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No, the supply chain mess is not a war on Christmas

Vox

Earlier this week, Joe Biden announced a new effort to keep the Port of Los Angeles open 24/7. | Drew Angerer/Getty Images. Despite what conservatives say, Joe Biden is not trying to ruin the holiday shopping season. President Biden announced this week that the Port of Los Angeles would operate 24/7 in a bid to address product shortages in the United States.

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New Windows 11 build made available to Insiders fixes AMD performance issues

TechSpot

Microsoft added insult to injury during last Patch Tuesday's release. The Windows 11 update patch designed to resolve issues in the new operating system instead further hampered the already degraded performance experienced by many AMD users. Fortunately, a recent announcement by the Insider Program Team indicates that relief is in sight.

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Dbrand pulls its PS5 Darkplates from sale after Sony threatens legal action

The Verge

Earlier this year, Dbrand started selling matte black PS5 side plates that it called Darkplates, and when it did, it baited Sony right on the product’s info page to “Go ahead, sue us.” We got our hands on some, and they look exactly like you expect , making the sides of your PS5 black instead of white. They even have their own tongue-in-cheek take on the PlayStation icon microtexture.

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Tackling the climate crisis: 3 optimistic takeaways from climate tech experts at the GeekWire Summit

GeekWire

The climate tech panel at the GeekWire Summit in Seattle on Oct. 5, 2021. Panelists from left to right: Brandon Middaugh, Kevin Klustner and Emeka Anyanwu, with moderator Lisa Stiffler of GeekWire at far right. (GeekWire Photos / Dan DeLong). The climate crisis is a big, scary challenge. But people are working hard to deploy technologies and policies to pull carbon emissions out of our lives and curb the warming.

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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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The 2021 machine learning, AI, and data landscape

Venture Beast

The 2021 machine learning, AI, and data landscape is marked by explosive growth. Here are some key areas to watch. Read More.

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Dwayne Johnson Has Finally Unveiled Our First Look at Black Adam

Gizmodo

It’s official: Black Adam is indeed a real movie, it does indeed star Dwayne Johnson , and thanks to today’s DC Fandome event, we finally have our first look at actual proof of this cinematic fact beyond concept art! Read more.

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The Batman's Explosive New Trailer Looks Behind Bruce Wayne's Furious Mask

Gizmodo

A new look at Matt Reeves’ The Batman is here, and it’s big on the action—plus the fury that comes when you really, really tick off Robert Pattinson’s young, raw incarnation of the legendary DC Comics hero. Read more.

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The future of work: HR leaders from Zillow, Expedia on the pandemic-driven changes to the workplace

GeekWire

From left: Zillow’s Dan Spaulding, Expedia’s Archana Singh and former Gov. Christine Gregoire talk with Geekwire’s Mike Lewis on the Future of Work panel. (GeekWire Photo / Dan DeLong). The future of how we work, where we work, how that work is measured and even how we get to work has always loomed large in the tech community, but never more so than since the pandemic began and entire industries recalibrated to the reality of remote collaboration.

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TSMC delivers its first batch of Russian-designed Arm chips

TechSpot

Baikal’s new processor, its second ever, is called the BE-M1000. It’s an octa-core Arm design with a focus on connectivity. TSMC’s first production run yielded about 5,000 chips, which were shipped to Baikal inside one large and very expensive crate.

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Superman's No Longer Fighting For 'The American Way'

Gizmodo

Clark Kent has fought for “Truth, Justice, and the American Way” for the best part of seventy years of his career as a comic book icon, a career that spans even longer than that. But while there have been times he’s moved away from it momentarily, and its origins worded it a little differently, now, Superman has a new… 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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You'll still get Windows 11 updates on an unsupported system, just don't get used to it

TechSpot

With Windows 11, Microsoft has chosen to split its user base in two. Since the OS was announced, the company has repeatedly underlined that it wants to gradually elevate security for consumers to the same level of that found on enterprise systems. To that end, Microsoft had to enact some.

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Peacemaker's First Trailer is Superhero Patriotism at Its Dumbest

Gizmodo

With Peacemaker , director and writer James Gunn hopes you loved John Cena’s comically stupid killer from The Suicide Squad enough to follow him through eight episodes of a spinoff for HBO Max. In the show’s first trailer from DC Fandome, it looks like Gunn may have another winner on his hands, provided you can groove… Read more.

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GeekWire Podcast: The shared orbits of Microsoft and Amazon, and the tech industry’s future in space

GeekWire

GeekWire Illustration. Plenty of well-known tech leaders have jumped from Microsoft to Amazon over the years. So what does it say about the evolution of the companies that one of Amazon’s most senior executives is now working at Microsoft? Former Amazon Web Services leader Charlie Bell’s new gig at Microsoft is our first topic on this week’s GeekWire Podcast, now that he has been cleared to start in his role , leading a newly formed Microsoft cybersecurity engineering organizat

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Harley Quinn's Season 3 'Eat, Bang, Kill Tour' Is Coming. Eventually

Gizmodo

While there were many new sights to be seen and announcements to be made at this year’s DC Fandome, the Harley Quinn ’s creative team sent their animated headline to the digital expo to let the everyone know that while she appreciates everyone being excited for the show’s upcoming third season, animation takes time,… 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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Four zero-day exploits add urgency to October's Patch Tuesday

Computerworld Vertical IT

October brings four zero-day exploits and 74 updates to the Windows ecosystem, including a hard-to-test kernel update ( CVE-2021-40449 ) that requires immediate attention and an Exchange Server update that requires technical skill and due diligence (and a reboot). The testing profile for the October Patch Tuesday covers Windows error handling, AppX, Hyper-V and Microsoft Word.

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Gwendoline Christie Looks Hellishly Cool as Lucifer in DC's Sandman

Gizmodo

We finally have our first look at Gwendoline Christie as Lucifer as she’ll appear on Netflix’s The Sandman , and she’s looking decidedly more glam—and certainly more menacing—than she did in her breakthrough role as Brienne of Tarth on Game of Thrones. But we love Christie in anything, to tell the truth, and we are… Read more.

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Ludia unveils DC Heroes & Villains match-3 puzzle RPG

Venture Beast

Join gaming leaders online at GamesBeat Summit Next this upcoming November 9-10. Learn more about what comes next. Ludia unveiled DC Heroes & Villains, the first match-3 puzzle role-playing game (RPG) set in the DC Universe. The mobile game will come out in 2022, and Ludia (now owned by Jam City) has a license from Warner Bros. Interactive Ent… Read More.

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Young Justice: Phantoms Looks Like a Crisis on Animated Youths

Gizmodo

With each season of Young Justice , the young heroes of the DC Universe have found themselves embroiled in larger and larger conflicts that span their entire galaxy. The upcoming fourth season, subtitled Phantoms , may go bigger than ever before by putting the crimefighters in the middle of a battle that’ll determine… 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.

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Analogue’s Pocket will have an extremely fancy OS to save games to and from cartridges

The Verge

There’s still no firm release date for the delayed Analogue Pocket (outside of the broader “December 2021” window that the company last provided in September ), but Analogue is looking to whet players’ appetites with the next best thing: a deep look at AnalogueOS, the new custom software that will power the Pocket whenever it does actually arrive. As one might expect for a retro gaming device, AnalogueOS features a minimal, pixel-art style design that’s meant to get you into games as easily as p

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The Flash Movie Teases Our Entry Into the DC Multiverse

Gizmodo

Barry Allen, the fastest fan of hot dogs alive , is about to race head-first into the most important question of DC’s upcoming movie multiverse : just how many Bat-Dads does one person need? Read more.

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Some Instacart shoppers plan Saturday strike over pay and work conditions

The Verge

An Instacart shopper chooses items for a grocery order. Some workers plan to strike Saturday in protest of pay and work conditions | Image: Instacart. Some Instacart shoppers are striking on Saturday, to protest the company’s pay structure and failure to communicate directly with workers. The Gig Workers Collective (GWC), which represent some of the company’s shoppers, want the Instacart to address five of its policies.

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The New Suicide Squad Game Shows Us How We'll Kill the Justice League

Gizmodo

I mean, if you’re going to make a DC video game about what could only be imagined as one hell of a suicide mission , you might as well bring along the Suicide Squad , right? Read more.

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How to Migrate From DataStax Enterprise to Instaclustr Managed Apache Cassandra

If you’re considering migrating from DataStax Enterprise (DSE) to open source Apache Cassandra®, our comprehensive guide is tailored for architects, engineers, and IT directors. Whether you’re motivated by cost savings, avoiding vendor lock-in, or embracing the vibrant open-source community, Apache Cassandra offers robust value. Transition seamlessly to Instaclustr Managed Cassandra with our expert insights, ensuring zero downtime during migration.

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The US has set a date to reopen its borders to vaccinated foreign visitors

The Verge

The US-Canada border reopened to vaccinated visitors | Photo by Jason Redmond/AFP via Getty Images. The White House announced Friday that the US is reopening its land and air borders to vaccinated foreign nationals on November 8th. State Department spokesman Ned Price said at a press briefing that details will be available ahead of November 8th for airline passengers and people arriving at US land borders for what they’ll need to show full proof of vaccination against COVID-19.

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Our First Look at DC's Naomi Is Ripped Right From the Comics

Gizmodo

Though Naomi McDuffie ’s only been kicking around in DC’s comics for a few years now, the young heroine’s already making the jump over to the small screen in the CW’s upcoming Naomi series set to debut this fall. With this year’s DC Fandome comes a new clip from Naomi introducing Kaci Walfall as the show’s titular… Read more.

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AnalogueOS turns Analogue Pocket into ‘The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Gaming’

Venture Beast

Analogue Pocket is getting AnalogueOS, which unlocks the full features and capabilities of the FPGA-powered handheld. Read More.

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Shazam: Fury of the Gods Looks Like It Might Be Worth the Wait

Gizmodo

Given that the first (surprisingly fun) Shazam movie came out in April of 2019, it’s pretty understandable we’ve seen almost nothing from the upcoming sequel, Fury of the Gods. Although the first film’s success meant the sequel script was started almost immediately, the movie was only supposed to start production in… 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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Steam quietly bans games that feature crypto/NFT exchanges

GeekWire

(BigStock Photo). Games and other applications that involve minting or trading cryptocurrency or non-fungible tokens are no longer allowed on Steam. The company behind Steam, Bellevue, Wash.-based Valve Software, quietly updated its content rules and guidelines for studio partners at some point in the last couple of months. They now specifically disallow programs “built on blockchain technology that issue or allow exchange of cryptocurrencies or NFTs.” By the terms as listed, it shou

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DC's Milestone Heroes Are Teaming Up for a New Animated Movie

Gizmodo

After years of being tied up in comics publishing limbo, the heroes of Milestone Comics finally began making their triumphant return to the world in 2021 as a part of DC Comics’ new initiative to revitalize the Milestone brand , and bring classic characters like Static , Icon, and Rocket into the 21st century for a new… Read more.

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NASA launches its Lucy spacecraft to study the Jupiter Trojan asteroids

The Verge

A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket with the Lucy spacecraft launches from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida on October 16th | (NASA/Bill Ingalls). NASA’s Lucy space probe launched successfully from Cape Canaveral in Florida early Saturday, the beginning of a 12-year mission to study Jupiter’s Trojan asteroids. The uncrewed spacecraft lifted off at 5:34AM ET aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket.

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Gotham Knights Footage Teases a Batfamily Brawl

Gizmodo

The next video game out of Gotham City is missing its former hero, at the worse possible time. So it’s probably for the best Bruce Wayne left some very trusty friends behind—because they’re going to need each other to go up against a familiar threat from DC’s comics. Read more.

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Entity Resolution Checklist: What to Consider When Evaluating Options

Are you trying to decide which entity resolution capabilities you need? It can be confusing to determine which features are most important for your project. And sometimes key features are overlooked. Get the Entity Resolution Evaluation Checklist to make sure you’ve thought of everything to make your project a success! The list was created by Senzing’s team of leading entity resolution experts, based on their real-world experience.