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TechCrunch+ roundup: Technical due diligence, web3’s promise, how to hire well

TechCrunch

In films, screenwriters always include a moment known as the Promise of the Premise. Then again, I’m not a developer, so I didn’t truly appreciate the value of mobile gaming, GPS and cloud storage until they’d achieved product-market fit and were integrated into my smartphone. Image Credits: Bryce Durbin / TechCrunch.

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The actors who are the best (and worst) at their job

The Hustle

Marketers are beholden to conversion rates and a neverending hellscape of KPIs. Stars who grace the silver screen generally either have to be a hit with fans (measured by box office revenue) or a hit with critics (measured by positive reviews). Sometimes, good actors are in bad films. Bloggers have to hit pageview targets.

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Glass rethinks the smartphone camera through an old-school cinema lens

TechCrunch

Films weren’t always widescreen. Originally they were more likely to be approximately the shape of a 35mm film frame, for obvious reasons. If you matted out the top and bottom, you could project a widescreen image, which people liked — but you were basically just zooming in on a part of the film, which you paid for in detail.

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Sequoia picks its horse in the consumer carbon offset market, leading a $2.5 million round for Joro

TechCrunch

The Princeton undergraduate saw the film in 2011, and it started her on the journey that would lead her to launch Joro , the Sequoia-backed startup that monitors consumer spending to offer tips on how to offset and reduce a user’s carbon footprint. The world will be a better place because of what Joro will bring to market.”.

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Generative AI is pushing unstructured data to center stage

CIO

much of it is still stored in physical, or analog, formats such as paper, tape, film, microfiche, etc. Tapping into unstructured data reservoirs While a growing volume of unstructured data exists in digital form (such as PDFs, JPEGs, MP4s, etc.), What’s hiding in your unstructured data?

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iOS gains new emoji, Showtime joins a pricier Paramount+, and Instagram launches Channels

TechCrunch

If you’re wondering about Greg’s status, not to worry — he’s due to return from a well-deserved parental leave in a month and change. With those administrative bits out of the way, let’s get on with Week in Review. (If Talk about a good sport. If you want it in your inbox every Saturday, sign up here ).

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A startup is charging $1.99 for strings of text to feed to DALL-E 2

TechCrunch

Figuring out the right text prompts to yield the best results with AI systems like OpenAI’s DALL-E 2 has become a science in its own right. PromptBase , launched in June, allows users to sell strings of words that net predictable results with particular systems. Prompt engineering. ” Prompts can be quite nuanced.

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