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Twitter just banned a wave of prominent journalists with no explanation

December 16, 2022

On Thursday evening, Twitter suspended a number of prominent journalists on the platform without warning or explanation. The situation followed the company’s decision to suspend the Twitter account belonging to Mastodon, an open source social media alternative that’s built momentum since Elon Musk took over at the company. Twitter took action against Mastodon after the […]

Twitter just banned a wave of prominent journalists with no explanation by Taylor Hatmaker originally published on TechCrunch

Twitters suspends Mastodon’s account, making a good case for Mastodon

December 16, 2022

A day after Twitter crafted a new policy to explain its decision to ban an account that tracks Elon Musk’s private jet, the fallout continues. Twitter apparently suspended its open source competitor Mastodon from the service on Thursday afternoon. Just prior to its suspension, Mastodon (@joinmastodon) tweeted a link to the jet tracking account on […]

Twitters suspends Mastodon’s account, making a good case for Mastodon by Taylor Hatmaker originally published on TechCrunch

Tesla Powerwall customers in Texas can now sell their electricity back to the grid

December 15, 2022

Elon Musk’s plan to “operate as a giant distributed utility” is creeping towards reality. First, Tesla piloted a “virtual power plant” in California, where Powerwall home battery owners were invited to sell electricity back to the grid at peak times to mitigate brownouts. Soon after, the automaker expanded the effort into Australia and Japan, and […]

Tesla Powerwall customers in Texas can now sell their electricity back to the grid by Harri Weber originally published on TechCrunch

Try ‘Riffusion,’ an AI model that composes music by visualizing it

December 15, 2022

AI-generated music is already an innovative enough concept, but Riffusion takes it to another level with a clever, weird approach that produces weird and compelling music using not audio but images of audio. Sounds strange, is strange. But if it works, it works. And it does work! Kind of. Diffusion is a machine learning technique […]

Try ‘Riffusion,’ an AI model that composes music by visualizing it by Devin Coldewey originally published on TechCrunch

Heartex’s Label Studio makes labeling audio for ML easier

December 15, 2022

Heartex, the well-funded machine learning data labeling startup, is launching a major update to its platform today that will open up new use cases for its tools by making annotating audio files in the commercial and open source versions of its Label Studio a lot easier for its users. These updates include a new user […]

Heartex’s Label Studio makes labeling audio for ML easier by Frederic Lardinois originally published on TechCrunch

The battle over gig worker status is heating up

December 15, 2022

The fight over whether gig workers are independent contractors or employees has been heating up this week on both state and federal levels. The stakes? A once disruptive business model could soon be disrupted itself. On the state level, this week has seen developments in the Proposition 22 saga as companies relying on gig workers […]

The battle over gig worker status is heating up by Rebecca Bellan originally published on TechCrunch