A look at Kyiv-based Respeecher, which uses performers' archival voice recordings and AI to create new dialogue, including for Darth Vader in Obi-Wan Kenobi
As the conflict raged, Ukrainian tech workers at Respeecher hurried to bring back James Earl Jones's legendary voice for Obi-Wan Kenobi.
The US Treasury updates its guidance to let US tech companies expand their internet services in Iran, after the country took most of its ~83M citizens offline
The U.S. Treasury Department said Friday that it was updating guidance to U.S. tech firms to expand the range of internet services available …
A look at The Follower, an art project using open-source facial recognition software to match Instagram photos with EarthCam video footage of people taking them
A tech-savvy artist unearthed video footage of people working hard to capture the perfect shot for Instagram.
Study: LinkedIn's A/B testing of its People You May Know algorithm, involving 4M+ users in 2015 and 16M+ in 2019, could have affected some users' livelihoods
A study that looked back at those tests found that relatively weak social connections were more helpful in finding jobs than stronger social ties. Tweets: @drtechlash , @johncoogan , @alexstamos , @zo...
Bulgaria arrested a Russian native and the likely RSOCKS botnet owner in June 2022 at the US' request; he asked for, and was granted, extradition to the US
A 36-year-old Russian man recently identified by KrebsOnSecurity as the likely proprietor of the massive RSOCKS botnet has been arrested …
Governor Newsom vetoes a crypto regulation bill that required licenses to facilitate transactions; the California State Assembly passed the bill in August 2022
The California Assembly passed the bill, which would create a licensing regime and stablecoin stipulations, at the end of August. Source: California Governor .
Paris-based Zenchef, which offers restaurants tools to enhance customer experience and optimize front-of-house operations, has raised €50M+ from PSG Equity
Restaurant tech player Zenchef has raised over €50 million from PSG Equity as it consolidates its position as a European leader in this space.
Sci-fi author Neal Stephenson's blockchain technology startup Lamina1 posts a whitepaper about building an open metaverse, Theee Metaverse, on the Lamina1 chain
Neal Stephenson's Lamina1 blockchain technology startup dropped a white paper today on building the open metaverse. It's quite the manifesto.
A profile of YMTC, China's top memory chip maker that could end up in the crosshairs of US sanctions; YMTC had 1% share of the global memory chip market in 2020
A few months before the US-China trade war started in July 2018, local media coverage of President Xi Jinping was focused … Tweets: @scmpnews Tweets: @scmpnews : Tech war: China's top memory chip make...
Using translation apps, dubbing software, and VPNs, some Chinese creators are getting millions of views for TikTok videos summarizing Hollywood movies and shows
With machine translation, dubbing apps and VPNs, Chinese creators are shortening movies for Americans.
An internal letter shows Twitch SVP of Global Creators Constance Knight resigned on the same day the company announced revenue sharing changes for top creators
they hold less than 80 viewers a stream and have less than 10k followers. So what does this mean for their income? @jasminericegirl : Why can't Twitch, the biggest live-streaming platform hosting the ...
A look at some of the challenges of zero-trust, which creates friction for users and employees as businesses try to fight hackers; only 22% of companies use MFA
Hackers keep tricking employees to gain access to corporate networks, so companies are changing their approach to make it harder to wreak havoc once they're in Tweets: @divinetechygirl , @carter_pe , ...
An interview with Meta's chief AI scientist Yann LeCun on his critics and why today's most popular approaches to AI won't lead to human-level intelligence
(Article is updated with a rebuttal by Gary Marcus in context.) — Yann LeCun, chief AI scientist of Meta Properties, owner of Facebook … Tweets: @intuitmachine , @qhardy , @jon_y_huang , @tiernanray...
DARPA hires crypto intelligence firm Inca Digital to conduct a year-long review of cryptocurrencies, assessing threats to national security and law enforcement
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Analysis: 16 smartphone apps used as ankle monitor alternatives in the US access wide swaths of information, contain third-party trackers, and are unreliable
Electronic Frontier Foundation : Source: USENIX . Tweets: @techloreistaken and @eff Source: USENIX : Electronic Monitoring Smartphone Apps: An Analysis of Risks from Technical, Human-Centered, and Le...
Leaked audio: at a Google all-hands, Sundar Pichai expressed some annoyance at employees asking about cost cutting, telling them not to “equate fun with money”
less lavish parties at work means fewer “day of work” tiktok videos :( https://www.cnbc.com/... Sar Haribhakti / @sarthakgh : Pichai trying hard to not lash out on the entitled class “I'm a bit concer...
Center for Countering Digital Hate: the largest “incel” forum is becoming more violent; Google, YouTube, Cloudflare, Twitter, and Discord facilitate its growth
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A look at the fight between delivery apps in Brazil after the local government launched delivery app Valeu to take on iFood, which controls 80%+ of the market
Rest of World : Tweets: @restofworld Tweets: @restofworld : In an attempt to compete with privately owned last-mile delivery apps, Rio de Janeiro's government created its own app. Critics claimed tha...
Source: Byju's paid ~$234M to Blackstone for ~38% shares in Aakash, settling its dues to the private equity firm as part of the ~$1B acquisition in April 2021
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Report: an email shows Amazon is walking back some corporate employee raises after a bug caused it to overstate bonuses by using older, higher stock prices
they even included a linkback to me, considerate of them! https://www.businessinsider.com/ ... Emil Protalinski / @epro : Better than layoffs https://twitter.com/... Alex Kantrowitz / @kantrowitz : Da...
How Whale Safe aims to use real-time data and AI to detect endangered whales and avoid collisions with ships in busy shipping lanes off San Francisco's coast
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How an 8-year-old's YouTube account and a parent activist sparked a debate in Denmark on Google's ubiquity in schools and its handling of children's data
Morgan Meaker / Wired : Tweets: @benpatrickwill , @benpatrickwill , @nathanielmott , @carlheath , @agavrielatos , and @jtemperton Tweets: Ben Williamson / @benpatrickwill : “We have put ourselves in ...
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.
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.