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Facebook is making “views” its primary metric to measure the performance of content, bringing it in line with Instagram metrics.
Views will be measured not just on video content but also on photos, text posts, and more. When Instagram head Adam Mosseri announced the switch to views this summer, he said that having one consistent metric across the platform would make it easier for creators to understand how their content was performing. For reels, a view is how many ti
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Today marks two years since Apple made its Emergency SOS via satellite feature available on all iPhone 14 models in the U.S. and Canada. Apple has since expanded its suite of satellite-based features, and they all remain free to use for now. Below, we recap the rollout of Apple's satellite features and what's next. November 2022: Apple launches Emergency SOS via satellite in the U.S. and Canada, allowing you to... Read more ›
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Elon Musk alleges in his lawsuit that OpenAI and Microsoft are using anticompetitive practices like "lavish compensation" to build a gen AI monopoly. Read more ›
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Robin Zeng, founder and chairman of CATL, says Musk's 4860 battery design "is going to fail and never be successful." Read more ›
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Elon Musk's Twitter/X alters its terms of service on November 15. In theory, they allow him to feed your tweets to his AI, Grok. Read more ›
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One of the remaining episodes of the since-canceled Marvel animated series was supposedly pulled due to concerns over current tensions around trans athletes. Read more ›
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Image: Kristen Radtke / The Verge; Getty Images Elon Musk has updated his fraud, breach of contract, and racketeering lawsuit against OpenAI to make antitrust claims against Microsoft, accusing the two companies of attempting to “monopolize the generative AI market.” The amended complaint filed on Thursday names Microsoft as a new defendant, as well as LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman and Microsoft VP Dee Templeton, a former OpenAI board member. Microsoft... Read more ›
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Elon Musk has amended his lawsuit against OpenAI, adding more anti-trust claims against the company and including Microsoft as a defendant. He also added his company, xAI, as well as Shivon Zilis, a former OpenAI board member and mother to three of his children, as plaintiffs. Musk originally sued OpenAI in March, accusing founders Sam Altman and Greg Brockman of violating the organization's non-profit mission by teaming up with Microsoft.... Read more ›
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Researchers were baffled by a bioluminescent mollusk that lives in the deep ocean. They just discovered it's a new species of sea slug. Read more ›
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Winnie Thompson had her son when she was 17. They grew up together and now he's off to college. She's trying to figure out her new life. Read more ›
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Jeff Horton was not a present dad due to his drinking. In 2021 he decided to change that and went into rehab. He is now a hands-on grandfather. Read more ›
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Elon Musk has added Microsoft to an amended lawsuit against OpenAI, accusing the ChatGPT maker of starving rivals of AI talent. Read more ›
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Royal Caribbean, Carnival, and Norwegian all target cruising families. See how their newer ships compare in amenities, cabins, and dining. Read more ›
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Chloe Diaz says dating tech bros in San Francisco and New York City is completely different. The guys in one city make her not want to move back. Read more ›
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My husband and I moved to Mexico in 2020 in our 50s. We feel far more secure about retirement thanks to lower taxes and housing and healthcare costs. Read more ›
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Reporters Without Borders (RSF) said this week it’s pressing criminal charges against X (Twitter) in France related to a Kremlin disinformation campaign that used the nonprofit as a prop to spread fake news. The organization said legal means are its “last resort” in its fight against the bogus stories, designed to foster pro-Russia and anti-Ukraine sentiment, that festered on the platform. “X’s refusal to remove content that it knows is... Read more ›
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Elon Musk’s X is taking the state of California to court over a new law that prevents the spread of AI-generated election misinformation. Bloomberg reports that X filed a lawsuit against AB 2655, also known as the Defending Democracy from Deepfake Deception Act of 2024, in a Sacramento federal court. California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed the bill into law on September 17, creating accountability standards for using false political speech... Read more ›
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Today we're tracking big discounts across the entire M4 iPad Pro lineup as part of Best Buy's early Black Friday sale. In this sale, My Best Buy Plus/Total members can get $150 off select M4 iPad Pro models, with many hitting all-time low prices because of this member exclusive discount. Note: MacRumors is an affiliate partner with some of these vendors. When you click a link and make a purchase,... Read more ›
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As users defect from X, rapidly growing social media platform Bluesky pledges to not scrape user data for training AI . Read more ›
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The new Teenage Engineering sequencer is elegant, efficient, and oh so expensive – which begs the question of who exactly the OP-XY is for. Read more ›
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There's a chance the Department of Government Efficiency's plans could lead to the deepest cuts to the federal government in generations. Read more ›
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Alex Jones in 2022. | Photo by Joe Buglewicz/Getty Images The satirical news outlet The Onion has acquired Infowars, the conspiracy theory-riddled site run by Alex Jones, in a bankruptcy auction. In a press release posted to X Thursday, The Onion announced that it plans to “end Infowars’ relentless barrage of disinformation for the sake of selling supplements and replace it with The Onion’s relentless barrage of humor for good”... Read more ›
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Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge Short-form posting platform Bluesky crossed the 15 million user mark today amid a recent surge of user signups in the wake of the US presidential election. That’s according to a stat-tracking site put together by Bluesky developer Jaz, using the Bluesky API. The platform, which rests on the decentralized AT Protocol, added about a million new users in the last week. Bluesky COO Rose... Read more ›
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Image: Freevee Amazon is going to shut down Freevee, its free ad-supported streaming television (FAST) service. The service’s content has already been migrated over to Prime Video and new episodes of Freevee shows will be available to people who don’t pay for Prime, Deadline reports. The brand will be phased out “over the coming weeks,” Deadline says. Freevee originally launched out of Amazon-owned IMDb in 2019 as IMDb Freedive and... Read more ›
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Apple Logic Pro for Mac 11.1 with Quantec Room Simulator | Image: Apple Apple today announced some minor updates to Logic Pro for both the Mac and the iPad, including the ability to search for plug-ins and sources and the addition of more analog-simulating sounds. In Logic Pro for Mac 11.1 and Logic Pro for iPad 2.1, you can now reorder channel strips and plug-ins in the mixer and plug-in... Read more ›
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The first part of Wicked, starring Ariana Grande (left) and Cynthia Erivo (right) will arrive in theaters on November 22nd. | Image: Universal Pictures Barbie producer Mattel has issued an apology after customers spotted its Wicked edition dolls listed an adult website on the packaging. The toy merchandise mistakenly directed customers to the homepage of the Wicked Pictures pornographic movie studio, instead of the correct WickedMovie.com URL. “We deeply regret... Read more ›
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Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge; Getty Images If you want to preserve the existing version of Lil Jon’s “Get Low” in your brain, maybe don’t listen to this cover T-Pain made with Mark Zuckerberg — excuse me, Z-Pain. Their version transforms the “Get Low” I got down to at all my school dances into a song with a much slower tempo complete with an acoustic guitar. Trust me, I... Read more ›
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The Zefiro is a tiny USB-C MIDI controller that can be played like a wind instrument. | Image: Kickstarter An Italian startup called Artinoise has created an unusual USB-C accessory for mobile devices that turns them into playable musical instruments. The Zefiro looks like a flash drive or a tiny vape, but by gently blowing into one end, it can be used to play simulated instruments with even less skill... Read more ›
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Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images The Tesla Cybertruck was recalled for the sixth time this year — and the fix won’t involve an easy software update. Tesla voluntarily issued a recall for approximately 2,431 Cybertrucks manufactured between November 6, 2023 and July 30, 2024. The issue is related to something called the metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistors, or MOSFET, in which the inverter has the potential to stop creating... Read more ›
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Photo by Erik McGregor/LightRocket via Getty Images The New York Times’ tech employees, who are behind Wordle and Connections among other games and features, will go back to work on Tuesday following a weeklong strike. In a statement published on Monday, the New York Times Tech Guild said union members will “march into the office together in the morning as a symbol of what’s to come for The Times.” The... Read more ›
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The interior of the Hyundai Ioniq 6. | Photo by Patrick George for The Verge Hyundai, a company that has been just as guilty in the past of spreading the touchscreen scourge in cars as any other, has been course-correcting lately, putting more buttons and knobs into its cars. The reason isn’t surprising: people hate touchscreens, at least for certain essential controls like HVAC systems, and they told Hyundai so.... Read more ›
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