The Verge

JANUARY 31, 2021

Apple has released an official extension for the Windows and Mac versions of Chrome that lets you use passwords stored in your iCloud Keychain. For anyone who uses Chrome as their browser and iCloud Keychain in lieu of a dedicated password manager, this could make bouncing between Windows and Mac computers much easier. The release of the extension means that if you’ve used Safari to automatically generate strong passwords on other platforms, those can now be available to you in Chrome when you’r

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GeekWire

JANUARY 31, 2021

[ Editor’s Note: Stein Broeder, a marketing executive at Microsoft, explores the components and value of trust in the new book, “ The Business of Trust: How Experiences Build Trust and Drive Business Impact ” Excerpt published with permission.]. “Do you trust me?”. This was a question a surgeon once asked me prior to a procedure. I thought it was a funny question.

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Venture Beast

JANUARY 31, 2021

Advances in Transformer structures and GNNs will likely spur advances in domains that haven’t yet opened up to AI techniques and algorithms. Read More.

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Gizmodo

JANUARY 31, 2021

You know, 3D printing has produced some wild stuff over the years, from itty bitty spacecraft and candy-firing wrist cannons to entire homes and personal protective equipment. But while some creations have been absolutely cursed (I’m looking at you, tongue brush ), this safety hoop made to help a senior pup get around… 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

JANUARY 31, 2021

To ensure AI has a positive impact on society, we need to look beyond user experience to a new practice of 'citizen experience' design. Read More.

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Gizmodo

JANUARY 31, 2021

If you have an Amazon Ring smart doorbell, there’s something you should know. A growing number of fire and police departments are interested in your doorbell—or to be frank, in its camera footage—especially if they feel it can help them in their investigations. In fact, there are now 2,014 departments in the program… Read more.

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Venture Beast

JANUARY 31, 2021

In the future, successful game tech companies will look less like Autodesk and more like Snowflake with a content focus. Read More.

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The Verge

JANUARY 31, 2021

Photo by Dan Seifert / The Verge. All but two US states — Montana and Wyoming— now have police or fire departments participating in Amazon’s Ring network, which lets law enforcement ask users for footage from their Ring security cameras to assist with investigations, the Financial Times reported , Figures from Ring show more than 1,189 departments joined the program in 2020 for a total of 2,014.

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Venture Beast

JANUARY 31, 2021

Exabeam becomes one of the first vendors to join a cybersecurty ecosystem emerging around the Snowflake cloud platform. Read More.

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TechSpot

JANUARY 31, 2021

Nvidia's inclusion of Apple M1 support is practical, and the snubbing of Apple, who continues to disallow game streaming services on the App Store, is merely a bonus. But the addition of Chrome support is (or at least appears to be) almost entirely an act of spite against Google, who.

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JANUARY 31, 2021

Avaya AI's alliance with Google leads to the creation of virtual agents that can verbally interact with customers. Read More.

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TechSpot

JANUARY 31, 2021

Dogecoin, the cryptocurrency featuring the famed “doge” shiba-inu meme, famously started as a bit of a meme itself. Never terribly successful, but consistently in the crypto zeitgeist, the coin has made headlines this week as the ever-growing community of day-traders on Reddit and Twitter decided to focus their efforts on.

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The Verge

JANUARY 31, 2021

The Ace offers a large screen and massive battery, but it falls short in some key areas The Motorola One 5G Ace is a $399.99 phone that does a somewhat convincing impression of a more expensive phone. It’s large, which feels like a flagship kind of thing, even if that’s not strictly true. It’s relatively heavy, which, in keeping with the wisdom of Jurassic Park’s unluckiest lawyer , means it’s probably expensive.

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Gizmodo

JANUARY 31, 2021

It’s no secret that New York City, like many other places in the U.S., has been having a hard time with covid-19 vaccine distribution. One of the problems is its messy online sign-up website , which some city officials have denounced as “complex, burdensome, and buggy.” Officials said that this would create an obstacle… Read more.

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JANUARY 31, 2021

Counterpoint: While it’s great to see innovation and the advancement of technology, this Xiaomi announcement is purely marketing hype and it will almost certainly never hit the market. From an engineering perspective, the efficiencies of these transmitters are so low that this device would likely require 1000W+ of input power.

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The Verge

JANUARY 31, 2021

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge. Valve’s latest Steam Game Festival begins Wednesday, giving access to playable demos of more than 500 upcoming games from indie developers, along with livestreamed chats and panel discussions. The first iteration of the festival took place alongside The Game Awards in December 2019, and was followed by similar events last fall and spring that provided indie developers a chance to show off their titles after the 2020 Game Developers Conference was canceled

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GeekWire

JANUARY 31, 2021

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 Jan. 24, 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. Washington state lawmakers target Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, and other billionaires with wealth tax.

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Gizmodo

JANUARY 31, 2021

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The Verge

JANUARY 31, 2021

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge. On November 10th , a Facebook employee sent out an unusual email to an unknown outside party, hoping to arrange a conversation about how the platform moderated against anti-Semitism. “We are looking at the question of how we should interpret attacks on ‘Zionists,’” reads the letter, whose recipient was redacted, “to determine whether the term is a proxy for attacking Jewish or Israeli people.”.

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JANUARY 31, 2021

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