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VMware edges towards its multi-cloud vision, with a side quest to virtualize AI
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Meta Releases AI to Translate Dozens of Languages Using Speech and Text
Meta took a step towards a universal language translator on Tuesday with the release of its new Seamless M4T AI model, which the company says can quickly and efficiently understand language from speech or text in up to 100 languages and generate translation in either mode of communication. Multiple tech companies have…
Trump Supporters Explain Why They Doxxed Grand Jurors
After former President Donald Trump was indicted by a Georgia grand jury, his supporters found and published the names and addresses of the jury’s members. The Onion asked Trump supporters why they posted the jurors’ personal information online, and this is why they said.
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Silicon Valley Investors Tout Man Who Shows Up To Steal One Of Your Bones As New Tech Innovation
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Silicon Valley Investors Tout Man Who Shows Up To Steal One Of Your Bones As New Tech Innovation
SAN FRANCISCO—Saying the breakthrough had tremendous disruptive potential, a group of Silicon Valley investors on Tuesday touted a man who shows up to steal one of your bones as a bold new tech innovation. “We’re backing this tech because we believe it will completely change the way people think about their bones,…
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Fandom runs some of the biggest communities on the internet — can CEO Perkins Miller keep them happy?
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Fandom runs some of the biggest communities on the internet — can CEO Perkins Miller keep them happy?
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Today, I’m talking with Perkins Miller. He’s the CEO of Fandom, which runs thousands of wikis for everything from Disney and Taylor Swift to The Matrix and Grand Theft Auto as well as several publications like TV Guide, Metacritic, and GameSpot. It’s a big, complicated media company in a big, complicated time for media companies.
Fandom started as Wikia — the commercialized sister company to Wikipedia.
Wikipedia is the noble community-supported encyclopedia, and Fandom is the explicitly profit-driven entertainment platform, and that means a lot of things that often collide with how people think about wikis. For example, Perkins talks about Fandom like you would any other large ad-supported media company with tons of user-generated...
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Ads are coming to TikTok search results
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TikTok users searching the app for specific videos will begin to see sponsored content in search results.
The company announced today that advertisers will be able to place ads alongside organic content that appears when searching in the app. When a user clicks on an ad, they can continue scrolling to view search results in a feed-like format. Ads are pulled from other videos that the brand is running on the platform.
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Ads will appear next to organic posts.
Ads will appear next to organic content that’s served when a user searches on TikTok, with a semitransparent “sponsored” label on the video thumbnail. Ads already appear as videos between organic content in users’ For You feeds with the same...