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Authentic Artists is building virtual, AI-powered musicians

TechCrunch

Chris McGarry, who previously led music integration at Facebook’s Oculus, is taking a new approach to bringing music into the virtual world with his startup Authentic Artists. ” Authentic Artists is backed by investors including OVO Fund, James Murdoch’s Lupa Systems, Mixi Group and Mike Shinoda of Linkin Park.

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How Ryan Reynolds has mastered authentic marketing

TechCrunch

He owns a majority stake in Mint Mobile , a mobile virtual network operator, which has grown more than 50,000% in the past three years. Most people know Ryan Reynolds from his movies, but the actor has his hands in a number of entrepreneurial ventures. The secrets of great marketing.

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Azure Virtual Machine Tutorial

The Crazy Programmer

So in this article, we’ll learn the following things: What is a Virtual Machine? Why we use Virtual Machines? How to create a Virtual Machine? How to use a Virtual Machine in your Computer System? What is a Virtual Machine? At a time we can run multiple virtual machines in a single computer.

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Virtual social network IMVU raises $35M from China’s NetEase and others

TechCrunch

The partnership, according to Tsui, would allow the virtual networking company to tap NetEase’s game development and engineering capabilities as well as leverage NetEase’s knowledge in global market strategy as Together Labs launches future products, including one called WithMe. . Why social networks want even more gaming.

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When voice deepfakes come calling

CIO

And if they werent, multi-factor authentication (MFA), answers to security questions, and verbal passwords would solve the issue. Navigating IVR According to an analysis of call center deepfake attacks, a primary method favored by fraudsters is using voice deepfakes to successfully move through IVR-based authentication.

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Building a virtual meteorologist using Amazon Bedrock Agents

AWS Machine Learning - AI

This solution demonstrates how to create an AI-powered virtual meteorologist that can answer complex weather-related queries in natural language. We guide you through the process of configuring the agent and implementing the specific logic required for the virtual meteorologist to provide accurate weather-related responses.

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Chinese cyber espionage growing across all industry sectors

CIO

Government orgs were a target for China-linked threat actors in virtually all regions of the world, and Salt Typhoon, a cyber unit tied to Chinas MSS, made headlines in recent months after compromising major telecom and ISP networks in the US, with this type of targeting also common in Asia and Africa.

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