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Social media used to be free. Not anymore.

Vox

Friso Gentsch/picture alliance via Getty Images You used to pay for social media with your eyeballs. If you’re not paying for the product, you are the product” has long been a common refrain about the business of social media. But now, this free model of social media — subsidized by advertising — is under pressure.

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Meta will let Horizon creators sell virtual items

The Verge

Meta is testing new features to let creators make money within Horizon Worlds, the company’s social metaverse platform for Quest VR headsets that is soon coming to mobile phones and possibly game consoles. Horizon currently doesn’t have advertising beyond a recent Wendy’s-themed world cringely referred to as “Wendyverse.” Image: Meta.

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Gen AI: The software developer’s new best friend

CIO Business Intelligence

For Geoffrey Bourne, cofounder of Ayrshare (“airshare”), a New York-based startup that automates and manages social sharing for corporate clients, it’s using what’s called regular expressions—tools used in virtually every programming language to identify patterns of text. About 30% of the time, it’s spot-on,” says Bourne.

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Digital listening reveals 3 leading innovation drivers

CIO Business Intelligence

Because transactions are transparent, blockchain has the potential to increase trust and enable new types of disruptive applications and services, such as decentralized financial systems, marketplaces, and social networks. In these spaces, virtual and physical worlds can be unified, and what happens in one world can affect the other.

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GeekWire Awards 2021: Geeks Give Back celebrates groups that better our community

GeekWire

That includes kids who are Black, Indigenous and people of color (BIPOC); children who struggle socially due to autism, ADHD or other conditions; and women eager to break into technology or entrepreneurial roles. On May 20 we will announce the winners live at the virtual GeekWire Awards , presented by Wave Business. iUrban Teen.

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We have NASA’s rules for tweeting in space

Vox

Over 100 pages of documents show how the space agency handles social media and discussions about Ukraine. Thanks to a software update in 2010 and some much-improved bandwidth capacity, it’s now possible to tweet and participate in other forms of social media from the International Space Station in real time.

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How Far has Face-Tracking Technology Come in 2016?

CTOvision

These Snapchat filters use computer vision, the complex process by which a program can detect objects in the real world. To take face-tracking technology one step further, developers have to introduce machine learning to the Viola-Jones Algorithm and teach a program not only how a face can move, but also how various faces can differ.

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