Substack co-founder on how Substack Pro works: year one, writers get upfront pay, Substack keeps 85% of revenue; later, writers keep 90% revenue, no minimum pay
The thinking behind Substack Pro — When we started Substack in mid-2017, the future for writers was frightening.
Adobe adds a new feature to Adobe Camera Raw called Super Resolution, which uses AI to double linear resolution of a photo, increasing its pixel count by 4x
Adobe has shipped the first version of Photoshop that can run natively on Macs equipped with Apple Silicon and also has announced …
Federal judge rules Google must face a class action suit alleging that it collects browsing history and other data even when a user is in private browsing mode
- Judge concludes company didn't notify users of data collection — Class action suit alleges Google knows ‘who your friends are’
US DOJ indicts CEO of encrypted phone company Sky for selling devices to drug traffickers, the second such company to face charges after Phantom Secure
“The indictment alleges that Sky Global generated hundreds of millions of dollars providing a service that allowed criminal networks around … Source: U.S. Department of Justice .
Google says Microsoft's support of a bill for greater bargaining power for news pubs is “self-serving” and intended to distract from the SolarWinds hack
A look at issues arising around digital ownership and NFTs: while they can be a source of revenue for creators, they are spurring new forms of piracy
If there was a contest for acronym of the year, “NFT” would be the clear favorite for 2021. Short for non-fungible tokens …
MetaKovan, an anonymous digital asset investor and founder of NFT focused crypto-based investment fund Metapurse, is the buyer of the $69M Beeple NFT
Sort Of Eileen Kinsella / Artnet News : ‘This Is Going to Be a Billion-Dollar Piece Someday’: The Buyer of the $69 Million Beeple NFT on Why It's the Greatest Artwork in a Generation Marion Maneker / ...
Microsoft will adjust its release cycle for Edge to match the four-week release cadence of Chrome, starting with Edge 94, which is set for release in September
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Computer scientists at the University at Buffalo have developed an AI tool that can detect a deepfake photo by analyzing the light reflections in the eyes
THE METHOD HAS PROVEN ACCURATE ON PORTRAIT-STYLE DEEPFAKES — Deepfakes are being used for a range of nefarious purposes …
Nimble Robotics, which develops imitation learning-based warehouse robotic systems, raises $50M Series A, and adds Fei-Fei Li and Sebastian Thrun to its board
Warehouse automation company Nimble Robotics today announced that it has raised a $50 million Series A. Led by DNS Capital …
NTSB sent a letter to the NHTSA asking for stricter standards on automated vehicle tech, citing Tesla's Level 2 Autopilot system tests as needing more oversight
comments are due by April 1st. https://www.regulations.gov/ ... https://twitter.com/... Lora Kolodny / @lorakolodny : NHTSA wants to hear from the public & experts on what should be the standards & ru...
Sources: Fox's free streaming service Tubi is planning to start funding original movies and TV shows; Roku and Pluto TV are also exploring original programming
Free streaming services increase their ambitions after growing like weeds during pandemic — Fox Corp.'s free streaming service Tubi …
Israel's Cynet, which provides AI-powered endpoint security and response to stop cyberattacks, raises $40M Series C to help it expand in N. America and Europe
Autonomous breach protection startup Cynet Security Ltd. announced today it has raised $40 million in new funding to expand …
Megvii files for an IPO in Shanghai, which may raise at least $922M; Megvii's HK IPO application had lapsed after it was blacklisted by the Trump administration
- Chinese AI firm will list CDRs on the Shanghai Star board — Offering may raise at least 6 billion yuan for R&D, capital
Facebook announces a project to train its AI to understand what is happening in videos, using data from videos publicly available on Facebook
starting with Reels' recommendations: https://ai.facebook.com/... https://twitter.com/... Yann LeCun / @ylecun : Another Self-Supervised Learning project at Facebook AI. This time from video and joint...
Longcheer, a China-based ODM that serves clients like Xiaomi, Lenovo, and Huawei, raises $100M Series B to invest in technologies like 5G and AI-powered IoT
Chinese mobile intelligent terminal solutions provider Shanghai Longcheer Technology has raked in $100 million in a Series B round …
Source: decentralized social network BitClout was selling “Creator Coins” of top 15,000 Twitter influencers without their permission, before it went offline
Over the past few months, music stars have been scrambling to cash in on the latest craze in collectibles by selling art … Tweets: @micahsingleton , @carnage4life , @_amymadison , @chrismessina , @mic...
An oral history of Amazon's cloud storage service S3, which debuted 15 years ago to store 20B objects and has scaled to store 100T objects by 2020
Tom Krazit / Protocol : Tweets: @_msw_ , @storagezilla , @joepwilliams31 , @tomkrazit , and @owenthomas Tweets: Matthew S. Wilson / @_msw_ : Here's another great article about the revolutionary shift...
An inside look at Gen X, Amex's latest ML-based fraud detection model, which was developed, updated, and rolled out as spending patterns changed amid lockdowns
and wishing they had a stress ball handy #AI $AXP https://www.morningbrew.com/ ... via @etechbrew @haydenfield : NEW: My latest feature—the 2nd in our “Demystifying Algorithms” series—is live! I wrote...
LinearB, which develops software engineering management tools for DevOps teams, raises $16M Series A led by Battery Ventures, bringing total raised to $20.6M
Paul Sawers / VentureBeat :
Shopify's new AI commerce stack
Their VP of Product digs into just-launched products to help entrepreneurs and developers build with the latest AI and tech.
Email fatigue is real: Here's how smart email tools help you regain control
Picture this: It's Monday morning. You walk into the office feeling energized and ready to take on the week.
Protecting your Cloud Applications Data
Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Box data is critical to preventing data loss or corruption, complying with laws and avoiding critical downtime in case of a disaster.