Author: Tech Support

AI can now farm crickets (and hopefully solve world hunger in the process)

Earth’s expanding population and unequal distribution of natural resources are pushing the planet towards a food insecurity crisis. One solution to the problem is adding an unusual ingredient to our diets: crickets. The insects have a high protein content and low environmental footprint that could provide a sustainable alternative to meat and fish. They might not have the most appetizing

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Bitcoin's market capitalization passes $1T as its price surges above $53K (Wolfie Zhao/The Block)

Wolfie Zhao / The Block: Bitcoin’s market capitalization passes $1T as its price surges above $53K  —  Bitcoin’s market capitalization has crossed the $1 trillion milestone for the first time after over a decade’s development as it gains increasing mainstream attention.  —  Bitcoin’s price set new record highs … Bitcoin's market capitalization passes T as

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Sources: LinkedIn is developing a new service called Marketplaces to let its 740M users find and book freelancers, with plans to launch as soon as September (Amir Efrati/The Information)

Amir Efrati / The Information: Sources: LinkedIn is developing a new service called Marketplaces to let its 740M users find and book freelancers, with plans to launch as soon as September  —  LinkedIn is developing a new service called Marketplaces to let its 740 million users find and book freelancers … Sources: LinkedIn is developing

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Torii, which helps businesses automate the management of third-party SaaS tools, raises $10M Series A led by Wing Venture Capital (Ron Miller/TechCrunch)

Ron Miller / TechCrunch: Torii, which helps businesses automate the management of third-party SaaS tools, raises $10M Series A led by Wing Venture Capital  —  Today, that software is offered as a cloud service should be pretty much considered a given.  Certainly any modern tooling is going to be SaaS … Torii, which helps businesses

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State-level data privacy laws, proposed in Virginia, Washington, and others, may cause headaches for companies like online stores operating in multiple states (David Uberti/Wall Street Journal)

David Uberti / Wall Street Journal: State-level data privacy laws, proposed in Virginia, Washington, and others, may cause headaches for companies like online stores operating in multiple states  —  Data protection bills in Washington and Virginia come as the pandemic pushes life further online State-level data privacy laws, proposed in Virginia, Washington, and others, may

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An early analysis of Birdwatch, Twitter's crowdsourced fact-checking pilot with about 1,000 users, shows partisan rhetoric and a lack of source citations (Alex Mahadevan/Poynter)

Alex Mahadevan / Poynter: An early analysis of Birdwatch, Twitter’s crowdsourced fact-checking pilot with about 1,000 users, shows partisan rhetoric and a lack of source citations  —  A Poynter analysis found that less than half of Birdwatch users include sources and many fact-checking notes contain partisan rhetoric. An early analysis of Birdwatch, Twitter's crowdsourced fact-checking

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Adobe Creative Cloud is still the digital creation gold standard. These design training bundles can make you a pro

TLDR: These four training packages can help even first-timers learn how to use Adobe’s ultra-powerful Photoshop, Lightroom, Illustrator and Premiere Pro apps. If you’re under 40, there’s likely no point in your life when you weren’t aware of Adobe and their creative software apps. From the creation of the PDF to their breakout Photoshop image

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