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Is Virtual Reality Missing Its Moment?

TechSpot

Many believed VR would take video games to the next level. But even with better games and more impressive hardware, the sobering realization is that VR remains far from widespread adoption. Facebook may have had a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to capitalize on an unfortunate circumstance. Perhaps the situation hit us, but.

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Virtual and augmented reality investment at 2013 levels in first quarter

Venture Beast

The first quarter of this year saw AR/VR investment volume at a quarterly level last seen back in 2013, and even with COVID-19, it could be a trend. Read More.

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AMD has developed an 8-core desktop APU

TechSpot

A month ago, AMD released a smattering of mobile pieces to immediate success. Now they’re prototyping the same hardware in desktop form: Renoir, fully unlocked and power hungry.

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Working Geek: Fresh Chalk CEO Liz Pearce on the power of seeking new challenges and experiences

GeekWire

Liz Pearce, CEO and co-founder of Fresh Chalk, with her mom and personal executive coach, Nancy Gillespie. (Photo courtesy of Liz Pearce). It can seem rather pro forma to thank mom for the role that she has played in one’s success. But for Fresh Chalk CEO Liz Pearce , the credit is particularly well-founded. After short stints early in her career at Sony, Google and Amazon, Pearce joined Seattle-based LiquidPlanner in 2007, not long after the company launched.

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Get Better Network Graphs & Save Analysts Time

Many organizations today are unlocking the power of their data by using graph databases to feed downstream analytics, enahance visualizations, and more. Yet, when different graph nodes represent the same entity, graphs get messy. Watch this essential video with Senzing CEO Jeff Jonas on how adding entity resolution to a graph database condenses network graphs to improve analytics and save your analysts time.

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Moving to an ‘everything as code’ world

Venture Beast

Our legacy workflows can't keep up with the speed of the cloud. It's time to build a new wave of tools that can capture everything as code. Read More.

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How to Install Oracle on a Mac (2020)

Database Star

In this post, you’re going to learn the exact steps to take to install Oracle on your Mac computer. This guide includes: step-by-step instructions on downloading and setting up the required software screenshots at each stage explanations of the configurations you need to set (such as connecting to the database) So if you want to […].

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GeekWire Podcast: Tech job market flips; Surface Earbuds arrive; Gates Foundation CEO on COVID-19

GeekWire

Here’s what we’re talking about this week on the GeekWire Podcast. COVID-19 has upended the tech startup hiring market: There used to be more jobs than talent, but the situation has flipped in the face of business challenges from COVID-19. Tech giants and startups who are hiring now find they can pick from the cream of the crop. We’ve been looking into who’s hiring, and what it’s like to hire and onboard new employees remotely.

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Cats Your Vote mobile game aims to boost U.S. election awareness

Venture Beast

A team of USC Games students have created Cats Your Vote, a new mobile game that aims to boost voter awareness for U.S. election. Read More.

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Apple plans to reopen a handful of its brick-and-mortar stores next week

TechSpot

For tech giant Apple, that day will be coming relatively soon. After about two months of locking down its brick-and-mortar stores (they closed in March), the company is planning to reopen a handful in select states next week. The states include Idaho, South Carolina, Alabama, and Alaska, according to CNBC.

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Niantic CEO’s public service message: Take a walk

Venture Beast

Niantic CEO John Hanke says there's a lot of things that we can argue about in the pandemic. But we should all agree that it's good to take a walk. 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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Waltz of the Wizard’s new movement system works with Oculus Quest hand-tracking

Venture Beast

Waltz Of The Wizard updates aim to make traversing large spaces in VR more comfortable, and they'll work with Oculus Quest’s controller-free hand-tracking. Read More.

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This Apple Editor’s Choice award-winning app makes working with PDFs simple

Venture Beast

SPONSORED DEALS: As any working professional will tell you — PDFs, or Adobe’s portable document format, is now the standard among numerous industries. When it comes to viewing, editing, signing, and sharing documents, PDFs are likely involved. They’re super simple to send and receive through email, unfortunately doing anything more, e.g., signing… Read More.

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