Breaking: Elon Musk buys Twitter

Apr25
by on April 25, 2022 at 6:56 pm
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Elon Musk has purchased Twitter. In what’s become the biggest “will they/won’t they” story since Ross and Rachel, the Twitter board has finally decided to accept Musk’s $44 billion takeover offer. Early speculation on Monday morning led Twitter stock to rally after a weeks-long slump. Ironically, the stock’s recent decline in performance had been attributed to a lack of confidence in the Musk/Twitter deal. That’s over with now, and we can expect stocks to take at least a short-term hike in the wake of the massive deal. Where it started The whole kerfuffle began earlier this month when Musk purchased…

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FOMO is a TinyML neural network for real-time object detection

Apr24
by on April 24, 2022 at 8:09 pm
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This article is part of our coverage of the latest in AI research. A new machine learning technique developed by researchers at Edge Impulse, a platform for creating ML models for the edge, makes it possible to run real-time object detection on devices with very small computation and memory capacity. Called Faster Objects, More Objects (FOMO), the new deep learning architecture can unlock new computer vision applications. Most object-detection deep learning models have memory and computation requirements that are beyond the capacity of small processors. FOMO, on the other hand, only requires several hundred kilobytes of memory, which makes it…

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Can you truly own anything in the metaverse? Not really, says a law professor

Apr23
by on April 23, 2022 at 11:00 am
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In 2021, an investment firm bought 2,000 acres of real estate for about US$4 million. Normally this would not make headlines, but in this case the land was virtual. It existed only in a metaverse platform called The Sandbox. By buying 792 non-fungible tokens on the Ethereum blockchain, the firm then owned the equivalent of 1,200 city blocks. But did it? It turns out that legal ownership in the metaverse is not that simple. The prevailing but legally problematic narrative among crypto enthusiasts is that NFTs allow true ownership of digital items in the metaverse for two reasons: decentralization and…

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