GeekWire
MAY 23, 2020
More travelers are expected to hit the road for camping trips as restrictions are eased in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. (GeekWire Photo / Kurt Schlosser). After months confined in their homes, many people who would normally hop on an airplane or crowd into popular tourist destinations are instead rediscovering the joys of camping, with help from technology.
Venture Beast
MAY 23, 2020
The largest Joint AI Center contract to date was awarded this week. CTO Nand Mulchandani on AI at the Pentagon and why JAIC is mimicing Silicon Valley. Read More.
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GeekWire
MAY 23, 2020
Mark Kokoris, President, CEO, and co-founder at Stratos Genomics. (Stratos Photo). Publicly-traded pharmaceutical giant Roche acquired Stratos Genomics , a Seattle DNA sequencing startup. Founded in 2007, Stratos’ technology is called Sequencing By Expansion (SBX), which converts DNA into more easily-read polymer, making it cheaper and faster to sequence DNA, according to the company.
Venture Beast
MAY 23, 2020
When I saw the New York Times article suggesting Twitter is breaking new ground by letting its employees work remotely, I wanted to set the record straight. Read More.
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.
GeekWire
MAY 23, 2020
Contact tracing is a key part of the strategy for corralling coronavirus. (University of Washington Photo). The Washington State Department of Health is in the early stages of a massive effort to interview COVID-19 patients and track down those who might have been infected by those patients. Contact tracing is a tried and true technique, typically used to stem the spread of infectious diseases ranging from tuberculosis to measles to gonorrhea.
Venture Beast
MAY 23, 2020
Major social media companies have replaced many of their human content moderators with AI during the pandemic. And the results aren't encouraging. Read More.
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The Verge
MAY 23, 2020
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge. An analysis of the latest update to Google Messages suggests it may be moving closer to having end-to-end encryption for RCS, according to 9to5 Google (via APKMirror ). Rich communication services, or RCS, is the successor to SMS messaging and does what most other texting services do, but without the end-to-end encryption that apps like Signal and iMessage have.
Venture Beast
MAY 23, 2020
Facebook announced that its $1,000 enterprise-edition Oculus Quest, part of its Oculus for Business platform, is now available for all companies. Read More.
GeekWire
MAY 23, 2020
At left, Washington Gov. Gary Locke announces the formation of the “2020 Commission” on higher education at a press conference in February 1998, via Washington State Archives. Locke, pictured today at right, went on to become U.S. Secretary of Commerce and U.S. Ambassador to China. A longtime contact of mine recently emailed a New York Times article from June 18, 1998: “Virtual-Classes Trend Alarms Professors.” Viewed through the lens of 2020, the headline was worthy of T
Venture Beast
MAY 23, 2020
Blind Squirrel Games is going out of its way to make sure that employees are healthy and entertained as they work in quarantine. Read More.
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TechSpot
MAY 23, 2020
Without further ado, here’s what we’re looking at. There are three tiers: Ryzen 7 with eight processor cores and eight graphics cores, Ryzen 5 with six processor cores and seven graphics cores, and Ryzen 3 with four processor cores and six graphics cores. Each tier comes in two or three.
The Verge
MAY 23, 2020
Photo by James Bareham / The Verge. It’s Memorial Day weekend in the US. Several retailers are offering some of the best deals that we’ve seen in months, spanning several categories of tech. There’s quite a lot to look at today, so we’ve included a selection of promotions below. Now is about the time when we hear something from Amazon about when its annual Prime Day will happen.
TechSpot
MAY 23, 2020
With over four years under its belt, Rainbow Six Siege continues to evolve as a unique, tactical shooter experience that hasn’t really been duplicated anywhere else. Well, except that awkward mobile “ripoff” that Ubisoft is currently suing over. Every new Siege seasonal update adds something new to shake up the.
Venture Beast
MAY 23, 2020
Video games such as NBA 2K are introducing a younger generation to ESPN at a time when networks are desperate for viewers. Read More.
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TechSpot
MAY 23, 2020
Final Fantasy VII bested both Call of Duty: Modern Warfare and Animal Crossing: New Horizons for the top spot. The other two titles finished in second and third place, respectively, according to NPD.
Gizmodo
MAY 23, 2020
Canines beware: Apparently we humans aren’t the only ones who need to worry about our inevitable robot overlords replacing us. Read more.
TechSpot
MAY 23, 2020
Apple has historically kept a tight lid on hardware and software during development. Such secrecy is needed to protect its IP from the competition and makes the eventual unveiling all the more special for the audience.
Gizmodo
MAY 23, 2020
If you watched Back to the Future: Part II when it first hit Netflix, you might have noticed a little something was missing. According to the writer of the series , it wasn’t exactly Netflix’s fault. Read more.
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Venture Beast
MAY 23, 2020
SPONSORED DEALS: As strange as this year has been, we’re finally coming up on Memorial Day if you can believe it. With all of the madness around the world, VB Deals is here to cheer you up by bringing you some of the best deals online right now. From tension-relieving muscle relaxation mats to high quality noise-cancelling ear buds, these bargains… Read More.
Gizmodo
MAY 23, 2020
In a hard-fought victory for privacy reformers, the U.S. House of Representatives is now expected to vote as early as Wednesday on an amendment that would explicitly prohibit the warrantless collection of internet search and browsing history without a warrant, sources tell Gizmodo. Read more.
The Verge
MAY 23, 2020
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge. Twitter is testing a new feature that lets users decide who can reply to their tweets, the company announced on Wednesday , and some accounts are already using it in some interesting new ways. Previously, anybody could reply to anybody on Twitter (as long as their profile wasn’t private or blocked). But now, if you’re part of the test, you can decide if you want to allow replies from everyone, only people you follow, or only people you tag — which, if you
Gizmodo
MAY 23, 2020
After shutting down indefinitely in response to the coronavirus pandemic, Universal announced this week that its Orlando parks will reopen their gates beginning on June 5. Universal Studios Florida, Islands of Adventure, and Volcano Bay have been empty for months following several other high-profile theme park closures Read more.
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GeekWire
MAY 23, 2020
NASA astronaut Bob Behnken waves to onlookers outside the Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building at Kennedy Space Center in Florida, just before he and crewmate Doug Hurley get into a Tesla Model X car for the drive to Launch Complex 39A and a rehearsal of next week’s countdown. (NASA Photo / Bill Ingalls). NASA and SpaceX put astronauts Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken and the rest of the team at Kennedy Space Center in Florida through a “dry dress rehearsal” today in preparati
Gizmodo
MAY 23, 2020
If you were wondering, will we, as a people, ever escape from the spectre of velociraptors and Tyrannosaurus rexes chasing us through spectacular pyrotechnic conflagrations? The answer is, absolutely not. Read more.
The Verge
MAY 23, 2020
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge. After resisting pressure from the US for months, Prime Minister Boris Johnson is apparently preparing to phase out the use of Huawei equipment from the UK’s 5G networks, the Financial Times reported. Citing national security concerns, members of the UK’s Tory party have pushed for Huawei technology to be removed from the UK’s 5G infrastructure and the rest of its telecom network by 2023.
Gizmodo
MAY 23, 2020
A reckoning is coming. (Spoilers for the end of the third season incoming.) Read more.
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The Verge
MAY 23, 2020
President Trump held a “social media summit” at the White House last summer. | Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images. President Trump wants to create a panel that would look into complaints of bias against conservatives on social media and other online platforms, The Wall Street Journal reported. What authority the panel would have, and under what department it would be based were not clear.
Gizmodo
MAY 23, 2020
Who knew vampires. could be so hilarious? Read more.
Gizmodo
MAY 23, 2020
A Memorial Day sale at Butter London , an all-seasons weighted blanket for cheap , $10 worth of Marvel comics , NieR: Automata , and more lead the charge of Saturday’s beat deals. Read more.
Gizmodo
MAY 23, 2020
Honestly, if Iron Man really existed, he’d probably be more dangerous to himself than anyone else. Read more.
Speaker: Nicholas Zeisler, CX Strategist & Fractional CXO
The first step in a successful Customer Experience endeavor (or for that matter, any business proposition) is to find out what’s wrong. If you can’t identify it, you can’t fix it! 💡 That’s where the Voice of the Customer (VoC) comes in. Today, far too many brands do VoC simply because that’s what they think they’re supposed to do; that’s what all their competitors do.
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