Month: August 2024

Zomato buys Paytm’s entertainment ticket business for $244 million

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Zomato, the Indian food delivery giant, has acquired the entertainment ticketing business of financial services firm Paytm for $244.1 million, signaling a strategic move to enhance its “going out” offerings. The acquisition, among the largest M&A deals among new-age Indian tech companies, encompasses Paytm’s ticketing services for movies, sports, and events. As part of the … Read more

Asus brings Wi-Fi 7 to its tri-band ROG gaming router

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The ROG Rapture GT-BE19000 is an ’80s retro-future headcrab. | Image: Asus Asus announced three new Wi-Fi 7 products today, including a tri-band ROG Rapture GT gaming router, a dual-band router, and a new Wi-Fi 7 USB adapter. The ROG Rapture GT-BE19000 has a familiar ’80s retro-future look shared by predecessors like the quad-band GT-BE98, … Read more

Role of AI in Immunization: The Shots that Your Body Needs

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Alright, folks, let’s talk about something that’s saved more lives than the Avengers combined—immunization. Vaccines have been the unsung heroes in the battle against some of the world’s nastiest villains (Mpox, please don’t bring back the 2020 phase once again). But in this world of snaps and reels, even our trusty vaccines are getting a … Read more

Countering Mainstream Bias via End-to-End Adaptive Local Learning: Adaptive Weight

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Table of Links Abstract and 1 Introduction 2 Preliminaries 3 End-to-End Adaptive Local Learning 3.1 Loss-Driven Mixture-of-Experts 3.2 Synchronized Learning via Adaptive Weight 4 Debiasing Experiments and 4.1 Experimental Setup 4.2 Debiasing Performance 4.3 Ablation Study 4.4 Effect of the Adaptive Weight Module and 4.5 Hyper-parameter Study 5 Related Work 6 Conclusion, Acknowledgements, and References … Read more

Two incident management startups join forces as FireHydrant nabs Blameless

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FireHydrant, an NYC incident management startup that launched in 2019, announced on Wednesday that it has acquired Blameless, a former competitor. The companies did not share the purchase price. Both companies help SREs (site reliability engineers) deal with the daunting job of keeping software and websites up and running. When things go wrong, they help … Read more

Microsoft’s new Xbox Adaptive Joystick puts accessibility at the center

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Image: Microsoft Microsoft is launching a new $29.99 Xbox Adaptive Joystick early next year that’s designed for players with limited mobility. It’s a wired companion for existing Xbox controllers, and includes four buttons, an Xbox thumbstick, and two additional buttons for bumper and trigger controls. The Xbox Adaptive Joystick allows you to operate a controller … Read more