The Verge

AUGUST 2, 2021

month (or local equivalent per month) and it includes ad-free videos on YouTube,” a YouTube spokesperson said in a statement. In comparison, YouTube’s existing Premium plan costs around €11.99 “In Nordics and Benelux (except for Iceland), we’re testing a new offering to give users even more choice: Premium Lite costs €6.99/month

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 4, 2011

Two recent advocacy victories this week by PETA and my former colleagues at Defenders of Wildlife are a great reminder of a little practiced truth: organizations are seeing greater (and often easier) success in leveraging online advocacy to change policy at the state and local level.

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The Next Web

MAY 7, 2013

Adding to this feat, is the impressive story of how a small collective of 20-somethings raised $40 million dollars from more than 40 people and pulled it off with the local county’s blessing in the form of an additional $18.5 million infrastructure bond to refurbish local roads, sewer and water systems.

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Google Research AI blog

MARCH 3, 2023

Experiment Scenarios: ( a ) Learning to avoid local minima during doorway traversal, ( b ) maneuvering through highly constrained spaces, ( c ) enabling socially compliant behaviors for blind corner, and ( d ) pedestrian obstruction interactions. A planner, guided by a greedy cost function, often leads the robot to a local minimum (i.e.,

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Candid

MAY 9, 2023

For a more “apples to apples” funding comparison, we also examined foundation funding to higher education institutions with similar attributes to HBCUs along five key dimensions: size, geographic region, institution type, locale, and specialization. By comparison, funding to HBCUs averaged $61 million from 2015 through 2019.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Johnson found that in Chrome version 86.0.4240.75, “local storage” data for Google.com and YouTube.com stuck around even after restarting the browser. In comparison, cookies are generally used to track users preferences and identities across different sites. We’ve been able to replicate similar behavior.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 24, 2021

For comparison, Reign Maker pointed to New York’s water authority, which collects 30 samples per day from boats and other methods, at an approximate cost (including labor, boat fuel, etc) of $100 per sample. Sure, New York is probably among the higher cost locales for this (like everything else) but the deltas are pretty huge.

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Engadget

MARCH 10, 2025

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. The 8-inch display is fine and the DualSense-style controls are great, so PlayStation diehards who want a second screen for local PS5 streaming may see the appeal.

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The Verge

AUGUST 18, 2021

Some of these local variants, like the Hisuian braviary or the spirit possessed basculegion, will let you ride them to cross the vast and varied landscape. The game’s emphasis on freely roaming through swaying grass as little bidoofs jump about has already drawn comparisons to The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Apple’s latest retail store has drawn comparisons to a floating lantern, with a unique design incorporating a glass dome that sits directly on the water of Singapore’s Marina Bay.

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DataRobot

JULY 5, 2022

A Light Gradient Boosted Trees Regressor with Early Stopping model was trained without any geospatial data on 5,657 residential home listings to provide a baseline for comparison. Utah Spatial Modeling Process. This produced a RMSLE Cross Validation of 0.3530.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

It’s one of the reasons the game was so easy to save locally before the NYT purchase. It’s that word list that constitutes Wordle’s solution set, and the list is literally baked into the Javascript of the website itself.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 18, 2022

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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TechCrunch

APRIL 21, 2022

Before we get into the numbers, note that it was just over a week ago that The Exchange asked if the SaaS selloff is over , so there’s some indication that we could be reaching a local minimum when it comes to SaaS valuations. For comparison, health tech Series A funding was down 64%, falling from $1.03 billion to $370 million.

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Google Research AI blog

JUNE 23, 2023

The reward model is a lightweight neural network that is continuously trained with ongoing automated feedback on preference comparisons designed to mimic the offline oracle. geographic location), which influences local network conditions and what content is locally popular, among other things.

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Google Research AI blog

JUNE 7, 2023

Another barrier to progress is that different projects and institutions typically use various ratings, platforms and protocols, which makes apples-to-apples comparisons impossible. SQuId takes an utterance as input and an optional locale tag (i.e., a localized variant of a language, such as "Brazilian Portuguese" or "British English").

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Candid

JUNE 23, 2022

To understand how the pandemic impacted the philanthropic sector and civil society organizations around the world, we reached out to local experts who shared their observations and experiences over the past two years. However, this sentiment is slowly changing, including among institutional funders.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 24, 2023

The traditional approach to financial advice – where wealthy individuals usually find an advisor through friends, family, or a local financial advisor’s proactive sales outreach – lags behind modern online product search trends. Every day, consumers shop online and pour over user reviews.

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The Verge

MAY 10, 2021

The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) released a two-page preliminary report on the deadly crash of a Tesla Model S in Texas last month in which local authorities said there was no one in the driver’s seat. The two victims were identified as Everette Talbot, 69, and William Varner, 59, a prominent local anesthesiologist.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 5, 2022

The good news is a variation of the bad news and is often positive thanks to historical comparisons. As Homebrew’s Hunter Walk noted recently on his personal blog, startup layoffs hit a local maximum last month, reaching 16,000 and change, per the Layoffs.FYI tracker. The Good News : Far less than in early 2020.

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The Verge

JANUARY 4, 2022

LG’s G2 (left) shown next to last year’s C1 OLED (right), which isn’t exactly the right comparison. A more helpful comparison to demonstrate year-over-year improvements would’ve been putting it against the G1’s Evo display, but no such luck. Mini LED brings LG’s QNED TVs closer to the contrast of OLED — with better brightness.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2022

As in other maturing markets, companies that have seen success in the past are now spawning a new generation of entrepreneurs as well as attracting others from various locales. While they are not primarily focused on Texas, they are starting to invest locally, as well.”. Comparisons to Silicon Valley.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 16, 2022

For comparison, it’s 6% in the U.S. Yet, it’s noteworthy that the fund — which, according to its spokesperson doesn’t intend to lead investments but “partner with top investors who have a regional presence and local knowledge” — has primarily participated in extension deals via convertible notes. . “At Image Credits: Lori Systems.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

It sits on the entry-level side of the Jetson family, which now includes six Orin-based production modules intended for a range of robotics and local, offline computing applications. ” Nvidia debuts new products for robotics developers, including Jetson Orin Nano by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch.

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The Verge

JANUARY 2, 2022

A comparison of last year’s Frame pitted against the new matte-screened model. Image: Samsung. By introducing a new anti-reflective film and other anti-glare measures, Samsung hopes that oil pantings and other art will pop off the screen to a more impressive extent than before. And Samsung continues to ignore Dolby Vision completely.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

The center will be responsible for vehicle housing, maintenance and charging, as well as processing data collected by the cars locally and calibrating their sensors. AutoX is hiring to build out its local San Francisco team, according to AutoX’s CEO Dr. Jianxiong Xiao, who also goes by Professor X. Momenta and Pony.ai

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TechCrunch

MAY 12, 2021

Cards have an estimated payments volume of $900 billion per year, and yet 95% of these transactions are being processed by local incumbents, asserts Pomelo. If you’re looking for comparisons to U.S.-based While the majority of transactions are still done in cash, there are still over a billion cards in the region.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 25, 2021

They laid out a multi-year plan to “enable young adults to connect with mentors for professional guidance” and “engage in meaningful conversations around causes to take action locally with others.”. Seven percent of teens report experiencing bullying on Instagram.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 16, 2021

The Center for Auto Safety, an independent consumer group, thought that Nuro did not provide enough information on its development and testing, nor any meaningful comparison with the safety of similar, human-driven vehicles.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

You can’t just ‘shut them down,’ which has made multifamily resilient and even grow in comparison to retail and industrial real estate.”. “Our software supports property management companies, which operate high-density apartment buildings that people live and work in,” he told TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2021

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 We saw Amazon get to really big scale in the U.S.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

It is set to also introduce a price-comparison tool, as it continues to add new functionalities for a better end-to-end shopper experience. “In It aggregates deals for a network of over 100, local and regional, e-commerce merchants. In the checkout phase, we plan to introduce a very secure payment method…limited by time or value.

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Google Research AI blog

MARCH 17, 2023

One way to spur research in video understanding is via the task of dense video captioning , which consists of temporally localizing and describing all events in a minutes-long video. However it is not straightforward to adapt such an architecture to the complex task of jointly localizing and captioning events in minutes-long videos.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 21, 2013

According to a November 2012 Pew Internet and American Life Project report , a higher percentage of African American and Latino cell phone users have downloaded at least one app in comparison to Whites. The good news is that a number of organizations are hard at work tackling the "app gap."

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TechCrunch

MARCH 12, 2021

How much are you focused on investing in your local ecosystem versus other startup hubs (or everywhere) in general? Who are key startup people you see creating success locally, whether investors, founders or even other types of startup ecosystems roles like lawyers, designers, growth experts, etc. Social media, logistics, travel.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Amazon says all of the processing and storage for these maps happens locally on the device and nothing is stored in the cloud. Similarly, its facial recognition data is also stored locally on the Astro. Like its maps, all of the Astro’s processing and movements happen locally — for privacy reasons but also for practicality.

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The Verge

APRIL 21, 2021

Gogoro also pitches its battery stations as a way to aid the local energy grid during times of peak demand. In comparison, they’re practically absent in India. We need to play to the strength of the partner locally and enable them through our technology to let them win and go faster.”. I would never try replicate that.

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