Meta launches Instagram Channels, a broadcast chat feature that lets select US creators share public, one-to-many text, images, and more with their followers
they just arrive in DMs instead of the feed. Insta is benjamin buttoning into Facebook https://techcrunch.com/... Jane Manchun Wong / @wongmjane : Instagram Channel is like followe...
Twitter updated its iOS app to let users swipe between the algorithmic Home and reverse chronological Latest timelines but users can't make Latest the default
changed default, gradually hid the way to change it back under more and more obscure menus, then did away with algo entirely (or hid it so well that dumb old me couldn't find it an...
Twitter updated its iOS app to let users swipe between the algorithmic Home and reverse chronological Latest timelines but users can't make Latest the default
You won't be able to default to the chronological timeline — Twitter is rolling out a change that, frustratingly …
A look at startups like WellSaid Labs and VocaliD, which are building custom AI voice actors for digital assistants, video game characters, and corporate videos
A new wave of startups are using deep learning to build synthetic voice actors for digital assistants, video-game characters, and corporate videos. Tweets: @kathyreid , @eagerbeave...
Instagram announces Remix, a way to record Reels alongside other users, similar to TikTok's Duets
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Discord debuts Stage Channels, a Clubhouse-like way of broadcasting audio to a room, available on all platforms; only Community servers can make Stage Channels
Instagram announces Remix, a way to record Reels alongside other users, similar to TikTok's Duets
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AI researchers doubt the efficacy and ethics of emotion recognition tech, as studies show facial expressions match a person's emotions only 20%-30% of the time
People's facial expressions line up with their emotions less than half the time — OneZero's General Intelligence is a roundup … Tweets: @robmccargow , @hypervisible , @autscipers...
Online creators are creating deepfake memes as the technology grows more accessible, and publishing YouTube instructions so others can learn how
Karen Hao / MIT Technology Review : Tweets: @allanwhite , @techreview , @hkanji , @_karenhao , and @martinwaxman Tweets: Allan White / @allanwhite : Manipulation of photos, audio,...
Google to require all advertisers to verify their identities, starting in the US; existing advertisers will have 30 days to complete the verification process
- Google began requiring political advertisers wanting to run election ads on its platform to verify their identity back in 2018.