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🪐 What’s happening in tech today, December 21, 2024?

The HackerNoon Newsletter brings the HackerNoon homepage straight to your inbox. On this day, The Mayan Long Count Calendar Ended in 2012, Gangnam Style Reached One Billion Views in 2012, The First Ever Basketball Game is Played in 1891, and we present you with these top quality stories. From How I Made $700 a Month With My Open-source Scheduling Tool to New Framework by Beeble Researchers Promises to Bring Realistic Glow to Digital Portraits Using AI, let’s dive right in.

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machine-learning

New Framework by Beeble Researchers Promises to Bring Realistic Glow to Digital Portraits Using AI

TL;DR Researchers at Beeble AI have developed a method for improving how light and shadows can be applied to human portraits in digital images.

By @autoencoder [ 4 Min read ]

Authors:

(1) Hoon Kim, Beeble AI, and contributed equally to this work;

(2) Minje Jang, Beeble AI, and contributed equally to this work;

(3) Wonjun Yoon, Beeble AI, and contributed equally to this work;

(4) Jisoo Lee, Beeble AI, and contributed equally to this work;

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tech-stories

Three Sexy AI API Keys to Access More Models than Hugh Hefner

TL;DR 3 Sexy AI API Keys to Access More Models than Hugh Hefner

By @pauldentro [ 3 Min read ]

Are you tired of juggling multiple AI API keys across different AI platforms? What if I told you that you only need three API keys to access most of the AI capabilities you’ll ever need? Let me show you how to streamline your AI development process...

business

Next Holiday Season, Ignore Everyone Except One Customer

TL;DR Holiday marketing sucks. Next year, ditch the ads and discount vouchers for a campaign targeting one person. Heres how.

By @bigmao [ 5 Min read ]

Holiday marketing, as it’s preached, is a con. A ritualized scam sold to startups by ad platforms, agencies, and marketers who profit from your desperation. Do you really think you can outspend Amazon, out-charm Coca-Cola, or outmaneuver Nike? Unless you’re secretly printing money in your garage, no.

More thought-starters:..

programming

How I Made $700 a Month With My Open-source Scheduling Tool

TL;DR I built a social media scheduling tool (many exist in the market) and created an open-source version.

By @nevodavid10 [ 3 Min read ]

I am a big advocate of open-source startups. Over the next year, you will see many more of them. You take an existing product and open-source it.

I built a social media scheduling tool (many exist in the market) and created an open-source version.

It's important to know this...

machine-learning

UAE Researchers Say New AI Model Can Watch Videos, Understand Audio

TL;DR Researchers in UAE have developed an AI model that can find and focus on objects in videos and beats other models in doing so.

By @autoencoder [ 4 Min read ]

Authors:

(1) Shehan Munasinghe, Mohamed bin Zayed University of AI and Equal Contribution;

(2) Rusiru Thushara, Mohamed bin Zayed University of AI and Equal Contribution;

(3) Muhammad Maaz, Mohamed bin Zayed University of AI;

(4) Hanoona Abdul Rasheed, Mohamed bin Zayed University of AI;

Supplementary Material..

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On This Day

The Mayan Long Count Calendar Ended

The completion of the 13th Baktun in the Mayan Long Count calendar sparked widespread speculation and discussion about apocalyptic theories and the end of the world, although scholars emphasized that it simply marked the end of a cycle in the calendar.