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Gen Z social app Yubo rolls out age ‘estimating’ technology to better identify minors using its service

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Yubo , a social livestreaming app popular with a Gen Z audience, announced today it’s becoming one of the first major social platforms to adopt a new age verification technique that uses live image capture technology to identify minors using its app, in order to keep them separated from adult users.

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Vyrill, winner of the TC Early Stage Pitch-Off, helps brands discover and leverage user-generated video reviews

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Vyrill helps brands discover and leverage video reviews created by authentic customers and users. In addition, with Vyrill’s system, L’Oréal can dig down and identify user-generated content specific to a particular product. Bam and co-founder and CTO Dr. Barbara Rosario started the company in 2015 and raised a $2.1

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Lilt raises $55M to bolster its business-focused AI translation platform

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San Francisco, Calfornia-based Lilt was co-founded by Green and John DeNero in 2015. Green is a former Northrop Grumman software engineer who later worked as a research intern on the Google Translate team, developing an AI language system for improving English-to-Arabic translations. .” AI-powered translations. A robust market.

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Zocdoc founder returns with Shadow, an app that finds lost dogs

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and millions of those end up in shelters where they aren’t always reunited with their owners, due to their lack of identification or a microchip. to pull in photos of the dogs they’re currently housing, then supplements this with photos pulled from social media platforms, like Twitter and Facebook. It then uses A.I.

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#781 Why Disruption Does More Harm than Good with Ashley Goodall, Author & Executive

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I am the co-author, with Marcus Buckingham, of NINE LIES ABOUT WORK: A Freethinking Leader’s Guide to the Real World (Harvard Business Review Press, April 2019)—which was selected as the best management book of 2019 by Strategy + Business and one of Amazon’s best business and leadership books of 2019.

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Fed News Roundup 13 July 2015

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Video: 5 Ways to Improve Your Facebook Experience - Nextgov NextGov (Today) - Video: 5 Ways to Improve Your Facebook Experience It's the social network nearly everyone uses. Past and current projects include high-end due diligence assessments for the financial. Have you seen what's new for 2015?

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The Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: Obsidian Therapeutics And Flip Headline Another Strong Week

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Flip , $144M, social media: Social commerce startup Flip locked up $144 million in new cash led by Streamlined Ventures in a deal that values the company at more than $1 billion. The Los Angeles-based startup is a marketplace that offers video reviews. Founded in 2015, the company has raised $110 million, per Crunchbase.

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