Gizmodo
JULY 11, 2020
Joye Braun was among the first to camp in the plains of North Dakota in defiance of the Dakota Access pipeline back in 2016. She was there to stand in solidarity with the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe. Indigenous people from around the world eventually arrived to gather in ceremony. Four years later, their prayers have… Read more.
GeekWire
JULY 11, 2020
Originally from Lafayette, La., Andre Alfred (left) enjoys exploring the Pacific Northwest with his wife and three children. (Photo Courtesy of Andre Alfred). About the time he was in kindergarten, Andre Alfred started playing with the Tandy 1000 SX that his dad bought at Radio Shack. By age 9, he was writing code in Turbo Pascal. After graduating high school, he passed on higher ed and slid right into good-paying jobs in engineering and product management.
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Venture Beast
JULY 11, 2020
DeepMind researchers argue that anticolonial theory should be part of the AI development process to avoid perpetuating algorithmic oppression. Read More.
The Verge
JULY 11, 2020
Photo by Saeed Adyani / Netflix. Microsoft founder Bill Gates said Saturday that drugs and a future vaccine to treat COVID-19 should go where they are most needed, not just to “the highest bidder,” Reuters reported. “If we just let drugs and vaccines go to the highest bidder, instead of to the people and the places where they are most needed, we’ll have a longer, more unjust, deadlier pandemic,” Gates said (remotely) during a COVID-19 conference.
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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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JULY 11, 2020
Cloud platforms’ reliability, security, and scale are defining the future of real-time industrial monitoring.
Venture Beast
JULY 11, 2020
Several areas of the fintech ecosystem are often overlooked but present massive opportunities for disruptors over the next 5 years. Read More.
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Venture Beast
JULY 11, 2020
Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot announced the company is cleaning house with multiple resignations and departures due to misconduct investigations. Read More.
The Verge
JULY 11, 2020
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge. Paris-based video game company Ubisoft announced Saturday that several high-level company officers are leaving amid allegations of abuse and harassment. The departures of chief creative officer Serge Hascoët, global head of HR Cécile Cornet, and Yannis Mallat, managing director of Ubisoft’s Canadian studios, “come following the initiation of a rigorous review that the company initiated in response to recent allegations and accusations of misconduct and in
Gizmodo
JULY 11, 2020
America’s fourth-largest bank, Wells Fargo, is barring the app TikTok on company devices and instructing any employees who have it currently installed to remove it immediately, citing privacy concerns. Read more.
The Verge
JULY 11, 2020
As it tries to catch up with the popular features offered by some of its younger competitors, Cisco’s Webex has unveiled virtual backgrounds for its videoconferences. Users can either apply a “blur” effect to mask their background or replace with one of Webex’s preset background images. Zoom, the most popular videoconferencing app of the moment, and rivals Google Meet and Microsoft Teams all allow users to upload their own custom images for background displays.
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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
JULY 11, 2020
When it launched a few years ago, Modiphius’ Star Trek Adventures roleplaying game gave fans a ruleset for boldly going as their very own crew of Federation officers, managing their own ship, going on away missions, and exploring the galaxy. But its latest expansion isn’t about giving Federation characters more things… Read more.
TechSpot
JULY 11, 2020
Apple has made it official that it will transition its entire Mac lineup from Intel processors to its own custom silicon based on the ARM64 architecture. The company hinted that the new CPUs will debut in a Mac later this year, which naturally invites to speculation as to what that.
Gizmodo
JULY 11, 2020
Time travel is one of those things that fascinate people. Although time travel currently isn’t possible—thank God, as if humans needed another way to make a mess of things—this creator decided to do the next best thing: film his life with the Snapchat Spectacles 3 for a year and create a virtual reality time machine. Read more.
Venture Beast
JULY 11, 2020
Zapata CEO Christopher Savoie explains the quantum computing and machine learning business use case: "It's just a matter of timing that nobody knows." Read More.
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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.
Gizmodo
JULY 11, 2020
Since her inception on Batman: The Animated Series has brought Harley Quinn from TV , to comics , and beyond over the years, there have been many different takes on just who she’s really meant to be—not just aesthetically or tonally, but as her own person. The latest issue of her stylish new digital series nails those… Read more.
Venture Beast
JULY 11, 2020
Devolver Digital unveiled its wacky and wondrous indie video games coming in 2020, with a Not E3 direct show on Saturday. Read More.
Gizmodo
JULY 11, 2020
Plug-and-play LED replacements for halogen headlight bulbs are a popular car mod. LEDs often look brighter than incandescent lights, but “looks brighter” and “illuminates better” are not the same thing. I got a stern talking-to from an actual lighting expert about LED retrofits, and science says: Putting LEDs where… Read more.
Venture Beast
JULY 11, 2020
VentureBeat's AI Innovation Awards are back at Transform 2020, where we'll recognize and award emergent, compelling, and influential work in AI. Read More.
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The Verge
JULY 11, 2020
The latest software update to the Fitbit Charge 4 gives two big upgrades including dynamic GPS, and a “smart wake” option. First reported by 9to5Google , the new features are now rolling out to all users. Dynamic GPS allows you to connect with the GPS in your phone if it’s in range, which may help with location accuracy and preserve the Fitbit’s battery life.
Venture Beast
JULY 11, 2020
See the full agenda of Transform 2020, July 14-17; each day is dedicated to a specific aspect of AI, from automation to conversational AI and AI at the edge. Read More.
GeekWire
JULY 11, 2020
Here’s what we’re talking about on the GeekWire Podcast this week. The world of the COVID-19 pandemic is unlike anything any of us has ever experienced. We covered three stories this week that give us a glimpse into how the virus is changing our lives: We’ll talk about the new realities of work, through the lens of a Seattle area startup that just ditched its physical office space. .
Venture Beast
JULY 11, 2020
Dean Takahashi of GamesBeat and Danielle Takahashi have created a video (with spoilers) of the best moments of Naughty Dog's epic The Last of Us Part II. Read More.
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The Verge
JULY 11, 2020
Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge. This weekend, you can still get the biggest discount we’ve seen yet on Apple’s AirPods Pro truly wireless earbuds. The sale is happening at Verizon, and you can save $30 on a set of Apple AirPods Pro online only. Most discounts for this model are in the $15 to $20 range, but this deal at Verizon brings them down to their best-ever price of $220.
Gizmodo
JULY 11, 2020
Oh, nothing to see here. Just a masked superhero and his Sony-branded robot doggie. Read more.
The Verge
JULY 11, 2020
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge. Wells Fargo has instructed employees who installed TikTok on company devices to remove the app over privacy concerns, as first reported by The Information. “We have identified a small number of Wells Fargo employees with corporate-owned devices who had installed the TikTok application on their device,” a Wells Fargo spokesperson said in an email to The Verge.
Gizmodo
JULY 11, 2020
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GeekWire
JULY 11, 2020
(BigStock Photo). Amazon’s TikTok take-back was the talk of tech on Friday. The company started the day by telling employees they needed to delete the popular social media app from their mobile devices over security concerns, and ended the day with a giant “never mind.” Those stunned by the tech giant’s initial directive were equally caught off guard by the reversal five hours later, in which Amazon said its message was “sent in error” and there was no change
Gizmodo
JULY 11, 2020
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Gizmodo
JULY 11, 2020
Mark it, folks: July 11, the first time President Donald Trump wore a face mask in public during a raging pandemic. And all it took was more than 134,000 people dying from covid-19 for him to finally— finally —put one on. Read more.
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