June 27, 2024

From Pixels to Profits: The Impact of AI-Powered Metaverse Shopping on the Future of Commerce | HackerNoon

The digital world is changing, and e-commerce is leading this change. In a few years, you could be walking around a virtual shopping center, checking out all your favorite brands – trying on clothes on your avatar, and earning rewards for browsing. This isn’t sci-fi: it’s the future of shopping in the metaverse. Statista predicts that spending in this space will jump from $30.6bn in 2024 to $210.3bn by 2030, driven by artificial intelligence (AI).

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Software

Competitive Gamer Secret: ARP (Address Resolution Protocol) | HackerNoon

The Address Resolution Protocol’s (ARP) primary function is to resolve, or map, Internet Protocol (IP) version 4 addresses to Media Access Control (MAC) addresses enabling devices on the same Local Area Network (LAN) to discover each other and communicate at the data link layer (Layer 2) of the Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) model as defined by RFC 826. How ARP Works Finding a Device: When your device wants to talk to another device on the

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Robotics

Light-controlled artificial maple seeds could monitor the environment even in hard-to-reach locations

Researchers from Tampere University, Finland, and the University of Pittsburgh, USA, have developed a tiny robot replicating the aerial dance of falling maple seeds. In the future, this robot could be used for real-time environmental monitoring or delivery of small samples even in inaccessible terrain such as deserts, mountains or cliffs, or the open sea. This technology could be a game changer for fields such as search-and-rescue, endangered species studies, or infrastructure monitoring. At Tampere

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Software

Flutter vs NativeScript — Key Differences and Why we Switched in the Middle of the Road | HackerNoon

In the realm of mobile app development, Flutter and NativeScript are two powerful frameworks that enable developers to build cross-platform applications. Each has its own unique features, strengths, and weaknesses. In this article, I aim to show the main differences between Flutter and NativeScript that can help you choose the right tool for your next project. When we started our journey with Lapka, our one-stop shop for happy pet parents, we initially chose NativeScript. Several

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AI

Understanding Transformers

A straightforward breakdown of “Attention is All You Need”¹ Aveek Goswami · Follow Published in Towards Data Science · 10 min read · 9 hours ago — The transformer came out in 2017. There have been many, many articles explaining how it works, but I often find them either going too deep into the math or too shallow on the details. I end up spending as much time googling (or chatGPT-ing) as I do reading,

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How AI Has Impacted Product Management | HackerNoon

At this point, it might be a little hard to imagine an industry that has not yet been affected by AI at least to some degree. So when it comes to tech, talking about the impact artificial intelligence has had on a certain direction, you need expertise to fully understand the changes it is causing and how far it has come. I can tell you that AI is still far from replacing us, but it

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