Dieter Holger / Wall Street Journal: How AI-driven robots and optical sorters are being used to pick up and sort recyclable trash, as US recyclers deal with labor shortages and rising costs  —  Recyclers struggle with a shortage of workers and rising costs.  Robots and optical sorters may be able to help make the business more economically viable. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Matt Growcoot / PetaPixel: Adobe’s site for stock images lists AI-generated images of the Israel-Palestine conflict, and some small outlets have used them without labeling them as AI  —  As fears rise over fake imagery generated by artificial intelligence flooding the internet, one of the world’s leading stock photo websites … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Dan Taylor / Tech.eu: Milan-based Qomodo, which offers multiple payment services to consumers and retailers, including BNPL options, raised a €34.5M pre-seed led by Fasanara Capital  —  Milan-based payment aggregator Qomodo raises €34.5 million in Pre-Seed funding, offering a variety … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sam Byford / Multicore: Leica helped Xiaomi create a flagship phone that takes better photos than iPhone, and their partnership makes sense despite Xiaomi copying some elements of iOS  —  It’s past time to start taking Chinese phones seriously, whether you’ve used one or not  —  Xiaomi launched its new 14 Pro flagship phone … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jacob Judah / MIT Technology Review: How .tk, the ccTLD for New Zealand’s Tokelau territory that until recently had more users than any other ccTLD, became a domain of choice for cybercriminals  —  Tokelau, a necklace of three isolated atolls strung out across the Pacific, is so remote that it was the last place on Earth to be connected to the telephone—only in 1997. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Dan Taylor / Tech.eu: Milan-based Qomodo, which offers multiple payment services to consumers and retailers, including BNPL options, raised a €34.5M pre-seed led by Fasanara Capital  —  Milan-based payment aggregator Qomodo raises €34.5 million in Pre-Seed funding, offering a variety … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bryson Masse / VentureBeat: In a comment submitted to the US Copyright Office, the FTC warned that generative AI has enabled potential copyright infringement and consumer deception  —  The U.S. Copyright Office has already repeatedly weighed in on creations made with generative artificial intelligence (AI) … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sarah Wu / Reuters: As TSMC shifts more production outside Taiwan, a look the domestic chip industry’s increasingly fraught complaints about land shortages across the island  —  Wearing rain ponchos and holding photos of their ancestral temples near Hsinchu, Taiwan’s semiconductor capital … Lees verder op Tech Meme