What platforms need to know about the Digital Services Act (DSA): Part Two, The Obligations
This is the second installment of a three-part blog series on the DSA. Miss the first blog? Catch up on “The Scope.” The Digital Services Act (DSA) goes into
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MFCCs: Engineering features from sound
There are many exciting problems that can be solved by training machine learning models on large, audio datasets – distinguishing speakers, identifying instruments in music, and translating speech from one
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What platforms need to know about the Digital Services Act (DSA): Part One, The Scope
At Pex, we have extensively covered the adoption of the European Union’s Copyright Directive, especially its Article 17, to help educate platforms, rightsholders, and creators on their rights and responsibilities.
Why creators and rightsholders need Standard Technical Measures (STMs) defined and adopted
Standard Technical Measures, or STMs, are the focus of many current discussions in Washington D.C., particularly around the SMART Copyright Act of 2022 and the U.S. Copyright Office STM hearings.
Name that tune: How melody matching finds more revenue for songwriters
Songwriters are the foundation of the music industry, and yet they have to fight the hardest for their royalties. Not only do they make three times less than recording artists
800 Pound Gorilla Media leverages Pex technology to proactively find uses of comedy content on social media
When we like something on the Internet, we love to share it with others. At Pex, we identify the reuploads of content on social media platforms to track how audio
Judgment highlights: EU Court of Justice rules Article 17 is valid, dismisses Poland’s action of annulment
In late 2019, Poland brought an action to the Court of Justice of the European Union seeking the annulment of two parts of Article 17 of the EU DSM Directive
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How the Pex Definition of Done helps us ship
Once a small and largely Los Angeles-based company, Pex is now a growing, remote organization. Because of this, what once had been an effective way for us to communicate and
Going remote: 10/10 Pexers would recommend
In May of 2020, Pex officially adopted remote work as its standard and announced to all Pexers they would not be returning to an office, but could instead work from
Three simple rituals for stress-free product documentation
Last March, many companies were forced to switch to remote-first working due to the global pandemic. Among many realizations that Covid-19 brought to light was the increased importance of internal
An introduction to neural network model uncertainty
The past decade has seen a rise in the application of machine learning to all walks of life – from low impact applications like music recommendation systems to high-stakes uses,
Auto-scaling an Azure Virtual Machine Scale Set from an external metric source
Recently, the Infrastructure Team at Pex had the pleasure and challenge of shifting all of our deployments from Google Cloud Platform (GCP) to Microsoft Azure.Our services rely heavily on Apache
Pex culture: Focusing on what really matters
Oh, it’s dog-friendly too?! 80s arcade games. Kombucha taps. Fully stocked kitchen. These are the typical bells and whistles we’ve come to expect of tech startups that present as fun,