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After adding a function that enables users to create gorgeous digital portraits of yourself in modern art styles, the Lensa photo and video editing software has gained social media notoriety in recent weeks. For a little cost and the effort of uploading 10 to 20 different pictures of oneself, it …

By announcing a draft decision on U.S. sufficiency, the European Commission has opened the door for the adoption of a new EU-U.S. data transfer agreement the following year. You can obtain the draft adequacy decision for the EU-US Data Privacy Framework (DPF) from this page. The EU executive body and …

After initially debuting the iPhone 14 Emergency SOS satellite feature in the United States and Canada last month, Apple has now expanded it to France, Germany, Ireland, and the United Kingdom. Users can communicate with emergency services through messaging when not within range of cellular and Wi-Fi networks thanks to …

The most recent well-funded business to experience macroeconomic difficulties is Dataiku, which raised fresh funding at a substantially lower valuation. In a Series F round led by Wellington Management, the firm raised $200 million today, valuing the company at $3.7 billion as opposed to Dataiku’s $4.6 billion estimate from August …

The “Blue Origins Space Rangers” animated space adventure series will be produced by the Jeff Bezos-led company Blue Origin, according to a press release from production companies Genius Brands and SMAC Productions. There is no definite date for the premiere. Bezos, who established his space tourism company Blue Origin in …

The web3 startup Nillion, which aims to create a decentralized network that is not based on a blockchain, closed an oversubscribed round of more than $20 million, the firm exclusively revealed to TechCrunch. According to Andrew Yeoh, the company’s founding chief marketing officer, “Nillion is a deep technical infrastructure project.” …

Community Notes are now accessible worldwide, according to a tweet from Twitter over the weekend. The social media giant uses a mechanism called Community Notes, formerly known as Birdwatch, to crowdsource fact-checking. Users can use the tool to contextualize tweets, and it uses an open-source methodology to disprove false information. …

It’s fun to imagine what Henry VIII or Tutankhamun would look like today if you could drag them into the present, but what about the reverse? What would it appear like if you traveled back in time and confronted them there? In partnership with AI image generation experts Astria, online …

You might anticipate falling from a cruise ship to be a fatal mishap, and it seems much less possible that you would survive being lost at sea for a whole night. Despite rescuers’ estimates that he had been lost at sea for more than 15 hours, a man who was …

On November 23, Twitter declared that it would no longer enforce its COVID-19 misinformation policy and would not take any action against any tweets that did so. Due to the inherent health dangers, the site has previously taken a strong anti-misinformation stance. However, under new guidance from Elon Musk, Twitter …