Meta says ‘about half’ of its Reality Labs operating expenses go toward AR

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The Ray-Ban Stories don’t have AR, but someday we might be wearing sunglasses with advanced AR tech. | Photo by Amanda Lopez for The Verge Meta’s Reality Labs division might be burning billions, but it’s not all going toward not-great VR headsets. The company is currently putting “about half” of Reality Labs’ operating expenses toward … Read more

Amazon Robotics sued for $280 million by supplier left holding the bag(s)

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Image: Amazon On December 13th, Amazon’s robotics division was hit with a lawsuit seeking $280 million in damages from Gilimex Inc., a Vietnamese company responsible for manufacturing the steel and fabric storage containers that hold items as they’re moved around the company’s warehouses. The supplier says Amazon rushed it to ramp up production early in … Read more

3 Black founders predict little will change in VC in 2023

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Though inflation appears to be dropping, economic conditions remain uncertain, and the overall fundraising climate is reverting to pre-pandemic levels. For Black founders, who have rarely received more than 1% of total venture capital invested in startups, 2022 wasn’t kind, and 2023 doesn’t look promising given how things are going. To find out how Black … Read more

Automatically retrain neural networks with Renate

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Today we announce the general availability of Renate, an open-source Python library for automatic model retraining. The library provides continual learning algorithms able to incrementally train a neural network as more data becomes available. By open-sourcing Renate, we would like to create a venue where practitioners working on real-world machine learning systems and researchers interested … Read more

Create Amazon SageMaker models using the PyTorch Model Zoo

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Deploying high-quality, trained machine learning (ML) models to perform either batch or real-time inference is a critical piece of bringing value to customers. However, the ML experimentation process can be tedious—there are a lot of approaches requiring a significant amount of time to implement. That’s why pre-trained ML models like the ones provided in the PyTorch … Read more

Toyota president keeps pushing idea that people hate EVs, despite epic waitlists

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Toyota president Akio Toyoda has made it no secret that he really, really dislikes electric vehicles. This weekend, he offered this latest installment: “People involved in the auto industry are largely a silent majority,” Toyoda told reporters in Thailand, according to The Wall Street Journal. “That silent majority is wondering whether EVs are really OK … Read more

Tesla accused of illegally firing two employees after they criticized Elon Musk

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Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Two former Tesla employees are saying they were illegally fired from the company after taking part in an organized effort to publicly criticize Elon Musk, according to Bloomberg. The two employees, both of whom are based in California, have filed complaints with the National Labor Relations Board. The … Read more

Supreme Court will hear Section 230 challenges in February

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Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The Supreme Court has scheduled arguments for two major internet moderation cases in February of 2023. As noted by Bloomberg reporter Greg Stohr, hearings for Gonzalez v. Google and Twitter v. Taamneh have been respectively scheduled for February 21st and February 22nd, respectively. The two cases could result … Read more