April 26, 2024

Hardware

TSMC Jumps Into Silicon Photonics, Lays Out Roadmap For 12.8 Tbps COUPE On-Package Interconnect

Optical connectivity – and especially silicon photonics – is expected to become a crucial technology to enable connectivity for next-generation datacenters, particularly those designed HPC applications. With ever-increasing bandwidth requirements needed to keep up with (and keep scaling out) system performance, copper signaling alone won’t be enough to keep up. To that end, several companies are developing silicon photonics solutions, including fab providers like TSMC, who this week outlined its 3D Optical Engine roadmap as part of

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Hardware

LG’s 32-inch gaming OLED monitor with 480Hz refresh rate is imminent, with pre-orders live now

LG revealed its 32-inch OLED sporting a 480Hz refresh rate back at CES 2024 in January, and the gaming monitor is now imminent, with the manufacturer having announced that it’s in mass production. 2 This is a ‘Dual Mode’ OLED meaning it can be switched between Full HD/480Hz and 4K/240Hz (Image Credit: LG) VIEW GALLERY – 2 IMAGES The monitor offers a 480Hz refresh rate – providing your GPU can cope with that – at

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Start-ups

So are we banning TikTok or what? Also: Can an influencer really tank an $800M company? | TechCrunch

Welcome to Startups Weekly — your weekly recap of everything you can’t miss from the world of startups. Sign up here to get it in your inbox every Friday. Ticktock, TikTok: It’s been a wild week for TikTok. Even as the company starts testing its Twitter competitor in certain markets and launches its luxury secondhand shop in the U.K., it’s finding a lot of friction in the land of the free and the home of the

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Robotics

Ubiros Gentle grippers go all electric for reliability, flexibility – The Robot Report

Listen to this article The Gentle Duo Mini soft grippers are suitable for food handling. Source: Ubiros Reliable and delicate robotic grasping has long been a challenge, but Ubiros Inc. said it can solve the problem without the bulky pneumatics or complex coding of previous approaches. The company’s electrically driven and modular grippers are easier to deploy and use than other soft grippers, according to Onder Ondemir, president of Ubiros. He is also a professor

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AI

Robust One-Hot Encoding

Production grade one-hot encoding techniques in Python and R Hans Christian Ekne · Follow Published in Towards Data Science · 11 min read · 9 hours ago — Image generated by the author using DALL-E / or Dali?;) Have you faced a crash in your machine learning production environments? It’s not fun, and especially when it comes to issues that could be avoided. One issue that frequently causes problems is one-hot encoding of data. Drawing

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Disrupt 2024 speaker applications close at midnight | TechCrunch

Act fast! Applications for our Call for Content close today, April 26 at 11:59 p.m. PT. If you’re a seasoned startup pro ready to lead a session at TechCrunch Disrupt on October 28-30, now’s your chance to apply! Send in your proposal to speak at TechCrunch Disrupt 2024 before the deadline hits. Your topic should empower startup founders, builders, and entrepreneurs to propel their businesses forward. Choose the format that suits your content best (or

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Start-ups

Pitch Deck Teardown: NOQX’s $200K pre-seed deck | TechCrunch

NOQX is a Stockholm-based startup on a mission to help companies improve their goal-setting, collaboration mechanisms and experiences. It has just raised a $200,000 pre-seed round to help accomplish its aims and, by extension, help out companies with employee counts ranging from 50 to 500 or so. The company hasn’t been around for very long — the team behind NOQX felt frustrated by a lack of effective goal management tools for companies and founded the

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