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Niantic aims to build a richer 3D map of the world with a new version of Scanniverse app

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Niantic is releasing a new version of its Scanniverse app to let users capture objects around them with more details. Scanniverse 4 will allow users to capture places and objects in 3D through a Gaussian Splitting technique, which captures more data points about an object for accurate and rich representation with faster rendering. The company […]

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Tidal launches royalty tracking features for artists

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Music streaming service Tidal has launched new features that let artists track royalties and manage the music they have songwriting credits for on the platform. Music royalties are Byzantine in their complexity. In the U.S., all collaborators on a given track, including the composers and performers, must be registered with a Performing Rights Organization (PRO)

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Threads explores ads, but says ‘no immediate timeline’ toward monetization

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Instagram says it’s not testing ads in Threads and has no immediate plans to monetize after multiple developers and reverse engineers uncovered references to ad products in the app’s code, including the word “ads” itself, as well as references to sponsored items and ads configuration. A JSON file that developers used, presumably for testing purposes,

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Meta lets you cross-post from Instagram and Facebook to Threads. Here’s how to do it.

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Meta for months has been experimenting with letting people cross-post from Instagram and Facebook to Threads, its social networking platform competing with X (formally known as Twitter). Meta confirmed to TechCrunch that the feature has officially rolled out globally to all countries where Threads is available.  The new cross-posting capability is part of Meta’s larger goal

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WeTransfer’s expiry dates haven’t gone away, but you can at least extend them

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WeTransfer’s expiry dates have been a major paint-point for users — especially creatives. Thing is, if you don’t download the files the moment you get the link or email you can easily forget to do so before the link expires. At which point you’ll have to ask for it to be resent. Which can get

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Move over, Apple: Meet the alternative app stores coming to the EU

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People in the European Union are now allowed to access alternative app stores thanks to the Digital Markets Act (DMA), a new regulation designed to foster increased competition in the app ecosystem. Like Apple’s App Store, alternative app marketplaces allow for easy access to a wider world of apps, but instead of the apps going

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