While the U.S. government debates TikTok’s future following last week’s Congressional hearing, the video entertainment platform today announced a new product called Branded Effects aimed at businesses marketing themselves on its platform. The solution will allow brands to collaborate with TikTok effect creators to design custom effects — like AR experiences and other interactive features […]
Despite uncertain U.S. future, TikTok launches a Branded Effects platform for marketers by Sarah Perez originally published on TechCrunch
Videowise’s video platform helps online stores manage and publish videos on an unlimited number of pages without sacrificing page speed.
Slack backs Videowise’s approach to creating interactive, shoppable videos by Christine Hall originally published on TechCrunch
Apple has quietly acquired a Mountain View-based startup, WaveOne, that was developing AI algorithms for compressing video. Apple wouldn’t confirm the sale when asked for comment. But WaveOne’s website was shut down around January, and several former employees, including one of WaveOne’s co-founders, now work within Apple’s various machine learning groups. In a LinkedIn post […]
Apple acquired a startup using AI to compress videos by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch
Sonos has two new speakers going on sale Tuesday, March 28, and they’re both significant new models that occupy a couple of key spots in the overall Sonos line-up: The Era 100 is essentially the replacement for the Sonos One, arguably the ‘default’ starter speaker for anyone looking to build out a Sonos system. The […]
Sonos Era 100 and Era 300 review: The next generation of great, reliable multi-room sound by Darrell Etherington originally published on TechCrunch
Microsoft-owned GitHub took down a repository by a user named “FreeSpeechEnthusiast” that contained proprietary source code to Twitter after the social network filed a DCMA takedown request. The username certainly seems to be a jab at Twitter owner Elon Musk, who has claimed to be a “free speech absolutist” many times. On Friday, Twitter filed […]
GitHub takes down repository containing Twitter’s source code by Ivan Mehta originally published on TechCrunch
One of my most joyous technology memories concerns Project Origami. The effort from Microsoft, Intel and others launched ultra-mobile PCs, or UMPCs. The devices, akin to squeezing a full Windows machine into something about the size of an midrange iPad often complete with a physical keyboard, utterly fascinated me back around 2006. At that time […]
Why this round of tech-optimism feels different by Alex Wilhelm originally published on TechCrunch
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The story of how Dave took the long road to become a neobank by Mary Ann Azevedo originally published on TechCrunch