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Monday, February 06, 2017
 
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The 3D printing industry is frequently knocked for not living up to its early hype. Fulop concedes that is true in when it comes to plastic 3D printing and consumer-facing printers, but notes that industrial 3D printing has thrived and metal 3D printing is especially ripe for disruption. Fulop, who has backed SolidWorks and Dyn and OnShape, sees an opportunity to modernize and lower the cost of 3D metal printers, which can cost as much as $800,000 a pop. The market for these printers is growing 50% to 60% per year, he says. General Electric has a goal of building a $1 billion 3D printing business by 2020; last year it acquired Arcam, and it paid $599 million for Concept Laser.
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http://fortune.com/2017/02/06/desktop-metal-funding/
http://fortune.com/2017/02/06/desktop-metal-funding/

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Today, in order to facilitate progress in video understanding research, we are introducing YouTube-BoundingBoxes, a...
Today, in order to facilitate progress in video understanding research, we are introducing YouTube-BoundingBoxes, a dataset consisting of 5 million bounding boxes spanning 23 object categories, densely labeling segments from 210,000 YouTube videos. To date, this is the largest manually annotated video dataset containing bounding boxes, which track objects in temporally contiguous frames.

The dataset is designed to be large enough to train large-scale models, and be representative of videos captured in natural settings. Importantly, the human-labelled annotations contain objects as they appear in the real world with partial occlusions, motion blur and natural lighting. Learn more, and get the data, from the Google Research blog, linked below.

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The Tape Project
The Tape Project
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Releasing classic albums on reel-to-reel, duplicated from the original master tapes. You would expect these tapes to sound good of course, and you should expect they would sound better than the
LP and digital sources. But you will be shocked at just how much better they do sound.
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http://tapeproject.com/

Why Tape?
http://tapeproject.com/why-tape/
http://tapeproject.com/

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IN EARLY JUNE 2014, accountants at the Lumiere Place Casino in St. Louis noticed that several of their slot machines [...] on June 2 and 3, [...] spit out far more money than they’d consumed, despite not awarding any major jackpots, an aberration known in industry parlance as a negative hold. [...] Casino security pulled up the surveillance tapes and eventually spotted the culprit
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operatives use their phones to record about two dozen spins on a game they aim to cheat. They upload that footage to a technical staff in St. Petersburg, who analyze the video and calculate the machine’s pattern based on what they know about the model’s pseudorandom number generator. Finally, the St. Petersburg team transmits a list of timing markers to a custom app on the operative’s phone; those markers cause the handset to vibrate roughly 0.25 seconds before the operative should press the spin button. [...] The timed spins [...] result in far more payouts than a machine normally awards: Individual scammers typically win more than $10,000 per day. (Allison notes that those operatives try to keep their winnings on each machine to less than $1,000, to avoid arousing suspicion.)
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the four scammers were arrested. [...] each sentenced to two years in federal prison, to be followed by deportation.
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90 percent of all revenue goes back to St. Petersburg [...] “What they’ll do now is they’ll put the cell phone in their shirt’s chest pocket, behind a little piece of mesh. So they don’t have to hold it in their hand while they record.” And Darrin Hoke, the security expert, says he has received reports that scammers may be streaming video back to Russia via Skype, so they no longer need to step away from a slot machine to upload their footage.
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most casinos can’t afford to invest in the newest slot machines, whose PRNGs use encryption to protect mathematical secrets; as long as older, compromised machines are still popular with customers, the smart financial move for casinos is to keep using them and accept the occasional loss to scammers.
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https://www.wired.com/2017/02/russians-engineer-brilliant-slot-machine-cheat-casinos-no-fix/
https://www.wired.com/2017/02/russians-engineer-brilliant-slot-machine-cheat-casinos-no-fix/

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