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TikTok’s Strict Data Rules Are Keeping Researchers From Studying the App

22Sep

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TikTok’s Strict Data Rules Are Keeping Researchers From Studying the App

[ad_1] As TikTok gets more popular, researchers at leading academic institutions want to study what users are doing there. Publicly, the company says it's open to this, and is partnering with academics. But researchers said so far, the video app's rules about data are too burdensome. TikTok is in the process of making its application programming interface, or API, open to researchers to analyze data on the platform. But the terms of service are so strict, academics at leading institutions say they're hesitant to accept them. The difficulty in researchingTikTok comes as competing platforms also are making it more difficult to review their data and are starting to charge for access to their APIs. Social scientists say it's important to gain access to TikTok to understand the app's impact...

Stability AI launches Stable Diffusion XL 1.0, its latest image generator; Know all about it

27Jul

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Stability AI launches Stable Diffusion XL 1.0, its latest image generator; Know all about it

[ad_1] With each day passing, we are seeing more generative AI platforms being introduced. As these tools are made easily accessible the competition within the market has grown with competitors like Midjourney and Adobe. Keeping the ever-growing user demand in mind, Stability AI has launched its improved version of the image generation model, Stable Diffusion XL 1.0. The company claims that the current model is its most advanced offering in the segment. However, there are some ethical issues still persistent in the model.According to a Tech Crunch report, Stability AI launched a text-to-image model called Stable Diffusion XL 1.0, which it claimed to be the “most advanced” tool released now. The platform is available in open source in GitHub alongside Stability's API and consumer apps, C...

Twitter’s Surge in Harmful Content a Barrier to Advertiser Return

20Jul

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Twitter’s Surge in Harmful Content a Barrier to Advertiser Return

[ad_1] Elon Musk's Twitter acquisition, and the series of content policy changes that ensued, has led to a dramatic spike in hateful, violent and inaccurate posts on the platform, according to researchers. That's now the top challenge for Twitter's new Chief Executive Officer Linda Yaccarino, who has to address advertisers' concerns about the trend in order to boost revenue and pay back the company's debts. Musk and Yaccarino have touted updates to the site's policies, such as letting advertisers prevent their posts from showing up next to certain kinds of content. Still, advertising sales are down by half since Musk took control of the company in October, he said this week. That's in part because businesses don't believe there has been significant progress in resolving the problem. “M...

Reddit’s new API pricing forces closure of popular third-party app Apollo and others

9Jun

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Reddit’s new API pricing forces closure of popular third-party app Apollo and others

[ad_1] Apollo, a widely used third-party app for Reddit, has announced that it will be shutting down on June 30, 2023, as a direct consequence of Reddit's recently announced changes in its API pricing, according to TechCrunch. The new pricing plans would require Apollo to pay a staggering $20 million annually to continue operating, an impossible cost for an independent developer. Christian Selig, the creator of Apollo, was one of the first to raise concerns about the impact of Reddit's new API pricing on third-party apps. Even if Apollo were to switch to a subscription-based model, it would still be unable to sustain itself under the new guidelines. The outcry from the app's user community has prompted a site-wide protest, with several major Reddit communities planning to go dark to exp...

Microsoft Build 2023: How every Windows 11 developer can be an AI developer

23May

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Microsoft Build 2023: How every Windows 11 developer can be an AI developer

[ad_1] Microsoft is dedicated to providing developers with powerful tools to rapidly socialise the development of AI-driven apps in the new era. Regardless of whether developers are working on x86/x64 or Arm64 platforms, Microsoft aims to simplify the integration of AI-powered experiences into Windows apps across both Cloud and Edge environments.During last year's Build conference, Microsoft introduced Hybrid Loop, an innovative development pattern that enables the seamless integration of hybrid AI scenarios spanning Azure and client devices. Today, Microsoft has announced the realisation of this vision through the utilisation of ONNX Runtime as the gateway to Windows AI, complemented by Olive, a comprehensive toolchain designed to streamline the process of optimising models for various...

Social impact at scale with thoughtful APIs groomed with good design

14Mar

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Social impact at scale with thoughtful APIs groomed with good design

[ad_1] Navanwita Bora Sachdev is a freelance contributor and the Editor of The Tech Panda.The consequences of using Application Programming Interfaces (API) are undoubtedly far reaching, something that could be heaven sent for dispersing information and services on a large scale. Groomed with good design, thoughtful APIs for Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) could transform a society into a well-informed entity. APIs are often called the unsung heroes a user doesn't know about. Few users know just how many APIs are serving their needs in even the simplest of digital contractions, whether it's hailing an Uber, making a peer-to-peer payment, or communicating with a company via WhatsApp. APIs even drive streaming services like Netflix. In each of these, the customer-facing compa...