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    • Facebook says its 3D Photos feature, which retroactively converts 2D photos to 3D using neural nets, now works on photos taken with single-lens cameras (DL Cade/PetaPixel)

    DL Cade / PetaPixel: Facebook says its 3D Photos feature, which retroactively converts 2D photos to 3D using neural nets, now works on photos taken with single-lens cameras  —  Facebook just expanded 3D photo posting to phones that don’t actually capture depth data.  Using the magic of machine learning … Facebook says its 3D Photos

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    • Accolade, provider of a health care platform for employees to manage benefits, files to raise up to $100M in IPO; PitchBook: Accolade is valued around $620M (Todd Bishop/GeekWire)

    Todd Bishop / GeekWire: Accolade, provider of a health care platform for employees to manage benefits, files to raise up to $100M in IPO; PitchBook: Accolade is valued around $620M  —  Accolade, the Seattle-based health benefits platform led by former Concur president Raj Singh, filed Friday to raise as much as $100 million in an

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    • Organizers announce that this year's Game Developers Conference has been postponed from March to summer amid COVID-19 concerns (Polygon)

    Polygon: Organizers announce that this year’s Game Developers Conference has been postponed from March to summer amid COVID-19 concerns  —  Sony, EA, Activision Blizzard, Unity, and Epic Games have all withdrawn due to COVID-19 concerns  —  This year’s Game Developers Conference has been postponed … Organizers announce that this year's Game Developers Conference has been

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    Tech firms take a hard line against coronavirus myths. But what about other types of misinformation?

    Misinformation experts have praised Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and other social media platforms for removing misleading information about coronavirus. But that praise comes with a question: If the platforms can move against coronavirus misinformation so quickly, why can’t they do the same with misleading content, from the Holocaust to politics? Tech firms take a hard line

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    • The Catholic Church proposes AI regulations that ‘protect people’

    Photo: Pontifical Academy for Life Vatican officials are calling for stricter ethical standards on the development of artificial intelligence, with tech giants IBM and Microsoft being the first companies to sign its new initiative. The “Rome Call for AI Ethics” lays out six broad principles: transparency, inclusion, responsibility, impartiality, reliability, and security and privacy. These

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