January 9, 2025

Software

Saying “Yes” Is Killing Your Happiness | HackerNoon

Ever feel like your life isn’t your own? Your calendar’s packed with things you don’t want to do. Your inbox is full of requests you didn’t sign up for. And somehow, you’re the one who ends up organizing your neighbor’s cat’s birthday party. It’s maddening. You’re tired. Stretched thin. And yet, you keep saying “yes” like it’s a reflex — because it feels easier than saying “no.” But every “yes” to something you don’t care

BenoitMalige January 9, 2025

Meet the Candidates Running for 2026 IEEE President-Elect

09 Jan 2025 3 min read Joanna Goodrich is the associate editor of The Institute The candidates running for 2026 IEEE President-Elect are IEEE Senior Members Jill I. Gostin and David Alan Koehler, and IEEE Life Fellow Manfred “Fred” J. Schindler. Sean McNeil/Georgia Tech Research Institute; IEEE; Tammy Lyle The IEEE Board of Directors has nominated IEEE Senior Members Jill I. Gostin and David Alan Koehler as candidates for 2026 IEEE president-elect. IEEE Life Fellow

Joanna Goodrich January 9, 2025

Robotics

MassRobotics names 2025 Healthcare Robotics Startup Catalyst cohort – The Robot Report

MassRobotics is working with corporate partners to mentor the latest Healthcare Catalyst startup cohort. Source: MassRobotics MassRobotics has announced the fourth cohort of its Healthcare Robotics Startup Catalyst Program, marking a record-breaking year with an unprecedented number of applicants. This year’s cohort includes six innovative companies selected for their cutting-edge solutions in healthcare robotics. “The Healthcare Robotics Startup Catalyst Program continues to attract a growing number of global applicants, each with innovative technologies aimed at

The Robot Report Staff January 9, 2025

What to Do If the Logit Decision Boundary Fails?

Feature engineering for classification models using Bayesian Machine Learning Lukasz Gatarek · Follow Published in Towards Data Science · 6 min read · 8 hours ago — Logistic regression is by far the most widely used machine learning model for binary classification datasets. The model is relatively simple and is based on a key assumption: the existence of a linear decision boundary (a line or a surface in a higher-dimensional feature space) that can separate

Lukasz Gatarek January 9, 2025

Targeted marketing can be most effective for games | Gamesight

Gamesight released their annual State of Performance Marketing Report, in which it provides insight in what kind of platforms and advertising strategies are effective for game studios. According to its latest findings, optimized marketing revolves around a tailored strategy, with different platforms offering different advantages for reaching particular audiences or retaining their attention long-term. Gamesight’s report shows that finding the right platform on which to advertise can bring a much better return on investment than

Rachel Kaser January 9, 2025

How to Run Jupyter Notebooks and Generate HTML Reports with Python Scripts

A step-by-step guide to automating Jupyter Notebook execution and report generation using Python Amanda Iglesias Moreno · Follow Published in Towards Data Science · 10 min read · 9 hours ago — Christopher Gower in Unsplash Jupyter Notebooks are a widely used solution for quick analysis. As an alternative to creating code using scripts, they allow you to structure your code step by step and visualize the outputs of each code block. However, they are

Amanda Iglesias Moreno January 9, 2025

Hardware

Raspberry Pi 5 Gets A Sweet Upgrade To 16GB Of Memory To Feed LLMs

The Raspberry Pi series of economical single-board computers have many fans and not a lot of major faults, but people really enjoy using these machines for tasks far beyond their original design intentions, and that includes running AI processing on them. There’s just one problem: even for inference, trained AI models want lots of RAM, and the Raspberry Pi tops out a 8GB. Or it did, until today—the makers of the Raspberry Pi have just

Zak Killian January 9, 2025

Building Autonomous Multi-Tool Agents with Gemini 2.0 and LangGraph

A practical tutorial with full code examples for building and running multi-tool agents Youness Mansar · Follow Published in Towards Data Science · 10 min read · 10 hours ago — Photo by Carter Yocham on Unsplash LLMs are remarkable — they can memorize vast amounts of information, answer general knowledge questions, write code, generate stories, and even fix your grammar. However, they are not without limitations. They hallucinate, have a knowledge cut-off that may

Youness Mansar January 9, 2025

Robotics

Kurabo and Flexiv partner to develop KURAVIZON adaptive robot – The Robot Report

The KURAVIZON robot integrates Flexiv’s Rizon arm with Kurabo’s sensing technology. Source: Flexiv Flexiv Robotics Inc. today announced that has partnered with Kurabo Industries Ltd. Santa Clara, Calif.-based Flexiv plans to integrate its force-control technology with Kurabo’s KURASENSE 3D vision sensing technology to develop the KURAVIZON adaptive robot. “The KURAVIZON system is a testament to Flexiv’s commitment to expanding our global presence by delivering cutting-edge automation solutions,” stated Owen Wu, Flexiv’s business development manager for

The Robot Report Staff January 9, 2025

AR/VR

Diffbot’s AI model doesn’t guess — it knows, thanks to a trillion-fact knowledge graph

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Diffbot, a small Silicon Valley company best known for maintaining one of the world’s largest indexes of web knowledge, announced today the release of a new AI model that promises to address one of the biggest challenges in the field: factual accuracy. The new model, a fine-tuned version of Meta’s LLama 3.3, is the first open-source

Michael Nuñez January 9, 2025