June 5, 2024

Why Adobe’s Commitments to AI and ESG Underline Potential for a Stock Market Rebound | HackerNoon

The first half of 2024 has been a challenging period for Adobe (NASDAQ:ADBE) stock, with a sharp decline of around 20% punctuating the past six months. However, investors can look to future innovations and the software giant’s exemplary ESG reputation as a solid foundation for a long-term market recovery. Adobe is a growth stock that remains popular despite its recent shortfalls. Nasdaq-listed firm recently featured among the most searched stocks on Zack.com, highlighting higher levels

Dmytro Spilka June 5, 2024

Top Smart Contract Languages in 2024: Solidity, Rust, and Motoko | HackerNoon

Welcome to Dapp Mentors! In this article, we’ll delve into the top three programming languages for blockchain development: Solidity, Rust, and Motoko. As a seasoned blockchain developer and educator, I’ll share my expertise to help you transition into web3 development. You can watch this article as a video below or continue reading through it. Solidity: The Favorite Solidity is our top choice due to its simplicity, ease of use, and wide community support. It’s the

Darlington Gospel June 5, 2024

Robotics

Moon Surgical receives FDA clearance for Maestro Robotic Surgery System – The Robot Report

Listen to this article The Maestro digital surgical assistant is designed to be compact and precise. | Credit: Moon Surgical Moon Surgical announced today that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has granted clearance for the commercial version of its Maestro surgical robot. The startup said the system can augment the precision and control of laparoscopic surgery. Moon Surgical — one of 10 surgical robotics companies to follow in 2024 — said it designed Maestro

Sean Whooley June 5, 2024

Fearless Fund’s Arian Simone coming to Disrupt 2024 | TechCrunch

TechCrunch has kept readers informed regarding Fearless Fund’s courtroom battle to provide business grants to Black women. Today, we are happy to announce that Fearless Fund CEO and co-founder Arian Simone will speak at the Disrupt 2024 Builders Stage in a fireside chat discussing her organization’s fight for racial equity. Fearless Fund was sued last August by the American Alliance for Equal Rights, which alleged that the organization racially discriminated against non-Black founders because it

Robert Frawley June 5, 2024

Start-ups

Bluesky and Mastodon users can now talk to each other with Bridgy Fed | TechCrunch

An important step toward a more interoperable “fediverse” — the broader network of decentralized social media apps like Mastodon, Bluesky and others — has been achieved. Now, users on decentralized apps like Mastodon, powered by the ActivityPub protocol, and those powered by Bluesky’s AT Protocol, can easily follow people on other networks, see their posts, as well as like, reply and repost them. Those same people will be able to see the others’ posts in

Sarah Perez June 5, 2024

Hardware

Using Windows 11 but want Windows 10’s File Explorer back? There’s a dead easy trick to do that

If you’re a Windows 11 user who misses the old File Explorer from Windows 10, here’s some good news. 2 We can file this Windows 11 workaround under ‘improbable’ (Image Credit: Microsoft) VIEW GALLERY – 2 IMAGES It’s possible to access Windows 10’s File Explorer within Windows 11 using a frankly unbelievably simple trick, allowing for the old interface to be used whenever you want a break from the new UI – or indeed when

Darren Allan June 5, 2024

IEEE Offers New Transportation Platform With Advanced Analytics Tools

4 min read To help find ways to solve transportation issues such as poorly maintained roads, traffic jams, and the high rate of accidents, researchers need access to the most current datasets on a variety of topics. But tracking down information about roadway conditions, congestion, and other statistics across multiple websites can be time-consuming. Plus, the data isn’t always accurate. The new National Transportation Data & Analytics Solution (NTDAS), developed with the help of IEEE,

Kathy Pretz June 5, 2024

Perils of Chasing p99

Hidden correlations can mislead optimization strategies Krishna Rao · Follow Published in Towards Data Science · 5 min read · 9 hours ago — Photo by Chun Kit Soo on Unsplash p99, or the value below which 99% of observations fall, is widely used to track and optimize worst-case performance across industries. For example, the time taken for a page to load, fulfill a shopping order or deliver a shipment can all be optimized by

Krishna Rao June 5, 2024

SoftBank-backed grocery startup Oda lays off 150, resets focus on Norway and Sweden | TechCrunch

It’s not just instant-delivery startups that are struggling. Oda, the Norway-based online supermarket delivery startup, has confirmed layoffs of 150 jobs as it drastically scales back its expansion ambitions to focus on just two markets, its homebase and Sweden, the homebase of Mathem, an online grocery that Oda merged with last year. Oda, which has raised hundreds of millions of dollars and was once valued as high as $900 million in a round led by

Anna Heim June 5, 2024

Linear Attention Is All You Need

Self-attention at a fraction of the cost? Sam Maddrell-Mander · Follow Published in Towards Data Science · 9 min read · 3 days ago — Photo by Guillaume Jaillet on Unsplash “Attention scales badly with long sequence lengths” This is the kind of thing anyone who’s spent much time working with transformers and self-attention will have heard a hundred times. It’s both absolutely true, we’ve all experienced this as you try to increase the context

Sam Maddrell-Mander June 5, 2024