January 13, 2025

Hardware

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 50 review embargoes: RTX 5090 on January 24, RTX 5080 on January 30

TL;DR: NVIDIA’s GeForce RTX 50 series “Blackwell” GPU embargo dates have been leaked. The RTX 5090 embargo lifts on January 24, while the RTX 5080 embargo lifts on January 30. The RTX 5090D, intended for China, also launches on January 24. The RTX 5080 release was delayed from January 21 to January 30. NVIDIA’s next-generation GeForce RTX 50 series “Blackwell” GPU embargo dates have been leaked, with the RTX 5090 embargo lifting on January 24,

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Robotics

Cornerstone Robotics brings in $70M to scale Sentire endoscopic system globally – The Robot Report

The Sentire system features lightweight surgeon side arms, tremor filtration, and motion-control techniques to aid complex surgeries in confined spaces. | Source: Cornerstone Robotics Cornerstone Robotics Ltd., a surgical robotics developer, Monday today said it has raised $70 million in Series C financing. The company said the funding will advance its efforts toward commercialization, development of surgical robotics products, clinical trials, and regulatory approvals. “Cornerstone Robotics experienced several pivotal milestones over the past year,” stated

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AR/VR

LlamaV-o1 is the AI model that explains its thought process—here’s why that matters

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Researchers at the Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI) have announced the release of LlamaV-o1, a state-of-the-art artificial intelligence model capable of tackling some of the most complex reasoning tasks across text and images. By combining cutting-edge curriculum learning with advanced optimization techniques like Beam Search, LlamaV-o1 sets a new benchmark for step-by-step reasoning

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AI

Four Ways to Improve Statistical Power in A/B Testing (Without Increasing Test Duration, Duh)

In A/B testing, you often have to balance statistical power and how long the test takes. Learn how Allocation, Effect Size, CUPED & Binarization can help you. Allon Korem | CEO, Bell Statistics · Follow Published in Towards Data Science · 8 min read · May 22, 2024 — Image by author In A/B testing, you often have to balance statistical power and how long the test takes. You want a strong test that can

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Robotics

Raise Robotics deploys UR cobots with Harmon for high rise fastener installation – The Robot Report

Universal Robots and Raise Robotics said the autonomous system pays for itself within one 13-floor project. | Source: Universal Robots Up to 1,000 ft. into the air, construction workers need extensive safety rigging to install glass panel brackets. This essential task not only puts employees in danger, but it’s also repetitive and boring. To keep workers safe and allow them to do more high-value work, Harmon Inc., a U.S.-based glazing company, is automating the process

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Be the Key Influencer in Your Career

4 min read Career influencers are the people who challenge you, teach you, and cause you to think about what you want. This article is part of our exclusive career advice series in partnership with the IEEE Technology and Engineering Management Society. When thinking about influencers, you might initially consider people with a large social media following who have the power to affect people with an interest in fashion, fitness, or food. However, the people

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AI

The AI (R)Evolution, Looking From 2024 Into the Immediate Future

Witnessing rapid innovation, fierce competition, and transformative tools for life, work, and human development LucianoSphere (Luciano Abriata, PhD) · Follow Published in Towards Data Science · 15 min read · 8 hours ago — Picture generated by the author using by prompting Dall-E3 via ChatGPT multiple times. This is usable for commercial purposes because it is owned by the user as explained under “Ownership of content” at https://openai.com/policies/terms-of-use/ After half to one decade of technical

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