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We are wrapping up the first creator-centric U.S. presidential election, where both candidates tapped social media influencers and appeared on podcasts to reach younger voters. Those efforts have extended to the final 24-hour stretch of the campaign. On Monday, Kamala Harris’ campaign launched a public broadcast channel on Instagram called “CFK: The Final Push,” referring to the acronym for the campaign’s “Creators for Kamala” effort. It’s since sent a steady stream of updates to the 300 or so creators in t
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The first wooden data centres by Microsoft aim to reduce carbon emissions by up to 65%. The company is overhauling supplier contracts to require carbon-free electricity use by 2030. In northern Virginia, Microsoft is undertaking an unconventional experiment: building data centres with wood. The company uses cross-laminated timber (CLT), a specialised engineered wood product, in... Read more » Read more ›
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Following a seemingly solid launch for Dragon Age: The Veilguard, there's probably a fair few series newcomers considering delving into the original trilogy. But anyone hoping for a Mass Effect: Legendary Edition style remaster shouldn't hold their breath; Dragon Age: The Veilguard creative director John Epler says the project would be challenging because hardly anyone left at BioWare knows how the studio's old engine works. Read more Read more ›
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Apple appears to be planning an activity challenge to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Apple Watch, which was released in 2015. In the latest iOS 18.2 beta, there's a mention of a "Ten Year Celebration" with references to an activity achievement, so it sounds like something is in the works. While the Apple Watch was introduced at Apple's September 2014 iPhone event, it was not released until April 2015.... Read more ›
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The Internet Archive is continuing the recovery process after a series of DDoS attacks that took down its servers in early October. On Monday, the nonprofit digital library posted on X that its 'Save Page Now' service has been restored to the Wayback Machine. Save Page Now is back online via the Wayback Machine: https://t.co/0x24WHlhAcWeb pages archived since October 9 will start being added to @waybackmachine. pic.twitter.com/fbQxXKSRL5— Internet Archive (@internetarchive)... Read more ›
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Musk said on Tuesday that his super PAC will continue to be a big player in elections, including the 2026 midterms and local district attorney races. Read more ›
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The results aren’t in yet, but if Donald Trump ends up winning the 2024 presidential election and regaining the presidency, he could radically reshape international politics. Trump has made very clear on the campaign trail that he believes major changes to US foreign policy are necessary: “We have been treated so badly, mostly by allies […] Read more ›
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Review aggregation site Metacritic has spoken out in response to the ongoing review bombing of Dragon Age: The Veilguard by online commenters upset at the game's inclusive characters and themes. Read more Read more ›
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Illustration: Cath Virginia / The Verge; Photo: Getty Images Elon Musk is a busy man right now. He’s supposedly running X, SpaceX, Tesla, and Neuralink, all while actively campaigning for Trump. But despite those myriad concerns, Musk still finds the time to play Diablo 4. He’s even said he’s pretty good at it, claiming in a recent interview with Joe Rogan that he’s in the top 20 of Diablo 4... Read more ›
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Chelsey Nelson moved from the US to Australia to be with her boyfriend. They get taxed 39% of their income and they could still afford to buy a house. Read more ›
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The human body can effectively power many wearables without the need for a battery, according to researchers at Carnegie Mellon University. Their power-over-skin technology was able to provide sufficient energy for a variety of devices. Read more ›
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Social media companies that once at least tried to promote a healthy information ecosystem have largely given up—and insiders say Musk’s example gave them cover. Read more ›
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Apple updated its list of "risk factors" with new language about future product profitability, geopolitical tensions, and AI features. Read more ›
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The HP OmniBook Ultra Flip 14 leverages Intel Lunar Lake to mount a challenge against the Apple MacBook Air 13. Which one comes out on top? Read more ›
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Conviction Partners’ Sarah Guo, a former general partner at Greylock Partners who left the firm two years ago to back very young AI startups, is raising around $200 million for her second fund, according to a person with direct knowledge on the fundraising efforts. Guo has also told prospective ... Read more ›
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Microsoft and Amazon tried to make alternatives to Google and Apple's mobile platforms. And we know how that turned out. Read more ›
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Fast-food chains like McDonald's, KFC, and Burger King face declining sales in the US as rising prices deter customers. Read more ›
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Luce is the storm that is approaching anime fans' tier list of the most powerful heroes. Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: The Mozilla Foundation, the non-profit arm of the Firefox browser maker Mozilla, has laid off 30% of its employees as the organization says it faces a "relentless onslaught of change." When reached by TechCrunch, Mozilla Foundation's communications chief Brandon Borrman confirmed the layoffs in an email. "The Mozilla Foundation is reorganizing teams to increase agility and impact as we accelerate our work... Read more ›
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Image: Kristen Radtke / The Verge; Getty Images Arizona resident Jacqueline McAferty is suing Elon Musk and his pro-Trump America PAC in a Texas federal court, alleging that the PAC’s $1 million-a-day lottery to registered voters in swing states was fraud. The proposed class-action lawsuit was filed a day after a Philadelphia judge denied the city’s request to order Musk to end the lottery — and seems to have been... Read more ›
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In media and politics, timing is everything — which leaves many people wondering why journalist and author Michael Wolff waited until mere days before the presidential election to drop a bombshell: what he says are recordings of Jeffrey Epstein discussing his intimate friendship with Republican candidate Donald Trump. Wolff, author of Fire and Fury, a […] Read more ›
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You could be forgiven for missing, amid the onslaught of tech company earnings news lately, what may be the most startling business story of the week. That would be the plan by enterprise software and bitcoin investment firm MicroStrategy to raise a massive $42 billion over the next three years to buy more bitcoin, using equal parts debt and equity. The total raised would nearly double MicroStrategy’s size, given that... Read more ›
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TikTok parent ByteDance increased its international revenue more than 60% to about $17 billion in the first half of 2024, according to two people with knowledge of the financial results. As TikTok accounts for most of ByteDance’s revenue outside China, the growth suggests that TikTok’s advertising and other businesses have remained strong despite the threat of a U.S. ban. ByteDance’s overall revenue in the first half—mainly coming from advertising and... Read more ›
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Last summer, online cookware brand Made In saw customers’ requests for refunds nearly double in terms of dollar value in just a month. Soon after, instead of returned merchandise, empty envelopes and boxes filled with junk, like plastic toys, began to show up at Made In’s fulfillment center. Made In executives realized that the surge in returns was a coordinated, large-scale effort, likely stemming from online fraud groups on Telegram... Read more ›
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Artificial intelligence is supposed to transform the business world and boost the software industry that’s selling it. But as companies spend more money on chatbots and other conversational AI (see related chart), some say they plan to reduce spending on other types of software, such as expensive enterprise applications and non-AI cloud services. That could limit the upside from AI for providers of cloud services and enterprise software. Take C1,... Read more ›
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Amazon expects to boost capital expenditures in 2025, exceeding this year’s spending of roughly $75 billion, driven primarily by new infrastructure to support the company’s artificial intelligence and cloud business, executives said Thursday. The company reported a record $22.6 billion in ... Read more ›
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After competing on “MasterChef” in 2019, Nick DiGiovanni started posting videos on YouTube, including an elaborate dessert he planned if he’d made it to the finale, and on TikTok where he started going viral for making mini gourmet meals for his pet hamster, Pesto. Now 28, he turned that TV appearance and initial momentum on social media into a full-time career as a creator. While he makes most of his... Read more ›
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Will Microsoft, Google and Meta's outsize investments in artificial intelligence produce outsize profits? Perhaps, but shareholders realized this week they'll have to wait longer to find out. September quarter reports from several big tech companies showed that while their business and consumer customers spent more on conversational AI services such as ChatGPT in the third quarter, it's far from going gangbusters. And what growth is being achieved may be offset... Read more ›
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T-Mobile agreed to pay OpenAI roughly $100 million over the next three years as part of a deal to use the startup’s technology, The Information reported on Monday. T-Mobile is paying to use OpenAI’s models to develop a new customer service chatbot that will aim to remember customer-specific data ... Read more ›
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Nothing particularly frightening emerged from the two big tech goliaths that reported September quarterly results tonight, Apple and Amazon. But they offered nothing particularly cheery, either.For both companies, the updates had a mix of good and bad news. Apple, for instance, reported 6% top-line growth for the September quarter, its best quarterly growth number in two years. That was thanks to 5.5% growth in iPhones, twice the improvement of the... Read more ›
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Shortly after 2 a.m. on a Saturday in a midtown Manhattan sports bar packed with Aussies, Dr. Tom Oxley was feeling stunned. The underdog Brisbane Lions, his longtime favorite Australian rules football club, was up 73 to 27 against the Sydney Swans going into the second half of the championship match. “It’s a good start,” Oxley acknowledged, clad in his typical game-day fit, a maroon, blue and yellow Lions jersey.... Read more ›
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