Google today announced a major update to Meet, its video-meeting service, which brings several user interface tweaks for desktop users, as well as quite a bit of new functionality, including multi-pinning so that you can highlight multiple feeds instead of just one, as well as new AI-driven video capabilities for light adjustments, autozoom, and a…
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In the words of co-founder and CEO Jonathan Shambroom, Creator+ is a new startup that will “finance, produce and distribute feature-length films from today’s top creators and emerging storytellers.” The company is coming out of stealth today and also announcing that it has raised $12 million in funding led by Petra Group and Freestyle Capital,…
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Tim Parkin Contributor Tim Parkin, president of Parkin Consulting, is a consultant, advisor, and coach to marketing executives globally. He specializes in helping marketing teams optimize performance, accelerate growth, and maximize their results. The tidal wave of growth is upon us — an unprecedented economic boom that will manifest later this year, bringing significant investments,…
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Dish Network has become the first telecoms company in the world to opt to run its entire network from the public cloud after striking a deal with Amazon to use its servers to control its new 5G network. Dish, the satellite television company run by billionaire Charlie Ergen, will launch its 5G network in Las…
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European Union lawmakers have presented their risk-based proposal for regulating high risk applications of artificial intelligence within the bloc’s single market. The plan includes prohibitions on a small number of use-cases that are considered too dangerous to people’s safety or EU citizens’ fundamental rights, such as a China-style social credit scoring system or certain types…
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As content moderation continues to be a critical aspect of how social media platforms work — one that they may be pressured to get right, or at least do better in tackling — a startup that has built a set of data and image models to help with that, along with any other tasks that…
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Some of the most popular running apps are still lagging behind on security and privacy. That’s the verdict from security researchers who examined the leading running apps five years apart and found only a few apps had improved — and not by much. Running apps know and learn a lot about you as you use…
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Microsoft’s attempted social media land grabs are proving as regular as they are unsuccessful. After TikTok and Pinterest came Discord, a chat app used by gamers while blasting each other to pieces in video games. None has yet produced a deal. Discord, a private San Francisco communication software company, launched in 2015. It has more…
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Something old – something new? Here is our pick of the 3 most important Stablecoin news stories during the week. This week we saw advances with old style stablecoins as well as with the new bright shiny Digital ones. The original stablecoin, The International Monetary Fund’s special drawing right or SDR created in 1969 to prepare…
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The way Pierre-Alexis Dumas, creative chief of Hermès and scion of the owning family, sees it, the latest collaboration between the French luxury marque and Apple announced yesterday can be traced back 43 years. “In 1978, when I was 12 years old, my parents took my sister and me for a road trip from Miami…
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