Tuesday, July 18, 2023

Basecamp introduces special reduced pricing in India

Basecamp, one of the widely used project management tools first released in 2004, is now available to users in India with special reduced pricing that is as low as about $4 a month. On Tuesday, 37signals co-founder and CEO Jason Fried announced the reduced pricing of Basecamp for new customers in India. The tool is […]

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Meta releases Llama 2, a more ‘helpful’ set of text-generating models

The generative AI landscape grows larger by the day. Today, Meta announced a new family of AI models, Llama 2, designed to drive apps such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Bing Chat and other modern chatbots. Trained on a mix of publicly available data, Meta claims that Llama 2’s performance improves significantly over the previous generation of […]

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Samsung teases latest foldables ahead of Unpacked

Samsung’s never been great with a secret. At some point the company leaned into the unceasing deluge of leaks by teasing out its big products ahead of launch. Since then, blog posts by mobile head TM Roh have become a tradition. The latest Unpacked event is a week away, set for the company’s backyard of […]

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Threads update adds translation and a flurry of minor improvements

Threads exploded onto the crowded scene of aspiring Twitter rivals earlier this month, but it’s still very early days for the Instagram-adjacent text-first social network. Meta released an update to the iOS version of the app on Tuesday, the second since its debut two weeks ago and the first to add any noteworthy features. According […]

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Sources: Lensa AI backer exits Servers.com for $200M

A backer of the Lensa AI app, which sent AI-generated images from Stable Diffusion rocketing into mainstream social media, has just exited a company for a substantial amount of money, say well-placed sources speaking on the condition of anonymity. CloudOne Digital has today announced its acquisition of Servers.com, a provider of ‘bare metal’ services with […]

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Maybe showing off an AI-generated fake TV episode during a writers strike is a bad idea

The ongoing strike of creatives in TV and film, plus the nascent threat of AI-based writing and effects, make it a complicated time to work in show business. But little savvy is required to see that this may be the worst possible moment to soft-launch an AI that can “write, animate, direct, voice, edit” a […]

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TikTok launches its music streaming service in Australia, Mexico and Singapore

TikTok is launching its new subscription-only music streaming service called “TikTok Music” in Australia, Mexico and Singapore. Today’s expansion comes almost two weeks after TikTok debuted the music streaming service in Brazil and Indonesia. The streaming service lets users sync the service to their existing TikTok accounts and listen, download and share songs. The service […]

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OnlyFans CEO Ami Gan steps down

After about two and a half years as CEO, Ami Gan is leaving OnlyFans. Chief strategy and operations officer Keily Blair will take over as CEO. “Spending nearly 3 years at OnlyFans while it echoed throughout the cultural zeitgeist, has been beyond rewarding,” Gan wrote in a Twitter thread. OnlyFans is perhaps the best-known creator […]

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Smartphone shipments continue to decline as secondhand and premium markets thrives

The smartphone market has been in decline for the last few quarters, and that’s not surprising given global economic condition. A pair of reports from analytics firms Counterpoint and Canalys suggests that the trend is continuing, even though there are signs of recovery in the future. The reports note that buyers are still looking for […]

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Wing Cloud is building an open source, unified cloud programming language

Running a multi-cloud strategy where you use different cloud vendors for different workloads, helps companies avoid vendor lock-in and lets them use the best-of-breed tools across different platforms. But the downside is that programmers have to write code to make their applications work on AWS, Azure and Google Cloud. That’s because each company connects to […]

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Apple won’t have to allow third-party payments on App Store as case goes to Supreme Court

A new court ruling will put a pause on a legal requirement that directs Apple to open up its App Store to third-party payments. Despite Apple’s win in its lengthy antitrust court battle with Fortnite maker Epic Games, the iPhone maker moved to once again appeal the court’s decision earlier this month to argue its […]

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The spam bots have now found Threads, as company announces its own ‘rate limits’

It looks like Twitter isn’t the only one having to turn to rate limits — or limits on how many posts users can view. In an amusing turn of events, Twitter’s latest rival, Instagram Threads, announced this afternoon that it, too, has to tighten up on rate limits due to spam attacks. Laughed Twitter owner […]
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Monday, July 17, 2023

Rice Robotics picks up $7M, powers SoftBank’s office delivery

In the crowded enterprise robotics space, the ability to secure key clients is a crucial differentiator for companies. In the case of Hong Kong-based Rice Robotics, the important order has come from SoftBank. Since January 2021, Rice’s robots, with their cute, cartoonish blinking eyes, have been delivering 7-Eleven products to Softbank staff at the company’s […]

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Bluesky is under fire for allowing usernames with racial slurs

Bluesky’s moderation woes continue as users threaten to leave the site in protest of its failure to flag slurs in account usernames.  Many users — particularly Black users — are frustrated that Bluesky hasn’t apologized for allowing racial slurs to slip through its moderation tools even though they violate the platform’s community guidelines. It’s the […]

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