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Entire California School Board Resigns After Chewing Out Parents on Accidental Zoom Broadcast

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It’s hard to believe that almost a year into the pandemic pushing everything virtual, there are people still struggling to get the hang of Zoom. And yet here we are. Read more.

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Bad weather slows COVID-19 vaccination drive, but experts see clearer skies ahead

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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s V-Safe tracks health status after a shot. (GeekWire Photo). They say that the second vaccine shot for COVID-19 is rougher than the first one — and we’re not just talking about the side effects. As a newly double-vaccinated member of the 65-and-older set, I can vouch for the claim that the side effects can be felt more acutely the second time around: Back in late January, my first Pfizer-BioNTech shot gave me nothing more than a sore ar

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What you need to know about the no-code/low-code landscape

Venture Beast

No-code/low-code will change IT from an internal service provider into a body that empowers business teams to build their own technologies. Read More.

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Amazon vs. Shopify: What the tech giant’s latest deal says about its larger retail ambitions

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GeekWire Illustration. When Jeff Bezos named e-commerce software company Shopify as an example of Amazon’s growing competition in his testimony to a U.S. House antitrust subcommittee last year , e-commerce consultant and former Amazon seller Jason Boyce wasn’t buying it. It struck Boyce then as a calculated claim, a false equivalency to get regulators to back off by overstating Amazon’s competitive threats. “When he brought it up, I’m like, this is a joke,” Bo

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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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Salesforce Research wields AI to study medicine, economics, and speech

Venture Beast

Salesforce Research is involved with a number of different projects, from biomedical AI to debiasing in natural language processing. Read More.

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Some viewers of Metallica’s BlizzCon performance heard the least metal music imaginable

The Verge

That disclaimer at the bottom would prove relevant. | Image: Blizzard. Despite its later-than-usual timing and going completely virtual for the first time, yesterday’s BlizzCon keynote brought with it some big news and exciting trailers. It also featured a musical performance from Metallica. The band isn’t new to BlizzCon, having first appeared at the conference in 2014.

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Alexa-enabled printer, Amazon’s first product from Kickstarter-like program Build It, hits preorder goal

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Amazon’s Smart Sticky Note Printer (Amazon Image). Amazon on Wednesday announced Build It, a Kickstarter-like program that lets you preorder potential products that the company will only build if it gets enough support within 30 days. Three days later, the first product has already reached its goal: Smart Sticky Note Printer will start shipping somewhere between July and September.

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Google Fires Another Top Researcher on Its AI Ethics Team

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Google has fired another top artificial intelligence researcher, Margaret Mitchell, in the latest escalation of internal tensions at the company following December’s controversial ouster of Timnit Gebru, a Black AI ethicist. As if the PR fire with Google’s AI ethics team didn’t have enough fuel already. Read more.

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Here’s what Bill Gates is doing — and not doing — to help fight climate change

GeekWire

Climate change is by definition a global challenge, and in his new book, “How to Avoid a Climate Disaster,” Bill Gates describes solutions that require an all-hands response including government, companies, institutions and individuals. But as one of the world’s wealthiest people, an outspoken booster of tech innovation, the largest private owner of U.S. farmland , and someone who admits to having a Paul Bunyan-sized carbon footprint, Gates is also taking steps personally to he

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Google fires Margaret Mitchell, co-lead of its Ethical AI team

TechSpot

Last December, Gebru was fired from Google after she tried to be outspoken about unethical AI. This prompted some 225 Google employees to club together to create a union, in the hope of preventing further unfair dismissal and protecting employee rights. Mitchell was a member of said union, but that.

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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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Overwatch 2 deep dive: New maps and dynamic environments

Venture Beast

Blizzard Entertainment said that Overwatch 2 isn't coming in 2021, but it did reveal a bunch of new details at BlizzCon Online. Read More.

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Huawei tells suppliers that it only expects to sell 70 to 80 million smartphones this year

TechSpot

Huawei is stuck between a rock and a hard place as US sanctions have resulted in a significant reduction in global sales of its smartphones throughout 2020. In fact, it's become so hard for the Chinese company to manage the financial impact, that it not only divested in one of.

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Postmates workers are getting scammed out of their earnings by phishing schemes

The Verge

Over at The Markup is an alarming story about a rash of phishing scams that have been targeting gig workers for Postmates. Drivers are receiving phone calls from people claiming to be Postmates employees, who urge the workers to give over their login details — usually under the guise that it’s necessary to keep a driver account in good standing or avoid claims of fraud.

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Rogue returns as one of Diablo IV's playable character classes

TechSpot

The Rogue is a carryover from the original Diablo, and can specialize in both ranged and close quarters combat using bows and daggers, respectively. She primarily relies on imbued weapons, powerful combo attacks, deadly poisons and shadow magic to get the job done.

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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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Facebook’s news ban in Australia is draconian. But it might not be wrong.

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An activist dressed as Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg in Belgium, which also has a few fans in favor of government regulations on Big Tech. | Kenzo Tribouillard/AFP via Getty Images. The social media giant cut millions of Australians off from the news to protest a potential law with a lot of flaws. Facebook’s sudden move on Wednesday to cut Australians off from the news (and the rest of the world from Australian news) was as surprising as it was draconian.

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Nintendo knocks Sony off its TV ad impressions perch

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Nintendo led gaming industry TV ad impressions during a recent 30-day period, with 79.3% of 387.3 million TV ad impressions. Read More.

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The Louisiana City Struck by Two Hurricanes Last Year Is Suffering in This Week's Deep Freeze

Gizmodo

On Monday night, the temperature in Lake Charles, Louisiana dipped to 14 degrees Fahrenheit (7.8 degrees Celsius), more than 30 degrees Fahrenheit (17.2 degrees Celsius) below average. Hours later, just before the sun rose on Tuesday morning, the city’s power supply abruptly shut off , taking the six local water plants… Read more.

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Diablo II: Resurrected will be a faithful remaster of the iconic game

TechSpot

At BlizzConline, Blizzard officially announced Resurrected will be the long rumored Diablo II remaster, with the pleasant news that it's slated for release sometime this year. It’s a remaster of both the original game, now more than two decades old, and its expansion, Lord of Destruction.

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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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Furosystems Aventa e-bike review: ice breaker

The Verge

Ease your way into the joys of commuting by electric bike Aventa is a new electric bike with a secret: its battery is removable despite the clean design. London-based Furosystems just launched the Aventa series of pedal-assist e-bikes into the European market. A more powerful US model is planned for later this year, or early in 2022 if the double whammy of Covid and Brexit creates undue complications.

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Intel gives its enthusiast Rocket Lake SKU a unique new retail box

TechSpot

Intel Rocket Lake CPUs are slated to launch next month. A new leak from VideoCardz has revealed the packing we can expect to come with the top-of-the-line Core i9 chips. Based on the leaked images, the new packaging is made entirely, or at least largely, of hard plastic with opaque.

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An Artist Used a Drone to Photograph Rarely Seen ICE Detention Centers

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Unfortunately, it’s not hard to find information about the disturbing , unhealthy , and inhumane conditions that immigrants face in ICE detention centers, many of which are privately-owned. It is, however, more complicated to find photos of these detention centers. Access to photographers is often not on the table. Read more.

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Here are the best deals of the week

The Verge

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge. This is the first time in recent memory where several deals we’ve written about through the week are still available. It’s always great when readers have an extended window of time to snag a deal. So, below you’ll find a few of our favorite picks from the week, along with one new exclusive deal for Verge readers.

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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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Paul Feig, Charlize Theron, and Kerry Washington Are Taking Us to The School of Good and Evil

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Paul Feig continues on his personal mission to give us gifts in the form of powerful lady team-ups. This time, it’s Kerry Washington and Charlize Theron playing best friends and the Deans of The School of Good and Evil. Read more.

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How a yearlong sabbatical helped this startup founder recharge his passion and excitement

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James Hu, founder and CEO of Jobscan. (Jobscan Photo). The notion that “absence makes the heart grow fonder” is simple enough. But what if that absence means temporarily walking away from the company that you founded and lead because your passion for the business has waned? For James Hu it was a risk worth taking, and one that paid off. In early 2014, Hu launched Jobscan , a platform featuring resume optimization tools to help job searchers tailor their applications to best fit speci

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Plex Is Experimenting With Apple TV App Integration

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Plex appears to be exploring an integration with Apple’s streaming app. Read more.

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United Airlines flight safely lands after dramatic engine failure caught on camera

The Verge

Image: Hayden Smith / speedbird5280 (Instagram). A United Airlines flight experienced a dramatic-looking engine failure just after takeoff from Denver International Airport on Saturday afternoon. UA328, originally headed to Honolulu, quickly circled back to the airport and made a safe landing after the pilots calmly made a “mayday” call to air traffic control.

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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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J.J. Abrams' Subject to Change Will Be a 'Mind- and Reality-Bending' New Series

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A new J.J. Abrams -created thriller is coming to HBO Max. No, not that one, another one. Read more.

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The Oatmeal’s creator says his new game is a way to ‘play the comic’

The Verge

Photo by Daniel Knighton / WireImage. The creator of The Oatmeal , Matthew Inman, released a new cat-themed mobile word game called Kitty Letter earlier this week that feels like playing one of his silly comic strips. That feeling was intentional, Inman told me. “My comics have always been rhetorical,” he said. “You don’t interact with the comic, you have no say in it, you’re just experiencing it.

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Saturday's Best Deals: Compustar 2-Way Remote Start Kit, Dyson V7 Allergy, Gooloo Car Jump Starter, Kasa Smart Plugs, Corsair Virtuoso Headset, and More

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A 2-way remote start system and a case of Pedroncelli rosé lead Saturday’s best deals. Read more.

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Treat Yourself to a Corsair Virtuoso Gaming Headset

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CORSAIR Virtuoso Headset | $193 | Newegg | Promo code 93XQJ78 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.