VentureBeat
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Kyle Wiggers
– May 22, 2019, 6:00 AM
More than a third of U.S. workers — about 57 million people — are part of the so-called gig workforce, according to a recent Gallup poll. In fact, it's estimated that on-demand jobs add $715 billion to the economy annually and that…
TechCrunch
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Devin Coldewey
– May 22, 2019, 8:41 AM
Machine learning researchers have produced a system that can recreate lifelike motion from just a single frame of a person's face, opening up the possibility of animating not just photos but also of paintings. It's not perfect, but when it works…
The New York Times
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Brian X. Chen
– May 22, 2019, 11:40 AM
ALBANY, Calif. — On a recent afternoon at the Lao Thai Kitchen restaurant, the telephone rang and the caller ID read “Google Assistant.” Jimmy Tran, a waiter, answered the phone. The caller was a man with an Irish accent hoping…
TechCrunch
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Frederic Lardinois
– May 22, 2019, 6:30 PM
GitHub today launched Sponsors, a new tool that lets you give financial support to open source developers. Developers will be able to opt into having a “Sponsor me” button on their GitHub repositories and open source projects will…
The region's data protection overhaul was supposed to help citizens. Instead, it's helped Big Tech. By Mark Scott, Laurens Cerulus, Steven Overly | | Updated When Europe's tough privacy rules came into force on May 25, 2018, policymakers and…