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How Ryan Reynolds and Mint Mobile worked without becoming the joke

TechCrunch

It’s been a little over a year since Ryan Reynolds bought a majority stake in Mint Mobile, a deal that has already had a dramatic impact on the the MVNO (mobile virtual network operator). It’s hard to imagine a string of words in the English language less sexy than, “mobile virtual network operator.”

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Crypto gaming firm Cauldron raises $6.6M to build ‘Pixar of web3’

TechCrunch

If you close your eyes and are listening to a Pixar film, you can’t see the art or technology but the story is still gripping you. The capital will be used to hire talent from the game and film industries while building out its experiences, Warrick said. Storytelling is what matters.”.

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The End of Programming as We Know It

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

Big data, web services, and cloud computing established a kind of internet operating system. Yet this explosion of internet sites and the network protocols and APIs connecting them ended up creating the need for more programmers. All kinds of deep and powerful functionality was made available via simple APIs.

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Are lifelike digital humans the future of customer experience?

TechCrunch

” It’s worth noting that Soul Machines’ other co-founder, Mark Sagar, has won Academy Awards for his AI engineering efforts creating the characters in the films “Avatar” and “King Kong.” ” Perhaps the skill behind producing such realistic digital humans is why Soul Machines reported a 4.6x

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Generative AI is pushing unstructured data to center stage

CIO

Since those early days, the ratio of structured and unstructured data has shifted as the Internet, social media, digital cameras, smartphones, digital communications, etc. much of it is still stored in physical, or analog, formats such as paper, tape, film, microfiche, etc. have encouraged the creation of unstructured data.

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10G Challenge Winners Leverage Power of Multi-Gigabit Network

CableLabs

We wanted to know how their creations would leverage the four pillars of the multi-gigabit platform: faster internet speeds, better security, lower latency and improved reliability. What’s even more exciting is that the infrastructure to support these high-speed internet capabilities is already in place! Meet the Winners.

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Radar Trends to Watch: June 2022

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

Alice is a modular and extensible open source virtual assistant (think Alexa) that can run completely offline. Passkey is operating system-independent, and supports both Bluetooth in addition to Internet protocols. New research in haptics allows the creation of realistic virtual textures by measuring how people feel things.