Day: December 20, 2019

WeTransfer: A profile of a modern company with a useful media service

Companies are learning how to be media companies to help them stay relevant to their customers — because, if they aren’t seen, they don’t exist. …read more Source:: ZDNet


Facebook removed fake accounts that used AI to create fake profile pictures – CNET

Don’t trust every image you see on social media. …read more Source:: CNet


The Big Business of Being a Space Janitor

Companies are trying to capitalize on the threat of space junk with new technology to clean it up, but it’s not clear who will pay for the service. From a report: Today, thousands of pieces of space junk — ranging from tiny fragments of destroyed satellites to spent rocket bodies and defunct spacecraft — orbit…


One-third of Americans will have a ‘virtual holiday season’ this year, reveals survey

Living a long distance away from your loved ones means it’s not always possible to spend time with them in person. Fortunately, you can be there virtually according to a new survey. …read more Source:: ZDNet


Amazon’s AI Creates Synthesized Singers

Kyle Wiggers, writing for VentureBeat: AI and machine learning algorithms are quite skilled at generating works of art — and highly realistic images of apartments, people, and pets to boot. But relatively few have been tuned to singing synthesis, or the task of cloning musicians’ voices. Researchers from Amazon and Cambridge put their collective minds…


Fuming French monopoly watchdog is so incensed by Google’s ‘random’ web ad rules, it’s fining the US giant, er, <1% annual profit

Payer cette petite amende, s’il vous plaît Google was today ordered by France’s monopoly watchdog to cough up a €150m ($166m) fine for abusing its “dominant position in the search advertising market.”… …read more Source:: <a href="https://go.theregister.co.uk/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2019/12/20/google_france_fine_advertising/" target="_self" title="Fuming French monopoly watchdog is so incensed by Google's 'random' web ad rules, it's fining the US…


F5 Pays $1 Billion for Shape

The acquisition adds fraud detection and prevention to the application delivery company’s tool collection. …read more Source:: DarkReading


Gamers were angry again in 2019, and this time they had a point – CNET

From Hong Kong to Pokemon. …read more Source:: CNet


Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai to make $2M a year, awarded $240M pay package – CNET

The pay bump comes after Pichai took over Google’s parent company. …read more Source:: CNet


State of Apple’s Catalyst

At its developer conference in June this year, Apple introduced Project Catalyst that aims to help developers swiftly bring their iOS apps to Macs. Developers have had more than half a year to play with Catalyst. Here’s where things stand currently: The crux of the issue in my mind is that iOS and Mac OS…