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Dutch fintech leader Finom nets €50M to boost digital banking for SMEs

Dutch fintech Finom has raised €50mn, which the startup will use to boost its digital banking services. Founded in 2019, the Amsterdam-based business operates a pan-European neobank for SMEs and entrepreneurs. It integrates online banking, accounting, and financial management into a single platform. Kos Stiskin, co-founder at Finom, said the company was built to simplify banking for small businesses. “Finom was born as a cost-effective and user-friendly digital banking solution for…

How to Watch Nets vs. Warriors Without Cable: Stream the Game Online

If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. Quick Answer: NBA fans can watch the Nets vs. Warriors game online with a live TV streaming service, including fuboTV, Sling, or with a DirecTV Stream free trial. The game will air on NBA TV starting at 7:30 p.m. ET / 4:30 p.m. PT. The Brooklyn Nets are currently on a winning streak, giving them promising odds as they go to the court with the Golden State Warriors.…

Fraud Detection with Generative Adversarial Nets (GANs)

Application of GANs for data augmentation to adjust an imbalanced datasetPhoto by Brett Jordan on Unsplash“Generative Adversarial Nets” (GANs) demonstrated outstanding performance in generating realistic synthetic data which are indistinguishable from the real data in the past. Unfortunately, GANs caught the public’s attention because of its unethical applications, deepfakes (Knight, 2018).This article illustrates a case with a good motive in the application of GANs in the context of fraud detection.Fraud detection is an…

Lakers look lost in second half of blowout loss to Nets

The Lakers should have coasted to their third consecutive home win, easily overpowering the struggling Brooklyn Nets in front of a home crowd.Instead, the Lakers assigned themselves a much bigger challenge and ultimately couldn’t overcome the Nets’ spirited second-half surge.Brooklyn rolled to a 130-112 win Friday night at Crypto.com Arena as the Lakers shot a miserable 29% during the fourth quarter.The Lakers (21-22) opened with quick pace, sharp passing and hot shooting to mask a tepid defensive performance in the…

Dutch startup nets €8M for ‘quantum modem’ tech

Delft-based QphoX just raised the biggest round of a Dutch quantum startup to date. The €8mn will aid the company in its mission to develop core hardware required to allow quantum computers to communicate over an optical network — a quantum “modem,” if you will. As the quantum computing ecosystem continues to develop globally, it is becoming increasingly clear that no one company will be responsible for “the” quantum breakthrough. Rather, it will come from a combination of companies all…

Kraken’s Trap Nets Scammer, Ripple & Avalanche Bounce Back, As Ape Brigade Gears Up For Launch

The cryptocurrency industry is never short of buzz, and today is just another day. Kraken creatively and successfully set a trap for a scammer, but not quite in the way one would think. Meanwhile, altcoins Ripple (XRP) and Avalanche (AVAX) are recovering after a prolonged decline. Elsewhere on the market, the up-and-coming Ape Brigade (APES) is looking to enter the market, and they just might stir it up. Kraken Shows Scammers a Mirror Kraken, the US-based CEX, has come up with a one-of-a-kind way to identify nefarious…

Mini Neural Nets for Guitar Effects with Microcontrollers | by Keith Bloemer | Apr, 2023

My homebuilt digital guitar pedal using Neural Nets (Image by Author)Less is moreI’ve come to realize that constraint drives creativity and innovation. The more options an artist has, the more difficult it can be to think of a solid idea. Without rules in music, the possibilities are so overwhelming that it would be near impossible to write something listenable. It’s the rules and restrictions that give structure to an idea. Of course knowing when to break those rules is just as important as knowing what they are.Over the…

YES Launches Streaming Platform Offering Access to Yankees, Nets Games Without Pay-TV Subscription

The television home of the New York Yankees is launching a streaming service that will allow fans in the region to watch games without needing a cable or satellite subscription, the latest sign of the continued erosion of the traditional pay-TV bundle.  The YES Network, which also airs games of the National Basketball Association’s Brooklyn Nets and the WNBA’s New York Liberty, on Wednesday said its new streaming option would cost $24.99 a month or $239.99 annually. The move…

News at a glance: Modernizing bed nets, IDing a Solar System visitor, and health lessons from Beethoven’s hair | Science

PUBLIC HEALTH Next-gen bed nets get go-ahead A new type of malaria-fighting bed net received a major endorsement from the World Health Organization (WHO) last week. The net combines two chemicals to more effectively kill the mosquitoes that transmit the parasite behind malaria, a disease that killed an estimated 619,000 people in 2022, most of them young children in sub-Saharan Africa. Insecticide-treated bed nets have helped drive malaria rates down…

AI Start-Up Anthropic Nets $300 Million From Google as Chatbot Race Heats Up

Move over ChatGPT, here comes Anthropic’s “Claude.” The latest tech giant to throw money at artificial intelligence is Google, which has invested about $300 million in start-up Anthropic, The Financial Times reported. More specifically, Anthropic is one of small firms working on “generative AI,” or the type of program that can generate images, text, audio and more based on the data it is trained on. Microsoft’s ChatGPT, has gotten the bulk of attention in the arena since its release late last year as its…