The Verge

APRIL 16, 2022

Photo by Michele Doying / The Verge. Stay up to date with the latest in the Musk-Twitter saga On Thursday, April 14th, Elon Musk announced an offer to buy Twitter for $54.20 a share. This is a huge story with a lot of fast-moving parts to it. It’s also a story that will likely stretch out over the next few months, maybe even longer. So we thought we’d put together a guide for you, our readers, that can be updated as things continue to unfold.

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Venture Beast

APRIL 16, 2022

The metaverse is regarded by many as the next major frontier for tech. But who will succeed in profiting the most from this digital space? Read More.

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TechSpot

APRIL 16, 2022

Following the invasion of Ukraine, Russia got hit with an unprecedented amount of international sanctions. While this has undoubtedly crippled the Russian economy, it also cut off their access to an essential resource in this day and age, semiconductors.

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Venture Beast

APRIL 16, 2022

Get active in AR/VR/XR marketing to entertain your audiences and keep your brand top-of-mind creativity revolution in the metaverse. Read More.

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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

APRIL 16, 2022

To be clear, Square Enix is regularly "disappointed" by the performance of their published works, even when said games actually performed very well. The publisher is known for having unreasonably high expectations for releases. Sadly, even with that in mind, Babylon's Fall is not doing well. It might be faring.

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Venture Beast

APRIL 16, 2022

When tech giants make people addicted to the metaverse, marketers will do what they do best: exploit data, time and privacy for profit. Read More.

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The Verge

APRIL 16, 2022

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge. Microsoft is reportedly working on a program that will let brands showcase advertisements within free-to-play Xbox games, according to a report from Insider. Sources familiar with the situation told Insider that the ads wouldn’t disrupt gameplay and may appear on a billboard in a racing game, for example. It’s not immediately clear how else Microsoft plans on implementing ads, such as having them show up as avatar skins or as videos inside game lobbies.

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TechSpot

APRIL 16, 2022

Sources close to Microsoft recently told Business Insider that the new feature would provide a marketplace for ad placement companies to work closely with developers to secure space and place ads in free-to-play titles. The move would expand Xbox's in-game advertising model, historically limited to Xbox dashboard ads or specialized.

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The Verge

APRIL 16, 2022

Cresting a new wave of inexpensive gaming handhelds There have been several attempts to create Android-based game consoles, but none have really gone to plan. The Ouya , for example, was a high-profile Kickstarter success and a disastrous commercial flop. Nvidia’s streaming-focused Shield , meanwhile, evolved into a great streaming box but didn’t do much to make Android a better gaming platform.

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TechSpot

APRIL 16, 2022

Ethereum developer Tim Beiko recently tweeted that the cryptocurrency won't be moving to proof-of-stake in June as expected. Despite the delay of a few months, he maintains that the switch is nearing.

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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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The Verge

APRIL 16, 2022

Organizers need approval from at least 30 percent of workers to hold a union election. | Photo by Alexi Rosenfeld/Getty Images. Retail Apple employees at a New York City store in Grand Central Terminal have started collecting signatures to form a union, according to a report from The Washington Post. The organizers, who reportedly go by Fruit Stand Workers United, announced in an update on the Pacific Blue Collar Organizing Committee website that they voted to affiliate themselves with the Worke

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TechSpot

APRIL 16, 2022

The rollout has been slow and measured: initially, AMC only allowed users to buy gift cards using Dogecoin (through the Bitpay app), but now, it accepts other coins and for more than just gift cards. Using the AMC mobile app, you can purchase actual movie tickets and snacks using a.

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Venture Beast

APRIL 16, 2022

DALL-E 2 should make it possible to quickly and affordably generate new, labeled images, leading to more accurate computer vision models. Read More.

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TechSpot

APRIL 16, 2022

Intel first announced the flagship Arc hardware as the ACM-G10 GPU and then paper-launched it as the A770M for mobile. Laptops with the A770M should appear on shelves in the coming months. Its unannounced desktop equivalent has now been found in the Geekbench OpenCL database.

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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.

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Venture Beast

APRIL 16, 2022

Although accuracy of AI models is important, there is an urgent need to understand how AI can be designed to operate responsibly. Read More.

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TechSpot

APRIL 16, 2022

In case you didn't grow up playing with Gundam toys as a kid, here's a brief summary: Gundam is a Japanese media franchise that centers around giant mech robots (controlled by ordinary pilots) duking it out and/or saving the world.

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Venture Beast

APRIL 16, 2022

While the RCP vulnerability may seem simple to patch and mitigate on the surface, historically, many organizations have struggled to deploy critical security patches until it's too late. Read More.

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The Verge

APRIL 16, 2022

The UCF Knights will have QR codes on the back of their jerseys. | Photo by Roy K. Miller/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images. This spring, the University of Central Florida’s (UCF) football team will don QR codes instead of numbers on the back of their jerseys (via SportsLogos.net ). The team showed off their new garb on Twitter , sporting large, custom QR codes beneath their last names that you can scan to access players’ biographies on UCF’s website.

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Venture Beast

APRIL 16, 2022

Mobile commerce has grown in popularity and is becoming the standard for online shopping. Here’s how your business can get ahead in m-commerce in 2022. Read More.

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The Verge

APRIL 16, 2022

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge. Editing a tweet using Twitter’s upcoming edit button could leave a digital trace of your tweet’s history, according to reverse engineer Jane Manchun Wong. In a tweet , Manchun Wong explains that the edit function appears to have an “immutable” quality, which means Twitter may create an entirely new tweet when one is edited, all while preserving the previous versions of that tweet.

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Venture Beast

APRIL 16, 2022

SAST and SCA tools together automatically cover all possible paths and events of an application and can discover bugs hidden within it. Read More.

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The Verge

APRIL 16, 2022

You can save on everything from wireless chargers to Bluetooth keyboards at Satechi this weekend. | Image: Satechi. The Easter holiday is bringing some unusual — yet welcome — deals into the spotlight this weekend, including a sitewide sale at Satechi that’s knocking a considerable amount off on everything under the Satechi umbrella. The current promotion, which runs through April 17th and requires you to use one of two promo codes, covers a wide variety of peripherals and accessories, ranging f

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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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APRIL 16, 2022

The developers of Ratchet & Clank won big at the the Dice Awards in February. Here's a look back on the making of the game. Read More.

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The Verge

APRIL 16, 2022

Photo by Monica Chin / The Verge. Windows 11 updates, which Microsoft sends to your system regularly, are meant to keep your operating system current. They are, for the most part, a good thing. But as long-time Windows users know, occasionally, an update can go wrong , and so some prefer to postpone updates for a week or two to make sure that there aren’t any problems being delivered with the update.

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