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With Zuck's Blessing, Facebook Quietly Stymied Traffic to Left-Leaning News Outlets: Report

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When Facebook tweaked its newsfeed algorithm in 2017 to reduce the visibility of political news, the company’s engineers intentionally designed the system to disproportionately impact left-leaning outlets, effectively choking off their traffic in the process. Read more.

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Cybershoes will turn to Kickstarter to bring its VR walking shoes to Oculus Quest

Venture Beast

Cybershoes Quest Support Revealed, Kickstarter Coming Soon Cybershoes, a VR peripheral that aims to simulate walking, is coming to Oculus Quest and Quest 2, with a Kickstarter to help fund support. Read More.

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What gives Bill Gates hope about the world, and one thing he says we should all do right now

GeekWire

Bill Gates appears on a monitor in Seattle during a virtual discussion as part of the 2020 GeekWire Summit on Thursday. (GeekWire Photos / Holly Grambihler). The COVID-19 pandemic is a “gigantic setback” for the world. But Bill Gates is still optimistic about the future. As we wrapped up our interview with Gates at the virtual GeekWire Summit on Thursday, we asked the Microsoft co-founder and Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation co-chair to give us some reasons for hope.

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Here’s how the Big Tech breakup should go down

Venture Beast

A congressional subcommittee recommended a Big Tech breakup last week. Here’s what should happen to Apple, Google, Facebook, and Amazon. Read More.

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Peak Performance: Continuous Testing & Evaluation of LLM-Based Applications

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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George Lucas Also Would've Killed Luke Skywalker in Star Wars Episode 8

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Thanks to a new book written by Lucasfilm Star Wars fact extraordinaire Pablo Hidalgo, we have a lot of interesting new information about the galaxy far, far away. And it turns out George Lucas’s original plans for a sequel trilogy bore some interesting resemblances to what actually happened. Read more.

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AMD B450 or B550 Motherboard for Ryzen 5000 CPUs?

TechSpot

With the announcement of AMD's Ryzen 5000 desktop CPU series, many prospective buyers aren't clear on the differences between AMD B450 and B550 motherboards, if they should upgrade or which one to buy.

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Google says Chinese hackers who targeted Biden campaign are faking McAfee software

The Verge

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge. Google said in a new blog post that hackers linked to the Chinese government have been impersonating antivirus software McAfee to try to infect victims’ machines with malware. And, Google says, the hackers appear to be the same group that unsuccessfully targeted the presidential campaign of former Vice President Joe Biden with a phishing attack earlier this year.

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Here Are 10 of the Best Climate Change Podcasts Out Right Now

Gizmodo

Podcasting seems to be everywhere these days, so of course, there’s no surprise that there are quite a few shows that deal with the big, important topic on everyone’s minds: climate change. Honestly, it’s kind of hard not to think about it when the planet is burning, the hurricanes are washing away homes, people are… Read more.

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Instagram is cracking down on rule-breaking influencers

TechSpot

Instagram rules in the UK and elsewhere state that commercial arrangements between users and companies must be fully disclosed using the #ad or #sponsored hashtags. These rules make it clear that a published post is getting compensation either in the form of payment or a free, "gifted" product. Typically, these.

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NASA’s Next Moonsuit Is Going to Be Damned Impressive

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NASA is preparing to send a woman and a man to the Moon in 2024, in what will be the first mission to the lunar surface in 52 years. The new spacesuit being designed for the mission is sleek and ultra high-tech, with a swath of features not possible during the Apollo era. Here’s what you need to know about the… Read more.

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GEP Procurement & Supply Chain Tech Trends Report

The technological landscape is dynamic and changes quickly. And for procurement and supply chain leaders looking to harness the power of technology to navigate complex challenges and an uncertain business environment, keeping up with the latest trends can be its own obstacle. So, what’s on the technological horizon for procurement and supply chain for the year ahead?

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Save on Apple AirPods and other Prime Day 2020 leftovers this weekend

The Verge

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge. In case you paid no attention at all to what happened this week in tech, you missed out on the iPhone 12 announcement along with Amazon Prime Day 2020. You can preorder an iPhone 12 right here , but in regards to Prime Day 2020, some of those deals are still happening. It’s a far cry from what we covered on Tuesday and Wednesday, with 80-something of the best tech deals we’ve seen recently.

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Election Night 2032: What it could look like if we’re not careful about reining in technology’s reach

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Cyrus Krohn. Editor’s note: This guest post is tied to the release of Bombarded , a new book by Cyrus Krohn , a former Microsoft, Yahoo, and Cheezburger executive who co-founded Seattle startup Element Data. . Guest Commentary : If the digital political landscape during Election 2020 gives you the creeps, imagine an election a few years — and presidents — from now where hackable digital tech, unmanaged media, and micro-targeted marketing have rampaged forward without brakes or scruples.

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White House unveils new tech initiative as technology wars intensify

TechSpot

The White House proposition suggests that tech companies implement security protocols during the initial stages of advanced technological developments. The US government will also be involved in the risk analysis of some projects and will determine whether some technologies will be transferred to allies or not.

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Simone Giertz built a selfie photo booth for her dog out of Legos and it’s perfect

The Verge

Good girl, Scraps. | Simone Giertz and Scraps. Simone Giertz, the self-described Queen of Shitty Robots , has created a selfie photo booth out of Legos for her dog Scraps and yes it’s as cute as it sounds. It helps that the dog is a VERY GOOD GIRL and extremely photogenic. Giertz used a Lego Mindstorms kit and Lego bricks (the video is sponsored by Lego) to build the little booth, and rigged a pedal, distance sensor and circuit board to connect to a dispenser that drops a treat and snaps a photo

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7 Pitfalls for Apache Cassandra in Production

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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E3 2020 analysis shows significant shift toward female protagonists in games

TechSpot

Feminist Frequency's annual analysis of E3 game announcements looks at the divide between male, female, and gender-ambiguous or non-binary game protagonists. The data also indicates the percentage of games that allow players to choose the gender of their playable character.

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The Original Iron Man Suit Prop Had One Big Problem

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Robert Downey, Jr. helped turn Iron Man from a Marvel hero who was fairly recognizable to an iconic hero and a big Hollywood draw. And he did it all without being able to see. Read more.

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Recognizing data points that signal trends for the future of business post-pandemic

Venture Beast

Businesses planning an enterprise strategy for after the pandemic should look for trends hiding in scattershot data points. Read More.

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Regretting That Tesla You Just Bought? Well, You Might Be Stuck With It Now

Gizmodo

For years, Tesla, as well as its eccentric founder and CEO Elon Musk, proudly proclaimed to recent customers that if they were unhappy with the vehicle they had just purchased, they could simply return it. The catch? Hardly anything. It just had to be done within seven calendar days. Read more.

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20 Common Mistakes Made by Inexperienced Project Managers

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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Bill Gates says today's tech CEOs are better prepared to handle antitrust issues

TechSpot

Back in July, the House Judiciary antitrust subcommittee held a landmark hearing where regulators asked the CEOs of Google, Amazon, Facebook, and Apple a slew of hard questions about their business practices and, more specifically, how their behavior led to monopolistic power that Big Tech has been wielding against their.

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NHS Covid-19 App Confused the Hell Out of Users With BS Alerts About Their Area's Risk Level

Gizmodo

Users of the state coronavirus app in England and Wales were alarmed to see their area’s risk level fluctuate out of nowhere on Friday in what turned out to be a technical glitch, the Guardian reports. As if anyone needed more stress this year. Read more.

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GeekWire Summit Highlights: Bill Gates, the race to a COVID-19 vaccine, and the future of devices

GeekWire

This week’s GeekWire Podcast features highlights from the first week of the virtual GeekWire Summit, including what’s next in the quest for a COVID-19 vaccine; a conversation with Panos Panay, Microsoft’s chief product officer; and Bill Gates’ comments on what’s keeping him optimistic in these tumultuous times. Listen to the episode below, or subscribe to GeekWire in any podcast app.

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This Featurette Digs Deep Into Hulu's Marvel Series Helstrom

Gizmodo

An unexpected boon, Helstrom is a standalone Marvel series from Hulu. If you’re curious about how it was made, this featurette has the answers. Read more.

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Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI

“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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Facebook reportedly choked traffic for left-leaning news sites including Mother Jones

The Verge

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge. Facebook designed changes to its news feed algorithm in 2017 to reduce the visibility of left-leaning news sites like Mother Jones on its platform, the Wall Street Journal reported , and CEO Mark Zuckerberg had personally approved the plans. But Mother Jones editorial director for growth and strategy Ben Dreyfuss wrote that in multiple meetings with Facebook executives in 2017 and 2018 , they reassured him that while traffic might go down, “not in a way t

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The Baby-Sitters Club Actress Xochitl Gomez Joins Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness

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Eventually, there will be a second Doctor Strange movie. And now we know a bit more about who’s going to be in it. Read more.

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Oracle founder donated $250,000 to Graham PAC in final days of TikTok deal

The Verge

Photo by Tom Williams-Pool/Getty Images. Oracle CEO Larry Ellison donated $250,000 to a super PAC supporting Sen. Lindsey Graham’s (R-SC) reelection campaign as his company closed in on a coveted position as TikTok’s US technology partner. FEC documents show that Ellison made the $250,000 donation to the Security is Strength PAC on September 14th. The Security is Strength PAC has bought ads exclusively in support of Graham’s political ambitions, including his 2015 presidential campaign and his c

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Michael B. Jordan's Outlier Society Will Produce DC's Static Shock Movie

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Oh, that’s good news. Read more.

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Entity Resolution Checklist: What to Consider When Evaluating Options

Are you trying to decide which entity resolution capabilities you need? It can be confusing to determine which features are most important for your project. And sometimes key features are overlooked. Get the Entity Resolution Evaluation Checklist to make sure you’ve thought of everything to make your project a success! The list was created by Senzing’s team of leading entity resolution experts, based on their real-world experience.

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Saturday's Best Deals: Kuppet Air Purifier, Acure and Pixi Beauty Products, Canon Pixma All-in-One Printer, White Noise Machine, and More

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A Kuppet air purifier and iHerb’s skin care essentials sale lead Saturday’s best deals. Read more.

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Get the Reolink Security Camera System Made For Your Home and Budget For Up to 40% Off Today

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Reolink Outdoor Security Camera, Solar Panel | $70 | Amazon Gold Box Read more.

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Take in a Breath of Fresh Air With 30% Off a Kuppet Air Purifier

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Kuppet Air Purifier | $123 | Amazon | Clip coupon Read more.

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More Than 1,000 CDC Officials Ask: Why Bench the CDC During a Pandemic?

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In an open letter published this week, 1,044 former and current officers of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Epidemic Intelligence Service, a renowned fellowship program that focuses on research and emergency response, expressed concern over the diminished role of the public health agency during the… Read more.

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Strategic CX: A Deep Dive into Voice of the Customer Insights for Clarity

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.