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As TikTok’s U.S. shopping service enters its second year of operation, the ByteDance-owned company has become stingier about wooing online merchants with cash. TikTok has cut back on subsidizing deep discounts for retailers, a tactic it used last year when TikTok Shop launched, and has tripled its cut of sales to 6%.
But TikTok has started to use other strategies to keep merchants interested in TikTok Shop. It’s putting more emphasis on teaching sellers how to use live video streams to connect with America
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Netflix's third-quarter earnings beat estimates, with new subscribers growing again as the company continued to fight password-sharing. Read more ›
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The Meta perk is intended for employees who work late at the office and may need to order food to eat. Read more ›
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Bloober has announced its next game will be an original sci-fi survival horror called Cronos: The New Dawn. Read more Read more ›
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The video of Optimus is sped up 2 times, 8 times, and even 10 times faster at various points. Read more ›
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Billionaire Mark Cuban will appear on Kamala Harris' behalf in three swing states by the end of the week. Read more ›
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Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Last year, YouTube axed Premium Lite, its cheaper version of YouTube Premium, but the company has been testing a new version of the subscription in Australia, Germany, and Thailand, YouTube confirmed to Android Authority. The company confirmed the tests to The Verge as well, with spokesperson Jessica Gibby saying that it has been testing a “different version” of the subscription with “some users... Read more ›
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A new trailer dropped on the opening day of the New York Comic Con for the new six-episode spinoff series Dune: Prophecy, a prequel to the recent films directed by Denis Villeneuve. The new series will premiere November 17 at 9PM on HBO. Each episode will be available to stream on Max on Sundays following its TV broadcast. The Dune prequel is based on the novel Sisterhood of Dune by... Read more ›
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Taylor Swift is self-publishing a book, cutting traditional publishers out of the deal. This is not the first time she has circumvented an industry. Read more ›
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In June, Apple discontinued its "buy now, pay later" service called Apple Pay Later, which let qualifying customers split a purchase made with Apple Pay into four equal payments over six weeks, with no interest or fees. Instead, Apple said customers in the U.S. would be able to apply for loans from select other "buy now, pay later" services when they check out with Apple Pay on the web and... Read more ›
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The two 5G fixed wireless broadband options make for a compelling alternative. Read more ›
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Former PlayStation exec Shawn Layden has discussed the state of the games industry, stating there's a "collapse of creativity" and that relying on blockbusters is "a death sentence". Read more Read more ›
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One of the new tools will prevent users from taking screenshots or recordings of certain images. Read more ›
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Credit is now Blackstone's largest business by assets. COO Jon Gray explains why it's "very early days" for the burgeoning lending business. Read more ›
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Alan Wake and Control developer Remedy has revealed FBC: Firebreak, a three-player co-op multiplayer spin-off set in the same universe. Read more Read more ›
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Analogue of Analogue Pocket fame released another FGPA-based emulation-free game console, now based on the Nintendo 64. Read more ›
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Illustration: The Verge Google is making a big change to company leadership. In a memo to staff posted on Thursday, Google CEO Sundar Pichai announced that Prabhakar Raghavan, the senior vice president in charge of search, ads, and other important segments, will now take on the role of chief technologist. “Prabhakar has decided it’s time to make a big leap in his own career,” Pichai writes. “After 12 years leading... Read more ›
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Sam's Club CEO Chris Nicholas said the new high-tech location is a model for the 30 new stores planned over the next six years. Read more ›
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The Lenovo Yoga Slim 7i Aura Edition matches an efficient Lunar Lake chipset with a quality build and a very nice display. And it's competitively priced. Read more ›
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Apple today shared a letter celebrating the recent 10-year anniversary of Apple Pay, which launched in the U.S. on October 20, 2014 as part of iOS 18.1. Here is the full letter from Jennifer Bailey, Apple's vice president of Apple Pay and Apple Wallet:When we started our journey with Apple Pay 10 years ago, we saw a unique opportunity to leverage Apple’s hardware and software to make a meaningful impact... Read more ›
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Business Insider's reporter traveled in business class on Amtrak and thought the perks weren't worth the extra $100 it cost to upgrade. Read more ›
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Score one for OpenAI? Before we get to today’s column, we should flag Aaron’s scoop yesterday about OpenAI hiring one of Microsoft’s most prominent artificial intelligence researchers. It must be a welcome relief for OpenAI to be on the receiving end of such a move for a change.Onto today’s issue…Between headlines about OpenAI’s multibillion-dollar financing and executive drama, you might have forgotten it’s also reworking its convoluted structure so that... Read more ›
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You certainly can’t accuse Wall Street of being taken in by a glitzy presentation, at least not this week. Elon Musk’s big robotaxi reveal on Thursday night went down like a lead balloon with investors today. Tesla shares fell 9%, while shares of Uber, whose business is theoretically at risk from a Tesla robotaxi, rose nearly 11% to $86. That puts Uber stock a few dollars above where it was... Read more ›
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When Andrew Gounardes needed help rallying support for two social media bills he’d introduced in the New York State Senate earlier this year, he knew who to call: Mothers Against Media Addiction. The New York-based nonprofit parental advocacy group had caught Gounardes’ attention even before it officially launched in March, thanks to its founder, Julie Scelfo, whom a colleague had introduced Gounardes to earlier that year. “It was a match... Read more ›
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Crusoe, a data center company focused on artificial intelligence, is in advanced discussions to raise several billion dollars in debt financing for a data center it is building for OpenAI in Texas, according to two people with direct knowledge of the situation. Crusoe, which previously focused ... Read more ›
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The artificial intelligence race is lifting previously unknown data center startups that say they can move faster than bigger developers. The latest is Crusoe Energy, which on Tuesday announced a deal to borrow $3.4 billion to develop a data center that could eventually become one of the largest in the world. Oracle, a cloud provider, will lease the site and rent servers with Nvidia's artificial intelligence chips to OpenAI, The... Read more ›
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Last year, TikTok helped woo sellers to TikTok Shop by footing the bill for incredible discounts on its new e-commerce service. These encouraged merchants to sell items at rock-bottom prices, which led to a deluge of sales. But this year, TikTok is taking a different tack to grow its e-commerce sales by encouraging more brands to go live—a lot.That’s one of the takeaways from a story Ann Gehan and I... Read more ›
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When it comes to recruiting and retaining artificial intelligence researchers, OpenAI has faced tougher competition this year from old and new rivals. Now it’s facing pressure from a very recent former employee: ex-chief technology officer Mira Murati.Murati, whose last day was Friday, October 4 and now is as an advisor to the company, has been speaking with OpenAI employees about potentially joining her next venture, though she hasn’t disclosed exactly... Read more ›
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Amazon announced three nuclear energy projects on Wednesday, including two deals with utilities and an investment in a nuclear developer, marking the latest example of a big tech company backing clean energy projects to power data centers. Amazon has signed agreements with utilities in Virginia ... Read more ›
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Could a breakup be good for Google? The gang had a lot to debate and discuss. Plus, Jessica recaps The Information's WTF. Enjoy! Apple Spotify YouTube Read more ›
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Nvidia and OpenAI may get the headlines, but their microprocessors and artificial intelligence wouldn’t be possible without the good people of Taiwan—specifically, more than 70,000 employees and leaders of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co.A few years ago, my colleague Wayne took readers into the deep relationship between TSMC and Apple, which is still its top customer, and he later reported in detail how TSMC is even more secretive than Apple, which... Read more ›
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