Month: April 2024
How ruthless is Amazon, really?
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New evidence found for Planet 9
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Rubrik’s shares climb 20% in its public debut
This share price gives Rubrik a fully diluted valuation of $6.6 billion, up 88% from its last primary valuation of $3.5 billion in 2019. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Reddit is back after a widespread outage
Image by Alex Castro / The Verge Reddit stopped working for most users this afternoon. For nearly an hour, the site didn’t load and displayed an error message reading, “Oops, something went wrong, please try again later.” At 12:52PM ET, the platform made an update on its status page, saying, “An issue with a Reddit … Read more
Bluesky backs a project that would let Mastodon apps, like Ivory, work with its network
SkyBridge was among the recipients of a small distribution of $4,800 in grant funding from Bluesky, distributed across projects. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Deploy a Hugging Face (PyAnnote) speaker diarization model on Amazon SageMaker as an asynchronous endpoint
Speaker diarization, an essential process in audio analysis, segments an audio file based on speaker identity. This post delves into integrating Hugging Face’s PyAnnote for speaker diarization with Amazon SageMaker asynchronous endpoints. We provide a comprehensive guide on how to deploy speaker segmentation and clustering solutions using SageMaker on the AWS Cloud. You can use … Read more
Threads launches custom mute filters, teases controls for quote posts
Threads and Instagram head Adam Mosseri announced today that Threads is launching a new feature that lets users filter out words and phrases from their feeds and mentions. The “Hidden Words” feature automatically mutes common words, phrases, and emojis that might be offensive to users. In addition to these preset filters, users can add their … Read more
Meta’s letting Xbox, Lenovo, and Asus build new Quest metaverse hardware
Each company has its own special plans for the Quest mixed-reality device.
Threads will now automatically filter out offensive words from your feeds
Illustration: The Verge Just like Instagram, Threads will now automatically filter out potentially offensive words, phrases, or emoji by default. In a post on Thursday, Instagram head Adam Mosseri announced that the new Hidden Words feature will apply to both your “Following” and “For You” feeds, along with search results, profiles, and replies to your … Read more
Meme Coins Are Causing ‘Damage’ to Crypto, Says Andreessen Horowitz Exec
The CTO of VC firm Andreessen Horowitz, Eddy Lazzarin, argued that meme coins are “undermining the long-term vision of crypto.”
Franklin Templeton Upgrades $380M Tokenized Treasury Fund to Enable Peer-to-Peer Transfers
The feature helps to expand the utility of the Franklin OnChain U.S. Government Money Fund’s BENJI token and make it more interconnected with the digital asset ecosystem.
EPA administrator Michael Regan on undoing the toxic legacy of power plants in the US
EPA administrator Michael Regan during the EPA’s “Journey to Justice” tour on November 16th, 2021. | USEPA photo by Eric Vance The Verge spoke to EPA administrator Michael Regan about the agency’s new rules for power plant pollution. Continue reading…
Go or Rust? Just Listen to the Bots
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After 6-year hiatus, Stripe to start taking crypto payments, starting with USDC stablecoin
The company announced that it would start to let customers accept cryptocurrency payments, starting with USDC stablecoins, initially only on Solana, Ethereum and Polygon © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Reddit down 502 Bad Gateway
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DDC OLED (2022)
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SEC reviews new rules for Bitcoin options trading
The Securities and Exchange Commission is evaluating whether exchanges’ current surveillance and enforcement mechanisms can handle Bitcoin exchange-traded products (ETPs).
Kara Swisher Downplays Crypto’s Significance: ‘It’s Not the Center of Everything’
The author of “Burn Book” says while crypto is important, it’s not the center of everything.
Creating Your AI Persona with VASA-1 and Spheria
Microsoft just released a preview of their new AI model called VASA-1, which animates any photo into a “talking face avatar.” It takes a few seconds for our eyes and brain to adjust to this reality, but then the immediate question arises: what are these new avatars supposed to say? Will this new AI milestone … Read more
Fedora Slimbook II Available
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Evaluate the text summarization capabilities of LLMs for enhanced decision-making on AWS
Organizations across industries are using automatic text summarization to more efficiently handle vast amounts of information and make better decisions. In the financial sector, investment banks condense earnings reports down to key takeaways to rapidly analyze quarterly performance. Media companies use summarization to monitor news and social media so journalists can quickly write stories on … Read more
The Fossil-size hole in Wear OS
For Fossil, the juice wasn’t worth the squeeze. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge When Fossil announced it was leaving the Android smartwatch space, I wasn’t surprised. The signs had been there for a while. What I didn’t expect was how sad it made me feel. Fossil’s smartwatches had never been the … Read more