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Technology’s role in social sustainability

CIO

Technology has a critical role to play in any organization’s social sustainability strategy. And according to a survey from NTT, a majority of senior executives recognize this and are actively working to harness digital technology and innovation to support their social sustainability initiatives. That number is set to grow.

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Omneky uses AI to generate social media ads

TechCrunch

Meet Omneky , a startup that leverages OpenAI’s DALLE-2 and GPT-3 models to generate visuals and text that can be used in ads for social platforms. Of course, some images and text don’t work well for one reason or another. Omneky uses AI to generate social media ads by Romain Dillet originally published on TechCrunch.

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Social media is a rip-off

InfoWorld

Much of the angst about social media revolves around how they deal with your personal data. It is said of social media that if you aren’t paying for the product, then you are the product. But of course, the advertising is only effective if you actually visit the social media site. They sell your attention to advertisers.

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Social media giants urged to tackle data-scraping privacy risks

TechCrunch

’s ICO, Canada’s OPC and Hong Kong’s OPCPD, has urged mainstream social media platforms to protect users’ public posts from scraping — warning they face a legal responsibility to do so in most markets. A joint statement signed by regulators at a dozen international privacy watchdogs, including the U.K.’s

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SquadPal is a social app to help remote working teams gel

TechCrunch

Not just around core business needs like comms (Zoom, Slack et al) — but entrepreneurs are also competing to come up with the perfect tool to recreate the social serendipity of office life in order to make dispersed workers feel a bit more connected. This may actually be an impossible task. Or that’s the idea.

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Sharify makes it super simple to rediscover your city’s social side

TechCrunch

The pandemic has upended many aspects of urban life but perhaps the most visible upheaval is to citydwellers’ social lives, with curfews calling time on traditional night life across much of the Western world and social distancing putting a chilly spin on opportunities for getting together with people outside your usual circle.

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Social app IRL makes its first acquisition with deal for digital nutrition company AaBeZe Labs

TechCrunch

IRL, the SoftBank-backed social app and recent unicorn , is today announcing its first acquisition. The company is purchasing, for an undisclosed sum, the “digital nutrition” company AaBeZe Labs and its portfolio of IP with the goal of making IRL a healthier and more ethically designed social networking app.

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