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What were the Top 10 categories that grabbed more attention than the others? Well, you’re about to find out. 

Czech cybersecurity startup Wultra has raised €3 million from Tensor Ventures, Elevator Ventures, and J&T Ventures. The investment comes as global concern grows over the vulnerability of traditional security methods. Quantum computers will soon have the power to crack cryptography that protects billions of transactions daily.

In 2024, WEEX concluded the year with exceptional achievements and impressive growth. WEEX offers over 1,500 trading pairs, multilingual support, top-tier liquidity, advanced security measures, and user-friendly trading tools. The WEEX platform token WXT skyrocketed by 101.03% within 24 hours, hitting a historic high of $0.0339.

MEXC has successfully completed its Q4 2024 MX Token Buyback and Burn program, eliminating 3.39 million tokens valued at over $12 million. This burn reduces the total MX Token supply by 3.5%, demonstrating MEXC's ongoing commitment to enhancing token value and strengthening its ecosystem.

A study of 73 Arabic websites analyzed font and image usage and site performance. Findings highlight variability in fonts and sizes, conservative image practices respecting Islamic values, and long loading times, particularly for government, news, and education websites, while social media sites performed best.

This research reviews Arabic website usability, focusing on font and image practices. It reveals gaps between current designs and global standards, explores cultural impacts, and emphasizes factors like readability, navigation, and visual appeal. Insights aim to enhance user experiences and bridge design challenges.

This study examines typography and image practices in 73 top Arabic websites in Saudi Arabia. Findings reveal inconsistencies in font usage, heavy reliance on images, and poor adherence to global design standards. Cultural influences, such as collectivism and masculinity, heavily shape image selection. Recommendations aim to improve usability.

The section investigates Arabic website usability, focusing on font types, image design, and their impact on readability and user experience. 73 top-ranked Saudi sites were analyzed, revealing insights into popular genres like government, news, and e-commerce, and evaluating local and international design practices.

A study of 73 Arabic websites reveals font inconsistency and cultural image practices, impacting usability and site performance. Future research will explore efficient font types, user perception of images, and interactive media's effects on Arabic web design and usability, aiming to refine industry standards.

A study of 73 Arabic websites highlights inconsistencies in font usage, cultural influences in image selection, and performance issues. Recommendations include using consistent fonts, optimizing font sizes for readability, and aligning images with cultural values to enhance usability and satisfaction.

The research applies a perspective-based inspection method to evaluate typography and image design in 73 Arabic websites. Usability is assessed for adherence to international guidelines without involving actual users, making the method cost-effective and scalable for large-scale analysis.

Karpous has launched a closed alpha version of its platform focusing on real world assets (RWAs). The platform enables direct investment in global assets while maintaining regulatory compliance. The company's approach differs from traditional RWA platforms by eliminating tokenization.

Stop overthinking Embrace good enough, cut options, set time limits, and focus on what matters. Done beats perfect.

Chain-of-Thought prompting is revolutionizing how we interact with AI. It breaks down complex problems into digestible chunks, allowing the model to tackle each component systematically. This structured approach ensures accuracy and demonstrates the reasoning process, something particularly valuable when dealing with complex mathematical operations.

This research shows how Fitbit leaderboards, ranking users by 7-day step tallies, motivate daily activity through real-time competitive feedback.

This research shows leaderboards boost steps by 3.5% overall but harm highly active users and benefit sedentary ones.

This research introduces Hawk and Griffin models, efficient RNN alternatives to Transformers, with reduced latency and strong long-sequence performance.

This research explores scalable RNN and SSM innovations, comparing their efficiency and performance to Transformers and linear attention techniques.

This research shows Hawk and Griffin models excel at long-context extrapolation, predicting tokens for sequences 4x longer than training.

This research shows Griffin excels in copying and retrieval tasks, outperforming Hawk and Transformers in extrapolation for longer sequences.

This research shows Hawk and Griffin outperform MQA Transformers in latency and throughput, excelling in long-sequence and large-batch inference.

This research shows recurrent models reduce cache size, improving latency and throughput over Transformers for long sequences.

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