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Sustainability-Focused Startup Equity Funding Fell In H1 2024 

Sustainability-Focused Startup Equity Funding Fell In H1 2024 

Those of us who follow climate change news are used to seeing the bad tidings outweigh the good. We’re slogging through what’s shaping as the hottest summer on record. Glaciers are melting at an alarming rate. And fossil fuel consumption continues to grow. Now, here comes another grim data point: Equity funding to startups focused on cleantech and sustainability is down this year. In the first half of 2024, around $9.6 billion went to seed through growth financings for companies in Crunchbase’s sustainability, EV, and cleantech categories. That’s a decline of 61% from the second half of last year, and…
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Co-Designing Binarized Transformer and Hardware Accelerator for Efficient End-to-End Edge Deployment

Co-Designing Binarized Transformer and Hardware Accelerator for Efficient End-to-End Edge Deployment

arXiv:2407.12070v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Transformer models have revolutionized AI tasks, but their large size hinders real-world deployment on resource-constrained and latency-critical edge devices. While binarized Transformers offer a promising solution by significantly reducing model size, existing approaches suffer from algorithm-hardware mismatches with limited co-design exploration, leading to suboptimal performance on edge devices. Hence, we propose a co-design method for efficient end-to-end edge deployment of Transformers from three aspects: algorithm, hardware, and joint optimization. First, we propose BMT, a novel hardware-friendly binarized Transformer with optimized quantization methods and components, and we further enhance its model accuracy by leveraging the weighted…
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The best educational toys for kids

The best educational toys for kids

There are tons of building toys out there, from LEGO, to Tegu, to the classic wooden block. But one of my favorites (and my kid’s) are Magna-Tiles. These large, colorful construction toys come in a variety of sizes and shapes and click together, or to other surfaces, with the aid of powerful magnets. They can be combined to form simple shapes like cubes and pyramids, or arranged to make magnetic art on a garage door. Plus there are themed packs that can add windows, staircases or even functional cranes to the playsets. These are open-ended building toys that don’t have…
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SoftBank acquires British AI chipmaker Graphcore

SoftBank acquires British AI chipmaker Graphcore

SoftBank has announced its acquisition of Graphcore, a leading British AI chipmaker. The deal will see Graphcore becoming a wholly-owned subsidiary of SoftBank. This acquisition, reportedly valued at about $600 million, is not SoftBank’s first foray into the UK tech scene. In 2016, SoftBank controversially acquired British chip designer Arm in a much larger deal. However, the Graphcore purchase comes at a lower valuation than the total funding the company is said to have raised, which was around $700 million. Graphcore will continue to operate under its own name and maintain its headquarters in Bristol, UK. The company also retains…
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MaskVD: Region Masking for Efficient Video Object Detection

MaskVD: Region Masking for Efficient Video Object Detection

arXiv:2407.12067v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Video tasks are compute-heavy and thus pose a challenge when deploying in real-time applications, particularly for tasks that require state-of-the-art Vision Transformers (ViTs). Several research efforts have tried to address this challenge by leveraging the fact that large portions of the video undergo very little change across frames, leading to redundant computations in frame-based video processing. In particular, some works leverage pixel or semantic differences across frames, however, this yields limited latency benefits with significantly increased memory overhead. This paper, in contrast, presents a strategy for masking regions in video frames that leverages the semantic…
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Adding advanced search to a Strapi and Next.js project with Algolia

Adding advanced search to a Strapi and Next.js project with Algolia

Introduction In today's fast-paced digital world, finding exactly what you need online should be quick and painless. Imagine entering a vast library where every book, article, and note is meticulously organized and just a whisper away. That's the kind of seamless experience advanced search brings to web applications. In this tutorial, we're diving into the magic of enhancing your e-commerce platform with top-notch search capabilities. We'll explore how to combine Strapi, Next.Js, and Algolia Search to add and implement advanced search functionalities. Prerequisites Before we begin, make sure you have the following installed on your machine: The code for this…
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The Great AI Witch Hunt: Reviewers Perception and (Mis)Conception of Generative AI in Research Writing

The Great AI Witch Hunt: Reviewers Perception and (Mis)Conception of Generative AI in Research Writing

arXiv:2407.12015v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Generative AI (GenAI) use in research writing is growing fast. However, it is unclear how peer reviewers recognize or misjudge AI-augmented manuscripts. To investigate the impact of AI-augmented writing on peer reviews, we conducted a snippet-based online survey with 17 peer reviewers from top-tier HCI conferences. Our findings indicate that while AI-augmented writing improves readability, language diversity, and informativeness, it often lacks research details and reflective insights from authors. Reviewers consistently struggled to distinguish between human and AI-augmented writing but their judgements remained consistent. They noted the loss of a "human touch" and subjective expressions…
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Spotify, Stop Trying to Become a Social Media App

Spotify, Stop Trying to Become a Social Media App

Spotify’s decision to introduce comment sections under podcasts should surprise no one. For years now, apps have been ripping off each other’s most popular features. Where once apps adhered to their respective “things,” today they want to do it all: You can post Stories on YouTube, use AI search tools on Instagram, and shop for clothing on TikTok. And, as of last week, you can experience the thrill of seeing what random strangers think about your favorite podcasts on Spotify.In 2020, Spotify flirted with social tools, such as a Stories-esque feature for artists and a collaborative playlist feature for users.…
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Artificial Agency raises $16M to bring AI-powered behavior to games

Artificial Agency raises $16M to bring AI-powered behavior to games

GamesBeat is excited to partner with Lil Snack to have customized games just for our audience! We know as gamers ourselves, this is an exciting way to engage through play with the GamesBeat content you have already come to love. Start playing games here.  Artificial Agency, an AI startup pioneering generative behavior for gaming, emerged from stealth and announced $16 million in funding. The funding will be used to accelerate the development of the company’s flagship product — anAI-powered behavior engine that enables game developers to embed runtime decision-makingseamlessly into any aspect of a game, delivering a gaming experience that…
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