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Ameelio’s free video calling service for inmates goes live at first facilities

TechCrunch

Ameelio , a nonprofit startup that intends to replace inmate-paid video calling in prisons with a free service, is making inroads against the companies that have dominated the space for decades. “We maybe had 8,000 users when we spoke to you, and a few months later we launched our mobile app.

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FPGA startup Rapid Silicon lands $15M to bring its first chip to market

TechCrunch

Field-programmable gate arrays (FPGA) , or integrated circuits sold off-the-shelf, are a hot topic in tech. The global FPGA market size could reach $14 billion by 2028, according to one estimate, up from $6 billion in 2021. ” Rapid Silicon is developing two products at present: Raptor and Gemini. .

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Nvidia offers retail loss prevention software to accelerate accelerator chip sales

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GPU manufacturer Nvidia is expanding its enterprise software offering with three new AI workflows for retailers it hopes will also drive sales of its hardware accelerators. Nvidia isn’t packaging these workflows as off-the-shelf applications, however. The workflows are built on Nvidia’s existing AI technology platform.

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Clench your jaw to skip a track: That’s the magic of Wisear

TechCrunch

” To overcome the “it works in the lab” syndrome, the company went back to the drawing board, and created a new set of tech with off-the-shelf components. The idea is to build a prototype of the technology that works well enough to show it off, and then licence the tech to headphone and AR/VR headset manufacturers.

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Building vs. Buying Software Solutions: Which One is Right for Your Business?

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You need to hire developers, buy hardware and software, and allocate resources to design, develop, and test the solution. • On the other hand, buying an existing solution can be cheaper and faster because the vendor has already done the heavy lifting. Find Clarity in Just Two Minutes with Our Chalk Talk Video!

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More on OnLive: New Cloud Solution Delivers Secure Cross-Platform Deployment for Graphics Intensive Applications

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They typically struggle with hardware constraints, porting costs and interoperability issues of the ever-growing collection of portable and mobile client devices when delivering enterprise-level applications to employees in the field, or anywhere away from their high-end computers.

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Human toddlers are inspiring new approaches to robot learning

TechCrunch

The system is capable of applying learnings from YouTube videos to different environments, so a programmer doesn’t have to account for every possible variation. Last month, Google’s DeepMind robotics team showed off its own impressive work, in the form of RT-2 (Robotic Transformer 2). Want the top robotics news in your inbox each week?