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Twitter will kill ‘legacy’ blue checks on April 1
Twitter has picked April Fool’s Day, otherwise known as April 1, to start removing legacy blue checkmarks from the platform. Despite the significance of the day Twitter chose, the removal of legacy checkmarks has been anticipated for months now. Musk tweeted in December that the company would remove those checks “in a few months” because […]
Twitter will kill ‘legacy’ blue checks on April 1 by Rebecca Bellan originally published on TechCrunch
Daily Crunch: In SEC filing, Accenture reveals plans to dismiss 19,000 workers over the next 18 months
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Daily Crunch: In SEC filing, Accenture reveals plans to dismiss 19,000 workers over the next 18 months by Christine Hall originally published on TechCrunch
Coinbase execs weigh in on the crypto’s future in US amid regulatory scrutiny
If the crypto industry doesn’t get clear rules of the road, expertise will move offshore, experts say.
Coinbase execs weigh in on the crypto’s future in US amid regulatory scrutiny by Jacquelyn Melinek originally published on TechCrunch
Startup says the seaweed blobbing toward Florida has a silver lining
A brown macroalgae native to the Atlantic’s Sargasso Sea is increasingly a menace to coastal ecosystems and communities across the Gulf of Mexico, ever since mats of the normally beneficial seaweed (known as sargassum) exploded in numbers in 2011. This is the backdrop for Carbonwave, which recently raised $5 million to put the hulking algae […]
Startup says the seaweed blobbing toward Florida has a silver lining by Harri Weber originally published on TechCrunch
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TikTok CEO says company scans public videos to determine users’ ages
Amid questioning about TikTok’s use of biometrics in today’s Congressional hearing, TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew offered some insight into how the company vets potentially underage users on its platform. After denying the app collects body, face, or voice data to identify its users — beyond what’s needed for its in-app AR filters to function, […]
TikTok CEO says company scans public videos to determine users’ ages by Sarah Perez originally published on TechCrunch
Enter the Objaverse: 800,000 virtual props for AIs to play with
If AI is going to work its way out of the chat box and into our living rooms, it will need to understand spaces and objects better. To further that work, the Allen Institute for AI has created a gigantic and diverse database of 3D models of everyday objects, so simulations for AI models can […]
Enter the Objaverse: 800,000 virtual props for AIs to play with by Devin Coldewey originally published on TechCrunch