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Fireflies.ai puts $14M into its AI videoconferencing assistant

Elevate your enterprise data technology and strategy at Transform 2021. Fireflies, an AI voice assistant that joins videoconferencing meetings to take notes, today announced that it raised $14 million in series A funding led by Khosla Ventures, with participation from Canaan Partners and angel backers. It plans to use the proceeds to expand its platform and acquire new customers, as well as to…
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High School Edits Yearbook Photos to Hide Girls’ Chests

A high school in Florida has sparked outrage after it was discovered that at least 80 female students had their photos digitally edited in the yearbook to hide their chests and shoulders. The New York Times reports that students at Bartram Trail High School in St. Johns…
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I Was Robbed in San Francisco While the Cameras Rolled

Last week I was in San Francisco, one of the most beautiful cities in the world on a video shoot for Kelby One on Crissy Field — one of the premier spots in town — at the foot of the majestic Golden Gate Bridge when one of my cameras was stolen right in front of me. Call…
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7artisans Adds Three New Lenses to its Nikon Z-Mount Line

Chinese camera lens manufacturer 7artisans has expanded its lineup of Nikon Z Mount lenses to include a 10mm f/2.8 Fisheye ($270), 55mm f/1.4 II ($130), and the 60mm f/2.8 II Macro ($180). All three lenses were previously available for other mounts but are now coming to Nikon Z-mount. 7artisans tells PetaPixel that the lenses will not be officially announced until later this month and as a…
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Facebook’s Dynabench now scores NLP models for metrics like ‘fairness’

Elevate your enterprise data technology and strategy at Transform 2021. Last September, Facebook introduced Dynabench, a platform for AI data collection and benchmarking that uses humans and models “in the loop” to create challenging test datasets. Leveraging a technique called dynamic adversarial data collection, Dynabench measures how easily humans can fool AI, which Facebook believes is…
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Instagram for iOS now shows Live videos and Reels statistics

Instagram started to roll out new insight data for live videos and Reels on the platform. With this feature, creators will be able to better understand their performances online. As spotted by Engadget, Instagram is giving its users with business and creator accounts…
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OnePlus has rolled out the May security patch to these phones

Security updates are designed to keep Android devices as secure as possible, but you’re only as safe as your latest update. OnePlus does promise regular updates for its smartphones for at least two years, so let’s see how they’re handling the May 2021 security update. OnePlus May 2021 security update — What’s new? The April security patch was released by Google on May 3, but as is…
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