August 29, 2024

Robotics

Wayve announces strategic partnership with and investment from Uber – The Robot Report

Listen to this article Wayve has established a strategic partnership with Uber, which includes Uber investing in the company. | Source: Wayve Most self-driving vehicle developers, like Cruise and Waymo, meticulously map the areas their robotaxis will drive in. These maps are constantly updated, and the vehicles that use them are limited to mapped areas. Wayve, a developer of embodied AI for autonomous vehicles, hopes to take a different approach. The company today announced a

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Software

Implement Lazy Loaded Popups With @defer and PrimeNG | HackerNoon

Loading optimization is one of the most crucial topics in the Front-End field, and it’s no surprise—applications need to be fast to deliver a great user experience. One effective way to speed up loading times is by reducing the application size, and lazy-loading is a key technique to achieve this. Most developers are familiar with how lazy-loading works: it’s commonly used in all modern Front-End frameworks to split applications by routes and load components only

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Robotics

Universal Robots updates UR Care and Field Care service for cobot applications – The Robot Report

Listen to this article Universal Robots is planning six demonstrations featuring its collaborative robots at IMTS. | Source: UR Led by Universal Robots A/S, the collaborative robot market was valued at $1.23 billion in 2022. It is expected to experience a compound annual growth rate of 32.0% from 2023 to 2030, according to Grand View Research. Much of this growth is due to small or midsize enterprises (SMEs) adopting cobots, said the research firm. For

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Celebrate IEEE Day’s 15th Anniversary on 1 October

2 min read Adrienne Hahn is the membership marketing specialist for IEEE Member and Geographic Activities. Students from Egypt’s IEEE New Giza University student branch celebrate a successful IEEE Day in 2023. Tarek Mohamed Elsaadany IEEE Day commemorates the first time engineers worldwide gathered to share their technical ideas, in 1884. This year the annual event is scheduled for 1 October. Its theme is Leveraging Technology for a Better Tomorrow, emphasizing the positive impact tech

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AI

From Text to Networks: The Revolutionary Impact of LLMs on Knowledge Graphs

Illustration by the author A Step-by-Step Guide to Building and Leveraging Knowledge Graphs with LLMs Lina Faik · Follow Published in Towards Data Science · 15 min read · 9 hours ago — The rise of Large Language Models (LLMs) has revolutionized the way we extract information from text and interact with it. However, despite their impressive capabilities, LLMs face several inherent challenges, particularly in areas such as reasoning, consistency, and information’s contextual accuracy. These

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Hardware

OLED Burn-In Put To The Test: Real Threat Or Overblown Concern For Gamers?

If you’re reading HotHardware, you probably already know that displays based on Organic Light-Emitting Diodes, or “OLEDs”, have a lot of advantages over more conventional liquid-crystal displays (LCDs.) They offer essentially-instant response times, highly-saturated colors, and inky blacks that make for decent final contrast ratios despite relatively lacking brightness compared to LCDs. The critical weakness of OLEDs is that they’re much less durable than LCDs. While modern LED-backlit LCD monitors can easily last for a

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Hardware

The Corsair iCUE LINK TITAN 360 RX RGB AIO Cooler Review: Meticulous, But Pricey

Corsair, a longstanding and esteemed manufacturer in the PC components industry, initially built its reputation on memory-related products. However, nearly two decades ago, Corsair began diversifying its product line. This expansion started cautiously, with a limited number of products, but quickly proved to be highly successful, propelling Corsair into the industry powerhouse it is today. One of Corsair’s most triumphant product categories is all-in-one (AIO) liquid coolers. This success is particularly notable given that their

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Escape Proprietary Smart Home Tech With This DIY Panel

4 min read Alan Boris is the edge AI enablement lead for the IoT company Balena. This industrial-chic panel puts you in charge of your smart home. James Provost Over the last few years, I’ve added a fair amount of smart-home technology to my house. Among other things, I can control lights and outlets, monitor the status of various appliances, measure how much electricity and water I’m using, and even cut off the water supply

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Hardware

GameStop Turns Select Locations Into Retro Stores With Classic Console Sales

GameStop continues to look for news ways to evolve and stay afloat as it announces it is turning select locations into retro stores. The old take on new stores will focus on retro console classics such as the Sega Dreamcast, and Xbox 360. The move is not the first attempt by the iconic game store to stay afloat. In 2022, it entered the world of NFTs in an attempt to turn things around. Then in

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Hardware

STEM Learning On An NVIDIA RTX 40 Laptop, Just In Time For Back To School

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 40 Laptops For STEM Are Set To Help Students Learn, Create, Engineer And Game NVIDIA reached out to ask if we wanted to test one of their RTX 40 Laptops “for STEM students,” and my ears perked up. Not only because I’m two years into a Neuroscience PhD and enjoy being catered to by tech companies, but because this use case doesn’t get a lot of attention compared to things like gaming,

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