Hacker News Top Stories with Summaries (December 14, 2023)
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<h1> Hacker News Top Stories</h1>
<p>Here are the top stories from Hacker News with summaries for December 14, 2023 :</p>
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Google ad chief Jerry Dischler steps down weeks after antitrust trial testimony
Summary: Google's ad chief, Jerry Dischler, is stepping down weeks after his antitrust trial testimony. Dischler will be replaced by Vidhya Srinivasan, a former Amazon and IBM executive. Dischler admitted in court that Google had silently raised ad prices to meet revenue goals. The search antitrust trial concluded recently, with a ruling expected by mid-2024.
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SMERF: Streamable Memory Efficient Radiance Fields
Summary: Researchers from Google DeepMind, Google Research, and Tübingen AI Center introduce SMERF, a real-time view synthesis approach for large-scene exploration. SMERF achieves state-of-the-art accuracy and renders near-photorealistic scenes at interactive frame rates. It utilizes a hierarchical model partitioning scheme and a distillation training strategy, enabling 6DOF navigation within web browsers and real-time rendering on smartphones and laptops. SMERF outperforms current real-time novel view synthesis methods and offers faster rendering than radiance field models.