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Hover secures $60M for 3D imaging to assess and fix properties

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Hover — which has built a platform that uses eight basic smartphone photos to patch together a 3D image of your home that can then be used by contractors, insurance companies and others to assess a repair, price out the job, and then order the parts to do the work — has raised $60 million in new funding.

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How 5G is driving big innovations in healthcare for veterans

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By avoiding the public internet, it also strengthens cybersecurity and supports patient privacy. Working with partners Verizon, Microsoft, and Medivis, the hospital has set up a secure, private 5G network–the first among VA hospitals – that is designed to power augmented reality (AR) applications for surgeons and medical trainees.

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An Edge Vision for the Metaverse

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will introduce new dimensions of interaction such as virtual and decentralised 3D worlds and experiences. This will also trigger an influx of new gadgets such as haptic gloves that will allow you to feel objects in the metaverse – all which will be made possible by edge devices and applications. Secure code for the edge.

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Generally Intelligent secures cash from OpenAI vets to build capable AI systems

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Called Generally Intelligent , it plans to do this by turning these fundamentals into an array of tasks to be solved and by designing and testing different systems’ ability to learn to solve them in highly complex 3D worlds built by their team.

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Bring your most productive self to work

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Power If you’re like many people, you use a multitude of applications. HP ZBook laptops are built to support the heaviest workloads, including 3D design, animation and data visualization solutions. Securely flex your productivity muscles Another critical aspect to hybrid work is the need for security.

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Daily Crunch: Global VC firm Partech reaches first close of largest African fund at €245 million

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Startups and VC You wait for ages for a real-world application of AI image generation, and then suddenly, two come along at once. Brian writes about how FRIDA’s robot arm attempts to bring DALL-E-style AI art to real-world canvases , and Haje covers how 3D laser cutting company Glowforge adds AI image generation to its software package.

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5 hot IT budget investments — and 2 going cold

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This includes spending on strengthening cybersecurity (35%), improving customer service (32%) and improving data analytics for real-time business intelligence and customer insight (30%). CIOs anticipate an increased focus on cybersecurity (70%), data analysis (55%), data privacy (55%), AI/machine learning (55%), and customer experience (53%).

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