Against All Odds: Understanding TikTok’s Resilience

TikTok, a social media phenomenon, has seen remarkable growth since it was first launched in 2016, crossing 2 billion mobile downloads globally in 2020. In 2023, TikTok generated a revenue of $16.1 billion. The TikTok story begins with Musical.ly, a music-focused social app launched in 2014 that gained popularity among American teenagers. Two years after the…

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Amazon Breaks Ground in Speech Synthesis

Recently, Amazon announced its breakthrough "Big Adaptive Streamable TTS with Emergent Abilities" (BASE TTS), a game-changer in the realm of text-to-speech (TTS) technology. Trained on a vast amount of speech data, this AI model brings to life digital voices with unprecedented naturalness and adaptability. BASE TTS not only captures the nuances of human speech but…

February 23, 20240Comments

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Infobesity: When Your Brain Counts Bytes

Are you tired of feeling like your brain is on a never-ending buffet of digital information, where every click adds another pound to your mental waistline? Do you find yourself suffocating under an avalanche of notifications, tweets, and memes, wondering if you'll ever resurface? Congratulations, you might just have earned yourself a prestigious membership to…

November 3, 20230Comments

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Decoding Deepfakes: Corporate Security in the Age of Digital Deception

What do you do when your foundations of reality are challenged? What do you do when you can’t spot fact from fiction? What do you do when you don’t know what’s real and what’s not? The rapid pace of development in artificial intelligence (AI) has shaken our perception of reality. We have gone from botchy…

July 29, 20230Comments

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From Mastodon to Meta Threads: Diving Into the “Fediverse”

Picture this: You're doom-scrolling on Instagram and halfway through realize that most of the posts you're enjoying are funny clips from TikTok, clever memes from Tumblr, hot takes from Twitter, or entire Reddit threads turned into reels. Now imagine a hub where instead of seeing screenshots from other platforms, you could simply access the content…

July 25, 20230Comments

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Reddit’s API-Calypse: Another David vs. Goliath Story?

In April 2023, Reddit made an announcement that landed with all the grace of a cat into a swimming pool. Instant, loud backlash ensued — from developers, moderators, and users alike. Thousands of Reddit forums went dark in protest for two days or longer, including popular ones like r/iPhone, r/gaming, and r/Music, to show that…

July 17, 20230Comments

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