December 20, 2024

Hardware

Games industry made $184.3 billion in 2024, consoles segment was 84% digital

TL;DR: In 2024, the global games market earned $184.3 billion, primarily from digital software and microtransactions, according to Newzoo. This figure is $3.4 billion less than initially forecasted. Digital revenue was $175.8 billion, while physical sales were $8.5 billion. Tencent led mobile game revenue with $8.2 billion. The worldwide games market pulled in $184.3 billion throughout 2024, driven primarily by digital software and microtransactions, analyst firm Newzoo estimates. VIEW GALLERY – 4 IMAGES Newzoo has

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Hardware

Xbox leadership shakeup reiterates that handhelds are part of next-gen roadmap

TL;DR: Xbox’s management changes suggest a focus on handheld gaming, with Jason Ronald promoted to Vice President of Next-Generation…and he’s attending an event for handhelds. Interesting! A new job promotion under Xbox’s management team could hint at a handheld-based future for Microsoft. VIEW GALLERY – 2 IMAGES Through a series of interviews, Xbox gaming CEO Phil Spencer has teased that Microsoft wants to make an Xbox handheld. There’s just two problems: Microsoft has a bad

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Software

Assist Me In Designing a Board Game – Part 5 | HackerNoon

Watch the video above for the visuals and full details. Summary is below. Hey, it’s Matthew. So, I’m back. We’re now at part five. If you need to catch up on Parts 1,2,3, or 4,find them here. In this update, I’m sharing the progress I’ve made on my game design project, which focuses on teaching personal finance and life management skills in an engaging and educational way. Over time, I’ve worked to simplify the game’s

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Software

HierSpeech++: All the Amazing Things It Could Do | HackerNoon

Table of Links Abstract and 1 Introduction 2 Related Work 2.1 Neural Codec Language Models and 2.2 Non-autoregressive Models 2.3 Diffusion Models and 2.4 Zero-shot Voice Cloning 3 Hierspeech++ and 3.1 Speech Representations 3.2 Hierarchical Speech Synthesizer 3.3 Text-to-Vec 3.4 Speech Super-resolution 3.5 Model Architecture 4 Speech Synthesis Tasks 4.1 Voice Conversion and 4.2 Text-to-Speech 4.3 Style Prompt Replication 5 Experiment and Result, and Dataset 5.2 Preprocessing and 5.3 Training 5.4 Evaluation Metrics 5.5 Ablation

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Educational Byte: What Is an Economic Bubble and How Does It Affect Crypto? | HackerNoon

Let’s start by saying that determining the “real” value of an asset isn’t easy, and the free market, made up of people with quite subjective views, isn’t always helpful —sometimes, quite the opposite. If enough people believe, for any reason (imaginary or not), that a certain asset’s price will go to the moon and start buying massively, then it could happen. The problem comes when those same people start to panic because it’s never enough.

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Software

The Limitations of HierSpeech++ and a Quick Fix | HackerNoon

Table of Links Abstract and 1 Introduction 2 Related Work 2.1 Neural Codec Language Models and 2.2 Non-autoregressive Models 2.3 Diffusion Models and 2.4 Zero-shot Voice Cloning 3 Hierspeech++ and 3.1 Speech Representations 3.2 Hierarchical Speech Synthesizer 3.3 Text-to-Vec 3.4 Speech Super-resolution 3.5 Model Architecture 4 Speech Synthesis Tasks 4.1 Voice Conversion and 4.2 Text-to-Speech 4.3 Style Prompt Replication 5 Experiment and Result, and Dataset 5.2 Preprocessing and 5.3 Training 5.4 Evaluation Metrics 5.5 Ablation

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A Deeper Look at Speech Super-Resolution | HackerNoon

Table of Links Abstract and 1 Introduction 2 Related Work 2.1 Neural Codec Language Models and 2.2 Non-autoregressive Models 2.3 Diffusion Models and 2.4 Zero-shot Voice Cloning 3 Hierspeech++ and 3.1 Speech Representations 3.2 Hierarchical Speech Synthesizer 3.3 Text-to-Vec 3.4 Speech Super-resolution 3.5 Model Architecture 4 Speech Synthesis Tasks 4.1 Voice Conversion and 4.2 Text-to-Speech 4.3 Style Prompt Replication 5 Experiment and Result, and Dataset 5.2 Preprocessing and 5.3 Training 5.4 Evaluation Metrics 5.5 Ablation

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AI

A New Approach to AI Safety: Layer Enhanced Classification (LEC)

LEC surpasses best in class models, like GPT-4o, by combining the efficiency of a ML classifier with the language understanding of an LLM Sandi Besen · Follow Published in Towards Data Science · 8 min read · 6 hours ago — Imagine sitting in a boardroom, discussing the most transformative technology of our time — artificial intelligence — and realizing we’re riding a rocket with no reliable safety belt. The Bletchley Declaration, unveiled during the

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AR/VR

Hugging Face shows how test-time scaling helps small language models punch above their weight

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More In a new case study, Hugging Face researchers have demonstrated how small language models (SLMs) can be configured to outperform much larger models. Their findings show that a Llama 3 model with 3B parameters can outperform the 70B version of the model in complex math problems. Hugging Face has fully documented the entire process and provides

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