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    • A look at how AI companies like Synthesia are creating corporate-friendly uses for deepfakes, like creating multilingual, personalized training videos (Tom Simonite/Wired)

    Tom Simonite / Wired: A look at how AI companies like Synthesia are creating corporate-friendly uses for deepfakes, like creating multilingual, personalized training videos  —  Coronavirus restrictions make it harder and more expensive to shoot videos.  So some companies are turning to synthetic media instead. A look at how AI companies like Synthesia are creating

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    • Nokia placed the wrong bet on its expensive and energy-intensive 5G chip design, costing Nokia market share as it hasn't benefited from US attack on Huawei (Stu Woo/Wall Street Journal)

    Stu Woo / Wall Street Journal: Nokia placed the wrong bet on its expensive and energy-intensive 5G chip design, costing Nokia market share as it hasn’t benefited from US attack on Huawei  —  After losing market share to the Chinese firm and rival Ericsson, the Finnish giant reverses course on computer processors Nokia placed the

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    • Former May Mobility employees explain how its autonomous shuttle ambitions backfired, as missteps soured municipal partners' relationship with the startup (Kyle Wiggers/VentureBeat)

    Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: Former May Mobility employees explain how its autonomous shuttle ambitions backfired, as missteps soured municipal partners’ relationship with the startup  —  By all appearances, May Mobility was a scrappy success story.  The autonomous transportation startup made its debut at Y Combinator’s demo … Former May Mobility employees explain how its autonomous

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    • Unacademy acquires PrepLadder, which offers medical education courses online, for $50M, as Unacedemy and Byju's eye edtech consolidation in India with more M&A (Manish Singh/TechCrunch)

    Manish Singh / TechCrunch: Unacademy acquires PrepLadder, which offers medical education courses online, for $50M, as Unacedemy and Byju’s eye edtech consolidation in India with more M&A  —  Indian online learning platform Unacademy said on Tuesday it has acquired Chandigarh-based startup PrepLadder for $50 million … Unacademy acquires PrepLadder, which offers medical education courses online,

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    • A group of best-selling authors is teaming up with Amazon in filing a lawsuit against Kiss Library, which they claim sold unauthorized ebooks of their work (Taylor Soper/GeekWire)

    Taylor Soper / GeekWire: A group of best-selling authors is teaming up with Amazon in filing a lawsuit against Kiss Library, which they claim sold unauthorized ebooks of their work  —  A group of best-selling authors is teaming up with Amazon in a lawsuit that aims to bring down an alleged counterfeit e-book … A

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    Facebook met with civil rights groups after hundreds of companies joined ad boycott

    Civil rights leaders organizing a major advertising boycott of Facebook said they remained unconvinced that the social network is taking enough action against hate speech and disinformation after meeting with Mark Zuckerberg and other Facebook executives on Tuesday. Facebook met with civil rights groups after hundreds of companies joined ad boycott Source: Washington Post Tech

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