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Tesla reportedly adding USB-C ports and wireless phone charging to US-made Model 3 vehicles

The Verge

Photo by James Bareham / The Verge. Tesla has started adding a wireless phone charger and USB-C ports to Model 3 vehicles built at its Fremont, Calif. factory, Elektrek reported. As first reported by Drive Tesla Canada , the features were already available in Tesla’s Model Y , and the carmaker began adding them last month to its Chinese-made Model 3 vehicles.

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COVID-19 transmission in Seattle region rises back above key threshold, new estimates show

GeekWire

A best estimate of the effective reproductive number for COVID-19 in Western Washington rose back above Re=1, a setback in efforts to slow the spread of the disease in the region. Institute for Disease Modeling, Microsoft, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. Transmission of COVID-19 is back on the rise in the Seattle region and other parts of Washington state, again exceeding the threshold needed to further stem the spread of the pandemic, according to a new report released by researchers an

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SpaceX launched more Starlink satellites on Falcon 9, and three Planet SkySats hitched a ride

The Verge

Falcon 9 launched 58 Starlink satellites and three Planet Skysats to orbit, then returned to Earth. | SpaceX. SpaceX launched 58 new Starlink satellites on its Falcon 9 rocket on Saturday morning, and three satellites from Planet tagged along for the ride. The SpaceX satellites are part of its growing Starlink constellation, which it’s building to provide internet connectivity on Earth.

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SpaceX sends Starlink and Planet satellites to orbit in a new kind of piggyback launch

GeekWire

SpaceX today launched dozens more of its Starlink broadband internet satellites, plus three piggyback satellites for Planet — marking the first of the company’s in-house rideshare deliveries to orbit. SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida at 5:21 a.m. ET (2:21 a.m. PT), just 10 days after the eighth launch of 60 Starlink satellites.

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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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AT&T is offering Warner Bros. game division for sale

Venture Beast

AT&T is offering its Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment (WBIE) division up for sale, according to a CNBC report as well as our own reporting. Citing unnamed sources, CNBC said Friday that potential bidders included Take-Two Interactive, Electronic Arts, and Activision Blizzard. If the sale happens, it would be a major change for Hollywood a… Read More.

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Microsoft Teams now lets you upload your own photos as background images on video calls

The Verge

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge. It might not necessarily make that early Monday morning video call more fun, but Microsoft Teams will now let users upload their own photos for custom backgrounds, the company announced in a blog post. Custom images and other background effects are only available for scheduled Teams meetings, Microsoft says. Teams has a background blurring effect and a library of pre-installed images to allow meeting participants to conceal their messy home offices.

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Developer blames VR for severe eyesight damage

TechSpot

Danny Bittman is a twenty-five-year-old Creative Director and Artist who works almost exclusively in VR, and he recently took to Twitter to evaluate his eyesight problems.

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Amazon announces New World closed beta on July 23 and unveils combat system

Venture Beast

Amazon Games announced that its New World massively multiplayer online game will have a beta test available on July 23. It also showed the combat system. Read More.

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Ryzen 7 2700X vs. Ryzen 7 3700X: High Refresh Gaming Comparison

TechSpot

Following up to our recent CPU comparison in competitive titles using low quality settings, we're pitting the Ryzen 7 3700X and 10th-gen Core i5-10600K against the 2700X to see how the previous-gen Ryzen stacks up.

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Twitter reinstates Zero Hedge account saying its earlier suspension was ‘an error’

The Verge

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge. Twitter has reinstated the account for markets blogging site Zero Hedge, and says its decision to suspend the account for “platform manipulation” earlier this year was a mistake, Bloomberg reported. The January suspension of its Twitter account followed a report from Zero Hedge suggesting that a Chinese scientist had created the coronavirus in a lab, a theory that has since been widely debunked.

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GEP Procurement & Supply Chain Tech Trends Report

The technological landscape is dynamic and changes quickly. And for procurement and supply chain leaders looking to harness the power of technology to navigate complex challenges and an uncertain business environment, keeping up with the latest trends can be its own obstacle. So, what’s on the technological horizon for procurement and supply chain for the year ahead?

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UK antitrust watchdog launches investigation into Facebook's acquisition of Giphy

TechSpot

Facebook announced last month that it had bought animated picture platform Giphy with the intention of integrating it with its Instagram team. According to unnamed sources cited by Axios, the deal is worth around $400 million, making it smaller but not insignificant in comparison with Instagram, which was snapped for.

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When ‘quick wins’ in data science add up to a long fail

Venture Beast

Businesses invest in data science because it promises to be transformative. But quick wins don't transform; they reinforce the status quo. Read More.

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Spies can eavesdrop remotely by analyzing a light bulb's vibrations

TechSpot

The “lamphone” measures the tiny fluctuations in light created as sound waves hit the bulb and cause it to vibrate ever so slightly. The electro-optical sensor is able to isolate the audio signal from the optical signal through four stages.

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Torchlight III launches on Steam Early Access

Venture Beast

Torchlight III has launched on PC via Steam Steam Early Access. This happens on the same day as when the game showed up during the the PC Gaming Show. Read More.

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7 Pitfalls for Apache Cassandra in Production

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.

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To Stop Deforestation, Give People Money

Gizmodo

Solutions to inequality are often portrayed as being at odds with environmental protection. It doesn’t have to be an either-or choice, though. A new study argues that an Indonesian program to help people out of poverty also saved trees. It shows that sometimes you just need to give people money. Read more.

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Rep. Jimmy Gomez on the future of facial recognition regulation in Congress

Venture Beast

Rep. Jimmy Gomez (D-CA) spoke with us about facial recognition regulation in Congress as Amazon, IBM, and Microsoft pause or end work with the police. Read More.

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GeekWire Update: Pausing to reflect on the historical weight of the moment

GeekWire

A Black Lives Matter mural in Seattle. (GeekWire Photo / John Cook). [Editor’s Note: This post was adapted from a message that GeekWire co-founder John Cook sent internally to the GeekWire team this week. Also see this recent message to GeekWire newsletter subscribers.]. I loved history as a kid and young adult, especially the messiness, complexity and rawness of the Civil War era.

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Persona 4 Golden comes to PC via Steam

Venture Beast

Atlus has released Persona 4 Golden on PC via Steam. The debut happened right before the start of the PC Gaming Show today. Read More.

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20 Common Mistakes Made by Inexperienced Project Managers

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.

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GeekWire Podcast: Tech and the police; Amazon sues former VP; remembering Manny Vellon

GeekWire

Here’s what we’re talking about this week on the GeekWire Podcast: As protests over police violence continue across the country, Amazon, IBM and Microsoft all announce they won’t sell their controversial facial recognition software to law enforcement. But Amazon says it will only stop for a year. That earned the company some goodwill, but racial justice and civil rights groups called it a trivial concession.

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How Naughty Dog made The Last of Us Part II so accessible

Venture Beast

Naughty Dog has said that The Last of Us Part II is the most accessible game it has made, thanks to 60 features it added to make it more playable. Read More.

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Patrick Wilson Signs On to Fight the Moon in Roland Emmerich's Moonfall

Gizmodo

Roland Emmerich has, in his time, made a lot of ridiculous disaster movies. He had mankind take on aliens. Godzilla. Giant spiders. The Mayan apocalypse. And now, he’s preparing to guide humanity through a trial with its greatest foe yet: the moon. Read more.

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Iron Gate Studio shows off Valheim, a survival game with Vikings

Venture Beast

The world of Valheim got its debut at the PC Gaming Show on Saturday, as developers showed a trailer that gave a feel for the viking survival game. Read More.

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Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI

“Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI” is an extensive guide for integrating generative AI into product strategy and careers featuring over 150 real-world examples, 30 case studies, and 20+ frameworks, and endorsed by over 20 leading AI and product executives, inventors, entrepreneurs, and researchers.

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How to watch the PC Gaming Show and Future Games Show today, June 13

The Verge

Image: Summer Game Fest. Even if the world’s biggest video game expos have been canceled this year, we’re being treated to an unprecedented array of virtual events in their place — and today, what’s been dubbed the Summer Game Fest will continue with the PC Gaming Show and the Future Games Show, starting at 11AM PT / 2PM ET. Here’s what to look forward to, and how to watch.

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Icarus is the new survival game from the creator of DayZ

Venture Beast

Icarus is a session-based survival game from the creator of DayZ. It wants to capture the feeling of playing through the first hour of Minecraft. Read More.

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Everything Announced At The PC Gaming Show 2020

Gizmodo

Even though we aren’t getting a proper E3 this year, we still got the annual PC Gaming show. The show didn’t have a ton of huge new announcements, but we did get some new trailers for games like Outlast Trials, Twin Mirror , and Weird West. And some new info about Mafia Definitive Edition and Total War Saga: Troy. Read more.

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No Place for Bravery is Glitch Factory’s action-RPG about absent parents and toxic relationships

Venture Beast

Glitch Factory and publisher Ysbryd Games announced that the RPG No Place For Bravery is releasing Q1 2021 for the PC and Nintendo Switch. Read More.

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Entity Resolution Checklist: What to Consider When Evaluating Options

Are you trying to decide which entity resolution capabilities you need? It can be confusing to determine which features are most important for your project. And sometimes key features are overlooked. Get the Entity Resolution Evaluation Checklist to make sure you’ve thought of everything to make your project a success! The list was created by Senzing’s team of leading entity resolution experts, based on their real-world experience.

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The Newest Galaxy of Adventures Short Gives Us a Look at the Best Moment in Star Wars

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I’ll never join you! Read more.

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Cris Tales launches it homage to old-school RPGs on November 17

Venture Beast

Modus Games announced today during the PC Gaming Show that role-playing game Cris Tales will launch on November 17 for multiple platforms. Read More.

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ComiXology's Captain Marvel Sale Lets You Stock Up on Guardians of the Galaxy Comics

Gizmodo

Captain Marvel Sale | ComiXology Read more.

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Almighty: Kill Your Gods is a co-op action-RPG about slaying your deities

Venture Beast

Almighty: Kill Your Gods is a co-op action-RPG from Runwild Entertainment. Versus Evil is publishing this game for PC and consoles. Read More.

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The Big Payoff of Application Analytics

Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business. That’s what drove the five companies in this e-book to change their approach to analytics. Download this e-book to learn about the unique problems each company faced and how they achieved huge returns beyond expectation by embedding analytics into applications.