May 29, 2024

Hardware

Arm Unveils 2024 CPU Core Designs, Cortex X925, A725 and A520: Arm v9.2 Redefined For 3nm

As the semiconductor industry continues to evolve, Arm stands at the forefront of innovation for its core and IP architecture, especially in the mobile space, by pushing the boundaries of technology to deliver cutting-edge solutions for end users. For 2024, Arm’s year-on-year strategic advancements focus on enhancing last year’s Armv9.2 architecture with a new twist. Arm has rebranded and re-strategized its efforts by introducing Arm Compute Subsystem (CSS), the direct successor to last year’s Total Compute Solutions

Gavin Bonshor May 29, 2024

AR/VR

From Traditional to Tokenized: The Transformative Impact of NFTs on Education

Imagine a world where your academic achievements are as unique and secure as a work of art. With the advent of non-fungible tokens (NFTs), this could become a reality in the educational field. In an age where digital transformation is paramount, integrating NFTs into education highlights the innovative ways technology can reshape traditional systems. NFTs, digital assets on blockchain with unique smart contracts, can revolutionise industries, including education. Incorporating blockchain and NFTs presents an intriguing

David Andrews May 29, 2024

Hardware

Microsoft DirectSR Super Resolution API Now Available For Developers

For both hard-core PC gamers and hardware enthusiasts like your average HotHardware reader, it’s no big deal to head into a game’s settings and flip on whatever upscaling technology applies to their graphics card. Most people won’t bother, though; if it isn’t enabled by default, it isn’t getting turned on. This isn’t great when you consider that, generally speaking, enabling some degree of upscaling will give you a big performance bump while sacrificing very little

Zak Killian May 29, 2024

How to Better Communicate as a Data Scientist

Most valuable lessons from my time at McKinsey Tessa Xie · Follow Published in Towards Data Science · 6 min read · 13 hours ago — image by author In my previous post, I made the point that “communicating our work is as important as writing code and building the models and products to get the job done.” Unfortunately, in reality I have observed a lot of data scientists (especially junior ones) struggling with the

Tessa Xie May 29, 2024

Flash attention(Fast and Memory-Efficient Exact Attention with IO-Awareness): A deep dive

Flash attention is power optimization transformer attention mechanism that provides 15% efficiency Anish Dubey · Follow Published in Towards Data Science · 7 min read · 13 hours ago — Photo by sander traa on Unsplash Flash attention is a power optimization transformer attention mechanism which provides 15% efficiency in terms of wall-clock speed with no approximation. Context Given transformer models are slow and memory hungry on long sequences (time and memory complexity is quadratic

Anish Dubey May 29, 2024

Robotics

Stereotaxis wins updated CE mark for all devices available in Europe – The Robot Report

Listen to this article The full Stereotaxis lab with the Genesis RMN system. Source: Stereotaxis Stereotaxis Inc. last week announced that it received CE Mark for its devices in Europe under new European Medical Device Regulation, or EU MDR, framework. The St. Louis, Mo.-based company has developed surgical robotics for minimally invasive endovascular interventions. The recertification under MDR covers all Stereotaxis devices available in Europe. In 2021, the MDR replaced the EU Medical Device Directive (MDD)

Sean Whooley May 29, 2024

AR/VR

The Sandbox Unveils DAO to Empower SAND and LAND Holders

The Sandbox, a decentralized gaming platform, has announced the launch of its decentralized autonomous organization (DAO), known as The Sandbox DAO. This initiative aims to empower SAND token holders and virtual LAND owners—NFTs representing in-game plots—to participate in the platform’s governance. Phased Implementation of The Sandbox DAO The implementation of The Sandbox DAO will occur in three phases. In the first phase, already started, SAND token and LAND plot owners can vote on Sandbox Improvement

Mia Patel May 29, 2024

Germany’s financial regulator ends anti-money laundering cap on N26 signups after $10M fine | TechCrunch

After the Wirecard scandal, Germany’s financial regulator BaFin started to look more closely at young fintech startups that wanted to grow at a rapid pace — it’s better to be safe than sorry. In particular, N26, a Berlin-based banking startup that raised hundreds of millions of euros and quickly became a unicorn, has had a complicated relationship with BaFin for the past few years. The regulator imposed a cap on new signups as a sanction

Romain Dillet May 29, 2024

Robotics

S&S Activewear improves warehouse efficiency with Korber software, Geek+ robots – The Robot Report

Listen to this article S&S Activewear has deployed robots from Geek+ and software from Körber. Source: Körber Supply Chain Smart retailers are working with select technology partners to optimize their operations. S&S Activewear today announced the expansion of its partnership with Körber Supply Chain. The apparel distributor has also deployed robots from Geekplus Technology Co. at three warehouse sites across the Americas. S&S Activewear said the collaboration enables it to optimize on-site staff, order quality,

The Robot Report Staff May 29, 2024

Kinnect’s new app aims to help families record and store generational memories | TechCrunch

A new startup called Kinnect aims to help people privately save generational memories, traditions, recipes and more. The company’s app, launched this month, lets people create invite-only spaces where they can share images, videos, audio, text and more with their entire family. Kinnect was founded in May 2023 by Omar Alvarez, an entrepreneur who has experience working with telehealth brands focused on mental health. Alvarez came up with the idea for Kinnect after he lost

Aisha Malik May 29, 2024