The 208 best October Prime Day deals

We’re now in the second and final day of Amazon’s October Prime Day sale. That means it’s time to squeeze as much value out of your Prime subscription as you can until Thursday at 3AM ET / 12AM PT, which is when several deals will enter a brief hibernation ahead of Black Friday and Cyber … Read more

You can now try Fortnite directly in Discord

The in-Discord Fortnite demo only works if you don’t already have the game installed on your PC. Epic Games is trying to attract more players to its Fortnite free-to-play battle royale by letting you instantly demo the game within Discord. The feature, powered by Nvidia’s GeForce Now cloud gaming service, provides two 30-minute trial sessions … Read more

YZi Labs Introduces $1B Fund for BNB Chain Projects

YZi Labs, formerly Binance Labs, introduced a $1 billion fund for projects building on the BNB Chain. The investment company, which was rebranded from the venture arm of crypto exchange Binance last year, is targeting BNB-based projects in areas such as trading, real-world assets (RWAs), artificial intelligence (AI), decentralized finance (DeFi) and wallets, according to … Read more

Wealth App Stratiphy Partners With 21Shares to Offer Crypto ETNs Under New UK Rules

Global crypto product issuer 21Shares has partnered with UK wealth management app Stratiphy to let retail investors buy and hold crypto Exchange Traded Notes (ETNs) as the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) lifts its four-year ban on these products. The change marks a shift in the UK’s stance on digital assets, allowing retail investors regulated access … Read more

AI Just Got Better at Counting Trees

Table of Links Abstract and 1 Introduction Materials and Methods Results and Discussion Conclusion and References 3 RESULTS AND DISCUSSION Segmentation results were computed for the point cloud L1W (MLS, deciduous dominated). Results obtained by using the publicly available TreeLearn checkpoint without further training serve as a baseline (Table 3). Even when fine-tuning the model … Read more

Accurate Forest Mapping Using TreeLearn and Lidar-Based Point Clouds

Table of Links Abstract and 1 Introduction Materials and Methods Results and Discussion Conclusion and References 2 MATERIALS AND METHODS 2.1 LABELED FOREST DATA The TreeLearn method can be trained on complete labeled forest point clouds that have a sufficiently high scanning resolution for all parts of a tree. The existing literature was searched for … Read more