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Echo Dot vs. Echo Pop: Which Amazon device should you buy during the Big Spring Sale?

Mashable Tech

Both have a modern, sleek appearance that can easily complement or blend into your home decor. In my side-by-side comparisons of the Echo Dot and the Echo Pop, I couldn’t detect a difference in sound quality between the two devices. Winner: Echo Pop Setup and ease of use Amazon has made setting up these devices extremely easy.

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New Culture lands $25 million in seed funding to commercialize its cheesy vegan mozzarella

TechCrunch

By comparison, the vegan cheese industry is tiny, measuring around $1.2 The company then collects the casein — which it blends with water, plant-based fats, vitamins and minerals — to make mozzarella. Led by sales of cheddar and mozzarella, the U.S. cheese market alone was valued at $34.3

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

Google Research AI blog

Performer-MPC Performer-MPC aims to blend classic MPCs with ML via their learnable cost functions. Comparison of the Performer-MPC with Regular MPC on the doorway passing task. Comparison with an Everyday Robots helper robot using Regular MPC, Explicit Policy, and Performer-MPC in unseen blind corners.

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Why Latin America’s freight-forwarding opportunity is still attracting capital

TechCrunch

Nowports (YC W19) is a good starting point for comparison. However, business models in Latin America are often blended, and Nuvocargo is a good example of this. “Investors are pouring money into Latin America’s logistics and shipping businesses,” our former colleague Jon Shieber wrote in 2019.

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Samsung’s latest Frame TVs have a matte screen that looks and feels more like real art

The Verge

Samsung has managed to single-handedly define the category of “lifestyle TVs” — high-design TV sets that blend into the home more seamlessly than traditional TVs — with The Frame. A comparison of last year’s Frame pitted against the new matte-screened model. Image: Samsung. Image: Samsung.

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T-Mobile introduces its first 5G hotspot and a 100GB standalone plan for $50

The Verge

But T-Mobile’s particular blend of wide 5G coverage and better-than-LTE speeds means the device should be more accessible to more people. In comparison, AT&T’s standalone hotspot plans start at $60 per month for 15GB; Verizon’s offerings start at $80 for 15GB of 5G.

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Oracle and Google’s Supreme Court showdown was a battle of metaphors

The Verge

Over the course of two hours, justices and attorneys compared Java — the coding language that Oracle acquired in 2010 — to a restaurant menu, a hit song, a football team, an accounting system, the instructions for finding a blend of spices in a grocery store, a safecracking manual, and the QWERTY keyboard layout. It was purely mechanical.”)

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