September 22, 2024

Robotics

Epica raises $18M for industrial, medical robots – The Robot Report

Listen to this article SandRob robot can sand, polish, and trim complex shapes of any scale or size, the company said. | Source: Epica International Epica International raised an $18 million growth capital credit facility with various Avenue Capital Group funds. The initial funding of $13.5 million will be used to refinance existing debt, support strategic expansion, and accelerate research and development initiatives. An additional $4.5 million is available upon the achievement of specific performance

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Why prompt engineering is one of the most valuable skills today

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More In a world that is rapidly embracing large language models (LLMs), prompt engineering has emerged as a new skill to unlocking their full potential. Think of it as the language to speak with these intelligent AI systems, enabling us to tap into their vast capabilities and reshape how we create, work, solve problems and do much

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Software

It’s Estimated That 91% Of Cyber Attacks Begin With Phishing Emails | HackerNoon

Alright, enough of this tiptoeing around the problem – let’s talk about cybersecurity, or rather, the total failure of it! For years, cybersecurity experts have been shouting from the rooftops, “It’s not if you’ll get hit with a cyber attack, but when!” And guess what? Companies still aren’t getting the message! 91% of cyberattacks start with phishing emails, and a staggering 35% of those are tied to ransomware! How can we still be falling for

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The “Web of Trust” Principle or How PGP Works | HackerNoon

Your messengers, HTTPS protocol sites, authorization in Internet services, secure file storage, and sometimes even alarm clocks – all these things use PGP. But what is it anyway? Wikipedia gives the following definition: Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) is an encryption program that provides cryptographic privacy and authentication for data communication. PGP is used for signing, encrypting, and decrypting texts, e-mails, files, directories, and whole disk partitions and to increase the security of e-mail communications. Phil Zimmermann developed PGP in 1991. PGP and similar software follow the OpenPGP standard (RFC 4880),

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AI

Data Empowers Business

Exploiting the full potential of universal data supply Bernd Wessely · Follow Published in Towards Data Science · 8 min read · 10 hours ago — Photo by NASA on Unsplash There is a lot of talk about the value of data being the new gold. Many companies are therefore pouring large sums of money into becoming data-driven. It is sold as a completely new way of doing business, almost as if business has never

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The Noonification: Data Migration from Dell ECS to MinIO (9/22/2024) | HackerNoon

How are you, hacker? 🪐What’s happening in tech this week: The Noonification by HackerNoon has got you covered with fresh content from our top 5 stories of the day, every day at noon your local time! Set email preference here. By @tapswapai [ 4 Min read ] The Play-Generate Value-Earn philosophy pulls attention away from mindless tapping to interactions that can now yield real value. Read More. By @indium [ 6 Min read ] Explore

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Software

How to Server-Side Render With Spring Boot | HackerNoon

Understanding the shared steps in the project setup is crucial before delving into the specifics of each client-augmenting technology. My requirements from the last post were quite straightforward: I’ll assume the viewpoint of a backend developer No front-end build step: no TypeScript, no minification, etc. All dependencies are managed from the backend app, i.e., Maven It’s important to note that the technology I’ll be detailing, except Vaadin, follows a similar approach. Vaadin, with its unique

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AI

➡️ Start Asking Your Data “Why?” – A Gentle Intro To Causality

A beginner’s guide to thinking beyond correlations. Eyal Kazin · Follow Published in Towards Data Science · 15 min read · Sep 12, 2024 — “Causation is not merely an aspect of statistics — it is an addition to statistics” — Judea Pearl Newton’s Cradle. Credit: Pickpik. Correlation does not imply causation. It turns out, however, that with some simple ingenious tricks one can, potentially, unveil causal relationships within standard observational data, without having to

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