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Financial comparison “super app” Jeff raises $1.5M seed extension

TechCrunch

At first, it relied on global channels for user acquisition, like Google and Facebook ads, but now its top acquisition channel is through partnering with local affiliates, including bloggers and social media influencers who have grown considerable followings with educational content about finances.

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Performer-MPC: Navigation via real-time, on-robot transformers

Google Research AI blog

The quadratic space and time complexity of the attention mechanism with respect to the input length is often prohibitively expensive, forcing researchers to trim Transformer-stacks at the cost of expressiveness. In practice, the occupancy grid provided by fusing the robot's sensors serves as an input to the Vision Performer model.

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The best gaming handhelds for 2025

Engadget

Because new handhelds seem to launch every week, though, figuring out which ones are actually worth your attention can be overwhelming. But its still a Windows handheld, and Lenovos software tweaks arent as intuitive as what ASUS has done with Armoury Crate, so the UX can feel half-baked by comparison.

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Toyota Ventures leads seed extension into Agtonomy, turning tractors into autonomous vehicles

TechCrunch

It was that parallel agriculture/technology career that led him to start Agtonomy, a hybrid autonomy and tele-assist service startup that turns tractors and other equipment into autonomous machines to provide a low-cost, technology-enabled labor force for local farms to manage such equipment.

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Google Research, 2022 & Beyond: Language, Vision and Generative Models

Google Research AI blog

Performance comparison between the PaLM 540B parameter model and the prior state-of-the-art (SOTA) on 58 tasks from the Big-bench suite. However, the full attention mechanism is challenging to apply to higher resolution images, since it scales quadratically with image size. See paper for details.)

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Proptech startup Knock secures $20M to grow SaaS platform for property managers

TechCrunch

We also automate certain sales tasks like outreach and appointment scheduling, while also surfacing which sales opportunities need the most attention at any given time, for both new leases as well as renewals,” he said. Image Credit: Knock. The company, Themelis said, was well-prepared for the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. “Our

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Nuvemshop, LatAm’s answer to Shopify, raises $90M in Accel-led Series D

TechCrunch

Nuvemshop’s rapid growth caught the attention of Silicon Valley-based Accel. As for comparisons to Shopify, Sosa said the company doesn’t necessarily make them but believes they are “fair.”. This requires an on the ground local knowledge to make it all work. So everyone wins.” To Choi, there are many similarities. “We

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