Month: December 2025

The HackerNoon Newsletter: Stop the Generative AI Arms Race Before It Stops Us (12/17/2025)

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How are you, hacker? 🪐 What’s happening in tech today, December 17, 2025? The HackerNoon Newsletter brings the HackerNoon homepage straight to your inbox. On this day, Wright Brothers Conducted The First Successful Flight in 1903, and we present you with these top quality stories. From SpaceX Goes Public: The Hidden Question Every Tesla Investor … Read more

Data Strategy for MaGGIe: Bridging the Gap in Matting Resources

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Table of Links Abstract and 1. Introduction Related Works MaGGIe 3.1. Efficient Masked Guided Instance Matting 3.2. Feature-Matte Temporal Consistency Instance Matting Datasets 4.1. Image Instance Matting and 4.2. Video Instance Matting Experiments 5.1. Pre-training on image data 5.2. Training on video data Discussion and References Supplementary Material Architecture details Image matting 8.1. Dataset generation … Read more

AI’s water and electricity use soars in 2025

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A data center under construction in Phoenix, Arizona in 2024. | Photo: Getty Images AI created as much carbon pollution this year as New York City and guzzled up as much H20 as people consume globally in water bottles, according to new estimates. The study paints what’s likely a pretty conservative picture of AI’s environmental … Read more

MaGGIe’s Coarse Alpha Matte Prediction: Temporal Feature Aggregation

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Table of Links Abstract and 1. Introduction Related Works MaGGIe 3.1. Efficient Masked Guided Instance Matting 3.2. Feature-Matte Temporal Consistency Instance Matting Datasets 4.1. Image Instance Matting and 4.2. Video Instance Matting Experiments 5.1. Pre-training on image data 5.2. Training on video data Discussion and References Supplementary Material Architecture details Image matting 8.1. Dataset generation … Read more

MaGGIe Architecture: Efficient Mask-Guided Instance Matting

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Table of Links Abstract and 1. Introduction Related Works MaGGIe 3.1. Efficient Masked Guided Instance Matting 3.2. Feature-Matte Temporal Consistency Instance Matting Datasets 4.1. Image Instance Matting and 4.2. Video Instance Matting Experiments 5.1. Pre-training on image data 5.2. Training on video data Discussion and References Supplementary Material Architecture details Image matting 8.1. Dataset generation … Read more

Evolution of Matting: From Traditional Sampling to MaGGIe’s Instance Approach

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Table of Links Abstract and 1. Introduction Related Works MaGGIe 3.1. Efficient Masked Guided Instance Matting 3.2. Feature-Matte Temporal Consistency Instance Matting Datasets 4.1. Image Instance Matting and 4.2. Video Instance Matting Experiments 5.1. Pre-training on image data 5.2. Training on video data Discussion and References Supplementary Material Architecture details Image matting 8.1. Dataset generation … Read more

We asked our staff for their 2026 predictions

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In all the chaos of 2025, The Verge was able to see through the fog and focus on the consumer technology that really made an impact this year: robot vacuums, thin foldable phones, experimental laptops, handheld gaming consoles, and of course, generative AI. You can watch our standout picks in our video here. All this … Read more