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Researchers find cutting-edge language models fall short in basic reasoning
A new paper finds that even cutting-edge language models like OpenAI's GPT-3 perform poorly when it comes to commonsense...
Call of Duty: Black Ops — Cold War multiplayer will be frenetic
Activision revealed the multiplayer gameplay for Call of Duty: Black Ops -- Cold War, and we played the frenetic demo in a...
NIST benchmarks show facial recognition technology still struggles to identify Black faces
NIST benchmarks suggest some facial recognition algorithms haven't corrected historic bias -- and are actually getting...
Casa’s AurusAI is the first 2-mile millimeter wave 5G broadband modem
5G's potential as a cable modem replacement is finally being exploited by new millimeter wave hardware that works from much...
GG Group combines digital media, celebrities, esports, and gaming culture
GG Group intends to use the Chaos brand and platform for good, as a resource for change in gaming and the esports industry.Read...
Facebook and Dolby join Amazon’s Voice Interoperability Initiative
More than 70 companies now count themselves, members of Amazon's Voice Interoperability Initiative, which recently published a...
Combatting COVID-19 misinformation with machine learning (VB Live)
To counter misinformed narratives, Novetta Mission Analytics (NMA) is working with Africa CDC to identify narratives and...
Assassin’s Creed: Valhalla launches with Xbox Series X on November 10
Ubisoft has revealed Assassin's Creed: Valhalla's release date. Surprise! It's on November 10, the same day that the Xbox Series...
Playtika’s rebranding is all about communicating — to players and employees
Playtika has expanded beyond social casino games through acquisitions and it is rebranding around the phrase "infinite ways to...
EA Play subscription service is now a part of Xbox Game Pass Ultimate
EA Play is coming to Xbox Game Pass Ultimate. This adds more than 60 EA games to your $15-per-month subscription service from...
NPA News
Leaving 2020 in Style, see which Hardware Startups
The 2020 NPA’s Hardware Startups to watch raised $1.3B this year!
One went IPO, one became a Unicorn, and many won awards, forged new alliances, and were able to significantly grow their businesses.
Hardware Startups to watch in 2021
Happy Thanksgiving week all!
There are a few items we cherish at NPA, amongst them are friends, family and excellent food. For these, we have much to celebrate later this week.
Happy Thanksgiving to all of you! Here is to using innovative and fun ways to connect with our families and friends that might not be able to visit in person this year. Teach your Grandma how to use Snapchat filters, it’s hilarious.
Startups- NASA, Bucket Seats & good Engineering
Welcome to Fall! It’s sweater weather, some horror flicks are popping up and the Indian Summer in Boston could sure use a few more warm days. It may be hard to believe, but we are just one week away before the US election. Go Vote!
Startups- Winners, Winners, Chicken dinners
The summer slow down clearly had an effect on our newsletter as we are a bit late this month.
In last month’s survey, we asked all of you whether your industry was improving/collapsing and we got a surprise: 58% of the respondents stated their industry is either slightly improving (~25%) or are literally overwhelmed (~33%) with new business!
Startups – Saving cash during tough times
This month, we’ve got a 500% ROI, some $6.9B investments in Boston startups, and flying cars hitting New Hampshire.
FAMGA spends >$2B on tech startups- is yours on the list?
Happy Summer all! FOMO is real and you might have missed this tidbit!
Getting back to normal
Are we there yet? Almost…we think. I am looking very much forward to being back in the (not home) office again this week, face to face meetings, more personalized engagements with our staff, customers and suppliers.
Feel the Squeeze yet?
Staggering numbers: The US unemployment rate going from 3.5% in February to 14.7% in April, 20M jobs lost just in April.I am certain, we all know someone by now that’s been economically affected, or worse, gotten sick by Covid-19.
WFHell
…what a rollercoaster it’s been the last few weeks!
WFH looked so GOOD, sleeping in, picking a home office location, all your favorite snacks close by, no annoying bosses/coworkers, afternoon workouts….
Nice funding round – $2.25B
It’s almost Spring and in case you didn’t know already, the month of March was named for the Roman god of war, Mars. Traditionally, this was the time of year to resume military campaigns that had been interrupted by winter.
