June 19, 2024

AR/VR

APhone Launches AppNest: Free, Open App Store for Web2 & Web3 Apps

APhone has launched AppNest, its decentralized app store that seeks to disrupt the traditional mobile app market dominated by Apple and Google. The platform supports both blockchain-based decentralized applications and conventional Web2 apps, providing a Web3-native experience. The announcement of AppNest was made on June 19, with the aim of transform how applications are accessed and managed. A New Era for Developers and Users AppNest stands out for its free and open approach towards developers,

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Med-Flamingo: a Multimodal Medical Few-shot Learner – Discussion, Acknowledgments, and References | HackerNoon

Authors: (1) Michael Moor, Department of Computer Science, Stanford University, Stanford, USA and these authors contributed equally to this work; (2) Qian Huang, Department of Computer Science, Stanford University, Stanford, USA and these authors contributed equally to this work; (3) Shirley Wu, Department of Computer Science, Stanford University, Stanford, USA; (4) Michihiro Yasunaga, Department of Computer Science, Stanford University, Stanford, USA; (5) Cyril Zakka, Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Stanford Medicine, Stanford, USA; (6) Yash Dalmia,

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Start-ups

C12, a French quantum computing startup founded by twin brothers, raises $19.4 million | TechCrunch

C12 is announcing that it recently raised an €18 million funding round ($19.4 million at today’s exchange rate). Originally founded in 2020 as a spin-off from the Physics Laboratory of the École Normale Supérieure, the company has been working on a unique process to create quantum computers based on carbon nanotubes. While the concept of quantum computing isn’t new, it is still very much a work in progress. Many scientific teams have been approaching this

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Software

Assessing VASP Solvency For Cryptoassets: Closing The Data Gap | HackerNoon

Authors: (1) Pietro Saggese, Complexity Science Hub Vienna (CSH); (2) Esther Segalla, Oesterreichische Nationalbank (OeNB); (3) Michael Sigmund, Oesterreichische Nationalbank (OeNB); (4) Burkhard Raunig, Oesterreichische Nationalbank (OeNB); (5) Felix Zangerl, Austrian Financial Market Authority (FMA); (6) Bernhard Haslhofer, Complexity Science Hub Vienna (CSH). Table of Links Abstract and 1. Introduction Background and related literature VASPs: A Closer Examination Measuring VASPs Cryptoasset Holdings Closing The Data Gap Conclusions, Declaration of Competing Interest, and References Appendix A.

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Med-Flamingo: a Multimodal Medical Few-shot Learner – Results | HackerNoon

Authors: (1) Michael Moor, Department of Computer Science, Stanford University, Stanford, USA and these authors contributed equally to this work; (2) Qian Huang, Department of Computer Science, Stanford University, Stanford, USA and these authors contributed equally to this work; (3) Shirley Wu, Department of Computer Science, Stanford University, Stanford, USA; (4) Michihiro Yasunaga, Department of Computer Science, Stanford University, Stanford, USA; (5) Cyril Zakka, Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Stanford Medicine, Stanford, USA; (6) Yash Dalmia,

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Assessing VASP Solvency For Cryptoassets: Measuring VASPs Cryptoasset Holdings | HackerNoon

Authors: (1) Pietro Saggese, Complexity Science Hub Vienna (CSH); (2) Esther Segalla, Oesterreichische Nationalbank (OeNB); (3) Michael Sigmund, Oesterreichische Nationalbank (OeNB); (4) Burkhard Raunig, Oesterreichische Nationalbank (OeNB); (5) Felix Zangerl, Austrian Financial Market Authority (FMA); (6) Bernhard Haslhofer, Complexity Science Hub Vienna (CSH). Table of Links Abstract and 1. Introduction Background and related literature VASPs: A Closer Examination Measuring VASPs Cryptoasset Holdings Closing The Data Gap Conclusions, Declaration of Competing Interest, and References Appendix A.

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IEEE Educational Video for Kids Spotlights Climate Change

2 min read When it comes to addressing climate change, the “in unity there’s strength” adage certainly applies. To support IEEE’s climate change initiative, which highlights innovative solutions and approaches to the climate crisis, IEEE’s TryEngineering program has created a collection of lesson plans, activities, and events that cover electric vehicles, solar and wind power systems, and more. TryEngineering, a program within IEEE Educational Activities, aims to foster the next generation of technology innovators by

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Microsoft drops Florence-2, a unified model to handle a variety of vision tasks

It’s time to celebrate the incredible women leading the way in AI! Nominate your inspiring leaders for VentureBeat’s Women in AI Awards today before June 18. Learn More Today, Microsoft’s Azure AI team dropped a new vision foundation model called Florence-2 on Hugging Face. Available under a permissive MIT license, the model can handle a variety of vision and vision-language tasks using a unified, prompt-based representation. It comes in two sizes — 232M and 771M

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OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever announces new startup to tackle safe superintelligence

It’s time to celebrate the incredible women leading the way in AI! Nominate your inspiring leaders for VentureBeat’s Women in AI Awards today before June 18. Learn More Ilya Sutskever has revealed what he’s working on next after stepping down in May as chief scientist at OpenAI. Along with his OpenAI colleague Daniel Levy and Apple’s former AI lead and Cue co-founder Daniel Gross, the trio announced they’re working on Safe Superintelligence Inc., a startup

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Software

Boost Product Revenue by Focusing on User Experience and Strategic Prioritization | HackerNoon

Once in a while every CEO does the thing where they quietly creep up behind the product manager’s seat to suggest a new approach that will definitely change things around in the company. That’s what CEOs are for, in fact. “We need to increase our product’s revenue.” This staple phrase often comes with specific targets in mind. At this point the development of the product is probably stable enough — no sudden spikes in metrics,

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