Meta is rolling out new AI-powered creator tools soon

As more platforms are introducing AI creator tools, Facebook and Instagram will follow suit. During the Meta Connect event last week, the company announced that it’s launching AI-powered photo editing and AI-generated stickers.  According to Meta, a new photo editing AI tool will be available on Instagram. This tool will allow users to restyle the…

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Announcing Our LinkedIn-Cornell 2023 Grant Recipients

​LinkedIn and Cornell Ann S. Bowers College of Computing and Information Science (Bowers CIS) embarked on a partnership, bringing together our collective research power to make technological advances that will further our goal to connect professionals with opportunities at scale. Through this partnership, we support Ph.D. students and faculty members on their research in areas…

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Meta, Google, TikTok, Snap fail to stop lawsuits claiming their apps are addictive and harmful

Social media’s giants must face lawsuits brought forth by school districts nationwide, U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers ruled this week, which claim that the platforms are addictive and harming the country’s youth. Meta, Google, TikTok, and Snap will indeed head to court to face the high-dollar damage cases, which will proceed under a more…

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How to Get More Views on Medium – The Shortform

and engage with more writers Photo by Callum Shaw on Unsplash Want your articles to be read more on Medium? There’s a tip I don’t see anyone mentioning. On Twitter, there are two hashtags that I have seen (a few) Medium writers using. Those are: #mediumarticle and #mediumwriter I assume few people are using them…

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Introducing Immortal Objects for Python

Instagram has introduced Immortal Objects – PEP-683 – to Python. Now, objects can bypass reference count checks and live throughout the entire execution of the runtime, unlocking exciting avenues for true parallelism. At Meta, we use Python (Django) for our frontend server within Instagram. To handle parallelism, we rely on a multi-process architecture along with…

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YouTube launches its YouTube Create video editing app

During the Made on YouTube event last Thursday, YouTube announced its new mobile editing app called YouTube Create. This tool is available for creators who want to edit their Shorts or long-form content. According to YouTube, this editing app aims to address the issues that content creators have been facing in terms of access to…

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300+ early Cyber Monday deals: Walmart, Amazon, Apple, more

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