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Meet the new leader of Sea.citi, a nonprofit that aims to engage Seattle tech workers with civic life

GeekWire

Terrance Stevenson. (WTIA Photo) Terrance Stevenson is bringing his passion for peace-building, community development, and innovation to the Seattle tech industry. Stevenson this week was named director of Sea.citi, a nonprofit that launched in 2018 and aims to help tech workers engage with civic issues. It focuses on issues such as housing affordability, climate change, transportation infrastructure and digital equity.

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Assassin's Creed haptic feedback shirt will let players feel every punch, stab, and fall

TechSpot

Sometimes after a hard day, you just want to come home and unwind. Other times you want to come home, put on a tight shirt, and feel simulated punches and stabs. If you find yourself in that latter category, guess what: you're in luck. Assassin's Creed developer Ubisoft is partnering.

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Amazon’s Alexa and the rapid evolution of AI: A conversation with Alexa chief Rohit Prasad

GeekWire

Amazon senior vice president Rohit Prasad is leading the Alexa business in the new era of generative AI, building on the company’s history in working with large language models. (Amazon Photo) Rohit Prasad grew up in the Star Trek era, fascinated by the idea of interacting with computers via voice. So he was excited to join the Amazon Alexa team a decade ago, working initially on far-field speech recognition.

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Why Upgrading a Gaming PC Right Now is Almost Pointless

TechSpot

What if you want to upgrade an existing gaming PC? What are the options, and do they make sense? The big problem is that current-gen AMD and Nvidia GPUs don't move the needle forward.

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Generative AI Deep Dive: Advancing from Proof of Concept to Production

Speaker: Maher Hanafi, VP of Engineering at Betterworks & Tony Karrer, CTO at Aggregage

Executive leaders and board members are pushing their teams to adopt Generative AI to gain a competitive edge, save money, and otherwise take advantage of the promise of this new era of artificial intelligence. There's no question that it is challenging to figure out where to focus and how to advance when it’s a new field that is evolving everyday. 💡 This new webinar featuring Maher Hanafi, CTO of Betterworks, will explore a practical framework to transform Generative AI prototypes into

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Goodbye, Calibri; hello, Aptos: A new default font for Microsoft Office

TechSpot

Microsoft writes that its 15-year relationship with Calibri has come to a natural end. The font replaced Times New Roman across Microsoft Office back in 2007, but the twilight of its reign started in 2021 when the Redmond company commissioned five original, custom fonts to replace Calibri, asking users to.

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Modder 3D prints a custom Mini-ITX RTX 3060 Founders Edition

TechSpot

A GPU modder recently revealed their attempt to envision a theoretical mini-ITX GeForce Founders Edition card. The result is a uniquely slick-looking ultra-small RTX 3060.

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