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What is a liquid neural network, really?

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The initial research papers date back to 2018, but for most, the notion of liquid networks (or liquid neural networks) is a new one. It was “Liquid Time-constant Networks,” published at the tail end of 2020, that put the work on other researchers’ radar. Everyone talks about scaling up their network,” Hasani notes. “We

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With Kard, banks and fintechs can build custom credit card rewards programs

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But for young fintech companies newer to card issuance, setting up an attractive rewards program from scratch can be onerous, requiring the issuer to negotiate with individual retail partners and manage the complexities of integration case-by-case. To that end, he hopes to triple the size of Kard’s 25-person team by the end of the year.

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Station F adds an online program to educate the next generation of entrepreneurs

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With this new program, entrepreneurs from anywhere can get started and learn all the basics to start a company. Right now, around 9% of entrepreneurs applying to a Station F program get accepted. It’s a fully online program, which means you can access it from anywhere in the world,” Varza said.

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IT leaders turn to HBCUs for future IT talent

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So NCDIT officials took action, creating an internship program for Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) students, a move that would open up for the organization a new pipeline for talent traditionally underrepresented in the IT industry. The HBCU internship program launched in 2023.

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NASA’s Thomas Zurbuchen tackles cosmic questions at TC Sessions: Space

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He also oversees NASA’s science program with a total budget approaching $7 billion a year. Zurbuchen is responsible for NASA’s science program, which includes earth science, heliophysics, planetary science and astrophysics. The program is helping to answer some of humanity’s biggest origin questions.

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Fintech startup Power flexes its credit card muscle following $316M equity, debt injection

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Prior to Acorns, Fernando was founder and CEO at Vault, which was acquired by Acorns and was a Disrupt Battlefield company in 2016. Though Fernando would not go into specifics about revenue or customers, he did say that the majority of customers Power is working with currently have never offered a credit card program before.

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SAP pays multi-million fine for bribery

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The SEC filed charges against SAP back in 2016, according to the supervisory authority. This involved breaches of accounting and internal accounting controls in connection with a bribery program in Panama. Not the first offence SAP is considered a repeat offender by the US authorities.