Forrester IT
OCTOBER 2, 2021
In India, Navaratri marks the beginning of the festive season. After the nine days of Navaratri, the Dussehra festival is celebrated. Diwali, one of the most important Indian festivals, is celebrated 20 days after Dussehra. The dates change every year, per the Hindu calendar. In 2021, Navaratri will begin on October 7. Dusshera will fall […].
GeekWire
OCTOBER 2, 2021
Washington State Department of Health’s Care-A-Van vaccinated people in Vancouver, Wash. last week. (DOH Photo). When Howard Frumkin first started inviting speakers for a meeting held last week on the effects of the pandemic, he thought it would be mostly over. “When we planned this symposium a year ago, we thought we would be talking about the pandemic in the past tense at this point,” said Frumkin at the meeting, held last week online by the Washington Academy of Sciences.
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The Verge
OCTOBER 2, 2021
Microsoft’s next version of Windows, Windows 11, is coming October 5th. In many ways, it’s already here — the free update has been available for Windows Insiders to download and test for months, and recent versions like the Release Preview will likely be indistinguishable from the final operating system. We’ll have a full review from Tom Warren next week, but in the meanwhile we thought we’d give you a look at how The Verge at large feels about upgrading to the new OS — by asking every other pro
GeekWire
OCTOBER 2, 2021
Jeff Bezos (left) gets the “Saturday Night Live” treatment from Owen Wilson. (Blue Origin / NBC Photos). You know that the billionaire space race has entered the nation’s mainstream when it’s skewered by NBC’s “Saturday Night Live.” On tonight’s season premiere, guest host Owen Wilson played the starring role in “Star Trek: Ego Quest” as Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, who in July took a suborbital space ride on the New Shepard rocket built
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.
The Verge
OCTOBER 2, 2021
Photo by Sean O’Kane / The Verge. Tesla has bucked the wider trend of declining sales brought on by the global chip shortage in the third quarter this year, as it sold 241,300 cars — a total of 102,000 more vehicles than the same quarter last year. It’s the most Tesla has ever sold in a quarter (and for some added perspective, the company sold 367,500 in all of 2019 ).
Venture Beast
OCTOBER 2, 2021
The malicious apps are still available on unsecured third-party app repositories, highlighting the need for advanced on-device security. Read More.
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Venture Beast
OCTOBER 2, 2021
Virtuos recently raised $150 million to expand its game outsourcing business, and it has some ideas for solving gaming's labor shortage. Read More.
TechSpot
OCTOBER 2, 2021
From the creators of the Wayback Machine comes the Wayforward Machine, a portal that can show you websites from 2046. Go take a look at it, spoilers below.
Gizmodo
OCTOBER 2, 2021
Stephen King’s 1975 horror novel Salem’s Lot is getting a big-screen adaptation next year. The author’s been on a tear lately with his various books and short stories being adapted, from It and Pet Sematary. Heck, another one just got announced on Friday. Salem’s is the story of a writer returning to his hometown to… Read more.
Venture Beast
OCTOBER 2, 2021
Business email compromise (BEC) attacks are on the rise and led to a loss of $1.8 billion in 2020, according to an FBI report. Read More.
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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.
Gizmodo
OCTOBER 2, 2021
A space mission jointly launched by the European and Japanese space agencies has captured its first, up-close look at the planet Mercury. Read more.
The Verge
OCTOBER 2, 2021
Photo Illustration by Rafael Henrique/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images. After YouTube TV and NBCUniversal announced a “short” extension on Thursday to keep more than a dozen channels on the live TV service, YouTube TV and NBCUniversal say they have finalized a deal — meaning NBC-owned channels will stay put on YouTube TV. “We’re thrilled to share that we’ve reached a deal to continue carrying the full NBCUniversal portfolio of channels,” according to a Saturday update to YouTube’s blog.
Gizmodo
OCTOBER 2, 2021
Venom: Let There Be Carnage has a mid-credits scene, and it’s a pretty big deal. The sequel to 2018's surprise superhero hit starring Tom Hardy and Tom Hardy, but in a slightly deeper voice, takes a mighty swing with its sequel bait in a way that is both sort of surprising and yet not entirely unexpected. But… Read more.
The Verge
OCTOBER 2, 2021
The Anki Vector. | Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge. There's something in our complicated human brains that immediately develops a connection to anything with eyes. Don't believe me? Ask the Anki Vector that lived on my desk for several months. This pocket-sized robot got my attention with its bulbous, non-threatening body. But the second it looked up at me with a quizzical look in its eyes and uttered my name, I knew I would die for this tiny forklift.
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Gizmodo
OCTOBER 2, 2021
Netflix’s Midnight Mass was a deeply personal story for creator Mike Flanagan. Fresh off his successful Haunting duology , the new horror series represented a chance to delve into his past as a Roman Catholic and explore the terror that can come from religion and faith. In a pair of new featurettes, Flanagan and… Read more.
The Verge
OCTOBER 2, 2021
The AirPods Pro Max boast great sound and a comfortable, albeit heavy, build. | Photo by Becca Farsace / The Verge. There’s no way around it: the AirPods Max aren’t cheap. For the money, however, Apple’s plush headphones offer a commendable set of features, including superb effective noise cancellation, terrific sound quality, and foolproof controls that are designed to make even the smallest adjustments that much easier to carry out.
Gizmodo
OCTOBER 2, 2021
The Child’s Play franchise is making a leap to the small screen with its first TV show. Chucky , set after the seventh film Cult of Chucky, sees the murder-happy doll continue his reign of terror. After gay teen Jake Wheeler (Zachary Arthur) picks up the Good Guy doll at a yard sale, it doesn’t take long for things to… Read more.
The Verge
OCTOBER 2, 2021
A screenshot from Super Monkey Ball Banana Mania. | Image: Sega. As a kid, I remember spending hours playing Super Monkey Ball and Super Monkey Ball 2 on the GameCube with my sister. The games are lighthearted and colorful, have fun single-player and multiplayer modes, and the monkeys feel like something out of a Saturday morning cartoon. I haven’t touched the series since, and I figured Banana Mania would be the perfect nostalgia trip for me.
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Gizmodo
OCTOBER 2, 2021
The weeklong soap opera starring Ozy Media came to a dramatic finish on Friday when the media outlet announced it was shutting down. Ozy’s finale unfolded in only five days and was fueled by its own lies and misrepresentations. Nonetheless, one question remains: Why did it take so long for the company’s deceptions to… Read more.
The Verge
OCTOBER 2, 2021
Twitter banned the former president in January | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge. Former President Donald Trump has filed a lawsuit in Florida seeking to force Twitter to reinstate him, arguing the platform’s ban violates the First Amendment and Florida’s new social media law. Trump is seeking a preliminary injunction of Twitter’s ban, according to the complaint filed in the Southern District of Florida late Friday.
Gizmodo
OCTOBER 2, 2021
New research released this weekend might comfort or unnerve you, depending on your perspective. An international survey of thousands suggests that just about everyone often feels gassy, with farting being the most common symptom experienced daily. The findings also indicate that these symptoms can affect people’s… Read more.
Gizmodo
OCTOBER 2, 2021
Just like your misguided boomer parents and estranged family members, Rudy Giuliani gleaned his supposed “evidence” of voter fraud in the 2020 presidential election from unvetted posts on Facebook and other social media platforms. Read more.
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