September 10, 2024

Hardware

Crypto Fraud Runs Rampant, Americans Lost $5.6 Billion Last Year To Scams

The FBI has published its Cryptocurrency Fraud Report for 2023, and the losses continue to mount, reaching 5.6 billion dollars, which is a 45% increase in comparison to 2022. Even though fraudulent cryptocurrency schemes only account for 10% of the complaints the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) receives, the losses from these reports amount to a staggering 50% of the total revenue. The bulk of the fraud committed involved investment scams, which accounted for 71%

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Where VR Gaming Took a Wrong Turn

6 min read Marcus Carter is a professor of human-computer interaction at the University of Sydney. Ben Egliston is Lecturer in Digital Cultures at the University of Sydney. IEEE Spectrum; Original photos: Getty Images; eyevine/Redux Pictures; iStock In 2017 Mark Zuckerberg stated a bold goal: He wanted one billion people to try virtual reality (VR) by 2027. While he still has a few years to pull it off, the target remains impossibly farfetched. The most

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Robotics

Advanced Construction Robotics TyBOT is now available for purchase – The Robot Report

TyBOT at work on 1-40 in Jonathan Creek, N.C. Source: Advanced Construction Robotics Advanced Construction Robotics Inc. today announced that its rebar-tying robot, which it has provided through a robotics-as-a-service model, is now also available for purchase. The Pittsburgh-based company is taking orders for TyBOT 3.0 for delivery in the first quarter of 2025. “Our success in the pursuit of automating construction equipment is not just an evolution for ACR; it is a transformative step

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Robotics

ABB, Vention bring GoFa cobots to small & midsize manufacturers

Listen to this article The GoFa cobots are now available on Vention’s Manufacturing Automation Platform. Source: ABB Small and midsize manufacturers, or SMMs, have historically struggled to adopt robotics. Some barriers to adoption include not knowing where to start, complicated purchasing and installation processes, and uncertainty about return on investment. Do-it-yourself (DIY) robotics marketplaces have popped up in recent years in an attempt to help SMMs overcome these challenges. Today, Vention added another global robotics

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Hardware

Apple’s new A18 Pro chip inside of the iPhone 16 Pro, Pro Max: TSMC 3nm, CPU, GPU, NPU faster

Apple has unveiled its new iPhone 16 family of smartphones, with the flagship A18 Pro chip powering the iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max handsets with some impressive features and abilities. VIEW GALLERY – 3 IMAGES Inside, the new Apple A18 Pro chip has been designed with industry-leaving compute power that will super-boost Apple Intelligence, with a second-generation 3nm technology from TSMC, featuring a new architecture that’s smaller, with faster transistors, and increased

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Hardware

AMD announces unified UDNA GPU architecture: combines RDNA and CDNA to compete against CUDA

Back in 2020, AMD announced it was splitting its post-GCN architecture into RDNA for gaming, with CDNA for its data center GPUs, with CDNA later being the architecture of its Radeon Instinct AI accelerators… and now, they’re merging into UDNA. VIEW GALLERY – 2 IMAGES In a chat with Tom’s Hardware, senior vice president and general manager of the Computing and Graphics Business Group of AMD, Jack Huynh, said: “So, part of a big change

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Hardware

Sony expected to unveil beefed-up PlayStation 5 Pro console TOMORROW at technical presentation

Sony has announced its PlayStation 5 Technical Presentation for tomorrow, hosted by PS5 system architect Mark Cerny, which should be the reveal event for the new beefed-up PS5 Pro console. I don’t know why we’d need a technical presentation on a console that’s been on the market for multiple years with tens of millions of PS5 consoles so far, so expect the big PS5 Pro reveal and technical presentation on the beefed-up hardware inside of

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Hardware

Lexar unveils world’s first stainless steel SD cards, new 1TB SD card pumps 1.7GB/sec reads

Lexar has just unveiled the world’s first stainless steel encased SD cards, joining the growing Armor Series SD cards, with the new SD cards featuring “bend-resistance” and they’re IP68 certified. VIEW GALLERY – 3 IMAGES The company has unveiled its new Armor Series SD cards in the new Armor Gold SD UHS-II, and Armor Silver Pro SD UHS-II cards in up to 1TB capacities. If you’ve used an SD card enough — you know, in

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AI

Key Insights for Teaching AI Agents to Remember

Recommendations on building robust memory capabilities based on experimentation with Autogen’s “Teachable Agents” Sandi Besen · Follow Published in Towards Data Science · 16 min read · 2 hours ago — Memory is undoubtedly becoming a crucial aspect of Agentic AI. As the use cases for AI Agents grow in complexity, so does the need for these agents to learn from past experiences, utilize stored business-specific knowledge, and adapt to evolving scenarios based on accumulated

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AI

Is Multi-Collinearity Destroying Your Causal Inferences In Marketing Mix Modelling?

Causal AI, exploring the integration of causal reasoning into machine learning Ryan O’Sullivan · Follow Published in Towards Data Science · 16 min read · 2 hours ago — Photo by NOAA on Unsplash What is this series about? Welcome to my series on Causal AI, where we will explore the integration of causal reasoning into machine learning models. Expect to explore a number of practical applications across different business contexts. In the last article

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