Since their inception 150 years ago, all conventional video tools have represented motion by capturing a number of still frames each second. Displayed rapidly, such images create an illusion of continuous movement. From the flip book to the movie camera, the illusion became more convincing but its basic structure never changed.

Synaptics and Edge Impulse have recently entered a new partnership to facilitate the development of embedded machine learning (ML) models in power-sensitive intelligent Internet of Things (IoT) applications.

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Website size can vary from a few pages to millions.

To the uninitiated, all pages on a site are equally important and anyone searching online should be able to find them.

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Prophesee's CEO explains the future of sensors that only see changes

This month, Sony starts shipping its first high-resolution event-based camera chips. Ordinary cameras capture complete scenes at regular intervals even though most of the pixels in those frames don't change from one scene to another. The pixels in event-based cameras—a technology inspired by animal vision systems—only react if they detect a change in the amount of light falling on them. Therefore, they consume little power and generate much less data while capturing motion especially well. The two Sony chips—the 0.92 megapixel IMX636 and the smaller 0.33 megapixel IMX637—combine Prophesee's event-based circuits with Sony's 3D-chip stacking technology to produce a chip with the smallest event-based pixels on the market. Prophesee CEO Luca Verre explains what comes next for this neuromorphic technology.

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With such a vast pool of potential respondents, researchers can use social sampling to reach any audience—niche or broad, B2B or B2C—anywhere in the world.

With the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, the use of social media as a crucial communication tool for information generation, dissemination and consumption has tremendously accelerated. As a result, marketers and businesses of all verticals have had to rush to meet consumers who spend a big chunk of their time scrolling through their feeds.

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Don't buy that expensive new iPhone 13: How used iPhones can deliver huge savings

So you want (or need) a new iPhone? But what if one of those brand new iPhone 13 devices isn't your only choice? What if an iPhone 12 or even an iPhone 11 will do?

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Did the abundance of abbreviations with which the title of this column abounds cause you to pause for a moment and think, “Say, what?” Well, that’s just what I thought when the guys and gals at Synaptics introduced me to their AS33970 Tahiti System-on-Chip (SoC) device, but first…

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Investor interest in sustainability-driven startups remains high as the UN’s COP26 conference draws closer.

According to Dealroom’s Impact & Innovation database, 166 startups committing to at least one of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) raised funding in Q3 2021. That’s slightly behind the 175 recorded in Q2 and the 206 recorded in Q1, though Q3’s number could end up being higher given the reporting lag.

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Prophesee has won this year’s Vision Award for its neuromorphic processor. The prize, presented at Vision Stuttgart today, recognises innovation in machine vision.

Prophesee is making great strides with its event-based sensing, which operates differently to frame-based approaches.

Martin Wäny of the judging panel called event-based vision a 'new paradigm' in imaging technology, one that's been worked on for 20 years, but is now coming to fruition through the efforts of Prophesee.

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Q&A with Lumotive, Sensors Converge Startup of the Year

Lumotive has the reputation as the “startup that other tech companies want to work with,” and is now paired up with auto, industrial and smartphone suppliers to integrate LiDAR-based 3D sensing systems into new products. Founded in 2018, the company was recently named Startup of the Year in a competition with other startups at Sensors Converge 2021.

Co-founders Gleb Akselrod, Ph.D., an expert in photonics and optoelectronics, and entrepreneur William Colleran, Ph.D., relied on initial funding from Bill Gates and others.

During the Sensors event, the company showed a new Meta-LiDAR Platform, a small and cost-effective 3D sensor with a LiDAR device and patented beam steering technology and software-defined scan mode. It is powered by Lumotive’s Light Control Metasurface silicon using a standard CMOS process.

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