GeekWire

JANUARY 3, 2021

(Bigstock Photo). In a year when large swaths of the economy sputtered due to the pandemic, Wall Street opened its doors to new entrants with 218 companies raising $78 billion through initial public offerings. That marked a 36% increase in number of deals, and a 69% increase in dollars raised when compared to 2019. It also marked the second-best year for IPO deals and dollars in the past decade. “While the COVID-19 pandemic sent global markets into a nosedive in March, the IPO window did n

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TechSpot

JANUARY 3, 2021

As with previous Ryzen generations, AMD will be following up its successful Ryzen 5000 series launch with Genesis Peak, its line of high-end desktop (HEDT) Threadripper CPUs leveraging the new Zen 3 architecture.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 3, 2021

Optimal CEO Sung Rhee (second from right), pictured with his family, embraces TikTok and K-pop. (Photo courtesy of Rhee). Sung Rhee wanted to make money. He’d been a general manager at Microsoft for nearly a decade, and in the early 2000s he wanted to capitalize on the burgeoning internet boom. So he built more than 100 websites in a wide variety of sectors to see what would stick.

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TechSpot

JANUARY 3, 2021

Tesla was battered by an onslaught of challenges in 2020, but still broke through the half a million barrier – or almost broke through it, depending on how it's counted. Last year, they produced a total of 509,737 cars and delivered 499,550.

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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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JANUARY 3, 2021

India's Nukebox Studios, creator of Sponge Bob: Krusty Cook-Off, is aiming for another global hit with the home design game Room Flip. Read More.

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TechSpot

JANUARY 3, 2021

The app Amphetamine is a simple but useful macOS utility which can be configured to keep a Mac awake, preventing the computer from going into sleep mode. It's been available on the Mac App Store for some 6 years, where it's accrued over a thousand favorable ratings from users. Given.

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The Verge

JANUARY 3, 2021

Illustration by Grayson Blackmon / The Verge. Failed mobile-first streaming service Quibi is in advanced discussions to sell the rights to its content library to Roku, according to The Wall Street Journal. The report doesn’t indicate a potential price for the acquisition, and notes that the two parties may not reach a deal. If it were to happen, the deal could give the Roku Channel exclusive access to Quibi’s slate of programming.

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Gizmodo

JANUARY 3, 2021

Supply issues have hamstrung the rollout of the latest generation of video game consoles. Even now, nearly two months after the Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S released, Microsoft is still scrambling to meet demand and has reportedly reached out to chipmaker AMD to fast-track production on its end. Read more.

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The Verge

JANUARY 3, 2021

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge. T-Mobile suffered a security breach in December that may have exposed call-related information and phone numbers for some of its customers. First reported by Bleeping Computer , the information affected by the breach did not include names on customers’ accounts, physical or email addresses, financial data, credit card information, Social Security numbers, tax IDs, passwords, or PINs, the company said.

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Gizmodo

JANUARY 3, 2021

Apple appears to be moving along in its development of a foldable iPhone, according to new rumors. The company has apparently asked its Foxconn, its biggest iPhone supplier, to create two prototype foldable shells with displays. Read more.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 3, 2021

Get caught up on the latest technology and startup news from the past week. Here are the most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of Dec. 27, 2020. Sign up to receive these updates every Sunday in your inbox by subscribing to our GeekWire Weekly email newsletter. Most popular stories on GeekWire. Watch the epic first-ever virtual Space Needle light show for New Year’s celebration in Seattle.

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Gizmodo

JANUARY 3, 2021

A critical vulnerability discovered by a Dutch security specialist at EYE allows hackers to “completely compromise the confidentiality, integrity and availability” of more than 100,000 Zyxel firewalls, VPN gateways, and access point controllers. Read more.

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The Verge

JANUARY 3, 2021

Image: Android Police. Samsung will officially be announcing its latest lineup of Galaxy flagship phones — rumored to be the Galaxy S21, S21 Plus, and S21 Ultra — on January 14th, the company confirmed through invitations to a new Galaxy Unpacked event. The tagline: “Welcome to the Everyday Epic.” The event will kick off at 7AM PT / 10AM ET. The company is widely expected to announce three new smartphones at the event , successors to last year’s Galaxy S20 lineup: a pair of matching S21 and S21

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Gizmodo

JANUARY 3, 2021

There’s now a mod available that lets you play Cyberpunk 2077 in third-person on the PC—but be warned, while it works in the most basic, functional sense, it’s not something you’re going to want to be using for any real stretch of time. Read more.

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JANUARY 3, 2021

I know, I know: the film’s got a star, a director, a picture of the star in costume , the whole shebang. But I still can’t quite believe that, after years of development hell, the Uncharted movie is actually happening. Read more.

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Gizmodo

JANUARY 3, 2021

What looks like a new version of the Tesla Model S was recently spotted cruising through Palo Alto, California, just a few weeks after the company hit pause on its vehicle production lines. Read more.

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Gizmodo

JANUARY 3, 2021

Facebook’s cross-platform chat app WhatsApp saw a record number of users on New Year’s Eve as some people smartly opted to celebrate the end of 2020 virtually this year. Because even if that cursed year from Hades is finally behind us, the covid-19 pandemic is definitely not. Read more.

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Gizmodo

JANUARY 3, 2021

The Los Angeles entertainment industry, typically a hub of Hollywood production, is once again slowing to a halt in response to the unprecedented, basically unchecked spread of the novel coronavirus in LA County. Read more.

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Gizmodo

JANUARY 3, 2021

Remy the Rat has had his musical debut, and it’s fantastic—and lucrative. Read more.

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Gizmodo

JANUARY 3, 2021

Tesla set a strong goal for 2020: build and deliver half a million cars. And while the electric vehicle company very nearly achieved both goals, it fell just 450 units short of its delivery goal. Read more.

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JANUARY 3, 2021

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JANUARY 3, 2021

An air purifier and a Buffy Cloud comforter lead Sunday’s best deals. Read more.

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