The Verge

OCTOBER 30, 2021

Google’s software makes the Honor 50 a contender rather than competitive It’s rare that you need to get into geopolitics at the outset of a smartphone review, but it’s impossible to avoid with the Honor 50. It’s the first Honor-branded device to release outside of China since the brand spun out from parent company Huawei last year. It means that despite Huawei’s continued presence on the USA’s entity list , Honor is now able to include Google’s apps and services on a new phone.

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Venture Beast

OCTOBER 30, 2021

This isn't a takeover by cybersecurity AI; it's a force multiplier for security teams and doing a lot of work behind the scenes. Read More.

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Gizmodo

OCTOBER 30, 2021

Austria’s Klimaticket, the nation’s $3.50 per day, go-anywhere pass to combat climate change, went live this week, CNN reports. The ticket is valid for all publicly and privately operated rail, metro, and bus networks throughout the nation, and with a price tag of $1,265 (€1,095) for an annual pass, the cost works out… Read more.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 30, 2021

Photo Illustration by Thiago Prudêncio/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images. Roblox has been down for more than a day, with the game and its related website offline for millions of players. The hugely popular game-creating platform first started having issues more than 30 hours ago, at 7PM ET on October 28th. Roblox said it was “ working hard to get things back to normal ,” and that it has identified “the root cause as [an] internal system issue.”.

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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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Venture Beast

OCTOBER 30, 2021

To date, there is no shared canonical infrastructure stack for machine-learning based applications. But here are the critical components. Read More.

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 30, 2021

GeekWire Illustration. This week on the GeekWire Podcast … We dissect Amazon’s earnings , offering our take on Andy Jassy’s take on the company’s latest predicament. We assess a major Microsoft milestone, as the Redmond company surpasses Apple to become the world’s most valuable company again. We look forward to the Metaverse , but question whether Mark Zuckerberg and his Facebook friends are the right people to take us there.

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 30, 2021

A crappy culture will surely slow any business down and make it more difficult to achieve goals and hit performance benchmarks. But that’s not the real problem. A toxic culture can ruin a person’s life. Nine out of 10 American workers, about 130 million people, go home every day feeling they work for an organization that doesn’t listen to or care about them.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 30, 2021

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge. Just as the FDA officially approved Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine for kids between the ages of five and 11, Meta, Facebook’s brand new identity , announced that it’s rolling out stricter policies for vaccine misinformation targeted at children (via Engadget ). The platform previously put restrictions on COVID-19 vaccine misinformation in late 2020, but didn’t have policies specific to kids.

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TechSpot

OCTOBER 30, 2021

If you’ve been following the Arc Alchemist leaks, then the photos might look familiar. The YouTuber that published them, Moore’s Law Is Dead, also published photos of an earlier prototype that had a similar shape but a black shroud and a green PCB a few months ago. The design is.

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Venture Beast

OCTOBER 30, 2021

If companies don’t make plans to ensure their software is secure, everyone will be vulnerable to attacks against the software supply chain. Read More.

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TechSpot

OCTOBER 30, 2021

I remember being amazed and somewhat disturbed when it learned how to open doors. Now it can operate a rickshaw, clean house, weed the garden, jump rope, pee beer into a cup, and work for the NYPD (temporarily).

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Venture Beast

OCTOBER 30, 2021

With machine learning, Activ Surgical's autonomous model can annotate a one-hour surgical video 20,000 times faster than humans can. Read More.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 30, 2021

An inspired musician can use pretty much anything as an instrument, but this just-in-time for Halloween cover of the Ghostbusters theme song goes in an unexpected direction. Device Orchestra is dedicated to posting music videos recorded solely with the sounds of common household devices. It’s the work of a Finnish YouTuber who’s been creating gadget-powered covers since 2014 (via Wikitubia ).

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Gizmodo

OCTOBER 30, 2021

When adult swim canceled The Venture Bros. after a solid seven-season run over a year ago, the reaction was pretty strong. Earlier this year, the network announced a TV movie for Blu-Ray and HBO Max, and now there’s been a sizable update for the upcoming movie that’s exciting despite how little it ultimately says. Read more.

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Venture Beast

OCTOBER 30, 2021

A number of fast-growing use cases for graph databases are emerging that are highly compelling for data scientists. Read More.

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Gizmodo

OCTOBER 30, 2021

When the first Paranormal Activity came to theaters in 2009, it spawned its own franchise and revitalized the found footage genre of horror films. Then it got.not particularly great, hence the reboot Next of Kin. Coming out alongside it, Paramount’s released a documentary about the making of the entire series for… Read more.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 30, 2021

Feds say a Minnesota man illegally streamed major league sports games | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge. Federal authorities have accused a Minnesota man with trying to extort $150,000 from Major League Baseball after hacking into its computer system. The US Attorney’s office for the southern district of New York and the FBI have charged Joshua Streit, 30, with illegally streaming content from MLB, as well as from the National Hockey League (NHL), the National Basketball Association (NBA

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Venture Beast

OCTOBER 30, 2021

The benefits from open source collaboration can extend beyond vehicles into other industries, including cloud computing and manufacturing. Read More.

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Gizmodo

OCTOBER 30, 2021

If you never thought a steam iron—yes, you read that right—could deliver a stellar performance of the iconic Ghostbusters theme song, you’re in for quite a treat this Halloween. Read more.

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Venture Beast

OCTOBER 30, 2021

IT administrators remain on the front lines of security, tasked with managing user devices, identities, and access to all IT resources. Read More.

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Gizmodo

OCTOBER 30, 2021

You wouldn’t think that Fortnite would be the place you go to if you wanted to see hot millennial versions of the classic Universal Monsters , but anything’s possible in 2021. For the holiday season, the popular battle royale is holding a festival dubbed “Shortnitemares” featuring a short form miniseries called “We… Read more.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 30, 2021

Okay, Deathloop isn’t scary, but the deal on it is scary good. It’s the spooky holiday this weekend, but you probably already knew that since Halloween decorations have likely been up in your town for the last month and a half. But what hasn’t been around as long (and will disappear faster than those decorations) are the deals below. To match the mood, we’re going to share special discounts on scary video games that you need to play if you’re trying to get in the holiday spirit this weekend.

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Gizmodo

OCTOBER 30, 2021

Dune has a stacked cast of actors both established and on the rise, from Timothée Chalamet as supposed messiah Paul Atreides and Rebecca Ferguson as his mother Jessica to Jason Momoa as lovable warrior Duncan Idaho. But few of the film’s stars have the “oh, it’s that guy!” energy of character actor Stephen McKinley… Read more.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 30, 2021

Nikon’s Z9 pro mirrorless camera has no mechanical shutter, relying solely on an electronic shutter. | Image: Nikon. Nikon recently announced its new flagship camera, the Z9. This camera represents Nikon’s first mirrorless camera fully geared towards professional photographers and hybrid shooters, with a huge spec list designed for use in the demanding fields of photojournalism, sports, nature, birding, and any other use-cases that call for a camera that shoots incredibly fast at high resolution

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Gizmodo

OCTOBER 30, 2021

Since Insomniac Games showed up with Spider-Man in 2018 for the PS4, Marvel’s been doing their best to build a resume of successful AAA games. They’ve mostly been good at it — Spider-Man: Miles Morales was pretty good, and Spider-Man 2 proper should be pretty good as well; the Guardians of the Galaxy game from this… Read more.

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Gizmodo

OCTOBER 30, 2021

In a rare preemptive move to crack down on misinformation before it goes viral, Meta, the tech giant formerly known as Facebook , is partnering with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevent and the World Health Organization to take down harmful content related to the coronavirus vaccine and its effects on children.… Read more.

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