Toronto-based Ideogram raised a $16.5M seed led by a16z and Index Ventures and launches a beta of Ideogram AI, its generative AI-based text-to-image product
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Google plans to shut down Stadia on January 18, 2023, and will refund hardware, software, and DLC purchases; members of the Stadia team will be reassigned
which scary games do you have queued up? @slimefiend : but... game streaming is the future https://twitter.com/... @wario64 : “We will be refunding all Stadia hardware purchases made through the Googl...
Google will let users with ARCore-compatible Android phones submit Street View imagery, starting in Toronto, NYC, Austin, Nigeria, Indonesia, and Costa Rica
maps can work better where you live — but it still strikes me as weird that Google can benefit from all this free labor. https://blog.google/...
Google will let users with ARCore-compatible Android phones submit Street View imagery, starting in Toronto, NY, Austin, Nigeria, Indonesia, and Costa Rica
No special equipment required — Google Maps is getting a new update that lets you create Street View photos using just a phone.
Alphabet's smart city subsidiary Sidewalk Labs debuts a detailed plan to transform part of Toronto's waterfront, hopes to start by 2021 pending city approval
a massive blueprint detailing precisely how the firm intends to create a tech-driven neighbourhood on Toronto's waterfront. http://torstar.co/...
Wearables startup Thalmic is about to launch smart glasses under the new brand North, sources and ads around NYC and Toronto show
People wonder why I'm so bullish on smart glasses. Tweets: Robert Scoble / @scobleizer : My analysis of @thalmic's new smart glasses: http://www.facebook.com/... A big wave of new products are coming ...
An in-depth look at Sidewalk Toronto, a trial effort by Waterfront Toronto and Alphabet's Sidewalk Labs to build a smart neighborhood with “ubiquitous sensing”
Quayside is a nondescript, 12-acre chunk of land on the southern edge of Toronto's downtown.
How workers on platforms like Amazon's Mechanical Turk earn pennies to train AI
Each morning when she wakes up, Kristy Milland powers up her home computer in Toronto, logs into Amazon Mechanical Turk, and waits for her computer to ding. — Amazon Mechanical Turk (AMT) … Tweets: ...
Google signs licensing deal with LyricFind to display lyrics in search results
Starting today, music publishers and songwriters will have a brand new source of revenue. — Google has signed a multi-year licensing deal with Toronto-based LyricFind to display song lyrics in its s...
500px Launches Its Photo Sharing And Licensing Platform In China
500px, the photography platform where users post and share, as well as buy and sell photos, has become the latest Western technology company to enter China. The Toronto-based startup launched a local...