GeekWire

AUGUST 22, 2020

Dungeons & Dragons dice come in odd shapes and sizes. (Brent Roraback Photo). For Game to Grow , 2020 was going to be a year of opportunity. The founders of the nonprofit had gathered heaps of anecdotal evidence that tabletop games such as Dungeons & Dragons could help kids who struggled socially — whether they had autism, ADHD, anxiety or other challenges — learn to more successfully interact with others.

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The Verge

AUGUST 22, 2020

Photo by Saeed Adyani / Netflix. Bill Gates believes tech firms “deserve” the kind of scrutiny they got during Congressional hearings last month, and that the late Steve Jobs was a “genius,” he told the Armchair Expert podcast. “If you’re as successful as I am or any of those people are, you deserve rude, unfair, tough questions,” the Microsoft founder told host Dax Shepard.

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GeekWire

AUGUST 22, 2020

Bill Gates on the “Armchair Expert” podcast with Dax Shepard and co-host Monica Padman. (Instagram Photo via @daxshepard). It was like two old pals getting together over beers Diet Cokes. Bill Gates was a guest on the popular podcast “Armchair Expert” this week, hosted by actor Dax Shepard. From the start, the Microsoft co-founder was clearly relaxed.

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TechSpot

AUGUST 22, 2020

In a statement provided on its website, The University of Utah disclosed that it paid $457,059.24 in order to mitigate the ransomware attack. The university said that it "decided to work with its cyber insurance provider to pay a fee to the ransomware attacker" in an attempt to prevent sensitive.

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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

AUGUST 22, 2020

It’s raining Batman these days but Robert Pattinson , Zoë Kravitz, Jeffrey Wright , Colin Farrell, John Turturro, Peter Sarsgaard, Andy Serkis, Paul Dano, and Jayme Lawson star in Matt Reeves’ The Batman. And DC Fandome gave us our first legitimate look at the upcoming superhero film in the form of a two-minute teaser… Read more.

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Venture Beast

AUGUST 22, 2020

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang likes to joke around. To inspire his engineers, he once said Nvidia was 30 days from going out of business. He still says it. Read More.

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Venture Beast

AUGUST 22, 2020

From mid-July to mid-August, the game industry showed a small uptick in TV ad impressions (3.8%) compared to the previous 30-day period. Read More.

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Gizmodo

AUGUST 22, 2020

The unfolding crisis in California is like nothing the state has ever seen. An area the size of Rhode Island has burned in the span of a week as massive wildfires engulf the state months ahead of peak fire season, with lightning set to ignite even more blazes on Sunday. Read more.

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The Verge

AUGUST 22, 2020

The wildly popular game Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout is reportedly coming to mobile. Games analyst Daniel Ahmad tweeted that Chinese entertainment company Bilibili has secured the rights to publish a mobile version of the game, but in China only. On its website, Bilibili says it will be the “exclusive agent” for a genuine mobile game in mainland China that Google is translating to “Jelly Bean: Ultimate Knockout,” with “jelly bean” a likely reference to the game’s bean-shaped characters.

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TechSpot

AUGUST 22, 2020

As a culmination to our testing of Ryzen Mobile 4000-H, today we're discussing the best AMD gaming laptops released so far. It's clear that mobile Ryzen is not as widely available as we wished, but various new models have become available and reception has been great.

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The Verge

AUGUST 22, 2020

The team behind the beloved Batman: Arkham games is now exploring at different DC property. This evening at DC Fandome, Rocksteady Studios finally revealed Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League , a new action game starring the infamous super villain team. The game will be launching on in 2022 for PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X according to the teaser.

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Venture Beast

AUGUST 22, 2020

Tech companies that have thrived during the pandemic must help those who are suffering the most to reskill for the 'new normal' economy. Read More.

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The Verge

AUGUST 22, 2020

It’s been a few years, but there’s a new Batman game on the way. At the DC Fandome event we got our first look at the long-rumored Gotham Knights , which looks to channel the spirit of the beloved Arkham games. The new title will be launching in 2021. Gameplay footage from the game was shown at FanDome. Step Into The Knight and save Gotham from chaos.

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Venture Beast

AUGUST 22, 2020

Companies were already careless about data security before COVID-19. Now, with budget cuts and staff cuts, the situation is only getting worse. Read More.

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TechSpot

AUGUST 22, 2020

As evidence, Apple’s lawyers submitted to the courts the email discussion between Tim Sweeney and Apple although the discussion is rather one-sided and it gets handed over to the lawyers pretty fast. On June 30, Sweeney addressed Apple's senior executives including Tim Cook, Phil Schiller, Craig Federighi, and Matt Fischer.

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Venture Beast

AUGUST 22, 2020

Warner Bros. and DC announced that Gotham Knights will be its next video game in the Batman series. It's an open-world action role-playing game. Read More.

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Gizmodo

AUGUST 22, 2020

It’s been teased for over a year now, but today we finally got confirmation that a new chapter in the Batman: Arkham video game saga is on its way—but it’s a whole new threat the Dark Knight is facing, which means it’s time to bring in backup. Read more.

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Venture Beast

AUGUST 22, 2020

Tactical Haptics’ new controller form factor, SaberGrip, is aimed at delivering immersive VR sword fights, fishing games and much more. Read More.

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Gizmodo

AUGUST 22, 2020

They might be the bad guys, but they’re the right ones for the job. DC Fandome us our first look at James Gunn’s The Suicide Squad in the form of an extended behind the scenes video. It sees the return of some of DC’s coolest anti-heroes alongside a new wave of baddies ready to do whatever it takes to save their skin. Read more.

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Venture Beast

AUGUST 22, 2020

Rocksteady Studios showed the first scenes from its Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League video game coming in 2022. Read More.

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Gizmodo

AUGUST 22, 2020

Warner Bros. has just dropped the newest trailer for the long-awaited Wonder Woman sequel at DC FanDome, what feels like a lifetime after we were first meant to see the film release earlier this year ( thanks, global pandemics !). Read more.

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The Verge

AUGUST 22, 2020

Photo by: Don & Melinda Crawford/Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images. AT&T-owned Cricket Wireless is enabling 5G support on some of its plans, the company announced. But oddly, even though the appeal to most customers of prepaid plans like Cricket is a lower price, the company’s only 5G compatible device so far is the $1,199 Samsung Galaxy S20 Plus.

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Gizmodo

AUGUST 22, 2020

In a flash, we just went from knowing very little about the new Flash movie to knowing.a little bit more. Read more.

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ForAllSecure

AUGUST 22, 2020

DARPA’s Cyber Grand Challenge in 2016 showed the world what's coming -- autonomous adversaries -- and raised serious questions. How can organizations react to something that makes decisions in milliseconds? How can you still have humans in the loop when reaction time is key? And, how can organizations defend or stop something that increases its own cyber capabilities autonomously?

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Gizmodo

AUGUST 22, 2020

Motorola hasn’t officially announced the successor to its rebooted Razr, but thanks to a few new leaks, we purportedly have our first 360-degree look at its next attempt at a foldable phone. Read more.

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The Verge

AUGUST 22, 2020

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge. On Friday, the internet erupted in a small way to learn that Apple had successfully forced WordPress to monetize its free app — forcing it to sell premium plans and custom domain names seemingly just so that Apple could get its traditional 30 percent cut. But one afternoon and evening of surprise and outrage later, Apple is backing off.

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Gizmodo

AUGUST 22, 2020

In 2016, a heavily armed North Carolina man barged into a Washington, DC-area pizza joint, intending to investigate a baseless conspiracy theory that it was secretly torturing children in a basement it didn’t actually have. Shots were fired and panic ensued, but no one was physically harmed. Improbably, those… Read more.

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TechSpot

AUGUST 22, 2020

The photos in question come courtesy of Twitter user @GarnetSunset. In the first, we see the purported 3090 beside an RTX 2080, which it absolutely dwarfs in terms of sheer size. The triple-slot card features a single cooling fan on the front that’s mounted to an impressive looking heatsink with.

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Gizmodo

AUGUST 22, 2020

Screw batteries and charging cables—2020 has been such a rough year that even the robots are turning to drink. Read more.

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GeekWire

AUGUST 22, 2020

GeekWire’s Taylor Soper watches from the virtual stands as the Portland Trail Blazers take on the L.A. Lakers in the NBA playoffs on Thursday night. (GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop). If you’ve seen fans appearing on live video on the sidelines of this year’s NBA playoffs, powered by Microsoft Teams, you might have wondered exactly how it works.

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Speaker: Nicholas Zeisler, CX Strategist & Fractional CXO

The first step in a successful Customer Experience endeavor (or for that matter, any business proposition) is to find out what’s wrong. If you can’t identify it, you can’t fix it! 💡 That’s where the Voice of the Customer (VoC) comes in. Today, far too many brands do VoC simply because that’s what they think they’re supposed to do; that’s what all their competitors do.