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Metaverse, NFTs, Sustainability, And Loyalty – Highlights Of Singles’ Day 2021

Forrester IT

Double 11 or Singles’ Day, the world’s largest online shopping festival that is bigger than Black Friday and Cyber Monday combined, has been consistently smashing mind-blowing gross merchandise value (GMV) records year by year since 2009. As the actual promotion period gets longer and longer – Singles’ Day 2021 pre-sale moved up from 2020’s November […].

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Display Message in SCCM Task Sequence Unsupported Hardware Model

Anoop

Hello - Here is the new HTMD Blog Article for you. Enjoy reading it. Subscribe to YouTube Channel [link]. and Facebook Page to get the latest updates. [link]. Read More. The post Display Message in SCCM Task Sequence Unsupported Hardware Model appeared first on HTMD Blog #1 by Jitesh Kumar.

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Nintendo says its new console will launch within the next 79 years

TechSpot

In its report, Nintendo explained that it "plans to continue to expand its business around the core concept of creating unique integrated hardware-software products," which has worked fairly well for the last forty-odd years.

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SpaceX Crew-3 launch delayed again, this time to November 10th

The Verge

SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket and Crew Dragon | Image: NASA / Joel Kowsky. The SpaceX Crew-3 mission to the International Space Station has been delayed again, this time to November 10th at 9:03PM ET, NASA said Sunday. Although NASA had originally planned to have a changing of the guard with the Crew-2 astronauts greeting the Crew-3 team before Crew-2 departed, the space agency has decided to return the Crew 2 to Earth first, pushing that mission from Sunday to Monday, November 8th at 2:05PM ET, beca

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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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12 factors heating up the popularity of digital twins and simulations

Venture Beast

Digital twins simulations have traditionally focused on simulating product performance; now they are becoming even more popular. Read More.

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Microsoft says it will end OneDrive updates to Windows 7 and 8 in March

The Verge

Image by Alex Castro / The Verge. Microsoft says OneDrive users on Windows, 7, 8, or 8.1 will be unable to sync their content to the cloud starting on March 1st, 2022, according to a blog post on its Tech Community forum. OneDrive will also no longer receive updates if it’s running on a system that doesn’t have Windows 10 or Windows 11 installed. Files will still be accessible from the OneDrive app no matter what version of Windows you’re using — they’ll just no longer automatically upload to th

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More Than Two Weeks Later, We Still Don’t Know Who Saved the La Palma Dogs

Gizmodo

Rest assured, there are still good people in this world. And they care about dogs, which honestly makes them even better. A group of people claim to have rescued the dogs that were trapped by lava flows from the La Palma volcanic eruption. There’s just one mystery: We have no idea who they are. Read more.

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Call of Duty: Vanguard players grow irritable as news of weapon bloom mechanic spreads

TechSpot

CoD statistics provider TrueGameData recently published several tweets revealing a previously unknown gameplay mechanic referred to as weapon bloom. The mechanic causes a player's bullet to travel in any of a number of random directions within a defined area while aiming down the sights. This behavior is a departure from.

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Forza Horizon 5 will add on-screen sign language interpreters in a post-launch update

The Verge

Forza Horizon 4 will add sign language interpreters to cut scenes in a post-launch update | Playground Games. The developers of Forza Horizon 5 are planning to add on-screen sign language interpreters who would appear in a picture-in-picture display during the game’s cutscenes. The feature won’t be available when the game launches worldwide on November 9th, but Playground Games creative director Mike Brown wrote in a blog post on Xbox Wire that it would be “coming soon.”.

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Forza Horizon 5 Review

TechSpot

The implicit promise of Forza Horizon is in the name. You see something on the horizon, you can drive to it. Skyrim with cars. Far Cry with more cars and no guns. Forza Horizon 5 is even more beautiful than its predecessors.

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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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MindsDB wants to give enterprise databases a brain

Venture Beast

MindsDB uses machine learning to help companies make predictions directly from their database using standard SQL commands. Read More.

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Intel's 12400F punches above its weight class, may be a serious budget competitor

TechSpot

French technology site Le Comptoir Du Hardware (The Hardware Counter) recently reviewed several Alder Lake processors (as have we), comparing their performance to other 10th through 12th-gen offerings as well as AMD's Ryzen 5000 series.

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Report: 51% of IT leaders don’t think they could mitigate a data breach

Venture Beast

IT leaders who overestimate their innovation capabilities find themselves at risk of missing out on critical technologies. Read More.

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Netflix will reportedly make games available via the App Store on iOS

The Verge

Image: Netflix. Earlier this month, Netflix officially got into gaming by rolling out a mobile game service for Android users. While Netflix says that it's working on an iOS version of the service, Bloomberg tech reporter Mark Gurman says that Apple’s App Store policies will prevent Netflix from making games available from its app. Apple bars third-party apps from functioning as a hub for games, which has become a point of contention with cloud gaming services like Xbox Cloud Gaming, Nvidia GeFo

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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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Elon Musk Asked Twitter If He Should Sell 10% of His Tesla Stock to Pay Taxes. Twitter Voted Yes

Gizmodo

Tesla CEO Elon Musk, a well-known Twitter addict , thought it would be a grand idea to let the people on the platform decide whether he should pay taxes or not, so he made a poll. Musk asked the Twitterverse whether he should sell 10% of his Tesla stock, saying he was prepared to honor the results of the poll,… Read more.

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Elon Musk polls his Twitter followers to ask if he should sell 10 percent of his Tesla stock

The Verge

Elon Musk polled his Twitter followers | Photo by PATRICK PLEUL/POOL/AFP via Getty Images. Tesla CEO and wealthiest person in the world Elon Musk tweeted out a poll Saturday, asking his Twitter followers whether he should sell 10 percent of his stock in the automaker, ostensibly to pay more tax. “Much is made lately of unrealized gains being a means of tax avoidance, so I propose selling 10% of my Tesla stock,” he tweeted.

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H2O.ai secures $100M, lands partnership with Australian bank

Venture Beast

H2O.ai, an AI development platform, has raised a fresh $100 million, bringing its total to over $250 million at a $1.6 billion valuation. Read More.

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The value of agents for professional speakers: 6 drivers to move to the next level

Trends in the Living Networks

I have been a professional speaker for a little over 20 years , with my first solid paid gig in January 2000. I have undertaken many other ventures over the years, but I have been speaking consistently throughout, with it often being my primary source of income given the frequently long payback period for startups. I recently reached a significant threshold in my speaking career.

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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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Report: 57% of all ecommerce cyberattacks are bot-driven

Venture Beast

As supply chain challenges continue into the 2021 holiday season, ecommerce retailers could see further disruptions caused by cyberattacks. Read More.

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Week in Review: Most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of Oct. 31, 2021

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 Oct. 31, 2021. Sign up to receive these updates every Sunday in your inbox by subscribing to our GeekWire Weekly email newsletter. Most popular stories on GeekWire. Zillow to shutter home buying business and lay off 2,000 employees as its big real estate bet falters.

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Google explains why the Pixel 6’s fingerprint scanner may be sluggish

The Verge

Google. There’s a lot to rave about with the Google Pixel 6 and 6 Pro , but their fingerprint scanners are not among those things. Since the Pixel 6 release in October, users have been complaining about its sluggish, unreliable fingerprint scanner that makes the phone a hassle to unlock. Google has finally responded to those complaints, and while it provided an explanation, it didn’t really offer any solid solution (via Engadget ).

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Google Sends Assistant’s Personalized Audio News Updates to the Graveyard

Gizmodo

In case you were fond of “Your News Update,” the feature on Google Assistant that created a personalized audio news stream based on the data the company has on you, it’s time to bid it adieu. Google unexpectedly killed it in recent days, so it is no more. 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.

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Neal Stephenson talks about his climate thriller — and why the metaverse didn’t match his vision

GeekWire

Neal Stephenson’s new novel, “Termination Shock,” focuses on climate change. (Mercatus Center at GMU). This whole metaverse thing hasn’t turned out exactly the way Seattle novelist Neal Stephenson thought it would when he came up with the idea 30 years ago. Back then, Stephenson was getting ready to write his breakout science-fiction novel, “Snow Crash.” He was musing about how expensive it was to buy the equipment for a computer art project he was working on,

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Open Channel: What Did You Think of Thor: Love and Thunder?

Gizmodo

Did you know that Marvel put out two movies this weekend? Yes, there was Eternals , but there was also the movie we all actually care about, Thor: Love and Thunder. Directed once again by Oscar-winning funny man Taika Waititi , the new film has Chris Hemsworth’s musclebound thunder god being replaced by a different … Read more.

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Black Adam Wants to Be PG-13 and Let the Bodies Hit the Floor

Gizmodo

The Black Adam footage revealed at DC Fandome back in October featured a moment where a soldier aims his gun Dwayne Johnson’s hooded antihero. In a flash ( not that one ), Adam grabs the soldier by the throat and quickly electrifies him to the point of being dust. It’s a pretty gnarly moment that feels like a joke when… Read more.

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Eternals' Director Chloé Zhao Talks Those Two Post-Credits Scenes

Gizmodo

You know the deal by now: Eternals , the latest Marvel movie starring a new batch of emotionally stunted misfits and superpowered weirdos, has two post-credits scenes to tee up both its own sequel and further developments for the MCU at large. Following the Hollywood premiere in late October, director Chloé Zhao talked… Read more.

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Strategic CX: A Deep Dive into Voice of the Customer Insights for Clarity

Speaker: Nicholas Zeisler, CX Strategist & Fractional CXO

The first step in a successful Customer Experience endeavor (or for that matter, any business proposition) is to find out what’s wrong. If you can’t identify it, you can’t fix it! 💡 That’s where the Voice of the Customer (VoC) comes in. Today, far too many brands do VoC simply because that’s what they think they’re supposed to do; that’s what all their competitors do.

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Come Sontar-Have a Spoilery Chat About This Week's Doctor Who

Gizmodo

We’ve not had Sontarans on Doctor Who for a little while, and even when we did, they were more of the comedy variety in the form of Strax rather than the menacing little ankle-biters-with-laser-guns they were when re-introduced with “The Sontaran Stratagem” and “The Poison Sky” over a decade ago. Now they’re back in… Read more.

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Democratic Senators Assure UN Negotiators Build Back Better Is ‘Very Close’ to Passing

Gizmodo

GLASGOW, SCOTLAND — Several members of Congress arrived at the United Nations climate meeting in Glasgow Saturday, the night after Congress moved a little closer to the finish line of passing some kind of climate action in the form of the Build Back Better Act. Read more.

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