Leben (Life aka misc) NewsFlash Technology
NewsFlash
The cost of living hasn’t affected its popularity.
Creativity Leben (Life aka misc) Technology
Shutterstock Will Start Selling AI-Generated Stock Imagery With Help from OpenAI
Will AI image generators kill the stock image industry? It’s a question asked by many following the rise of text-to-image AI models in recent years. The answer from the industry’s incumbents, though, is “no” — not if we can start selling AI-generated content first. Today, stock image giant Shutterstock has Read more…
Crypto Leben (Life aka misc)
UK Lawmakers Vote To Recognize Crypto as Regulated Financial Instruments
Lawmakers in the U.K. voted in favor of recognizing crypto assets as regulated financial instruments and products in the country on Tuesday. The House of Commons, the Parliament’s lower house, met on Tuesday for a line-by-line reading of the proposed Financial Services and Markets Bill, which broadly covers the U.K.’s Read more…
Leben (Life aka misc) NewsFlash Technology
NewsFlash
“Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.” — Ford Prefect, _Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy_
Leben (Life aka misc) The Planet (on, and off)
Stockholm Thinks It Can Have an Electric Bikeshare Program So Cheap It’s Practically Free
This past June, Stockholm introduced a new shared bicycle service to replace Stockholm City Bikes, which operated from 2006 until 2018. Since that service shut down, the city was one of many around the world swamped by shared e-scooters that littered sidewalks and streets. As a result, the city wanted Read more…
Leben (Life aka misc) The Planet (on, and off)
Plastic Recycling a ‘Failed Concept,’ Study Says
Plastic recycling rates are declining even as production shoots up, according to a Greenpeace USA report out Monday that blasted industry claims of creating an efficient, circular economy as “fiction.” Titled “Circular Claims Fall Flat Again,” the study found that of 51 million tons of plastic waste generated by U.S. Read more…
Leben (Life aka misc) Technology
Bumble Open Sourced Its AI That Detects Unsolicited Nudes
As part of its larger commitment to combat “cyberflashing,” the dating app Bumble is open sourcing its AI tool that detects unsolicited lewd images. First debuted in 2019, Private Detector (let’s take a moment to let that name sink in) blurs out nudes that are sent through the Bumble app, Read more…