April 27, 2024

Hardware

Google’s ‘AI-Mazing’ Pixel 8a Leaked In Full Reveal

Google’s latest fan-favorite A-series device — the Pixel 8a — is only a month away from launch, but the rumor mill continues to drop new details on this highly-anticipated smartphone. A few supposed renders and promotional images of the device have leaked touting an “AI-mazing” Pixel camera, among other features. it appers Google is equipping the 8a with many of the AI-powered goodies from the flagship Pixel 8 lineup, and that’s a good thing. Renders

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Software

Lidar Annotation is All You Need

Image segmentation plays a crucial role in accurately identifying and delineating objects of interest within an image. In autonomous driving, computer vision algorithms are applied to solve the task of road surface segmentation. This task is challenging as you cannot rely on one type of images only — both cameras and LiDARs have their strengths and flaws. For example, LiDARs provide accurate depth information, but they typically generate sparse point clouds, so they cannot precisely

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Hardware

Apple MacBook Pro 16 Is On Sale For Its Best Price Ever

Amazon has a plethora of deals on laptops going on at the moment that can save those of you shopping for some new mobile tech quite a bit of cash. First up, we have the Apple 2023 MacBook Pro Laptop for $1,998.99 or 20% off the regular price. This machine is powered by the M2 Pro Chip with 12 CPU cores and 19 GPU cores paired with 16GB of unified memory and a 512GB SSD.

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Hardware

Huge Best Buy Weekend TV Deals Are Go With Big 4K OLED Savings

Look at your poor old TV. The brightness is fading, worsening the contrast, and motion doesn’t look quite as clear as it used to. Certainly not as clear as it would on one of these brand-new OLED TVs, with their sub-1ms pixel response time and brilliant HDR capabilities. If you’re still rocking an old pre-quantum-dot LCD, you should seriously consider treating yourself to a new TV. Fortunately, there are some killer deals this weekend. We

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Robotics

Titan Medical gives progress report about Conavi merger – The Robot Report

Listen to this article Titan Medical Inc. this week provided a progress update regarding its planned merger with Conavi Inc. They said the combined entity will continue working to commercialize Conanvi’s Novasight Hybrid system for guiding minimally invasive coronary procedures. Toronto-based Conavi Medical designs, makes, and sells imaging technologies for guiding cardiovascular procedures. Novasight Hybrid combines intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) and optical coherence tomography (OCT) to enable simultaneous and co-registered imaging of coronary arteries. The system has

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Hardware

NASA Discovers A Super Heavy Rogue Planet And A Hunt For More Is On

NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) made its first ever startling discovery of a free-floating rogue planet, and NASA says it is hunting for more. While TESS will continue to be on the lookout for more rogue planets, the space agency is hopeful that its upcoming Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will be able to unveil countless others. In the grand scheme of things, there have been over 5,000 exoplanets discovered. Rogue planets, on the

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AI

Llama-2 vs. Llama-3: a Tic-Tac-Toe Battle Between Models

Making a non-scientific benchmark with Python and Llama-CPP Dmitrii Eliuseev · Follow Published in Towards Data Science · 10 min read · 21 hours ago — Image by Solstice Hannan, Unsplash About a week before the time of writing this story, new open Llama-3 models were released by Meta. As claimed by Meta, these are “the best models existing today at the 8B and 70B parameter scales.” For example, according to a HuggingFace model page,

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AI

MOMENT: A Foundation Model for Time Series Forecasting, Classification, Anomaly Detection

A unified model that covers multiple time-series tasks Nikos Kafritsas · Follow Published in Towards Data Science · 11 min read · 21 hours ago — Created by author using DALLE*3 Foundation models have ignited the applications of LLMs in time series. In the past few months, we saw the release of novel forecasting models like TimesFM, TimeGPT, and of course Salesforce’s…

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Hardware

This idiot-proof thermal paste applicator will make applying TIM easy, even for noobs

We all know that applying thermal paste to CPUs isn’t the easiest thing to do, squirt a little on… move it around, make it kinda even… but now there’s an idiot-proof method of applying the perfect layer thermal paste with X-Apply… check it out: Igor’s Lab worked with DigitalBlizzard, who “came up with the whole thing” explains Igor, and with a little help from an “industrial partner” and a few suggestions from Igor, X-Apply was

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