press release on the company’s website. Built on the Ultium platform , the Hummer EV Edition 1 model comes with a hefty $110,295 price tag, along with up to 1,000 horsepower, 11,500 lb-ft of torque, and an estimated 329-mile range.
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Computerworld Vertical IT
DECEMBER 18, 2021
This month's Patch Tuesday update is important for several reasons. With 67 unique vulnerabilities addressed, six publicly-reported issues and one already exploited, this month's updates still pale in comparison to dealing with the Log4j issue. (Fortunately, there are no browser or Microsoft Exchange updates and minimal changes to Microsoft Office.) We have added the Windows updates and Visual Studio updates to our "Patch Now" release cycle recommendations, while Office updates are relegated to
The Verge
DECEMBER 18, 2021
Now through January 6th, Epic Games is slashing prices on titles new and old. This weekend, you can be sure that much of The Verge staff will be adding to their pile of PC shame. The Epic Games Store has officially kicked off its annual Winter Sale , bringing sizable discounts on fresh titles like Jurassic World Evolution 2 , Battlefield 2042 , and Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy.
The Verge
DECEMBER 18, 2021
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge. Amazon has finally rolled out an update for its Appstore, and it’s supposed to fix the issues that have been plaguing Android 12 users for over a month (via Engadget ). After users downloaded Android 12, they noticed that the Amazon Appstore wasn’t functioning correctly , an issue likely caused by the lack of compatibility between Amazon’s built-in DRM and the operating system.
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