Kansas City fiber company closes $385M acquisition through bankruptcy court

Bluebird Fiber closed on a purchase of 25,000 route miles of fiber. The acquisition gives Kansas City-based Bluebird Fiber a ...
IEEE

On the Importance of Backbone to the Adversarial Robustness of Object Detectors

Abstract: Object detection is a critical component of various security-sensitive applications, such as autonomous driving and video surveillance. However, existing object detectors are vulnerable to ...
The Caledonian-Record

Digital Realty Enters Portugal, Strengthening Southern Europe’s Digital Backbone

Digital Realty ( NYSE: DLR ), the world’s largest cloud- and carrier-neutral data center platform, today announced its entry into Portugal through the ...

The National Beat: AI clears 'recession-proof' hurdle with CEOs

An AI chip startup that might have been on the brink of a sale last year is now partnering with Intel following a mega funding round. Read more in this week's edition of The National Beat newsletter.
IEEE

PillarNeSt: Embracing Backbone Scaling and Pretraining for Pillar-Based 3D Object Detection

Abstract: Pillar-based 3D object detectors mainly employ randomly initialized 2D convolution neural network (ConvNet) for feature extraction and fail to enjoy the benefits from the backbone scaling ...