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Google DeepMind’s robotics head on general purpose robots, generative AI and office WiFi

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The researchers involved compared the system to ImageNet, the landmark database founded in 2009 that is now home to more than […] © 2023 TechCrunch. Earlier this month, Google’s DeepMind team debuted Open X-Embodiment, a database of robotics functionality created in collaboration with 33 research institutes. All rights reserved.

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How to use the secondary market to find clues about who will IPO first

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This plummeted to 28 in 2022, the lowest number recorded since 2009, amid the financial crisis. PitchBook counted 296 venture-backed companies that went public in 2021, which doubles — or more — any other year prior.

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CatalyzeX grabs $1.64M seed to help developers find right machine learning model

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Gaurav came to the United States on scholarship in 2009 and Himanshu followed later. The brothers grew up in New Delhi in an area that was originally for refugees from when the British split India and Pakistan in the late 1940s. Their grandparents settled there, originally living in tents, before building a home.

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Despite economic downturn, space startup funding defies gravity

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“We looked back historically over the last decade and a little bit more, and it turns out that even during the 2008-2009 economic downturn, the space industry continued to grow at 7% per year,” Crawford said, adding that they saw almost no correlation between the performance of the Global S&P 1200 and the space industry.

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What’s Turo worth?

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billion, making it a unicorn long in the making, having raised capital as early as 2009. And a Turo IPO would not be a small affair. PitchBook pegs the company’s most recent private-market price at $1.28

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The half-life of code & the ship of Theseus

Erik Bernhardsson

A somewhat arbitrary sample of projects and their half-lifes: project. half-life (years). first commit. kubernetes. tensorflow. scikit-learn. underscore.

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Pakistan’s growing tech ecosystem is finally taking off

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As a frontline state and coalition partner in the United States’ invasion of Afghanistan, Pakistan saw fatalities from terrorist violence soar from 295 in 2001 to a peak of over 11,000 in 2009.

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