Gizmodo
MARCH 14, 2021
Due to a bizarre bug, the bird site is temporarily banning folks for tweeting the word “Memphis.” On Sunday, a number of Twitter users suddenly found their accounts locked for 12 hours apparently just for saying the word—myself included. Read more.
Venture Beast
MARCH 14, 2021
Apple and Facebook have marked out their data privacy battlelines, and the impact will be felt across the tech and business worlds. Read More.
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The Verge
MARCH 14, 2021
Kia has given a first real look at its new EV6 electric car, following some shadowy teaser images that were released last week. Full details of the EV6 won’t be announced until an online event later this month, but the new images do at least reveal what it actually looks like. The EV6 has a sporty crossover-inspired design and is the first vehicle to make use of a new design philosophy from Kia that the company calls “Opposites United,” which is comprised of no less than five pillars: “Bold for
Venture Beast
MARCH 14, 2021
The report evaluates DSML platforms' scope, revenue, and growth, customer counts, market traction, and product capability scoring. 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.
The Verge
MARCH 14, 2021
It’s Pi Day, the nerdiest of holidays because it’s all about a mathematical constant that represents the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter (yes, sometimes writing majors do pay attention in geometry class). March 14th has become known as Pi Day because it’s written numerically as 3.14 and pi starts at 3.14. and goes on indefinitely. Irrational number, indeed.
Venture Beast
MARCH 14, 2021
Ensuring your AI is trustworthy depends on more than how you design and use it. You also need the right operational structures in place. Read More.
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Venture Beast
MARCH 14, 2021
Call of Duty stoked Warzone fans by coming up with personalized stat reports on the one-year anniversary of the battle royale mode. Read More.
The Verge
MARCH 14, 2021
Photo by Paul Hennessy/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images. A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched the latest batch of 60 Starlink satellites into orbit Sunday, and returned to Earth successfully, landing on its Of Course I Still Love You drone ship in the Atlantic Ocean, the company announced. Sunday’s mission marked a record ninth flight and landing for this Falcon 9 booster, SpaceX said, which was part of five earlier Starlink launches and the DM-1 mission for its Crew Dragon capsule.
TechSpot
MARCH 14, 2021
Four exploits in Microsoft Exchange Server hit the news last week, when we heard that a Chinese hacking group had targeted the email servers of some 30,000 U.S. government and commercial organizations. The exploits had been patched by Microsoft, but the hacking group known as “Hafnium” had doubled-up on efforts.
The Verge
MARCH 14, 2021
Photo Illustration by Thiago Prudêncio/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images. During Clubhouse’s weekly town hall on Sunday, CEO Paul Davison announced the voice-chat app’s first creators program. Clubhouse Creator First will help aspiring hosts and creators on the platform build their audiences, connect with brands, and perhaps most importantly, monetize their shows.
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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.
TechSpot
MARCH 14, 2021
Nvidia Reflex is another addition to the GeForce feature set, similar to ray tracing and DLSS. Like both of these features, Reflex requires support to be built into the game’s engine, and it’s a bit situational: in our preliminary testing last October, we found that it had the largest impact.
The Verge
MARCH 14, 2021
Photo by Kurt Krieger/Corbis via Getty Images. The 63rd Grammy Awards ceremony will be held Sunday March 14th, as awards show season continues apace despite the coronavirus pandemic. The show will honor the best music of 2020 and all the performers, producers, and behind-the-scenes people who made it happen. As with most of this year’s awards shows, the Grammys look a bit different this year, broadcasting from “in and around” the Los Angeles Convention Center, but without a live audience.
Gizmodo
MARCH 14, 2021
SpaceX successfully launched one of its Falcon 9 rockets into space for a record ninth time on Sunday, making it the first in the company’s fleet to launch and land nine times. The Falcon 9 rocket was carrying a new cargo of 60 Starlink satellites , which are part of the company’s efforts to provide satellite internet. Read more.
The Verge
MARCH 14, 2021
Photo by Jaap Arriens/NurPhoto via Getty Images. The middle eastern country of Oman has blocked the Clubhouse voice chat app saying it lacked the proper permit to operate, as some activists raised concerns that it was an act of censorship, Reuters reported. The Omani Telecommunications Regulatory Authority told news site WAF that communications applications operating in the country must get a permit from the authority.
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Gizmodo
MARCH 14, 2021
Clubhouse, the invite-only audio chat app that has enamored the tech industry elite, is on the lookout for influencers. Because what social media app can be without influencers? Read more.
The Verge
MARCH 14, 2021
Photo: Michele Doying / The Verge. Facebook research into “vaccine-hesitant” beliefs has found that a small group of users is driving many of the discussions that may sow doubt or discouragement about taking a vaccine, The Washington Post reported. Vaccine hesitancy predates both social media and COVID-19, as the World Health Organization reports , and can derail progress in eradicating vaccine-preventable diseases.
Gizmodo
MARCH 14, 2021
Happy Pi Day, fellow nerds! The yearly celebration of the mathematical constant ? or pi, aka the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter (and here I thought I’d never get a chance to use 9th-grade geometry in real life!). It falls on March 14 because pi written out numerically is 3.14. and then goes on… Read more.
The Verge
MARCH 14, 2021
After the success of its Disney Plus series WandaVision , Marvel has gone back to press for new print runs of several WandaVision -related titles, Entertainment Weekly reported. Scarlet Witch by James Robinson; Steve Englehart’s Vision and Scarlet Witch, and Vision , by Tom King and Gabriel Hernandez Walta are all on the list. Marvel also will be increasing its stock of print issues of House of M , which EW says ran out “almost overnight” after the show debuted in January.
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Venture Beast
MARCH 14, 2021
Loop Hero mixes idle games, roguelites, deck-builders, and role-playing games in an innovative, strategic manner. Read More.
Gizmodo
MARCH 14, 2021
Admittedly, the primary portion of The Walking Dead ’s educational plan is telling its students that in the case of a zombie apocalypse , almost everyone will turn into killers if not monsters (literal or figurative). And after a quiet, languid, enjoyable story focused on getting to know more about two of the show’s… Read more.
GeekWire
MARCH 14, 2021
StrikeGraph CEO Justin Beals. (StrikeGraph Photo). The question of what happens when you prioritize diversity, and what happens when you don’t, is at the forefront of the startup discussion. Throughout my career, I have always strived to build diverse teams. I believe it’s important for the health of the business, but on a deeper level, for the health of the company culture.
Gizmodo
MARCH 14, 2021
Waluigi Cloth Face Mask | $16 | Amazon 25-Pack KN95 Face Masks (Pink, Blue, Purple, Red, Gray) | $30 | Amazon Read more.
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The Verge
MARCH 14, 2021
Photo by CHRIS DELMAS/AFP via Getty Images. Epic Games and Brazilian soccer player Neymar are teasing a likely appearance by the star athlete in Fortnite on March 16th, with clues coming via a couple of tweets. Eurogamer first reported the news, including a video tweeted from the Epic Games account showing Neymar’s No. 10 jersey. Neymar retweeted the video with the “eyes” emoji— not exactly confirmation, but another clue that something is brewing.
Gizmodo
MARCH 14, 2021
A 70-inch Hisense smart 4K TV and a 25-pack of KN95 masks lead Sunday’s best deals. Read more.
The Verge
MARCH 14, 2021
Photo by Artur Widak/NurPhoto via Getty Images. Honda has announced it will sell two electric SUVs in the US in the 2024 model year, and plans to introduce hybrid gas-electric versions of its best-selling models. It’s the second Japanese automaker that has recently announced a future EV in the United States; last month Toyota said it plans its first mass-market electric vehicle by the end of 2021.
Gizmodo
MARCH 14, 2021
Hisense 70" H65 Series 4K UHD Smart Android TV | $500 | Best Buy Read more.
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GeekWire
MARCH 14, 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 March 7, 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. Billionaire philanthropist MacKenzie Scott marries Seattle science teacher.
Gizmodo
MARCH 14, 2021
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Gizmodo
MARCH 14, 2021
Last weekend I attended two days of the Brunswick Music Festival in the northern suburbs of Melbourne. In front of a sea of semi-socially distanced picnickers, local bands like indie rockers RVG tore through sets they haven’t played live in a year. People chatted with their friends, hugged, and drank beer. No one wore… Read more.
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