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Daily Crunch: ‘Network issue’ causes cloud outage that takes down multiple Microsoft services for 4+ hours

TechCrunch

That’s what Microsoft is saying after some of its services, like Outlook, Xbox Live and Teams, went down during a “change made to the Microsoft Wide Area Network,” Ivan reports. Training in VR : Paul reports that Gemba, a corporate VR training platform used by Coca-Cola and Pfizer, raises $18 million.

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Why Adopting New Technologies like AR and VR are Essential for Your Business?

Trigent

In that case, it is essential to understand why companies consider adopting new technologies or digital transformations like Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR) to meet customer needs. While AR and VR offer many revolutionary experiences, XR is based on the same technologies. million VR users and 110.1

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Extra Crunch roundup: NS1 EC-1, Pakistan’s tech ecosystem, SPACs bonanza

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Since its founding in 2013, NS1 has raised more than $100 million to build an engineering team and robust product portfolio that’s expanded to include DDI, which helps companies manage internal networks. Can advertising scale in VR? Can advertising scale in VR? Image Credits: jhorrocks / Getty Images.

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AI creative platform D-ID, the tech behind those viral videos of animated family photos, raises $25M

TechCrunch

Earlier this month, D-ID expanded on the Deep Nostalgia technology to allow the people in the animated photos to “speak” by training a neural network using videos of people talking, in order to get the lips in the photos matched to the words the users provided. It’s worked with Warner Bros.

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10 most in-demand generative AI skills

CIO

TensorFlow Developed by Google as an open-source machine learning framework, TensorFlow is most used to build and train machine learning models and neural networks. Relevant job roles include image processing engineer or scientist, robotics engineer, AI research scientist, quality control analyst, AR or VR developer, among others.

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8 open source companies from YC Demo Day Winter ’22

TechCrunch

Promises include: Tuva wants to become the open standard for healthcare data transformation and build the data network for multisite benchmarking and research. The company is targeting businesses to help remote workers access private networks. Founders: Maxim Perumal built Relativity, an open source VR headset, at age 15.

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The Metaverse Is Not a Place

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

This is a progression from text to images to video, and from store-and-forward networks to real time (and, for broadcast, “stored time,” which is a useful way of thinking about recorded video), but in each case, the interactions are not place based but happening in the ether between two or more connected people. Connection.

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