NFC Forum wants to bundle age verification and payment receipts in tap-to-pay

NFC Forum wants to bundle age verification and payment receipts in tap-to-pay

The NFC Forum, the non-profit org made up of big tech companies promoting the NFC standard, envisions a future wherein one tap is all you need for multiple actions at once. With a single tap, for instance, you could pay for your purchase, get points on your rewards account and receive a digital receipt on your phone. The organization released a document that can give you an overview of what the NFC multi-purpose tap capability is and how it can potentially be used.It explains that the multi-purpose tap "leverages the capability of NFC devices to allow both reading and writing…
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Visual Language Model based Cross-modal Semantic Communication Systems

Visual Language Model based Cross-modal Semantic Communication Systems

arXiv:2407.00020v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Semantic Communication (SC) has emerged as a novel communication paradigm in recent years, successfully transcending the Shannon physical capacity limits through innovative semantic transmission concepts. Nevertheless, extant Image Semantic Communication (ISC) systems face several challenges in dynamic environments, including low semantic density, catastrophic forgetting, and uncertain Signal-to-Noise Ratio (SNR). To address these challenges, we propose a novel Vision-Language Model-based Cross-modal Semantic Communication (VLM-CSC) system. The VLM-CSC comprises three novel components: (1) Cross-modal Knowledge Base (CKB) is used to extract high-density textual semantics from the semantically sparse image at the transmitter and reconstruct the original image…
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Walmart shows off its progress with augmented reality showrooms

Walmart shows off its progress with augmented reality showrooms

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.  Walmart showed off its use of augmented reality and artificial intelligence in its retail operations. It turns out that AR is leading to better digital sales and cool new applications that haven’t been done before. The techniques include virtual try-on of outfits, virtual showroom experiences and digital twins, said Desirée Gosby, vice president of emerging technology…
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The Qiyas Benchmark: Measuring ChatGPT Mathematical and Language Understanding in Arabic

The Qiyas Benchmark: Measuring ChatGPT Mathematical and Language Understanding in Arabic

arXiv:2407.00146v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Despite the growing importance of Arabic as a global language, there is a notable lack of language models pre-trained exclusively on Arabic data. This shortage has led to limited benchmarks available for assessing language model performance in Arabic. To address this gap, we introduce two novel benchmarks designed to evaluate models' mathematical reasoning and language understanding abilities in Arabic. These benchmarks are derived from a General Aptitude Test (GAT) called Qiyas exam, a standardized test widely used for university admissions in Saudi Arabia. For validation purposes, we assess the performance of ChatGPT-3.5-trubo and ChatGPT-4 on…
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A Biden donor says giving him cash is a waste of time and money if that bad debate showed what Biden’s really like

A Biden donor says giving him cash is a waste of time and money if that bad debate showed what Biden’s really like

Investor Whitney Tilson, a longtime donor to President Joe Biden, says he's reconsidering his support for Biden after his stumbling performance at last week's presidential debate."I feel deceived. For months my Republican friends have been sending me videos from Twitter and Fox 'News' that appear to show Biden's dementia," Tilson wrote in an X post on Saturday."Though I was concerned, I was mostly able to dismiss these often deceptively-edited videos as the usual Republican attack machine idiocy because I remember how they tried to do the same to Hillary in 2016," he continued. "But the debate changed all that."The former…
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Runway’s Gen-3 Alpha AI video model now available – but there’s a catch

Runway’s Gen-3 Alpha AI video model now available – but there’s a catch

Don’t miss OpenAI, Chevron, Nvidia, Kaiser Permanente, and Capital One leaders only at VentureBeat Transform 2024. Gain essential insights about GenAI and expand your network at this exclusive three day event. Learn More RunwayML, one of the earliest startups to take up the task of training an AI for video generation, today announced that its latest frontier model, Gen-3 Alpha, has become generally available. First announced a couple of weeks ago, Gen-3 Alpha allows users to produce hyper-realistic AI videos from text, image or video prompts. With widespread access rolling out today, anyone signed up on the RunwayML platform can…
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Reinforcement Learning for Efficient Design and Control Co-optimisation of Energy Systems

Reinforcement Learning for Efficient Design and Control Co-optimisation of Energy Systems

arXiv:2406.19825v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The ongoing energy transition drives the development of decentralised renewable energy sources, which are heterogeneous and weather-dependent, complicating their integration into energy systems. This study tackles this issue by introducing a novel reinforcement learning (RL) framework tailored for the co-optimisation of design and control in energy systems. Traditionally, the integration of renewable sources in the energy sector has relied on complex mathematical modelling and sequential processes. By leveraging RL's model-free capabilities, the framework eliminates the need for explicit system modelling. By optimising both control and design policies jointly, the framework enhances the integration of renewable…
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Deep Fusion Model for Brain Tumor Classification Using Fine-Grained Gradient Preservation

Deep Fusion Model for Brain Tumor Classification Using Fine-Grained Gradient Preservation

arXiv:2406.19690v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Brain tumors are one of the most common diseases that lead to early death if not diagnosed at an early stage. Traditional diagnostic approaches are extremely time-consuming and prone to errors. In this context, computer vision-based approaches have emerged as an effective tool for accurate brain tumor classification. While some of the existing solutions demonstrate noteworthy accuracy, the models become infeasible to deploy in areas where computational resources are limited. This research addresses the need for accurate and fast classification of brain tumors with a priority of deploying the model in technologically underdeveloped regions. The…
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