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Meta Platforms plans to introduce advertisements to its text app, Threads, early next year, hoping to cash in on the app’s rapid growth, according to three people with direct knowledge of the company’s plans.
A team inside Instagram’s advertising division is leading the effort, which is still in the early stages, the people said. Threads is planning to kick off the effort by letting a small number of advertisers create and publish ads on the app starting in January, one of those people said.
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Beyoncé will perform songs off "Cowboy Carter" during Netflix's Christmas NFL gameday. Read more ›
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Victoria Kjær Theilvig is the first Miss Denmark to win Miss Universe in the pageant's history. She's also the first blond to win since 2004. Read more ›
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In a research note with Hong Kong-based investment bank Haitong today, obtained by MacRumors, Apple analyst Jeff Pu said he agrees with a recent rumor claiming that the so-called "iPhone 17 Air" will be around 6mm thick. If that measurement proves to be accurate, there would be a few noteworthy aspects. First, the iPhone 17 Air could become the thinnest iPhone ever, coming in under the current 6.9mm record held... Read more ›
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There is an ongoing but infrequent Photos bug that some iPhone users have been experiencing since upgrading to iOS 18. The issue occurs when attempting to save edits on an image, with users seeing the following message: "There was an error saving this photo. Please try again later." As the message suggests, edits are not able to be saved, and hitting "Cancel" and discarding changes is the only way to... Read more ›
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Stunning footage captured from the International Space Station shows a glorious-looking aurora shimmering above Earth. Read more ›
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Illustration by Cath Virginia / The Verge The Department of Justice is planning to ask for Google’s antitrust trial judge to force the company to sell off its Chrome browser after the judge ruled the company has maintained an illegal search monopoly, reports Bloomberg. Chrome is the world’s most widely used browser, and the government’s lawyers have argued that its use in cross-promoting Google’s products is one of the things... Read more ›
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You can already save more than $200 on an M4 MacBook Pro. | Photo by Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge Apple currently sells MacBooks equipped with its own M-series chips in a wide range of sizes and price points. It discontinued the M1 MacBook Air to make room for the latest models, but some retailers are still selling the last-gen laptop starting at $649 — a far cry... Read more ›
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Image: Hugo Herrera / The Verge HarperCollins has agreed with an unnamed AI tech company to let the company use some nonfiction titles to train its models, 404 Media reports, but only if authors opt-in to having their books be used for training. Some authors are currently suing companies like OpenAI, accusing them of copyright infringement for training AI models on their works without permission. According to a statement HarperCollins... Read more ›
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Antitrust officials from the DOJ are reportedly expected to ask a judge to force Google to sell Chrome to remedy its search antitrust case. Read more ›
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ZTE has outed a new mid-range smartphone today, the Blade V70, which is now listed on the company's international website. The Blade V70 comes with a 6.7-inch 720x1600 LCD screen with 120 Hz refresh rate, a 2 GHz octa-core CPU from an unnamed chipset, 8GB of RAM, 256GB of expandable storage, a side-mounted fingerprint sensor embedded in the power button, and a 5,000 mAh battery with support for 22.5W wired... Read more ›
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Two undersea communications cables in the Baltic Sea have been knocked offline, and at least one appears to have been physically cut. CNN received confirmation from a local telecom company that a cable between Lithuania and Sweden was cut on Sunday morning. A second cable, about 60 to 65 miles from the first, routes communications between Finland and Germany. The cause of that outage has yet to be determined, but... Read more ›
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Bluesky saw a surge in new users following the election, with many praising the feeling on the social media site as being similar to "old Twitter." Read more ›
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Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy have floated trimming headcount at government agencies. BI looked at the biggest federal employers and their salaries. Read more ›
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Photo by ANDREA RENAULT/AFP via Getty Images Amazon and SpaceX are seeking to hamstring the National Labor Relations Board, asking a court to declare its processes for upholding labor law unconstitutional. But judges on a three-person panel appeared skeptical when the companies presented their arguments Monday. In two separate cases before the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, the two companies argued that the NLRB is unlawfully forcing them to participate... Read more ›
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New V4 cabinet and Supercharger stalls. | Image: Tesla Tesla will launch fully realized V4 Supercharger stations that support up to 500kW charging for EVs and 1.2MW for Tesla’s commercial Semi trucks next year. Sites with new V4 cabinets are going into permitting now. When they open next year, they’ll connect the charging stalls EVs plug into with upgraded electronics that support faster charging on Cybertruck and other manufacturers’ EVs.... Read more ›
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Celebrating 30 years of Star Trek: Generations, OTOY and the Roddenberry Archive's latest short film is a bittersweet farewell to Trek's first generation of heroes. Read more ›
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Apple's next-generation A19 chip for the iPhone 17 and iPhone 17 Air and A19 Pro chip for the iPhone 17 Pro and iPhone 17 Pro Max will be manufactured with TSMC's latest, third-generation 3nm process called "N3P," analyst Jeff Pu said today, in a broader tech-related research note with Hong Kong-based investment bank Haitong. The current A18 and A18 Pro chips for the iPhone 16 lineup are manufactured with TSMC's... Read more ›
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Starting next month, making a device backup over iCloud will require iOS 9 or later, Apple has informed some customers via email. New backups for iPhones and iPads running iOS 8 or earlier will no longer be supported, and Apple will delete all existing iCloud backups of those devices as well. Apps and data stored on an iPhone or iPad running iOS 8 or earlier will not be affected, and... Read more ›
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Eric Sim, 54, spent more than 20 years in banking. The former UBS managing director now works as a professional speaker and executive coach. Read more ›
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Forward, a startup that raised $400 million to operate artificial intelligence-powered “doctor in a box” healthcare stations, is shutting down effective Tuesday, according to a person close to the company. All of its nearly 200 employees will lose their jobs, the person said. The San Francisco startup, started in 2017 by former Google employee Adrian Aoun, wanted to make healthcare visits more accessible with staffed clinics and automatic services. It... Read more ›
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On a sunny day last month, a propeller plane made multiple passes in the air over a large industrial building surrounded by grassy fields near downtown Memphis, Tenn., as its passengers snapped photographs and videos of the facility. It was a secret reconnaissance mission. Elon Musk had recently converted the building from a former manufacturing plant for home appliances into a data center that housed one of the largest clusters... Read more ›
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A month ago, we reported that former OpenAI chief technology officer Mira Murati had begun to pitch current OpenAI staffers on joining her new venture. It seems like at least one OpenAI researcher has taken her up on her offer.Mianna Chen, a research program manager for the team at OpenAI responsible for preparing AI models for release, has recently left and plans to join Murati at her new company, according... Read more ›
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Enterprise software firm Databricks, one of the world’s most valuable private tech companies, is considering raising several billion dollars in the coming months to allow employees to cash out stock grants that begin to expire in early 2026. Such a move would signal that the firm, whose business of data management software has gotten a boost from artificial intelligence services, isn’t planning to go public anytime in the next year. Read more ›
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The other evening, a stranger told Lucid Motors CEO Peter Rawlinson that if he ever came across an electric vehicle that would go 500 miles on a charge, he’d buy it. “And I said, ‘That’s Lucid Air!’” Rawlinson recalls, referring to his company’s sleek sedan. “He said, ‘What? How long has that been in production?’ I said, ‘Two and a half years.’” He paused. “The world doesn’t know that two... Read more ›
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Everyone from Hollywood veteran Jeffrey Katzenberg to Snap and Meta Platforms has tried luring Americans with minuteslong TV-style shows on social media apps. All have failed. But that isn’t deterring TikTok from exploring the concept. The ByteDance-owned video app is considering ways of using such minidramas, which have proved to be a huge hit for its sibling app, Douyin, in China, to broaden its audience. Some small video makers already... Read more ›
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Valuations of generative artificial intelligence startups appear to be coming down—slightly. The latest example is Synthesia, which helps companies create AI videos. It’s raising $150 million in funding at a valuation of $2.1 billion after the investment, double its valuation from 17 months ago, according to a person involved in the deal. While the valuation may seem high, it’s actually far lower than valuations many startups were getting earlier this... Read more ›
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SoftBank Group swung to a net profit in the quarter through September, driven by investment gains in the company’s Vision Fund business. SoftBank reported a net profit of 1.18 trillion yen ($7.66 billion) in the quarter, compared with a loss of 931 billion yen a year earlier. The Vision ... Read more ›
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Meta Platforms plans to introduce advertisements to its text app, Threads, early next year, hoping to cash in on the app’s rapid growth, according to three people with direct knowledge of the company’s plans. A team inside Instagram’s advertising division is leading the effort, which is still in the early stages, the people said. Threads is planning to kick off the effort by letting a small number of advertisers create... Read more ›
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Google has recently struggled to achieve performance gains in its Gemini conversational artificial intelligence at the same rate it did last year, prompting researchers to focus on other ways to eke out gains, according to an employee who has been involved in the effort. The situation appears similar to the slowdown in AI advances that rival OpenAI has experienced this year, which spurred the ChatGPT owner to use new techniques... Read more ›
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