The Verge

JULY 23, 2020

For comparison, AMD has already been outputting its own Ryzen 4000 chips based on its 7nm architecture for months, which have been handily outperforming Intel’s offerings. Intel actually says that the issues with its current 7nm production means that production is trending a year behind its internal roadmap.

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DataRobot

AUGUST 5, 2021

Is there too much hype about AI or too much doomsaying? Are AI sales and marketing teams contributing to AI hype? In behavioral science this is known as the blemish frame , where a small negative provides a frame of comparison to much stronger positives, strengthening the positive messaging. Selling AI. AI and Uncertainty.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 24, 2010

There is some ROI, but there is also a lot hype about Facebook. years now, and in comparison to Twitter, LinkedIn, MySpace and YouTube, the Facebook Page tool set is pretty limited. They should have an “Official&# Facebook Page. After the Page is set-up it takes very little time to manage.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 17, 2011

The full agenda is now available online , but generally, they will: teach you how to distinguish hype vs. reality; walk you through specific Cloud solutions for everyday applications, like email and office productivity; help you assess the costs of migrating to a Cloud computing solution, including how to do an apple-to-apples comparison with your (..)

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The Verge

OCTOBER 4, 2021

One part definition, one part aspiration, one part hype In recent months you may have heard about something called the metaverse. Microsoft’s Minecraft gets less hype than Roblox these days, but it enables similar activities through modding. Didn’t we have a whole metaverse hype cycle around Second Life in the ‘00s?

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

There’s also a hint that its new A15 Bionic processor might be downclocked in comparison to the version that appears in the iPhone 13 line ( via MacRumors ). Apple first started playing into the 5G hype machine with the launch of the iPhone 12 , and continues to tout the faster download and upload speeds the tech can offer in 2021.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 19, 2007

at 1:02 pm thanks for deflating a bit of the industry hype and prattle with this provocative and essential idea. Are the means that progressive organizations use to reach their ends truly in line with their mission? Technorati Tags: crm , fundraising { 1 comment… read it below or add one } 1 Chris Blow 01.20.07

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 19, 2007

at 1:02 pm thanks for deflating a bit of the industry hype and prattle with this provocative and essential idea. Are the means that progressive organizations use to reach their ends truly in line with their mission? Technorati Tags: crm , fundraising { 1 comment… read it below or add one } 1 Chris Blow 01.20.07

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

“5 years ago it was very hit driven: you spend years developing a product, put all this money into hyping the launch, and then hope it’s a success,” Proulx explained. This post-hype period is the valley of death for many games, the developers starved for cash after streamers and curious casuals move on.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Oh, and it absolutely cannot get a beer for you — a recurring meme when companies try to hype home robots). For many people looking at Astro, it may appear to be just a novelty — indeed, it’s already drawn comparisons to robot “pets” like Aibo. But this is where Astro’s guise as a “home robot” becomes useful.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Rivian, which has a steady CEO and founder and relatively modest goals for the next few years, could be a good test of all that hype. It has received a little more than 55,000 preorders for its pricey electric pickup truck (the R1T) and SUV (the R1S) and has said it won’t be able to deliver all of those until the end of 2023.

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The Verge

APRIL 8, 2022

Combining the freewheeling hype market of crypto with the complicated economic workings of a massively multiplayer game, Axie Infinity’s in-game world has spent months trying to avert a financial crisis. I don’t think we hide that fact,” Ryder says of the gambling comparison. “It

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The Verge

AUGUST 25, 2021

His show has declined as a hype vehicle for guests, and Rogan’s presence as a mainstay in the news has plummeted. For comparison, in the week before he went on Rogan in 2020, Santino gained 1,173 followers on his own, so Rogan gave him a bump of 500 more followers the week after. That gain jumped to nearly 1,700 followers in 2020.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 15, 2007

Deliver, don’t just hype - of course, marketing is important, but when the rubber really has to meet the road, be there with more than vaporware. The Kintera API looks, quite honestly, seriously wimpy in comparison to either Convio or Salesforce. What’s to lose?

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 20, 2022

The company — founded by Domm Holland and Allison Barr Allen — was one of those that had plenty of hype around it, so its demise (especially after raising $124.5 Apparently, its 2021 revenue growth was modest — just six figures — and its cash burn was high, with no fundraising prospects in sight.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

February 2017: Cook expands his thoughts on AR’s potential , adding a new comparison: AR is a big idea, like the smartphone. But despite the interesting early projects, ARKit hype fizzled after a few months. And so I think that things like these are better when they’re incorporated without becoming a barrier to our talking.

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The Verge

APRIL 12, 2022

It’s the sort of thing that’s only noticeable in side-by-side comparisons. But the strange part about all this is that Samsung Electronics isn’t really hyping the OLED much. Colors still look vivid even during very bright scenes, and reds, greens, and blues come off the screen as deeper and just more pure to your eye.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 23, 2011

Per NTEN, the Cloud Summit will: Teach you how to distinguish hype vs. reality. Help you assess the costs of migrating to a Cloud computing solution, including how to do an apple-to-apples comparison with your existing systems. Walk you through specific Cloud solutions for everyday applications, like email and office productivity.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

But hopefully we’ll also see something more real-world — head-to-head comparisons work best when they’re done with applications people actually use in ways that tangibly show the speed difference. I also think that the new controller lives up to the hype — it’s incredible. How fast is fast? How about battery life?

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The Verge

JUNE 26, 2020

Speaking of the cameras, the minimalist “raindrop” design was a much-vaunted part of LG’s pre-launch hype for the Velvet. Here are a few comparisons with the iPhone 11, which is one of the better cameras in this price segment. The LG Velvet in its Dual Screen case. For everyone else, though, it might be a tough sell.

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Towards Data Science

JUNE 27, 2023

Although I wasn’t aware of all the hype, the Data-Centric AI Community promptly came to the rescue: The 2.0 Now, bear with me: with such a buzz around LLMs over the past months, I have somehow let slide the fact that pandas has just undergone a major release! Yep, pandas 2.0 is out and came with guns blazing !

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TechCrunch

MARCH 28, 2022

Weaver’s platform matches homeowners and architects with appropriate contractors (using an algorithm), facilitating obtaining quotes and price comparison — without the usual friction from having to manually research and reach out to contractors. ” Despite the hype, construction tech will be hard to disrupt.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

With a population of 60 million (for comparison, U.K.: NTT data is investing in Calabria. Amazon has invested in new infrastructure. And Apple has sponsored a Naples-based developer academy. 66 million, Germany: 83 million, Spain: 46 million), Italy is not lacking in people, but GDP per capita is a low $34,000.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 6, 2021

My takeaway for the regular iPhone 13 doesn’t require relative comparisons, though: battery life is excellent. But don’t let the fact that Cinematic Mode doesn’t live up to the hype distract you. Of course, if you don’t have an iPhone 12, then the 13 lasting more than two hours longer is kind of meaningless.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 15, 2007

Judi Sohn has a comparison of the two approaches. Koolaid) Michelle offers some advice to both companies, including deliver, don't hype! Also, I wonder what happens to the smaller and medium size nonprofits that can't afford the hefty cost of Convio's tools? So, the perhaps not everyone at Convio has drank the Web2.0

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The Verge

JUNE 23, 2020

But does it live up to the hype? For comparison, Adobe Photoshop and Lightroom ( bundled together ) cost $10 per month. Superhuman bills itself as “not another email client,” promising an inbox that’s been “rebuilt from the ground up” that will make you “feel like you have superpowers.” I spent a month using the service to find out.

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The Verge

JULY 29, 2021

The wait for 10nm and Intel’s new graphics turned out to have been worth it: the new chips outpaced AMD’s in single-core performance when they were released , and they actually lived up to the hype.

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DataRobot

MARCH 31, 2022

While AI systems have matured from science experiments to vital business-as-usual tools, not every AI project lives up to the hype. Champion challenger comparison reports take advantage of the contrast effect , a cognitive bias that changes our perception of something when we compare it to something else, enhancing their differences.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 26, 2020

I thought this sounded like marketing hype, but I wanted to try it for myself, and I couldn’t believe it. The Odin feels bulletproof by comparison. It essentially steals from the design of skate trucks (the mechanism that connects the wheels to the board) and uses leverage to transfer force to the edges of your board more efficiently.

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The Verge

JULY 30, 2020

But GPT-3, by comparison, has 175 billion parameters — more than 100 times more than its predecessor and ten times more than comparable programs. First, there’s the hype factor. The GPT-3 hype is way too much. GPT-2, released in 2019, contained 1.5 billion parameters. The entirety of English Wikipedia constitutes just 0.6

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

She has sometimes been called another Steve Jobs, but I think that’s an inadequate comparison,” former defense secretary and Theranos board member William Perry told The New Yorker the same year. During this heady period, though, investors tended to overlook tech-hyped things that weren’t actually tech. “Do Perry knew Jobs.) “She

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 4, 2022

The startup feels low-key in a sector that has been full of hype and chest-beating in recent years. Enter Klarna’s price comparison tool, which the BNPL startup is positioning against shopping services like Google Shopping and Shopping.com.

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Non Profit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Thats nothing in comparison to what could be coming. Most machine-learning researchers I work with are very frustrated by the AI hype-and-doom cycles, because they recognize that both of them are a distortion of whats really happening. But when we redefine AI risk as AGI risk, what we are saying is, You can ignore whats happening now.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

It was really this inclusion: how do we include more people in the launch euphoria and hype and everything that happens, and make it as accessible to [as many] more people as possible. Do you think that’s a fair comparison? Let me make the Netflix comparison just to have done it, just to check the box.

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Futurism

MARCH 20, 2025

In a press release , the company hyped up its three-pronged approach to integrate AI into the fast food experience. Cramming AI into fast food, you might argue, is pretty innocent in comparison. And it would be, if not for the army of workers manning tens of thousands of fast food stores throughout the US.

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Futurism

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

A lot of ink has been spilled about Elon Musk's rapidly developing brain implant startup Neuralink , owing in no small part to the kind of hype the billionaire's able to drum up around his companies. Meta's AI practices are likewise mired in controversy.

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Mashable Tech

MARCH 27, 2025

For comparison, on X, the MLB gained 7 million of its 12.3 For the majority of viewers, it's just a few fleeting seconds of hype and then scrolling to the next thing, but that's still better than if they were never exposed to baseball at all." million engagements, a 136% jump from 2023, and over 72 million views (+36%).

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