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Bitcoin's rise has turned out to be bad news for cryptocurrency trading app Coinbase, which has just confirmed that some of its customers have zero balances in their Coinbase accounts. “Your assets are safe,” the company assured app users on its website's status page, adding that its team is investigating the issue and will provide an update soon. Perhaps the app crash is related to the recent demand for Bitcoin, a popular cryptocurrency that soared to a near all-time high of $60,000 in 2021. Bitcoin prices rose on the back of the US Bitcoin Spot ETF. This month caused a…

Substack is introducing direct messaging, allowing users to have private one-on-one conversations, the company announced today. DMs include the Substack app and website.[チャット]It can be accessed from the tab. By default, users only receive DMs from people they're connected to. Other messages are moved to your requests folder, where you can choose to accept or decline them. After releasing an X (formerly Twitter) clone called Notes last year, Substack is now copying yet another feature from the social network. A few months after launching Notes, the company started allowing users to follow each other. Substack is best known as a…

Want to weave different video clips generated by Stability AI into your movie? Now you have the tools to do it. Morph Studio, with its proprietary text-to-video model, has just introduced an AI filmmaking platform. The eponymous tool takes the form of a storyboard, allowing users to create and edit shots by entering text prompts for different scenes, and then combining them to create a coherent narrative. Powering the creation process is a partnership between Morph and Stability AI, but eventually Morph plans to introduce a series of generative video models for users to choose from. At Morph, we call…

Shader is Snap's AR development platform, with no-code AR creation tools that generate custom effects, 2D masks, and lenses in minutes instead of spending hours creating a single AR filter. It aims to challenge industry heavyweights like Lens Studio and TikTok's Effect House. Requires engineering and design skills. The startup built its platform on an open-source stable diffusion model and allows users to input text-based prompts to generate creations. The company was founded by Darya Sesitskaya, a former Snap design lead who designed Snapchat's AR camera, Lens Studio, Lens Cloud, and more. She also worked at her Wanna (formerly Wannaby),…

Anamorph, a new film production and technology company, announced its launch today. The startup, founded by filmmaker Gary Hustwit and digital artist Brendan Dawes, wants to reimagine the movie experience using unique generative technology that can create a different movie each time it's shown. Anamorph is the first documentary to follow British musician, producer and visual artist Brian Eno, who has worked with legends such as David Bowie, U2, Coldplay, Grace Jones and Talking, to debut at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival. We unveiled the Eno for the first time and revealed its innovative technology. heads and many more. His…

There are plenty of music editing and creation tools that utilize GenAI, but Adobe wants to put its own spin on the concept. Today at Hot Pod Summit in Brooklyn, Adobe announced Project Music GenAI Control. It is a platform that generates audio from text descriptions (such as “happy dance” or “sad jazz”) or reference melodies and allows users to customize the results within it. Workflow. Project Music GenAI Control allows users to adjust tempo, intensity, repeat patterns, structure, and more. Alternatively, you can extend the track to any length to remix your music or create infinite loops. Project Music…

YouTube Create, Google's standalone mobile app for creators that helps them create both short and long-form videos, has expanded to a broader market since beta testing began last fall. The app was initially available on Android in the US and select other markets, but will now be available in more than 10 additional countries, including Brazil, Spain, Canada, Australia, Hong Kong, and more. This brings Create to a total of 21 countries. The idea behind Create is to provide video creators with an easy-to-use suite of free tools to create videos on the go. Announced at YouTube's Create event last…

Telegram CEO and founder Pavel Durov announced today that the company will launch an advertising platform next month that will allow channel owners to receive financial rewards. The company uses TON coins on the TON blockchain to pay out rewards. The channel owner will start receiving his 50% of all revenue that the company earns from displaying ads on the channel. Telegram channels allow users to broadcast public messages to large audiences. According to Durov, Telegram's broadcast channel generates 1 trillion views every month, but only 10% of that promotion is monetized with his tool, his Telegram Ads. . In…

Wearables have become increasingly diverse in shape, form factor, and appearance as health and fitness tracking has proliferated recently. At his 4YFN at the MWC trade show, we discovered something new. It's a stick-on patch that helps athletes track sweat to monitor salt loss and adjust hydration strategies. The Spanish startup developing these (for now) disposable wearables is called Swanty (yes, that's not a typo). “We create personalized hydration plans for athletes, and these plans are based on sweat analysis,” said co-CEO and founder Laura Ortorega Tanya. He explained that the system is designed to ensure athletes are hydrated with…

Major payment infrastructure stripe today announced that it has entered into an agreement with investors to provide liquidity to current and former employees through a tender offer valued at $65 billion. Notably, this valuation represents a 30% increase compared to the valuation at which Stripe was valued last March. Raise $6.5 billion in Series I funding The valuation is $50 billion. But it's still below. Valuation of $95 billion Achieved in March 2021. Stripe declined further comment, but written statementStripe and some investors have agreed to buy more than $1 billion in stock from current and former Stripe employees, a…