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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 … | Bloomberg: |
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’
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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 …
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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.
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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| Eudora Wang / DealStreetAsia: |
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 …
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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 — NFTs are giving rise to new forms of copyright infringement, but could also provide artists with a means to earn more money on the Internet.
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| Brian Heater / TechCrunch: |
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 …
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| Thomas Macaulay / The Next Web: |
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 … | Micah Singleton / Billboard: |
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, @chrismessina, @_amymadison, @micahsingleton, and @reckless
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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 … | Tom Krazit / Protocol: |
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 — In late 2005, Don Alvarez was just another software entrepreneur struggling to get a new business off the ground when a friend working …
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