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• Edward Snowden on the crypto crash: ‘When the ground has cleared, things will grow again’

  21-06-2022 22:34 via thenextweb.com
  
  Edward Snowden’s faith in cryptocurrencies hasn’t faded during the current market crash. Quite the opposite, in fact. Snowden believes crypto winters separate the scams from the legitimate uses. “The only people that remain are the people that are either using these networks functionally… or the people who are there for the long term,” the whistleblower said at TNW Conference 2022. When the ground has been cleared, things will grow again. Snowden has unique experi
  
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• How to pitch your startup to an AI journalist

  21-06-2022 21:07 via thenextweb.com
  
  You’ve brought your team together, built a product you believe in, and spent countless hours massaging your message in accelerators, meetups, and VC pitches. Now you need to tell the world about your hard work. It’s time to start pitching AI journalists. I don’t envy you. A day in the life I just saw your recent marketing email about your AI startup called (company name). And I think you’d be the perfect person to read this article, (person’s name)! Here at Neural,
  
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• Nvidia’s new AI magic turns 2D photos into 3D graphics

  21-06-2022 16:23 via thenextweb.com
  
  Nvidia has made another attempt to add depth to shallow graphics. After converting 2D images into 3D scenes, models, and videos, the company has turned its focus to editing. The GPU giant today unveiled a new AI method that transforms still photos into 3D objects that creators can alter with ease. Dubbed 3D MoMa, the technique could give game studios a simple way to alter  images and scenes. This typically relies on time-consuming photogrammetry, which takes measurements from photos. 3D Mo
  
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• NFTs are promising tech, hamstrung by reality

  21-06-2022 13:57 via thenextweb.com
  
  Ahh, NFTs. I’m not a fan of art ownership through collectible tokens. There are just too many instances of art plagiarism. But according to Sandra Ro, CEO of the Global Blockchain Business Council, things are just getting started in the world of NFTs, and it goes far beyond art.  At this year’s TNW Conference, Ro shared an insider perspective of where we are with NFTs and where we’re going. She presented some good business opportunities, but offered less compelling soluti
  
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• Goodbye, Internet Explorer. You won’t be missed (but you’ll be remembered)

  21-06-2022 13:20 via thenextweb.com
  
  After 27 years, Microsoft has finally bid farewell to the web browser Internet Explorer, and will redirect Explorer users to the latest version of its Edge browser. As of June 15, Microsoft ended support for Explorer on several versions of Windows 10 – meaning no more productivity, reliability, or security updates. Explorer will remain a working browser, but won’t be protected as new threats emerge. Twenty-seven years is a long time in computing. Many would say this move was long ov
  
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• With iOS 16, Apple’s banishing CAPTCHAs to the underworld

  21-06-2022 11:22 via thenextweb.com
  
  Know when you click on a link? And it takes you to a weird page? One that asks you to select all the motorcycles in a picture? Or to try and decipher some bizarre wiggly text that could well be an incantation to raise some sort of vengeful spirit? Well, in iOS 16, that may no longer be a problem. Why? Because Apple is rolling out a feature called Automatic Verification that bypasses CAPTCHAs on certain websites and apps. The company has worked with Fastly and Cloudflare — two of the bigge
  
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• Facebook is receiving sensitive medical information from hospital websites

  21-06-2022 08:03 via thenextweb.com
  
  By: Todd Feathers, Simon Fondrie-Teitler, Angie Waller, and Surya Mattu A tracking tool installed on many hospitals’ websites has been collecting patients’ sensitive health information—including details about their medical conditions, prescriptions, and doctor’s appointments—and sending it to Facebook. The Markup tested the websites of Newsweek’s top 100 hospitals in America. On 33 of them we found the tracker, called the Meta Pixel, sending Facebook a packet
  
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