March 16, 2025

Transforming Global Connectivity with Decentralized Internet Infrastructure | HackerNoon

The “Internet” is one of the biggest milestones in the modern era. Can you imagine a single day without internet connectivity? Extremely difficult right? Just like saltless curry! The Internet has made our daily lives easier, as it makes it easier to be up-to-date with news, pay bills, do online work, communicate with your dearest ones, and many more. The modern Internet is highly centralized, and major corporations and governments control vast portions of the

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Robotics

Wandelbots on the future of robot programming

Google DeepMind has unveiled two cutting-edge artificial intelligence models, Gemini Robotics and Gemini Robotics-ER, marking a significant step in bringing advanced AI capabilities into the physical world. Building upon the foundation of Gemini 2.0, these models extend DeepMind’s multimodal reasoning prowess, which already encompasses text, images, audio, and video, to include direct interaction with the environment. Gemini Robotics, a sophisticated vision-language-action (VLA) model, introduces physical actions as a new output, effectively enabling robots to be

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Jews in Space: The Beginning of Sci-Fi Race | HackerNoon

Back to basics. “Jews in Space” is one of the most influential articles about science fiction that I’ve ever come across. Now, here’s the thing. Good luck with finding the “patient zero.” I mean, the very first article published. If you’re DYOR, then you’re going to stumble upon some version of it. Just like I did with this one. As you can see, every SFan paid homage to a bunch of iconic authors. Talking about

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Educational Byte: Decentralized Escrow—What It Is and Why You Should Use It | HackerNoon

“Escrow” has been a security measure in traditional finances for a while, long before the appearance of cryptocurrencies and decentralized systems. The point was opposite to decentralization, indeed: escrow implies middlemen. A trusted third party, often a company, mediates between two strangers and keeps the funds involved in their trade safe until it’s complete. That same third party could solve disputes about the trade if they arise. On the other hand, a decentralized escrow involves

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Software

I Told My Team to Complain Every Week—It Transformed Our Productivity | HackerNoon

Photo by Dylan Gillis on Unsplash More than a decade ago, I had the opportunity to take a Total Quality Management (TQM) course by none other than Andrzej Blikle at ASBIRO, a unique Polish educational institution where only entrepreneurs teach entrepreneurship. Since then, I’ve been testing and refining various TQM techniques with my teams, especially in the startup world. I’m sharing some of my observations and ideas I’ve implemented, with a focus on weekly Kaizen-style

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AR/VR

Inching towards AGI: How reasoning and deep research are expanding AI from statistical prediction to structured problem-solving

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More AI has evolved at an astonishing pace. What seemed like science fiction just a few years ago is now an undeniable reality. Back in 2017, my firm launched an AI Center of Excellence. AI was certainly getting better at predictive analytics and many machine learning (ML) algorithms were being used for voice recognition, spam detection, spell

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Dynamic Retrieval Strategies: Enhancing QA Across Query Types | HackerNoon

Authors: (1) Soyeong Jeong, School of Computing; (2) Jinheon Baek, Graduate School of AI; (3) Sukmin Cho, School of Computing; (4) Sung Ju Hwang, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology; (5) Jong C. Park, School of Computing. Table of Links Abstract and 1. Introduction 2 Related Work 3 Method and 3.1 Preliminaries 3.2 Adaptive-RAG: Adaptive Retrieval-Augmented Generation 4 Experimental Setups and 4.1 Datasets 4.2 Models and 4.3 Evaluation Metrics 4.4 Implementation Details 5 Experimental

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Nvidia’s AI empire: A look at its top startup investments | TechCrunch

No company has capitalized on the AI revolution more dramatically than Nvidia. Its revenue, profitability, and cash reserves have skyrocketed since the introduction of ChatGPT over two years ago — and the many competitive generative AI services that have launched since. And its stock price soared.  During that period, the world’s leading high-performance GPU maker has used its ballooning fortunes to significantly increase investments in all sorts of startups but particularly in AI startups. The

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Hardware

Valve Is Rumored To Bring SteamOS To Desktop PCs Very Soon

A leaker on X (formerly Twitter) claims Valve is getting release a version of SteamOS for desktop systems, which if true would effectively extend the Linux-based platform’s reach beyond the realm of gaming handhelds. The rumor surfaced just before Valve released its SteamOS 3.7.0 Preview build with some key tweaks to the operating system’s Desktop mode. It’s possible the leaker, @SadlyItsBradley, is conflating the two, though it doesn’t sound like it. In the same X

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