Block lays off nearly half its staff because of AI. Its CEO said most companies will do the same

Block, the company behind Square, Cash App and Afterpay, is cutting its staff by 40%. The reason: “intelligence tools,” according to a letter to shareholders by co-founder Jack Dorsey.

Anthropic clarifies how Claude bots crawl sites and how to block them

Anthropic explains how its bots handle AI training, live queries, and search results, and what opting out means for ...

New Kids on the Block to perform at Legacy's inaugural home opener

Dorchester band New Kids on the Block is slated to headline the halftime performance at Boston Legacy FC’s first-ever home ...

Planned $300M renovation reimagines entire downtown Denver block

The project calls for turning two of Denver's oldest office towers into hundreds of apartments, a museum, a public plaza and ...
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A Power-Efficient Hardware Accelerator for Real-Time Hashmap Construction in VVC Intra Block Copy

Abstract: Intra Block Copy (IBC) is a key coding tool in the Versatile Video Coding (VVC) standard for exploiting redundancy in screen content video. However, its hardware implementation suffers from ...