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Captions makes it easy to share compelling narrated videos. The app adds attractive, eye-catching captions to videos you record or import. It has a helpful teleprompter, an AI script-writing assistant, and a suite of AI editing features. Its most impressive feature: AI dubbing that can automatically transform your voice in
Companies today are grappling with a monumental challenge: the relentless accumulation of data. According to the latest estimates, 328.77 million terabytes of data are created each day. Around 120 zettabytes of data will be generated this year, an almost incomprehensible amount.
Every sector, from industry giants to small businesses, confronts the daunting task of managing this deluge of text, audio, and video content, to name a few formats.
Managing internal and external
Someone tracking the conflict raging in the Middle East could have seen the following two videos on social media. The first shows a little boy hovering over his father’s dead body, whimpering in Arabic, “Don’t leave me.” The second purports to show a pregnant woman with her stomach slashed open and claims to document the testimony of a paramedic who handled victims’ bodies after Hamas’ attack in Israel on Oct. 7, 2023.
Even though these vide
Meta announced Thursday the release of two new generative video tools that might eventually be widely used by people on Facebook and Instagram.
One is a tool called Emu Video that generates videos that users describe using text. The other is an editing tool called Emu Edit with which users can further alter videos, again with text input. Both tools are based on the Emu foundation model, which Meta had already announced.
Emu Video is powered by two diffusion models and can
Apple is the world’s first $3 trillion market value company, and it got there by generating tens of billions of dollars in revenue per quarter. Historically, that revenue has primarily come from hardware sales, but more recently the company’s coffers are being filled by non-hardware products, and thanks to DOJ’s ongoing antitrust trial against Google, we now know a lot more about the impressive non-hardware revenue Apple generates.
For the first 30 years of its
The Israel-Hamas conflict has been a minefield of confusing counter-arguments and controversies—and an information environment that experts investigating mis- and disinformation say is among the worst they’ve ever experienced.
In the time since Hamas launched its terror attack against Israel last month—and Israel has responded with a weekslong counterattack—social media has been full of comments, pictures, and video from both sides of the conflict putting
The heated antitrust battle between Google and the U.S. government is set to conclude in the coming days. It’s been a whirlwind 10-week bench trial, full of high-profile testimony, stunning revelations of backroom deals, and court-sanctioned secrecy. The crux of the government’s argument is Google struck anticompetitive deals with Apple and other phone manufacturers to make their search engine the default on mobile devices and gain an unfair advantage for its search advertising
If you’ve been seeing more social media content promoting fraud and scams, you’re not alone. Nearly one in four consumers in a recent survey have seen offers to participate in account-takeover schemes online.
This is because there’s a new category of influencer: fraudsters who teach and sell fraud “methods” on social media. These methods are how-tos on anything from credit card abuse and account takeovers to food delivery and travel loyalty point s
Over the course of my career managing teams at some of the largest enterprise tech companies, I’ve witnessed the vital role employee experience plays, not only in defining a great corporate culture but also in driving the impact a company can make on the world.
This point is especially true for the jobs that underpin our economy, such as manufacturing, transportation, construction, and agriculture, where the work is physically demanding and often dangerous. Because these indu
In the summer of 2021, researchers from the nonprofit 5 Gyres carried a crate filled with samples of plastic trash to a dock in Long Beach, California. Inside mesh bags were 22 different items (from straws and bottles to pens, tampon applicators, and baby wipes) made from different types of bioplastic, standard fossil-fuel-based plastic, and natural materials like bamboo and paper.
They lowered the crate into the water, weighed it down with bricks on the ocean floor, and came back r