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. Lots of other science fiction media includes metaverse-like systems (some of them predating Snow Crash ). Links with outside economic systems so people can profit from virtual goods.

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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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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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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. But unless that intrinsic value materializes, the system requires players to keep joining up.

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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). In the past, the company has sold racially biased facial recognition systems and hackable security cameras ; it aggressively partners with law enforcement and uses scare tactics to push its products on consumers.

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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. The first step in making it a mainstream kind of experience is to put it in the operating system. But despite the interesting early projects, ARKit hype fizzled after a few months.

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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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The Verge

OCTOBER 6, 2021

They added the MagSafe charging system. My takeaway for the regular iPhone 13 doesn’t require relative comparisons, though: battery life is excellent. Both the iPhone 13 and the 13 Mini have the same camera system: a regular wide-angle camera and an ultrawide. The 13 and 13 Mini have the exact same camera system.

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The Verge

APRIL 12, 2022

The differences here can get pretty technical, but as a short overview, all OLED screens are self-emissive, meaning each pixel can create its own light without the backlight systems that LCD TVs need. It’s the sort of thing that’s only noticeable in side-by-side comparisons. That said, I’m not talking about some huge difference here.

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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. Highlight the potential risks of Cloud computing, as well as some risk-management techniques.

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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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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. For example, in March 2020, AI-driven supply chain management systems failed to predict the panic buying of toilet paper and antiseptic wipes. None of us expected COVID-19. Humans design AIs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 15, 2007

Until recently, the main way to deal with this was cumbersome import and export of data from one system to another. Almost a year ago, NTEN hosted a field wide discussion about the need for nonprofit tech vendors, particularly CRM systems for online fundraising, to offer open APIs. Judi Sohn has a comparison of the two approaches.

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The Verge

JUNE 26, 2020

Just about every flagship Android phone you’ll read about this year will use a Snapdragon 865 system-on-chip at its core. Speaking of the cameras, the minimalist “raindrop” design was a much-vaunted part of LG’s pre-launch hype for the Velvet. It’s the fastest chip available to Android device manufacturers.

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Non Profit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

But gender-associated terms had appeared in the training data in ways that were associated with negative outcomes because of the bias in the system. The really important point I want to stress here is that better design of AI systems can have the reverse effect. Thats nothing in comparison to what could be coming.

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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. Keller is known for short stints at companies — he often comes in, sets things in motion, and leaves before the fireworks start.

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The Verge

JULY 30, 2020

Like all deep learning systems, GPT-3 looks for patterns in data. 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

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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. These are large, systemic issues! Perry knew Jobs.) “She She has a social consciousness that Steve never had.

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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. I’ve tried two other brands’ helmet audio systems and they both sounded tinny and terrible. The Lasso Pro is a completely new model for the 2020-2021 season.

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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. I asked Phil how he’s thinking about the role the titles play in the launch of these systems and how he feels about Halo Infinite being delayed to 2021.

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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

In any case, it worked: the video has gone instantly viral, spawning equal parts alarm and dark humor plus plenty of comparisons to the TV show "Westworld." "We According to its website , the android is equipped with the world's most sophisticated hydraulic powering system mimicking our human blood vessels.

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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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Engadget

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

The MacBook Air M3 is also one of the lightest and thinnest systems we've reviewed, and it's dead silent, thanks to a fanless design. Windows systems offer a range of configurations, from budget to high-end UHD screens with stunning IPS panels that boast high nits for vivid brightness. And what about ChromeOS?

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Engadget

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Play the system, folks. And that was kind of strangely implemented the Google [00:29:00] Duplex system because it was a human talking to a machine to interact with humans on their behalf. Um, there's a lot of ways these apps can like really screw you over in terms of On top of the Ben: lack of ability for comparison shopping.

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