In Shira Ovide’s last On Tech newsletter, she looks back at how the past two and a half years have shifted her thinking on technology.
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Twitter Reached $7 Million Settlement With Whistle-Blower
Lawyers for Elon Musk mentioned a $7 million payment to Peiter Zatko, Twitter’s former top security executive, in a court hearing this week.
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Feds claw back $30 million of cryptocurrency stolen by North Korean hackers
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Cryptocurrency analytics firm Chainalysis said on Thursday that it helped the US government seize $30 million worth of digital coins that North Korean-backed hackers stole earlier this year from the developer of the non-fungible token-based game Axie Infinite. When accounting for the more than 50 percent fall in cryptocurrency prices since...
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With Koe Recast, you can change your voice as easily as your clothing
Enlarge / A colorful waveform dramatically swirls through latent space, seeking kawaii. (credit: Getty Images) Thanks to a web demo of a new AI tool called Koe Recast, you can transform up to 20 seconds of your voice into different styles, including an anime character, a deep male narrator, an ASMR whisper, and more. It’s...
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With Stable Diffusion, you may never believe what you see online again
Enlarge / Did you know that Abraham Lincoln was a cowboy? Stable Diffusion does. (credit: Benj Edwards / Stable Diffusion) AI image generation is here in a big way. A newly released open source image synthesis model called Stable Diffusion allows anyone with a PC and a decent GPU to conjure up almost any visual...
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(BPRW) ESSENCE Fashion House™ Amplifies Forever Black Fashion with Black-To-The-Future Experiences
(Black PR Wire) NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Essence Communications Inc., the leading and only 100% Black-owned media, technology and commerce company at scale dedicated to Black women and communities, presents ESSENCE Fashion House™ during New
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Apple Unveils New iPhone and Fitness Watch at Annual Event
The Apple Watch Ultra is aimed at endurance athletes, a market dominated by Garmin. Apple also introduced updated AirPods.
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From Boom to Gloom: Tech Recruiters Struggle to Find Work
As tech companies slow hiring and lay off workers, once-busy recruiters are shifting to other roles and cutting their rates.
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The Supply Chain Broke. Robots Are Supposed to Help Fix It.
The companies behind e-commerce are embracing automation as the means of transcending the limitations of humans.
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One Solution to the Digital Divide: Teens
Closing the online gap in America will require everything we’ve got, including video game-playing teenagers.