The Verge

AUGUST 29, 2020

Transforming classic video game consoles into on-the-go gadget gaming goodness is practically a time-honored tradition — I remember writing about Bacteria’s bulbous portable Nintendo 64 a decade ago. But @GingerOfMods new “Wii Boy Color” (via NintendoLife ) is so clean, so compact, I just have to share it with you. OK, it’s a little bit thicker than an actual Game Boy Color if you count the rear triggers.

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GeekWire

AUGUST 29, 2020

COVID-19 doesn’t prevent a chem lab camper from getting her a little messy. (Pacific Science Center Photo). Seattle’s Pacific Science Center took its own messages about innovation and ingenuity to heart this summer and created a slate of camps for kids in the time of COVID-19, conducted not just remotely but also in-person. The nonprofit just wrapped up 10 weeks of camps, with nearly 1,500 kids participating at the spacious Seattle campus and three partner locations, and another 1,50

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The Verge

AUGUST 29, 2020

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge. At T-Mobile, you can get a free iPhone 11 Pro if you meet all of the carrier’s qualifications. First off, you have to switch from another carrier and trade in your old device, or if you’re an existing customer, you can get one by adding a line to your plan. For either one, you’ll pay for the phone up front, then T-Mobile will pay you back in billing credits each month over a 24-month period.

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Venture Beast

AUGUST 29, 2020

As computer vision proliferate across new sectors, business leaders should be assessing how it could impact the trajectory of their organization. Read More.

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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 29, 2020

Trying to make sense of comics continuity at the best of times requires offering up a tiny little part of your brain to be smushed to gooey smithereens in the mortar and pestle of comic book publishing tomfoolery. But friends, I fear trying to make sense of Marvel’s newest tango with the world of Fortnite has done… Read more.

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Venture Beast

AUGUST 29, 2020

Flawed tech will not fix itself. We need shared language and accountability between tech companies and the government, to ensure public trust and safety. Read More.

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Venture Beast

AUGUST 29, 2020

The Brazilian market represents a bright spot in a year that has been challenging on many levels -- and now is the time to move in. Read More.

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Gizmodo

AUGUST 29, 2020

As great as the Karate Kid sequel show Cobra Kai is—let’s face it, it got buried on YouTube. Sure, everyone watches and uses YouTube, but most of them don’t pay to watch its original content. Now the show has made the move to Netflix and it feels like a coming-out party. Audiences from all over can finally see what… Read more.

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The Verge

AUGUST 29, 2020

It’s a mildly annoying problem: when you’re reading the snippet of a news article on Facebook and you click through to read the full article, even if you’re subscribed to the news publication, you hit its paywall and have to manually log in. Facebook says it’s now testing a feature that will help reduce how often you have to log in to news sites, allowing paying news subscribers to link their Facebook accounts to their subscriptions.

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TechSpot

AUGUST 29, 2020

TSMC recently held its annual Technology Symposium where it divulged a slew of information about the company, especially as it pertains to the future of its chip manufacturing business. Such information included new details on TSMC's advanced process nodes -- like N5, N4, N3, and N12e -- that will be.

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The Verge

AUGUST 29, 2020

Illustration by Alex Castro. Google took five days to review several ads with misleading information about voting by mail before opting to approve them, The Washington Post reported. The ads were created by Protect My Vote— a group the Post refers to as “shadowy”— and appeared to target people in several US states, including Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Iowa, Michigan, and Texas, showing up in response to searches for “mail-in voting.

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TechSpot

AUGUST 29, 2020

Since the iPhone X was launched in 2017, many smartphones have adopted either a camera ‘notch’ or camera-holes to house the handset’s front-facing cameras while providing an edge-to-edge display. The problem, though, is that both of these workarounds have held handset-makers back from offering a true bezel-less smartphone.

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The Verge

AUGUST 29, 2020

A gaming laptop that doesn’t cut too many corners The Razer Blade Pro 17 is far from an Ultrabook. It’s just over six pounds and boasts a 17-inch screen, an H-series processor, and a top-end RTX GPU. But it’s got an Ultrabook-y vibe to it. Like its smaller counterparts in the Blade line, the Pro 17 is chic and professional, lacking the bells and whistles you might expect to see on a large gaming laptop.

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TechSpot

AUGUST 29, 2020

Maker GingerOfMods has completed work on a brand new creation, a portable Nintendo Wii built into what is essentially the chassis of a Game Boy Color.

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Gizmodo

AUGUST 29, 2020

Google reportedly took five days to review misleading ads from an organization that echoes the president’s crock about voting by mail, and then declined to take them down essentially because of a technicality. Read more.

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The Verge

AUGUST 29, 2020

I moved to LA mid-pandemic and furnished my apartment almost exclusively from Facebook Marketplace, a luxurious garden of budget goods that exploits all my weak points: deals, online shopping, haggling with strangers on the internet. One of the first things I bought was a table and four chairs that was not cheap, by my standards ($225!), but did look unique compared to the countless IKEA offerings.

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Gizmodo

AUGUST 29, 2020

If there’s anyone who can pull that off, it’s Nicolas Cage. Read more.

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Venture Beast

AUGUST 29, 2020

Government employees need training on cybersecurity to ensure our elections, our financial institutions, and even our search for a vaccine are secure. Read More.

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Gizmodo

AUGUST 29, 2020

South Korea, one of the world’s leading examples for novel coronavirus containment, is struggling with a recent surge of thousands of infections of the virus. Some in the country are calling for a version of a tried-and-true solution practiced all around the world: restrictive social distancing measures. Read more.

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GeekWire

AUGUST 29, 2020

Here’s what we’re talking about on the GeekWire Podcast this week. Amazon surprised everyone by unveiling a new health band, the Halo, this week. The device will not only track your steps but also measure your body fat and even analyze your voice to assess your degree of “energy and positivity.” But will it protect your private health info from prying eyes?

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Gizmodo

AUGUST 29, 2020

If you’ve ever wanted to know what your face would look like carelessly pasted over Jason Momoa or Cardi B’s bone structure, a new app will let you do that. REFACE maps and plasters your face onto another, an innovation that surely had noble intentions but has instead served to create some truly eldritch horrors.… Read more.

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Database Star

AUGUST 29, 2020

Once you create a table in SQL, you may want to rename it. This might happen if you are creating a new table to replace it, or have come up with a better name for it.

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Gizmodo

AUGUST 29, 2020

Remember the days when the iPod had a Click Wheel? If you said yes, then you probably felt like I did when Macaulay Culkin tweeted that he was 40 this week. All jokes aside, Apple is apparently having a nostalgic moment as well, and acting on it. Read more.

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Database Star

AUGUST 29, 2020

Do you want to reset an identity column in your table in SQL Server so the numbers are in order? And you want to do it without recreating the table? In this article, I’ll show you how you can do this, and a few things to be aware of. Let’s take a look.

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Gizmodo

AUGUST 29, 2020

Putting its money where its big mouth is, Netflix has followed through on recasting Jenny Slate in Big Mouth. Read more.

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Database Star

AUGUST 29, 2020

There may come a time when you need to drop all tables in a MySQL database. In this article, you’ll learn how to do that easily, both using an SQL command an inside an IDE such as MySQL Workbench. Let’s see how we can do that. Why Drop All Tables?

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SecureWorld News

AUGUST 29, 2020

Device forensics on a deception network is, or should be, a bit of a challenge. It is a challenge because the deception net is, or should be, configured to prevent access to the outside—including the internet, as well as local networks—by any code running inside the device. In simple terms, that means that if I put an agent on a decoy and then try to extract data using the agent, all of my data will go to the sinkhole.

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Gizmodo

AUGUST 29, 2020

Razer Tartarus Pro Gaming Keypad (Black) | $80 | Amazon Razer Tartarus Pro Gaming Keypad (White) | $90 | Amazon Read more.

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GeekWire

AUGUST 29, 2020

Anu Sharma. (Photo courtesy of Anu Sharma). As someone who was already interested in investing from a personal standpoint, Anu Sharma said it was always on her mind to turn her “side project” into a full time thing. She did that recently when she joined the investment team at Madrona Venture Group. Sharma, our latest Geek of the Week, spent eight years at Amazon and Amazon Web Services, most recently leading a product management team at AWS for a new service, AWS Outposts , which ext

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Gizmodo

AUGUST 29, 2020

B’PODS+ Wireless Charging Earbuds with Charging Case | $15 | SideDeal Read more.

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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.