The Verge

DECEMBER 20, 2020

Image: CD Projekt Red. I can barely go anywhere on the internet without seeing yet another wild , hilarious , or downright odd bug from Cyberpunk 2077. It’s a buggy game, and developer CD Projekt Red has already released two hotfixes to try and shore up some of the problems. One issue that’s starting to pop up, though, isn’t funny at all: some players are reporting that their Cyberpunk 2077 save files are becoming corrupted if they exceed a certain file size ( via Eurogamer ).

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 20, 2020

Aerojet Rocketdyne employees and VIPs, including representatives from Lockheed Martin, gather for a group picture in 2017 at Aerojet’s Redmond facility with a banner that says, “The Road to Mars Goes Through Redmond, WA.” (Aerojet Rocketdyne Photo / Mike Labbe). Lockheed Martin has struck a deal to acquire Aerojet Rocketdyne Holdings in an all-cash transaction valued at $4.4 billion, the two companies announced today.

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TechSpot

DECEMBER 20, 2020

Earlier this year, a group of Israeli security researchers at the Ben Gurion University revealed novel ways in which hackers can exploit physically isolated systems to leak sensitive information. One involved manipulating display brightness to alternate between two levels for sending zeroes and ones, another was about carefully tuning the.

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Venture Beast

DECEMBER 20, 2020

If you saw The Game Awards, then you known Call of Duty and Dead Space veterans are creating The Callisto Protocol, a new survival horror game coming in 2022. Striking Distance Studios has quickly built a team of 150 developers in San Ramon, California, to create a science fiction game in the survival horror genre. Glen Schofield, former co-head of… Read More.

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Gizmodo

DECEMBER 20, 2020

Congressional leaders have reached a bipartisan deal on an almost $1 trillion covid-19 economic relief package Sunday afternoon that would establish a temporary $300 per week bump in unemployment benefits and send $600 stimulus checks to most Americans, the Associated Press reports. Read more.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 20, 2020

Photo by Hugh Hastings/Getty Images. An algorithm determining which Stanford Medicine employees would receive its 5,000 initial doses of the COVID-19 vaccine included just seven medical residents / fellows on the list, according to a December 17th letter sent from Stanford Medicine’s chief resident council. Stanford Medicine leadership has since apologized and promised to re-evaluate the plan.

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TechSpot

DECEMBER 20, 2020

The absolutely enormous Samsung Odyssey G9 is a curved super-ultrawide monitor that promises to offer the most immersive gaming experience on the market. This is a 49-inch monitor equivalent to two 27-inch 1440p displays stitched together.

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Gizmodo

DECEMBER 20, 2020

If you’ve ever wondered why you still have to pay your internet provider rental fees for a modem even after you bought it, I have some good news: A new U.S. law is shutting that s**t down from here on out. Read more.

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TechSpot

DECEMBER 20, 2020

The riot took place at Wistron’s Narasapura plant in India earlier this month, and happened towards the end of one of the manufacturing shifts. Workers destroyed property, upturned vehicles, and stormed the offices of senior executives. According to employees, Wistron has been paying workers significantly less than the salaries they.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 20, 2020

Image: Netflix. Hi, I’m Jay! I’m subbing in for your usual trailers guide Kim Lyons while she takes a well-deserved holiday break. I’ve really been looking forward to writing this post. Trailers are fun! They’re like bite-sized movies. Unfortunately, there weren’t a ton of trailers to choose from this week. I suppose studios don’t want to launch big trailers for upcoming blockbusters shortly before everyone takes off for the holidays.

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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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Gizmodo

DECEMBER 20, 2020

If you, like me, were addicted to Netflix’s The Crown and didn’t leave the comfort of your couch for many hours because you were binging it, you might also gasp in delight at this news. On Christmas day, you’ll be able to have your own The Crown moment with the real Queen Elizabeth II, courtesy of Alexa. Read more.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 20, 2020

Early one morning, a week after the pandemic started, chef and food writer J. Kenji López-Alt strapped a GoPro to his head and filmed himself making breakfast. In the video , you can see López-Alt rummaging through his fridge, slicing and frying bacon, and peeling a bit of egg off a pan to give to his excited dog. There’s no recipe beneath the video, no voice-over instructions detailing what we’re seeing — it’s just a guy in a kitchen making breakfast.

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Gizmodo

DECEMBER 20, 2020

With only days left before Christmas, millions of people in the United Kingdom received disheartening, though not unsurprising, news on Saturday. They were under a strict lockdown again, and would in general not be allowed to mix with other households for the next two weeks. The reason was related to a new strain of… Read more.

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TechSpot

DECEMBER 20, 2020

It seems the ride isn't over yet. And while we're all but hoping for a happy ending and a transformative process No Man's Sky-style, according to a report from The New York Times, there’s the real possibility of one or more class-action lawsuits in the aftermath of CD Projekt Red's.

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Gizmodo

DECEMBER 20, 2020

Peter Lamont, a veteran of the film industry, was one of the most respected and accomplished production designers and art directors around. Now, the Oscar-winner has passed away. Read more.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 20, 2020

The Ninja Fall Guys skin. | Image: Mediatonic. Fall Guys developer Mediatonic has added a skin based on the hugely-popular streamer Tyler “Ninja” Blevins to the game. The skin’s arrival follows a two-week charity bidding war in August to have a custom skin added to the game. Blevins, G2 Esports, Aim Lab, and Jimmy “MrBeast” Donaldson pledged a combined $1 million to Special Effect , which helps people with physical disabilities find ways to play video games.

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Gizmodo

DECEMBER 20, 2020

Discounted Razer Kraken headsets and Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War a lead Sunday’s best deals. Read more.

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Nutanix

DECEMBER 20, 2020

2020 has been a year like no other, filled with significant personal and economic impact for all of our Nutanix customers, partners, and employees. But 2020 was also notable for significant milestones that signaled our strengthening support for our partners.

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Gizmodo

DECEMBER 20, 2020

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Nutanix

DECEMBER 20, 2020

2020 has been a year like no other, filled with significant personal and economic impact for all of our Nutanix customers, partners, and employees. But 2020 was also notable for significant milestones that signaled our strengthening support for our partners.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 20, 2020

The Doppler building reflected in the Amazon Spheres (GeekWire Photo / Kurt Schlosser). [Editor’s Note: Frances McCue is a poet, writer, co-founder of nonprofit community writing center Hugo House, and a teaching professor at the University of Washington. She reads this piece in a special installment of the GeekWire Podcast, embedded below.]. A poet wanders the city and asks, “Who are all these tech people?

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Venture Beast

DECEMBER 20, 2020

Well-established collaborative game development techniques are a solid base from which to build a proper response to COVID-19. Read More.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 20, 2020

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 Dec. 13, 2020. Sign up to receive these updates every Sunday in your inbox by subscribing to our GeekWire Weekly email newsletter. Most popular stories on GeekWire. Microsoft unleashes ‘Death Star’ on SolarWinds hackers in extraordinary response to breach.

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Trends in the Living Networks

DECEMBER 20, 2020

The end of each year is always a good time to distil predictions for what is coming. 2020 has been an absolutely pivotal year, it is a critical time for us to actively make sense of our path forward. In the slides below I have laid out 9 themes that I believe will be at the center of our world in 2021 and beyond. 2020 has pivoted us into a new era. The crucible of 2020 has transformed us, not into a “post-pandemic” future, but one which has accelerated and amplified many existing trends of the p

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