๐ Read this trending post from Hacker News ๐ ๐ **Category**: ๐ก **What Youโll Learn**: ROS 2 sensor fusion SDK. Combines IMU, wheel encoders, and GPS into one reliable position estimate. Self-tuning noise covariance. Apache 2.0. What problem does this solve? Every mobile robot needs to know where it is. It gets this from multiple sensors: IMU, wheel encoders, GPS: each of which is imperfect in its own way. IMUs drift. Wheels slip. GPS jumps. You need software that intelligently combines all three into one trustworthy position estimate. That software is called a sensor fusion package. The standard one for…
๐ฅ Explore this awesome post from TechCrunch ๐ ๐ **Category**: Government & Policy,In Brief,irs,Palantir,Trump Administration ๐ก **What Youโll Learn**: Palantir has helped the Internal Revenue Service's Bureau of Criminal Investigation investigate a variety of financial crimes in the United States for much of the past decade, The Intercept reported. The IRS has paid the company $130 million since 2018 to use its data analysis software to examine financial records for investigative purposes, media outlets reported, citing public records detailing Palantir's IRS contract obtained by the nonprofit watchdog group American Oversight. It was previously known that the IRS was using Palantir…
๐ Check out this insightful post from Hacker News ๐ ๐ **Category**: ๐ก **What Youโll Learn**: Persistence by Choice The immutable nature of Lightwhale offers clear advantages, but in order to install, configure, run containers, and write data, a writable filesystem is required. And for the system to be genuinely useful, such changes must persist across reboots. The Data Filesystem Lightwhale provides both temporary and persistent writability through an automated subsystem activated early during startup. This mounts the data filesystem at /mnt/lightwhale-data. All data written by Lightwhale is kept within a single subdirectory: /mnt/lightwhale-data/lightwhale-state. This in turn serves as the…
โจ Explore this trending post from TechCrunch ๐ ๐ **Category**: Apps,Startups,AI,Exclusive ๐ **What Youโll Learn**: Series, a social media app, announced it has raised a $5.1 million pre-funding round, with investors including Venmo co-founder Ikram Majdon Ismail, Pear VC, Reddit CEO Steve Huffman, and GPTZero founder Edward Tian. The company was founded early last year by Yale students Nathanio Johnson and Sean Hargro, both of whom are still seniors at the university. The chain bills itself as a next-generation social networking platform, not an AI application, and hails itself as one of the first companies to run entirely on iMessage,…
๐ฅ Explore this awesome post from Hacker News ๐ ๐ **Category**: ๐ก **What Youโll Learn**: TIPSv2: Advancing Vision-Language Pretraining with Enhanced Patch-Text Alignment Google DeepMind * Equal contribution now at: 1xAI ย ย 2Epsilon Health ย ย 3Seoul National University ย ย 4Google CVPR 2026 Overview TIPSv2 is the next generation of the TIPS family of foundational image-text encoders empowering strong performance across numerous multimodal and vision tasks. Our work starts by revealing a surprising finding, where distillation unlocks superior patch-text alignment over standard pretraining, leading to distilled student models significantly surpassing their much larger teachers in this capability. We carefully investigate this…
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**What Youโll Learn**: X-energy stock popped today in its Nasdaq debut, opening at $30.11 before closing at $29.20, up 27% from its initial public offering of $23 per share. It seems investors can't get enough of nuclear energy. Even the stock's initial price was revised upward from the $16 to $19 target the company put forth during its investor roadshow. In conclusion, the company's value reached $11.5 billion. Just five years ago, such interest in a nuclear startup would have come as a surprise to many.…
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**What Youโll Learn**: last year i bought a Rodecaster Duo to solve some audio woes to allow myself and my girlfriend to have microphones to our respective computers when gaming together and talking on discord in the same room without any echo, and to be able to swap that to my work pc easily. the rodecaster is really nice, it's pretty effortless to use and works great for our home. I would gladly recommend it to anyone looking for a similar solution. as is usual for any device…
๐ฅ Read this insightful post from TechCrunch ๐ ๐ **Category**: AI,Apps,ai dictation,In Brief,nothing,Superwhisper,Wispr flow ๐ก **What Youโll Learn**: In the past few years, AI-powered dictation tools have taken off. In addition to existing dictation apps like Wispr Flow, Superwhisper, Willow, and Monologue, new apps are launched every week. Hardware company Nothing on Thursday launched a competing product of its own called Essential Voice. The basic idea is similar to other dictation apps, as Essential Voice works in any app to convert your speech into rich text, removing filler words like "um" and "ah" along the way. You can also create…
๐ฅ Check out this trending post from Hacker News ๐ ๐ **Category**: ๐ก **What Youโll Learn**: San Francisco is a โquiet airport.โ They limit announcements, background noise and marketing. Itโs been that was since 2018, and during Covid they used some of the downtime to push the project forward. The airport targeted gate announcements, overlapping PA messages, and tenant music. Instead of blasting departure calls terminal-wide, messages are limited to each gate and their immediate surroundings. In 2020, they worked with airlines to centralize and reduce announcements, cutting 40% of the paging. They claim that just in the International Terminal…
๐ฅ Discover this trending post from TechCrunch ๐ ๐ **Category**: AI,Enterprise,Anthropic,anthropic investment,chips,compute,Google,google cloud ๐ก **What Youโll Learn**: Google plans to invest up to $40 billion in Anthropic and support the AI โโcompany's growing computing needs, Bloomberg reports. Its Alphabet subsidiary is committed to investing $10 billion now, at a $350 billion valuation for Anthropic, with another $30 billion if Anthropic meets certain performance targets, according to Anthropic. The promise of investment comes after Anthropic launched its latest model, Mythos, to a limited group of partners this month. Anthropic says Mythos is the company's most powerful model to date and has…
