CTOvision
FEBRUARY 13, 2021
In this presentation, OODA CTO Bob Gourley provides insights on technology debt in due diligence based on a career spent evaluating the business impact of technology. The information presented here […].
GeekWire
FEBRUARY 13, 2021
State Senator Bob Hasegawa. (GeekWire Photo / Monica Nickelsburg). Washington state could become a national leader in regulating the technologies of the future, thanks in part to a bill up for debate that would establish new guardrails on government use of artificial intelligence. On the heels of Washington’s landmark facial recognition bill enacted last year , state lawmakers and civil rights advocates are demanding new rules that ban discrimination from automated decision-making by publi
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The Verge
FEBRUARY 13, 2021
Phoebe Waller-Bridge and Donald Glover at the 2019 British Academy Britannia Awards | Photo by Frazer Harrison/BAFTA LA/Getty Images for BAFTA LA. Phoebe Waller-Bridge and Donald Glover will star in a new Amazon Prime Video series based on the 2005 film Mr. and Mrs. Smith. The movie starred Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt as a pair of married killers-for-hire who are assigned to assassinate each other.
TechSpot
FEBRUARY 13, 2021
In a further move towards bolstering its growing hardware business, Facebook has been building a new wearable that is set to launch in 2022. The report comes from The Information, which claims that the Facebook smartwatch is due to launch next year.
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.
Venture Beast
FEBRUARY 13, 2021
Compute costs, spurious noise, and privacy problems all mean that we can't keep moving toward bigger and bigger datasets to fuel AI progress. Read More.
GeekWire
FEBRUARY 13, 2021
Matt McIlwain and Madison McIlwain. (Photo courtesy of Madison McIlwain). An elevator pitch, quick coffee, lunch or Zoom chat might be how some investors get a feel for a particular company or founder. Madison McIlwain picked up what to look for, and the ins and outs of venture capital, seated at the family dinner table as a kid. McIlwain is the daughter of Matt McIlwain , a managing director at Seattle’s Madrona Venture Group.
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The Verge
FEBRUARY 13, 2021
DJI’s first-ever FPV (first-person-view) drone hasn’t been much of a secret for months — but an unboxing video now shows off the new quadcopter, controller and FPV goggles from practically every angle ( via OsitaLV ). While the prominent “NOT FOR SALE” and “DISPLAY DEMO” stickers on the box and controller suggest that some details might change before a rumored March launch, we can clearly see a set of front- and downward-facing cameras that are likely obstacle avoidance sensors, in addition to t
Venture Beast
FEBRUARY 13, 2021
Michael Hurlston, CEO of Synaptics, has pivoted the maker of chips into the internet of things market, moving away from smartphones and PCs. Read More.
The Verge
FEBRUARY 13, 2021
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge. The Minneapolis City Council voted unanimously on Friday to approve an ordinance banning the use of facial recognition software by its police department and other city agencies, the Star Tribune reported. The ban adds Minneapolis to the list of US cities moving to limit or end the use of such technology by its law enforcement officers and city employees.
Gizmodo
FEBRUARY 13, 2021
In a move straight out of our fanfic dreams, Fleabag ’s Phoebe Waller-Bridge and Childish Gambino himself Donald Glover will executive produce and star in a new series based on the 2005 movie Mr. and Mrs Smith for Amazon Prime. Read more.
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The Verge
FEBRUARY 13, 2021
Photo by Artur Widak/NurPhoto via Getty Images. Mercedes-Benz USA is recalling 1.29 million vehicles because of a failure in its eCall software which may not provide a vehicle’s correct location to emergency responders after a crash, Car and Driver reported. The recall covers vehicles sold from model years 2016 to 2021 and includes CLA-Class, GLA-Class, GLE-Class, GLS-Class, SLC-Class, A-Class, GT-Class, C-Class, E-Class, S-Class, CLS-Class, SL-Class, B-Class, GLB-Class, GLC-Class, and G-Class v
Gizmodo
FEBRUARY 13, 2021
Failure could take on many forms next week when NASA’s next-gen rover, Perseverance, reaches the surface of the Red Planet. Here’s what needs to go right—and how things could quickly go sideways—when Perseverance tries to make its much-anticipated landing. Read more.
TechSpot
FEBRUARY 13, 2021
Four years ago, Intel closed up shop in Romania. They've continued to sell their processors there but without a local office, their media support has been woeful, says lab501, a local tech publication. Of the 21 Intel processors lab501 has reviewed since being left in the lurch, 5 came from.
Gizmodo
FEBRUARY 13, 2021
Ever since I was a little girl, one of my favorite things about Valentine’s Day has been the cards. I would love to decorate my little shoebox every year and check out all the Valentines I would get from my classmates. The best ones were, of course, the ones that were not like the others. Thumbs up if they were both … Read more.
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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.
The Verge
FEBRUARY 13, 2021
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge. Google has provided a bug fix to its iOS YouTube app, the first update to a major Google iOS app since December, 9to5Google reports. Although there’s been speculation that the reason for the lack of updates to iOS versions of Gmail, Docs, Search, and Photos is an attempt to avoid Apple’s new privacy labels, Google has explicitly denied that was the case.
Gizmodo
FEBRUARY 13, 2021
Maryland decided to take a chunk of Big Tech’s advertising dollars on Friday, successfully passing legislation that would place a maximum tax of 10% on revenue from digital ads. Analysts estimate that the tax will generate about $250 million in its first year, money that the Maryland says will go to schools. Read more.
The Verge
FEBRUARY 13, 2021
Photo Illustration by Pavlo Gonchar/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images. Reddit CEO Steve Huffman, Robinhood co-CEO Vlad Tenev, and Keith Gill (aka Roaring Kitty) are all on the witness list for an upcoming hearing before the House Financial Services Committee, according to a release from Chairwoman Maxine Waters (D-CA). The hearing, to be conducted virtually, will probe the recent volatility in shares of GameStop following a rally fueled by a group of day traders active on the r/WallStreet
TechSpot
FEBRUARY 13, 2021
Over the past 5 years, the Steam Controller has been my primary driver for PC gaming from the couch. I've tried Microsoft's controller, DualShock, DualSense, and even the Switch Pro and none come even close. But then, what went wrong with the Steam Controller?
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Gizmodo
FEBRUARY 13, 2021
The House Financial Services Committee will hold a virtual hearing on Feb. 18 as part of its investigation into the coordinated effort by Reddit’s stock-trading community to drive up the price of GameStop stocks as a big middle finger to hedge fund managers. Read more.
The Verge
FEBRUARY 13, 2021
That’s The Verge’s Chris Welch wearing Bose’s Noise Canceling Headphones 700 | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge. You wouldn’t know it from looking at The Verge ’s deals coverage this week, but we’ve been getting so many pitches for deals that are on because of Valentine’s Day on Sunday, February 14th, and Presidents’ Day, which is happening the following day in the US.
Gizmodo
FEBRUARY 13, 2021
The covid-19 vaccination effort is finally achieving liftoff in the U.S. In the days since we highlighted the case for optimism about the pandemic ending, data collected by Bloomberg shows 2 million more Americans have received a shot. Read more.
Scott Lowe
FEBRUARY 13, 2021
In late 2019, I announced that I would be temporarily relocating to Tokyo for a six-month assignment to build out a team focused on cloud-native services and offerings. A few months later, I was still in Colorado, and I explained what was happening in a status update on the Tokyo assignment. I’ve had a few folks ask me about it, so I thought I’d go ahead and shared that the Tokyo assignment did not happen and will not happen.
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“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.
Gizmodo
FEBRUARY 13, 2021
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The Verge
FEBRUARY 13, 2021
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge. Last year, the pseudonymous writer behind the SlateStarCodex blog abruptly shut it down, claiming a forthcoming story from The New York Times was going to reveal his real name and potentially put him in danger. Reporter Cade Metz says he was able to easily find the blogger’s real name —Scott Siskind— online. After a farewell post on the blog, Metz says he and his editor were harassed online by its angry fans.
Gizmodo
FEBRUARY 13, 2021
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TechSpot
FEBRUARY 13, 2021
Epstein had struggled for some time with shoddy Internet coverage in his North Hollywood home, where he was accessing speeds of “up to” 3Mbps, and had previously found that complaining to AT&T directly didn’t help. That’s when he decided to take a more direct approach, paying $10,000 for a quarter-page.
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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.
Gizmodo
FEBRUARY 13, 2021
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GeekWire
FEBRUARY 13, 2021
The Jan. 6 breach and riot at the U.S. Capitol, and the larger effort to overturn the results of the election, have brought new attention to the larger need for political reform — fixing the bugs in the system of democracy, to use a metaphor offered by Jon DeVaan, the former Microsoft engineering leader. Jon DeVaan, former Microsoft engineering leader and board member of Represent Us.
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