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In Miami, this 3D-printed seawall will help protect the coastline

Fast Company Tech

Photo: Sara Pezeshk] How we’ll measure success After the BIOCAP tiles are installed, we plan to assess how the seawall redesign enhances biodiversity, improves water quality and reduces wave energy. This data will provide insight into how the tiles affect local water conditions. A collection of 3D-printed concrete BIOCAP tiles.

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5 things to know about philanthropy to HBCUs

Candid

The average Ivy League school received 178 times more funding than the average HBCU To understand the philanthropic funding disparities HBCUs face, we examined funding to Ivy League schools as a proxy measure of philanthropic funding capacity. By comparison, funding to HBCUs averaged $61 million from 2015 through 2019.

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

Google Research AI blog

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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10 Ways Geolocation is Changing the World

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

From the global to the local, here are #10Ways geolocation is a positive force for good. Mobile technologies will extend the global online network to anyone with a mobile device while enabling countless local networks to form in the real world. He is the founder of MomentFeed , a location-based marketing, strategy, and technology firm.

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Evaluating speech synthesis in many languages with SQuId

Google Research AI blog

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

The Verge

A comparison of last year’s Frame pitted against the new matte-screened model. 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. Image: Samsung. And Samsung continues to ignore Dolby Vision completely.

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Show Me Your Nonprofit Dashboard!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Dashboards provide measures to help you make better decisions. Increasingly, we are seeing dashboards used in external accountability contexts: a nonprofit or local government that wants to share its real-time performance data with its donors and its community. 5) Scenario Comparison Dashboards. 3) Accountability Dashboards.

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