Ben Thompson / Stratechery: Twitter’s best defense against Threads may be to refocus on news and reactions from people you follow, leaving growth via algorithmic feeds to Threads — If you’re only going to tweet once every 11 years, then you better make it count; the best way to do just that is to pull
Read MoreShutterstock, the leading provider of stock content, has announced its plans to expand its existing deal with OpenAI, a prominent AI research and deployment company. This strategic partnership aims to fuel AI tech innovation by providing OpenAI with extensive training data for its AI models. In return, Shutterstock will gain priority access to OpenAI’s latest
Read MoreCredit: Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority You can now transfer your Netflix profile to any account. The Profile Transfer feature on Netflix no longer requires a new account. The new feature especially benefits those affected by the platform’s new account-sharing restrictions. Netflix has announced a new Profile Transfer feature for those who might have fallen
Read MoreFrederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: Linux distribution company SUSE says it’s creating a hard fork of Red Hat Enterprise Linux and plans to invest $10M into the project over the coming years — A storm is brewing in open-source land that could change the Linux distro landscape — Today, SUSE announced that it is creating …
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Read MoreIn a dramatic turn of events, Twitter has threatened Meta, the parent company of Facebook, with legal action after Meta released Threads, a competitor to Twitter. This action demonstrates that Twitter sees Threads as competition for its position as the dominant microblogging platform. Trade secret theft is at the heart of the lawsuit, which accuses
Read MoreBrody Ford / Bloomberg: Salesforce plans its first price hike in seven years by ~9% for some products like Tableau and Sales Cloud, effective August 2023 for new and existing customers — Salesforce Inc. is raising prices for the first time in seven years after introducing artificial intelligence features.
Read MoreWhenever phone-based thermal cameras are brought up here on Hackaday, we inevitably receive some comments about how they’re a bad investment compared to a standalone unit. Sure they might be cheaper, but what happens in a couple years when the app stops working and the manufacturer no longer feels like keeping it updated? It’s a
Read MoreKyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Collective, a financial management service for freelancers offering bookkeeping, payroll, and tax tools, raised $50M, bringing its total funding to $82M — Collective, a platform and advisory team that provides bookkeeping, payroll and tax advice to freelancers, today announced it raised $50 million …
Read MoreA worthwhile Zelda deal has dropped. | Image: Nintendo The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom has been dominating the gaming zeitgeist since its release in May, but it’s finally time for a wave of patient deal hunters to descend on Hyrule. Amazon and Walmart are now discounting the Nintendo title that normally runs $69.99, selling
Read MoreIn an ever-evolving world driven by technology, internet connectivity has become an essential part of our lives. However, there are regions where traditional connectivity technologies like fiber or microwave towers face numerous challenges. The Philippines, with its frequent typhoons and vulnerability to natural disasters, is one such place. To address this issue, space-based internet startup
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Read MoreThe Bose QuietComfort 45 are just one of many noise-canceling headphones significantly discounted at multiple retailers. | Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge It’s easy to feel left out of Amazon Prime Day if you’re not a Prime member. Watching everyone else quickly grab deals you don’t have access to can inspire a major
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Read MoreMicrosoft’s $69 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard has sent shockwaves through the technology sector. The gaming industry could see significant changes as a result of this merger, opening up new possibilities for both parties involved. Federal antitrust regulators had sought to halt the deal, but a judge has ruled in Microsoft’s favor by not doing
Read MoreJonathan Stempel / Reuters: A US district judge dismissed a suit by r/WallStreetBets founder Jaime Rogozinski who accused Reddit of wrongly banning him as the community’s moderator in 2020 — A U.S. judge on Tuesday dismissed a lawsuit in which the founder of WallStreetBets, which helped ignite investors’ fascination with …
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Read MoreKevin Roose / New York Times: Interviews with executives and staff at Anthropic reveal how an obsession with AI safety and ties to effective altruism influence the startup’s decisions — Anthropic, a safety-focused A.I. start-up, is trying to compete with ChatGPT while preventing an A.I. apocalypse. It’s been a little stressful.
Read MoreAmazon Prime Day 2023 has finally arrived. Along with Black Friday, this is one of the biggest sales events of the year and your chance to score huge savings on many of the best devices on the market. Everything from smartphones to coat hangers will be on sale, and you’ll find all of the best
Read More[OZ2CPU] has an HP power supply that is about 30 years old. It looks brand new, though, and has three outputs and includes tracking for the adjustable positive and negative supply. After a quick demo of the unit’s features, he tears it all down so we can see inside. You can catch the video below.
Read MoreIf you’ve been waiting for the sticker price to come down before you skydive into the new Legend of Zelda game, now’s your (hero of) time.
Read MoreArtificial Intelligence (AI) has been a topic of great interest and concern in recent years. As technology continues to advance, there is growing speculation about its potential impact on jobs and the workforce. The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has conducted extensive research to shed light on this issue. According to their findings,
Read MoreE-commerce has rapidly expanded in recent years, dramatically altering the ways in which both consumers and businesses conduct commerce online. E-commerce has entered a new era of personalization thanks to the rapid developments in technology, especially in the fields of big data and artificial intelligence (AI). In this article, we’ll look at how big data
Read MoreIllustration by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Silk Road was once synonymous with online “dark web” criminal activity, and today, its number two organizer, Roger Thomas Clark, aka Variety Jones, was sentenced to 20 years. Clark’s sentence was, according to Wired, the maximum he could have faced as part of his plea deal. Clark
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