Tech Meme

Will Douglas Heaven / MIT Technology Review: A look at The Frost, a 12-minute movie created by Waymark using DALL-E 2, as startups like Waymark and Runway make AI tools for fast and cheap video production  —  Exclusive: Watch the world premiere of the AI-generated short film The Frost.  —  The Frost nails its uncanny, disconcerting vibe in its first few shots. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Yvonne Lau / Fortune: As TSMC plans to hire 4,500 workers at its two Arizona fabs, recruiters say the company’s culture, rigid standards, and overseas training turn off candidates  —  On the Glassdoor profile of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, or TSMC—the world’s biggest manufacturer of semiconductor chips … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Forbes: Interviews, pitch decks, and internal documents suggest that Stability AI CEO Emad Mostaque’s recent success was bolstered by exaggeration and dubious claims  —  Stability AI became a $1 billion company with the help of a viral AI text-to-image generator and — per interviews with more than 30 people … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Chris Welch / The Verge: A look at the ad-supported, free dual-screen TV from Ilya Pozin’s Telly, which says its data and analytics tools will be no more invasive than other TV vendors  —  More than 250,000 people have signed up in hopes of getting Telly’s unique TV.  There’s something to this concept, but plenty of unknowns remain. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jessica Lyons Hardcastle / The Register: Five teams at DEF CON 2023 plan to try to hack Moonlighter, a US-funded 3U cubesat, the first time DEF CON hackers will get to hack a live, in-orbit satellite  —  ‘World’s first and only’ orbiting infosec playpen due to blast off Sunday  —  FEATURE Assuming the weather and engineering gods cooperate … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Financial Times: Sony CEO Kenichiro Yoshida says cloud gaming has many technical difficulties, like latency, and the company could use its AI, GT Sophy, to enhance cloud gaming  —  Promise of technology remains unfulfilled after more than a decade of development  —  Sony’s chief executive has warned … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Aria Alamalhodaei / TechCrunch: Seattle-based Hubble Network, which aims to build a global satellite network that any Bluetooth device can connect to, raised a $20M Series A led by Transpose  —  Bluetooth-enabled devices are ubiquitous, but how those devices are used is constrained by the relatively short range provided by Bluetooth technology. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica: Google is aware of a “very small number” of Pixel Watch 2 users reporting that the back glass panel falls off and is working to find the cause and fix the issue  —  Several users report the back of the Pixel Watch just falls off after a short time.  —  UPDATE: GOOGLE STATEMENT Lees verder op Tech Meme

Michelle Caffrey / EdWeek Market Brief: Swing Education, which connects schools with substitute teachers, raised a $38M Series C led by Apax Partners and Reach, bringing its total funding to $60.8M  —  Swing Education raised $38 million in a Series C round aimed at helping the company, which connects schools with substitute teachers … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica: Google Wallet for Android rolls out support for US state IDs, starting with Maryland, and plans to add Arizona, Colorado, and Georgia IDs “in the coming months”  —  The state-by-state rollout is still a huge mess, but Android is ready, at least. Lees verder op Tech Meme