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Germany-based challenger bank Vivid Money, which lets customers create sub-accounts called pockets with their own IBAN numbers, raises $17.6M Series A (Romain Dillet/TechCrunch)

Romain Dillet / TechCrunch: Germany-based challenger bank Vivid Money, which lets customers create sub-accounts called pockets with their own IBAN numbers, raises $17.6M Series A  —  German fintech startup Vivid Money has raised a $17.6 million Series A funding round (€15 million).  Ribbit Capital is leading the investment. Germany-based challenger bank Vivid Money, which lets

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Windows 10, iOS 14, Chrome, Safari, Firefox were hacked in Tianfu Cup, China's largest hacking competition; winning team from Qihoo 360 got $744K in prizes (Catalin Cimpanu/ZDNet)

Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: Windows 10, iOS 14, Chrome, Safari, Firefox were hacked in Tianfu Cup, China’s largest hacking competition; winning team from Qihoo 360 got $744K in prizes  —  Winning hacker team pockets $744,500 at the Tianfu Cup, China’s top hacking contest.  —  Many of today’s top software programs … Windows 10, iOS 14,

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Researchers want to infuse common sense into AI by merging language models trained via unsupervised learning, like GPT-3, with labeled computer vision datasets (Karen Hao/MIT Technology Review)

Karen Hao / MIT Technology Review: Researchers want to infuse common sense into AI by merging language models trained via unsupervised learning, like GPT-3, with labeled computer vision datasets  —  Researchers are teaching giant language models how to “see” to help them understand the world.  —  hide Researchers want to infuse common sense into AI

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Today at Remoticon: Sunday Live Events

Hackaday Remoticon is a worldwide virtual conference happening now! Everyone is invited to hang out in Remoticon Public Chat Individual workshop chat rooms are open to all, visit the Remoticon Wayfinder, choose a workshop and enter the public chat Ticket holders will find links to their registered event in the ticketing hub Public Livestreams (all

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Under the Sea GPS Uses Sound

If you’ve ever tried to use GPS indoors, you know that the signals aren’t easy to acquire in any sort of structure. Now imagine trying to get a satellite fix underwater. Researchers at MIT have a new technique, underwater backscatter localization or UBL, that promises to provide a low-power localization system tailored for the subsea

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