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AI’s Islamophobia problem

Vox

Amanda Northrop/Vox. GPT-3 is a smart and poetic AI. It also says terrible things about Muslims. Imagine that you’re asked to finish this sentence: “Two Muslims walked into a …”. Which word would you add? “Bar,” maybe? It sounds like the start of a joke. But when Stanford researchers fed the unfinished sentence into GPT-3, an artificial intelligence system that generates text , the AI completed the sentence in distinctly unfunny ways.

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Harley-Davidson’s stunning vintage-inspired electric bikes are going on sale later this year

The Verge

Nearly a year after announcing plans to spin out its own electric bike company called Serial 1, Harley-Davidson said it will sell a “limited” number of the gorgeous, vintage-inspired models that it originally said was just a “styling exercise.”. The S1 Mosh/Tribute is an homage to “Serial Number One,” the nickname for Harley-Davidson’s oldest known motorcycle built in 1903.

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Citizen spacefliers splash down, finishing up Inspiration4’s charity mission in orbit

GeekWire

Inspiration4’s crew — Chris Sembroski, Sian Proctor, Jared Isaacman and Hayley Arceneaux — are all smiles after splashdown. (SpaceX via YouTube). The first non-governmental flight to orbit ended with a splash — and with the safe return of the Inspiration4 mission’s billionaire commander and his three crewmates. Shift4 Payment’s 38-year-old founder and CEO, Jared Isaacman, paid what’s thought to be a price of more than $100 million for the three-day flight, which began on

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SpaceX CEO Elon Musk says Starlink internet service leaving beta in October

The Verge

Photo by Nilay Patel / The Verge. SpaceX CEO Elon Musk tweeted Friday that the company’s Starlink satellite internet network would come out of its open beta phase next month. That’s two months later than the August date Musk gave at Mobile World Congress , when he also said he expected the service to have “possibly over 500,000 users within 12 months.”.

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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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Life sciences startups in Eastern Washington find a welcoming ecosystem away from big cities

GeekWire

Washington State University assistant professor and Appiture Biotechnologies co-founder Georgina Lynch. (WSU Photo). The biotech and healthtech community in Eastern Washington has a loyal base of startups that laud their local connections and the support of a tight-knit group of entrepreneurs. That’s a message echoed by several of the region’s CEOs and founders recently at the East West Life Science Summit , a meeting sponsored by industry group Life Science Washington.

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58% of employees say hybrid and remote options are here to stay

Venture Beast

The COVID-19 pandemic has brought about huge workplace disruption for organizations of all sizes, and across all industries and geographies. Read More.

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Automation and analytics: Unraveling trade-based money laundering

Venture Beast

Trade-based money laundering is a growing problem, attracting sophisticated criminals because it's more difficult to detect than other types. Read More.

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Clive Sinclair, inventor of the ZX Spectrum personal computer, has died

The Verge

Inventor and entrepreneur Sir Clive Sinclair has died at age 81. | Photo by Evening Standard/Hulton Archive/Getty Images. Clive Sinclair, who invented the Sinclair ZX Spectrum, an early personal computer, died of cancer Thursday at age 81, his family confirmed. Sinclair was an inventor with an impressive list of electronic products to his name, some, like his pocket calculator, were quite successful, while others, like his Sinclair C5 “electric trike” vehicle, were decidedly not.

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59% of kids’ apps removed from Apple Store didn’t have a privacy policy

Venture Beast

Apps can be delisted for a variety of reasons, from relatively nefarious to benign causes. The report doesn't list reasons for any delisting. Read More.

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‘They proved me wrong.’ Investor who passed on Seattle startup Remitly analyzes its upcoming IPO

GeekWire

Maveron’s Jason Stoffer. Jason Stoffer was still early in his career at venture capital firm Maveron in 2012 when he declined an opportunity to invest in Remitly , then a fledgling Seattle startup with ambitions to challenge Western Union by bringing a tech mindset to the business of international money transfers. He was impressed by Remitly co-founders Matt Oppenheimer and Josh Hug but knew they faced a huge challenge in getting the state-by-state regulatory approval required to make mone

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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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5G for the enterprise: A status check

Venture Beast

5G promises to help enterprises in 3 main areas: operations, employee experience, and customer experience. Read More.

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The Elder Scrolls Online is getting DLSS and its evil twin, DLAA

TechSpot

In a recent livestream, its developers announced that The Elder Scrolls Online would be updated with DLSS in the fall. It’s a welcome change for players with older hardware, but it won’t excite owners of newer GPUs. Any 3000-series RTX GPU can easily churn out frames at 4k with max.

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How ILMxLab brought the Galaxy’s Edge to virtual reality

Venture Beast

Lucasfilm's ILMxLab talks about the design of Star Wars: Tales From the Galaxy's Edge -- Last Call VR game. Read More.

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Facebook VP disputes report claiming the platform knows about multiple flaws it doesn’t fix

The Verge

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge. Facebook’s vice president of global affairs criticized a series of stories by the Wall Street Journal that reported the social network is aware of numerous problems across its platforms that cause harm to users, but does little to fix them. In a post on Facebook’s blog , Nick Clegg wrote that while it was “absolutely legitimate for us to be held to account for how we deal with” some of the issues outlined in the Journal reporting, the stories “contained d

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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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Celebrating AI-infused talent management at the Eightfold conference

Venture Beast

A recent Eightfold user conference outlined trends in applying AI to talent management and employee development. Read More.

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Eternals' Kit Harington Is Either Naive or Lying

Gizmodo

One of the most annoying things about mega-movies franchises like Star Wars or the Marvel Cinematic Universe is that everyone is so hell-bent on keeping secrets that the people working on them have to lie through their teeth in response to even the most banal questions with the most obvious answers. Enter one Kit… Read more.

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Here's a list of free games to add to your collection this month

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Laika Heads to Wildwood for Its Next Stop-Motion Movie

Gizmodo

Laika , the maker of fine stop-motion animated movies such as Coraline and Kubo and the Two Strings , has announced its newest project: an adaptation of Wildwood , the 2011 YA novel by Colin Meloy, singer/songwriter of the indie rock band the Decemberists, and illustrated by his wife Carson Ellis. The film will be… Read more.

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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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Why you need a personal laptop

The Verge

Yep, if my employer gave me a ThinkPad X1 Carbon, I’d want to use it all the time too. Don’t do it! | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge. It’s a decision that may seem like a no-brainer. You’ve got a new job, and they’ve just given you a brand-new ThinkPad. Perfect , you think to yourself. It’s about time I got rid of that 10-year-old MacBook Air.

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Evangelion 3.0+1.0 Wouldn't Work Without Its Quiet, Contemplative Opening

Gizmodo

Evangelion 3.0+1.0 's heady attempt to bid farewell not just to the series of ‘Rebuild’ movies of the seminal mecha anime , but the ideas of the serie s at large, has a lot to deal with across its meaty runtime. But its choice to slam the brakes on the forward momentum and ask its characters to sit with the prospect of… Read more.

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Save $800 on this 55-inch OLED TV at Best Buy this weekend

The Verge

Slim and sharp. OLED TVs have developed a reputation for being sharp, clean, fragile, but also remarkably expensive. But this weekend you can save a whopping $800 on this 55-inch OLED TV from Sony at Best Buy. At just 2.3-inches thick without its stand, the A8H, much like other OLED screens, is impossibly slim. This makes it ideal for wall mounting especially for anyone in pursuit of that ultra-clean, Ikea catalog aesthetic.

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Tesla to Reverse Massive Price Hikes for Some Solar Roof Customers, Court Document Shows

Gizmodo

Tesla solar roof customers who were blindsided by the company’s massive (and legally questionable ) price hikes in April may be able to get their original rates restored, according to a court document published this week. Read more.

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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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Spot Has a New Gig as a Robo-Guard Dog

Gizmodo

Spot may not be working for the cops anymore, but Boston Dynamics’ quadruped robot already has a new gig as a guard dog at a South Korean auto factory. Cue a fresh wave of “Black Mirror” memes. Read more.

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Biden Administration Says IPCC 'Does Not Present Sufficient Cause' to End Offshore Drilling

Gizmodo

This piece was originally published in the Daily Poster , a grassroots-funded investigative news outlet. Click here to become a subscriber. Read more.

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