The Verge

FEBRUARY 26, 2022

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge. As the invasion of Ukraine enters its third day, Russia has blocked access to Twitter in an apparent effort to stifle the flow of information, according to a report from the internet monitoring group NetBlocks. Beginning Saturday morning, NetBlocks saw failed or heavily throttled connections across every major Russian telecom provider, including Rostelecom, MTS, Beeline, and MegaFon.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 26, 2022

(Violett Photo). The arrival of the pandemic forced the world to go remote, but what about essential workers in tight, poorly ventilated spaces that didn’t have this option? For Branden Doyle , a former nuclear engineer for the U.S. Department of Defense, this scenario was a serious health safety concern on the aircraft carriers and submarines he worked on.

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Venture Beast

FEBRUARY 26, 2022

Web3 will usher in a new era of social networks with a creator-driven economy and a focus on community interests over gatekeeper interests. Read More.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 26, 2022

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge. Facebook is blocking state-run Russian media outlets from advertising and monetizing content on the platform amid the ongoing conflict in Ukraine (via Reuters ). 1/ We are now prohibiting Russian state media from running ads or monetizing on our platform anywhere in the world. We also continue to apply labels to additional Russian state media.

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Many organizations today are unlocking the power of their data by using graph databases to feed downstream analytics, enahance visualizations, and more. Yet, when different graph nodes represent the same entity, graphs get messy. Watch this essential video with Senzing CEO Jeff Jonas on how adding entity resolution to a graph database condenses network graphs to improve analytics and save your analysts time.

Venture Beast

FEBRUARY 26, 2022

AR is reinventing video calling for everyone – breaking people out of boxes on a screen to enable dynamic, interactive experiences. Read More.

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TechSpot

FEBRUARY 26, 2022

The policy change was announced on Friday in a blog post by Discord's senior platform policy specialist Alex Anderson. The rules are explicitly targeted at Covid-19 misinformation, which has become increasingly prevalent across the web.

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TechSpot

FEBRUARY 26, 2022

Can any Intel GPUs run Elden Ring? No, according to the game's system requirements, which mandate a GTX 1060 or RX 580 at a minimum, and none of Intel's integrated GPUs come close to that level of performance. Even after Bandai Namco warned players of performance issues and urged them.

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Vox

FEBRUARY 26, 2022

Russia’s President Vladimir Putin at a meeting with business leaders in Moscow. | Alexei Nikolsky/TASS/via Getty Images. Social media companies are in a standoff with Russia on censorship — and there’s no easy solution. On Friday morning, as Russia continued its unprovoked attacks on Ukraine , its government also launched an assault on Facebook, announcing that it would begin “partially restricting” access to the social media network in Russia, where there are an estimated 70 million users, beca

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TechSpot

FEBRUARY 26, 2022

Following a barrage of economic and financial sanctions from several countries, Ukraine has now called on the private sector to do its part — starting with tech giant Apple.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 26, 2022

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge. Valve CEO Gabe Newell is open to Microsoft launching its PC Game Pass service on Steam. In an interview with PC Gamer , Newell says Valve has no plans for an Xbox Game Pass competitor, but that it would be happy to work with Microsoft to bring PC Game Pass to Steam. “I don’t think it’s something that we think we need to do ourselves, building a subscription service at this time,” Newell said.

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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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TechSpot

FEBRUARY 26, 2022

Apple has patented some strange things over the years, which, sadly, have never materialized. So don’t be too optimistic about this. Apple Keyboard? Keyboard Mac? MacBoard?

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 26, 2022

Financial sanctions from several countries bar some card payments through Google Pay and Apple Pay. | Photo By Lea Suzuki/The San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images. Customers at a number of banks in Russia can no longer use their bank cards with Google Pay and Apple Pay due to newly-imposed financial sanctions on the country, as reported by Insider.

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TechSpot

FEBRUARY 26, 2022

A few days ago, an enterprising Lego builder posted a video of his light-up Legos, and I was swept back to my childhood.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 26, 2022

Photo by Stanislav KrasilnikovTASS via Getty Images. A coalition of NATO-aligned countries has committed to new measures meant to sever Russia from the global financial system, countries announced in a joint letter today. The letter, signed by the United States, UK, Canada, and European allies, lays out new measures to isolate Russia’s central bank, and announces a new trans-Atlantic task force to freeze the foreign assets of sanctioned individuals.

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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.

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TechSpot

FEBRUARY 26, 2022

It's not impossible to find a laptop with a 16-core processor, but in such cases, the processor is a desktop part that's been squished into a notebook without the proper adjustments being made. It will run too hot and be too hungry.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 26, 2022

Roscosmos will withdraw all 87 employees from the Guiana Space Centre. | Photo by Sergei SavostyanovTASS via Getty Images. Russian space agency Roscosmos has announced that it’s temporarily halting Soyuz rocket launches in French Guiana due to sanctions imposed by the European Union, according to a report by Space.com. “Roscosmos is suspending cooperation with European partners in organizing space launches from the Kourou Cosmodrome and withdrawing its personnel, including the consolidated launc

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Vox

FEBRUARY 26, 2022

Russia’s President Vladimir Putin at a meeting with business leaders in Moscow, February 24, 2022. | Alexei Nikolsky/TASS/via Getty Images. Social media companies are in a standoff with Russia on censorship and there’s no easy solution. On Friday morning, as Russia continued its unprovoked attacks on Ukraine , its government also launched an assault on Facebook, announcing that it would begin “partially restricting” access to the social media network in Russia, where there are an estimated 70 mi

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 26, 2022

Illustration by James Bareham / The Verge. More than $15 million has been donated so far More than $15 million in cryptocurrency has been donated to Ukrainian groups since Russia attacked the country on February 24th, according to research firm Elliptic. Decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs) have formed to support Ukrainians. NFTs have been sold to raise money for the Ukrainian people and military.

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Venture Beast

FEBRUARY 26, 2022

Ukraine's formation of an "IT army" to bring a cyber opposition to Russia and Nvidia's hack back of a ransomware group share a common theme. Read More.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 26, 2022

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge. YouTube is blocking state-backed Russian media outlets from advertising and earning money on the platform, as first reported by Reuters. As Russian troops continue to invade Ukraine, YouTube told Reuters it’s “pausing a number of channels’ ability to monetize on YouTube, including several Russian channels affiliated with recent sanctions.”.

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Gizmodo

FEBRUARY 26, 2022

The cast of Marvel’s Ironheart is expanding: This Is Us cast favorite Lyric Ross has signed on for the upcoming Disney+ series. Her role is not yet known, but it’s believed she’ll be playing the best friend of Riri Williams , aka Ironheart, played by Judas and the Black Messiah’s Dominque Thorne. Read more.

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Venture Beast

FEBRUARY 26, 2022

The cyberattack threat from Russia is up, amid sanctions dropping major banks from the SWIFT financial system over the invasion of Ukraine. Read More.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 26, 2022

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge. Twitter is putting a temporary hold on advertisements in Ukraine and Russia to ensure the visibility of public safety information. We’re temporarily pausing advertisements in Ukraine and Russia to ensure critical public safety information is elevated and ads don’t detract from it. — Twitter Safety (@TwitterSafety) February 25, 2022.

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Venture Beast

FEBRUARY 26, 2022

Industry-wide commitments to data science and digital transformation are not small — in fact, it's practically a gold rush for talent. Read More.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 26, 2022

When paired with the Hue Hub and the Hue TV sync box, the Philips Hue Gradient Lightstrip is a colorful TV bias light. | Image: Signify. Philips Hue smart lighting has long been one of the preferred smart home accessories for passionate aficionados and newbies alike. That’s because the lights are relatively easy to start off your home automation with, expansive enough to build off of, and they just look cool.

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Venture Beast

FEBRUARY 26, 2022

Unless all of the devices and rendered worlds of the metaverse use the same standards, the metaverse will stall. Read More.

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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.

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Gizmodo

FEBRUARY 26, 2022

With each new expansion, Destiny 2 brings new weapons for player Guardians to strive towards and adventures for them to go on. These expansions are generally pretty good, but sometimes, Bungie’s shared world shooter will put a bigger emphasis on the former, since that’s the main draw of the series. There will still be… Read more.

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Computerworld Vertical IT

FEBRUARY 26, 2022

The United States and its NATO allies have rolled out an unprecedented number of sanctions against Russia as punishment for its invasion last week of Ukraine, including banning exports of cutting-edge technology to Russia. One measure that Ukraine and some of its allies pleaded for is to cut Russia off from SWIFT, the world’s largest financial transaction network.

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Gizmodo

FEBRUARY 26, 2022

In Pixar’s upcoming Turning Red , a teenage girl named Meilin (Rosalie Chiang) who discovers that she can become a big, red panda whenever she gets upset or stressed out. One of the notable things about the film is that it’s set in Toronto during the early 2000s , and Mei and her friends are absolutely in love with the… Read more.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 26, 2022

Fabric CEO Faisal Masud, a former Amazon exec, calls the size of the startup’s market opportunity “absurd.” This week brought news of a big fundraising by e-commerce technology startup Fabric , a $140 million Series C round led by Softbank. With the deal, the 300-person company became Seattle’s newest unicorn, a privately held tech startup valued at more than $1 billion, or about $1.5 billion in its case. .

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