Month: December 2024

Walmart bought Vizio

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Image: Vizio After announcing plans to acquire Vizio in February, Walmart officially owns the company after the $2.3 billion transaction closed on Tuesday. The retail giant says the acquisition will help bolster its advertising business, as Platform Plus — the TV-maker’s advertising and data division — “accounts for all the company’s [Vizio’s] gross profit.” All … Read more

Playwright and Chrome Browser Testing in Heroku: A Beginner’s Guide

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I’ve always loved watching my unit tests run (and pass). They’re fast, and passing tests gives me the assurance that my individual pieces behave like they’re supposed to. Conversely, I often struggled to prioritize end-to-end tests for the browser because writing and running them was gruelingly slow. Fortunately, the tools for end-to-end in-browser testing have … Read more

Two data brokers banned from selling ‘sensitive’ location data by the FTC

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Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is banning data brokers Gravy Analytics and Mobilewalla from collecting, using, and selling “sensitive” location data of Americans, the agency announced on Tuesday. The FTC targeted Gravy Analytics, its subsidiary Venntel, and Mobilewalla for allegedly violating the FTC Act by collecting and … Read more

The abject weirdness of AI ads

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“I’m trying to find holiday gifts for my sisters. I open a bunch of tabs, I want my wife’s advice.” That’s CEO of the Browser Company, Josh Miller, in his company’s latest ad for its new AI browser, Dia. Consulting your spouse to find gifts for your siblings is a pure – and dare I … Read more

Grayscale Files To Convert Solana Trust Into ETF

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Grayscale has become the latest entrant into the Solana ETF sweepstakes as it looks to convert its existing Solana Trust (GSOL) into an exchange-traded fund. A 19b-4 filing submitted by NYSE Arca, the exchange that would list the fund, was made on Tuesday evening. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) requires exchanges to submit … Read more

SpaceX mulls tender offer at $350B valuation

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SpaceX’s valuation continues to rise at an eye-popping pace, with the company reportedly in talks to sell insider shares at a price that would value it at around $350 billion, Bloomberg reported.  It would mark an enormous increase from the $255 billion price that was circulating last month, and a doubling since shares were sold … Read more

Biden administration races to approve clean energy loans before Trump takes over — here’s who’s benefitting

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The Department of Energy appears to be on a loan-approval spree in the lead up to President-Elect Donald Trump’s inauguration, and the winners are all companies manufacturing clean energy solutions on U.S. soil. Trump has promised to cancel any unspent federal dollars under President Joe Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act, a bipartisan climate law that allocated … Read more

HyperRing Releases Payment Ring with International Support

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HyperRing introduced its second-generation payment ring on December 4, which operates in multiple countries through Visa and Mastercard networks. The device functions without batteries and processes transactions through NFC technology. The ring connects to credit cards, debit cards, or prepaid accounts through the HyperRing Pay application. Users can make purchases in North America, Europe, Asia, … Read more

The Role of Human-in-the-Loop Preferences in Reward Function Learning for Humanoid Tasks

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Table of Links Abstract and Introduction Related Work Problem Definition Method Experiments Conclusion and References A. Appendix A.1. Full Prompts and A.2 ICPL Details A. 3 Baseline Details A.4 Environment Details A.5 Proxy Human Preference A.6 Human-in-the-Loop Preference A.6 HUMAN-IN-THE-LOOP PREFERENCE A.6.1 ISAACGYM TASKS We evaluate human-in-the-loop preference experiments on tasks in IsaacGym, including Quadcopter, … Read more