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A profile of Lanny Smoot, Disney's only research fellow, who holds 100+ patents and has built an omnidirectional HoloTile Floor to allow users to walk in VR (Marah Eakin/Wired)

Marah Eakin / Wired: A profile of Lanny Smoot, Disney's only research fellow, who holds 100+ patents and has built an omnidirectional HoloTile Floor to allow users to walk in VR — If you've ever seen a lightsaber at a Disney park or marveled at BB-8, you've seen Lanny Smoot's work. http://www.techmeme.com/240303/p6?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger#a240303p6

As music from Universal Music Group artists disappears from TikTok, creators turn to royalty-free, almost-contextless sound clips (Reece Rogers/Wired)

Reece Rogers / Wired: As music from Universal Music Group artists disappears from TikTok, creators turn to royalty-free, almost-contextless sound clips — More Universal Music songs are disappearing from TikTok as the two companies fail to reach new agreements. Sound clips are ready for their big break. http://www.techmeme.com/240303/p3?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger#a240303p3

Inside "Are We Dating The Same Guy?" Facebook groups, which have a reported 3.5 million members, as some users say the dating forums cause more harm than good (Washington Post)

Washington Post: Inside “Are We Dating The Same Guy?” Facebook groups, which have a reported 3.5 million members, as some users say the dating forums cause more harm than good — Some users say the dating forums cause more harm than good — She had cut off contact with her ex, put a thousand miles between them and started therapy. http://www.techmeme.com/240303/p1?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger#a240303p1

A look at AARoads, a dedicated US roads and highways wiki site started by a group of Wikipedia editors, after years of frustration over Wikipedia's rules (Thomas Germain/Gizmodo)

Thomas Germain / Gizmodo: A look at AARoads, a dedicated US roads and highways wiki site started by a group of Wikipedia editors, after years of frustration over Wikipedia's rules — A group of Wikipedia editors wrote 15,000 articles on US roads and highways. But after a fight over the platform's rules, they went rogue. http://www.techmeme.com/240302/p12?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger#a240302p12

EU court rules that regulators should pay €786K of legal fees for Qualcomm, not the €12M the company sought after it won an appeal against a 2018 antitrust fine (Foo Yun Chee/Reuters)

Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: EU court rules that regulators should pay €786K of legal fees for Qualcomm, not the €12M the company sought after it won an appeal against a 2018 antitrust fine — Europe's second highest court has said EU regulators should pay 785,857.54 euros ($851,634) of legal fees for Qualcomm … http://www.techmeme.com/240302/p11?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger#a240302p11

Sources: Google is offering to relist the apps of ten big Indian developers on the Play Store if they agree to route any payments through their own websites (Business Standard)

Business Standard: Sources: Google is offering to relist the apps of ten big Indian developers on the Play Store if they agree to route any payments through their own websites — Play Store to host apps for free without using Google's payment system — Google Inc, according to sources, is offering ten key developers … http://www.techmeme.com/240302/p9?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger#a240302p9

A look at Project Maven, the US DOD's flagship AI effort which identifies battlefield targets, and at concerns, including adversaries poisoning training data (Katrina Manson/Bloomberg)

Katrina Manson / Bloomberg: A look at Project Maven, the US DOD's flagship AI effort which identifies battlefield targets, and at concerns, including adversaries poisoning training data — On a summer evening in 2020 at Fort Liberty, a sprawling US Army installation in North Carolina, soldiers from the 18th Airborne Corps pored … http://www.techmeme.com/240302/p4?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger#a240302p4