Forrester IT
MAY 16, 2020
Last Friday, the US Bureau of Labor Statistics released the Employment Situation Summary for April 2020. That report has implications for the US tech market outlook in the pandemic recession because the specific industries that are shedding workers are the ones most likely to cut their tech spending sharply in 2020. The data confirm most […].
GeekWire
MAY 16, 2020
Mount St. Helens erupts on May 18, 1980. (U.S. Forest Service Photo). Seismologist Steve Malone feels a magnitude-5.1 rumble of deja vu whenever he hears the latest developments in the debate over reopening businesses amid the coronavirus outbreak. It reminds Malone of the debate that raged in the days before Mount St. Helens blew its top on May 18, 1980, devastating more than 150 square miles of forest land around the volcano in southwestern Washington state, spewing ash all the way to Idaho, c
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Venture Beast
MAY 16, 2020
The development of quantum computers, if successful, will allow for end-to-end in-silico drug discovery that could stop epidemics before they go global. Read More.
Gizmodo
MAY 16, 2020
Louisiana is starting to reopen on Friday, but that doesn’t mean much to 66-year-old Myrtle Felton. She lives in St. James Parish in the southeastern portion of the state where there’s not much business at all except the refineries and chemical plants that surround her home. Read more.
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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.
Venture Beast
MAY 16, 2020
Daniel Beauchamp's latest AR reimaging blue and red lightsabers coming out of the ends of fingers for a tabletop miniature version of Beat Saber. Read More.
TechSpot
MAY 16, 2020
US consumer spending on video games reached an all-time high in the first quarter as gamers looked to quell boredom while ordered to stay at home to slow the spread of Covid-19.
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GeekWire
MAY 16, 2020
Michael “Luni” Libes, founder of Fledge. (Fledge Photo). Michael “Luni” Libes did not want to launch another company. Over two decades, he’d been involved with five software startups, founding or co-founding four of them. When his Seattle-based mobile analytics company Ground Truth underwent a merger in 2011 , he decided to try something else.
Venture Beast
MAY 16, 2020
Hugging Face launched about 1,000 AI models for translation, the first venture into translation for the startup that seeks out and shares cutting-edge NLP. Read More.
Gizmodo
MAY 16, 2020
The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is preparing to possibly add a new element to its pre-boarding screening procedures in the U.S. airports: checking temperatures. If approved, the new measure could be rolled out at about a dozen airports as soon as next week, the Wall Street Journal reported. Read more.
Venture Beast
MAY 16, 2020
Shoppable ads aren’t brand new, but in our new COVID-19 reality, they're newly urgent. Getting them right is a critical competency for advertisers. Read More.
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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.
TechSpot
MAY 16, 2020
CBS is taking Star Trek back to its roots. Mr. Spock, Captain Pike, and Number One return in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds for an optimistic, episodic new adventure.
Venture Beast
MAY 16, 2020
Aha CEO Brian de Haaff pens an open letter to public companies that are bullying providers to accept unfair payment arrangements Read More.
TechSpot
MAY 16, 2020
If you’re scrambling to create a makeshift office in your home, you’re not alone. Working from a laptop can be helped on a number of ways, but adding a secondary monitor will make your work life easier and instantly more productive.
The Verge
MAY 16, 2020
Photo by Dan Seifert / The Verge. You can get two of Amazon’s Echo Show 5 smart displays for $90 today at Best Buy. To break down why exactly that’s a deal worth highlighting, that’s the regular price for just one of them. This model has a 5.5-inch display, which makes it easier to fit just about anywhere inside your home. And since this deal includes a second display, you can choose to set it up in a different part of your living space, or you can gift it to someone who you’d like to keep in co
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TechSpot
MAY 16, 2020
Apple may be forced to delay the iPhone 12, but in the meantime it has brought a new iPhone SE that's equipped with the latest internals and comes at a relatively affordable price. According to analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, it may also be preparing a more affordable iPad for the second.
The Verge
MAY 16, 2020
Edison Mail has rolled back a software update that apparently let some users of its iOS app see emails from strangers’ accounts. Several Edison users contacted The Verge to report seeing the glitch after they applied the update, which was meant to allow users to sync data across devices. Reader Matthew Grzybowski said after the update he had more than 100 unread messages from the UK-based email account of a stranger.
TechSpot
MAY 16, 2020
Sources familiar with the matter tell The Wall Street Journal that the Justice Department could levy charges against Google as early as this summer. Additional lawsuits from state attorneys general including Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton could follow in the fall, others said.
The Verge
MAY 16, 2020
An OLED screen, a cutting-edge GPU, and a hefty price tag The Gigabyte Aero 15 is a laptop aimed at designers and creative professionals. But when I first saw the thing, I didn’t believe that. It looks nothing like any laptop that comes to mind when I think of “creators” (the slim and sleek MacBook Pros, XPS 15s, Surface Books, and Zenbooks of the world).
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GeekWire
MAY 16, 2020
Here’s what we’re talking about this week on the GeekWire Podcast. Word leaked out this week that Uber is considering buying food-delivery service Grubhub , and it turns out there are many Seattle connections behind the possible deal, including links to Expedia and several other companies. Food delivery is a tough market to make a buck in, for companies and their drivers, so what’s in the deal for Uber?
The Verge
MAY 16, 2020
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge. A Friday letter from Amazon to members of Congress looking into the company’s third-party seller practices was “unacceptable,” House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler (D-NY) tweeted Saturday. At issue is an Amazon executive’s testimony at a hearing last July, where he said the company doesn’t access information from third-party sellers on its platform to make competing items.
Gizmodo
MAY 16, 2020
A dress sale at Express , a copy of Soulcalibur VI and the season pass , short-sleeve button-ups at JACHS NY , a sale on One-Punch Man manga , and more rise to the top of Saturday’s best deals. Read more.
GeekWire
MAY 16, 2020
Can we foster the same work culture and communication standards through a video chat? (BigStock Photo). In the midst of the ongoing pandemic, there is an awakening among CEOs that employees are capable of doing work and being productive from home. This week, Twitter announced that employees can work from home indefinitely, becoming the first big tech company to make such an open-ended switch in policy.
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Venture Beast
MAY 16, 2020
Facebook is acquiring Giphy, a popular website for making and sharing animated images, or GIFs, and will integrate it with its Instagram photo-sharing app, Read More.
The Verge
MAY 16, 2020
Facebook is buying Giphy , and that means how you send and receive GIFs on the internet could change forever. The service claims that more than 700 million people see Giphy content every day, and many of those views come from some of the internet’s most popular apps— from Apple’s iMessage to TikTok and Twitter — most of which rely on Giphy’s API and archives to let users share and post GIFs.
TechSpot
MAY 16, 2020
Early on Friday, the Trump administration renewed the Huawei ban that prevents the company and its subsidiaries from doing business with hardware and software companies in the United States. While the Chinese tech giant has been able to circumvent some of the restrictions by re-releasing old devices as new "editions,".
Gizmodo
MAY 16, 2020
On Friday, President Donald Trump unveiled the official flag of the United States Space Force and, in his latest display of unparalleled oratorical excellence , touted a new “super duper missile” from the Department of Defense that’s sure to make the likes of China and Russia pee their pants. Read more.
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