December 11, 2024

AR/VR

ALTS by Adidas: One Brand Staying in the NFT Game

Even though some big brands have stepped back from the NFT world—as Nike did with its RTFKT project—adidas is showing that it’s still eager to explore what’s possible. Their recent final reveal of ALTS by Adidas avatars seems to signal a belief in the future of digital avatars, digital collectibles, and Web3. Instead of retreating, adidas is pressing forward, hoping to give fans and collectors something fresh. The Birth of ALTS by adidas The ALTS

Jason Newey December 11, 2024

Hardware

GTA 6 delay into 2026 likely, top reporter says: ‘I’d be shocked if GTA 6 releases in 2025’

TL;DR: The video game industry anticipates a delay for Grand Theft Auto 6 beyond 2025, following Rockstar Games’ history of postponements. Despite official statements targeting a Fall 2025 release, industry reporter Jason Schreier predicts a potential slip to 2026 due to the increasing complexity of game development. The video games industry’s uneasy Survive Till ’25 mantra may have to get updated with a new number as industry figures believe Grand Theft Auto 6 is likely

Derek Strickland December 11, 2024

Robotics

Universal Robots picks China for 1st overseas production facility

Listen to this article The UR20 cobot with its increased payload at the 2024 China International Industry Fair. | Credit: Universal Robots Universal Robots A/S is looking to significantly expand its presence in China, the world’s largest market for industrial robots. The world’s leading developer of collaborative robot arms is opening a production facility there and introducing two robots that will be available exclusively to the Chinese market. To meet increasing Chinese demand, Universal Robots

Steve Crowe December 11, 2024

3 Business Skills You Need to Progress Your Data Science Career in 2025

DATA SCIENCE Including resources for how to build those skills Dr. Varshita Sher · Follow Published in Towards Data Science · 7 min read · 9 hours ago — Image by Author. Created using Midjourney If you have been a data scientist for a while, sooner or later you’ll notice that your day-to-day has shifted from a VSCode-loving, research paper-reading, git-version-committing data scientist to a collaboration-driving, project-scoping, stakeholder-managing, and strategy-setting individual. This shift will be

Dr. Varshita Sher December 11, 2024

Walmart’s Restart.run: A new opportunity for developers to connect with gamers

Content marketing agency Moonrock today revealed its new games journalism website, Restart.run, an independent gaming website sponsored by major retailer Walmart. The new gaming site boasts game reviews, recommendations and interviews, with almost all articles featuring embedded links to the products described on Walmart’s website. According to Moonrock, the site has a staff with a combined 40+ years of experience and focuses on social media presence and video content in addition to written articles on

Rachel Kaser December 11, 2024

Translating a Memoir: A Technical Journey

Leveraging GPT-3.5 and unstructured APIs for translations Valeria Cortez · Follow Published in Towards Data Science · 6 min read · 9 hours ago — This blog post details how I utilised GPT to translate the personal memoir of a family friend, making it accessible to a broader audience. Specifically, I employed GPT-3.5 for translation and Unstructured’s APIs for efficient content extraction and formatting. The memoir, a heartfelt account by my family friend Carmen Rosa,

Valeria Cortez December 11, 2024

5 Essential Tips to Build Business Dashboards Stakeholders Love

A practical guide to designing clear, effective, and actionable dashboards for decision-making Yu Dong · Follow Published in Towards Data Science · 7 min read · 10 hours ago — Working in data science, dashboarding often feels like an unfavored but unavoidable work. Why is it unfavored? Dashboarding is less technical (less fancy) than analysis and modeling, and more repetitive. But why is it also unavoidable? It is the first and must-have step to understand

Yu Dong December 11, 2024

I’m Doing the Advent of Code 2024 in Python — Day 2

Let’s see how many stars we’ll collect. Soner Yıldırım · Follow Published in Towards Data Science · 6 min read · 11 hours ago — Photo by Nong on Unsplash Please check out Day 1 for introduction and solutions to the first days puzzles. Advent of Code is a competition but I’d like to emphasize that my main motivation is not to compete or get a place in the leaderboard. The puzzles are great for

Soner Yıldırım December 11, 2024

Robotics

How Ambi Robotics rolls out improvements for peak season – The Robot Report

Listen to this article During the 2023 peak season, Ambi Robotics’ robots sorted 7.4 million packages at 410 sorts per hour. This year, they can sort up to 500 packages per hour. | Source: Ambi Robotics The month between Thanksgiving and Christmas is the busiest time of year by far for logistics providers, and this year, it’s even shorter than most peak seasons. With Thanksgiving falling just a week later than usual, automation providers such

Brianna Wessling December 11, 2024

Introducing Gemini 2.0: our new AI model for the agentic era

A note from Google and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai: Information is at the core of human progress. It’s why we’ve focused for more than 26 years on our mission to organize the world’s information and make it accessible and useful. And it’s why we continue to push the frontiers of AI to organize that information across every input and make it accessible via any output, so that it can be truly useful for you. That

Aaron Birnbaum and Matthew Makansi December 11, 2024