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How Just Stop Oil harnessed emotions to ignite public concern for climate change

Fast Company Tech

Many will read the groups legacy through the lens of public hostility: the frustration caused, the angry headlines, the outrage at its tactics. The alternative, an apathetic consensus, would entail passively accepting the dominant approach to address the climate crisis.

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Amid Twitter chaos, Mastodon grew donations 488% in 2022, reached 1.8M monthly active users

TechCrunch

Consumer interest in open source, decentralized social networking isn’t something that was only reflected in news headlines over the past year, it’s also apparent in the financials behind Mastodon.

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Mutiny, which personalizes website copy and headlines using AI, raises $50M

TechCrunch

While Mutiny initially applied GPT-3 only to site headline suggestions, the company eventually began applying the model to whole-page generation, leveraging Mutiny’s customer data to tune GPT-3 for the purpose. Via AI startup OpenAI’s API, Mutiny taps GPT-3, an AI system that can generate convincingly human-sounding text.

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Apple makes subtle changes to the App Store review policy, adds appeal mechanism for developers

TechSpot

Engaged on multiple fronts, Cupertino has been making headlines in disputes with Epic Games and Facebook over in-app purchases, with a business model that doesn't allow for any alternative (and legal) way to. Apple and its App Store policies have been deeply embroiled in controversy over the past few months.

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Not keen on Ring? Try these Ring video doorbell alternatives

Digital Trends

If recent headlines about the company have you thinking twice about them, check these alternatives. Ring has filled the market with video doorbell options.

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Circus Social is a Singapore-based social marketing startup that even Ogilvy wants a piece of

The Next Web

With the abundance of alternative options for marketers to carry out their social media marketing though, Circus Social’s selling point is almost certainly its expertise — as the people running it have already carried out marketing campaigns for years. Headline image via Joel Saget/ AFP/Getty Images.

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Three quarters of record-breaking funding for female founders is a win

TechCrunch

Hello and welcome back to Equity , a podcast about the business of startups where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. And then we chatted for a minute on alternative investing. And have fun! And oh boy was there a lot to corral. FEMALE FOUNDERS. Namely what Aqua is building , and why Alex is writing columns on NFTs.

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