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Social media platform Bluesky has launched Trending Topics into beta, the company announced in a post on its platform. The new feature is one of the most-requested by users and matches a function that has been on rival Threads for around nine months, and on X (Twitter at the time) since at least 2017.Â
The Trending section shows the top viral content on the platform, with topics like "Christmas," "Nosferatu" and "Wikipedia" (thanks to Elon Musk) currently on top. It can be found by clicking on search in bo
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Holiday season 2024 solidified it: we really need to stop going along with the lie that streaming is better than physical media. Read more âș
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"Squid Game" is set to return next year following the release of season two. Here's what we know so far about the third and final season. Read more âș
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CEO Tony Vinciquerra, who's stepping down January 2, has some blame to lay for the failure of Kraven the Hunter and others. Read more âș
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America loves jocks, and that's why we don't have any good engineers... or something. Read more âș
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The Federal Trade Commission has launched a broad antitrust investigation into Microsoft's business practices, focusing on how the company bundles its Office products with cybersecurity and cloud computing services. The probe follows ProPublica reporting that revealed Microsoft offered free temporary upgrades of federal agencies' software licenses to include advanced cybersecurity features, leading to long-term contracts once the trial period ended. The strategy helped Microsoft expand its government busi Read more âș
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An electricity cable in the Gulf of Finland was disconnected earlier this week. Read more âș
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Dave Calhoun was Boeing's CEO from January 2020 to July 2024. Calhoun was trained as an accountant. His successor, Kelly Ortberg, is an engineer. Read more âș
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Image: The Verge ChatGPT isnât working for many users right now. With numerous reports on social media, we also confirmed that the chatbot loads but isnât able to respond to queries, while others are seeing an âinternal server errorâ message. It looks like the outage started around 1:30PM ET, which is when reports began to spike on Down Detector. At around 2PM ET, OpenAI posted an update to its status... Read more âș
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BeyoncĂ©'s 12-minute Christmas halftime performance on Netflix paid homage to Texas and Mexican culture. Read more âș
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Meta's Quest VR headsets gain popularity as Meta Horizon app ranks top in App Store on Christmas. Read more âș
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The Redmi Turbo 4 is launching early in January as the first phone using MediaTek's newly unveiled Dimensity 8400 SoC. This brings an all big core CPU design to the upper-midrange for the first time, which is quite an exciting development if you ask us. With that in mind, you may have been wondering just what to expect from this chip in terms of performance. While benchmarks aren't necessarily indicators... Read more âș
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An Azerbaijan Airlines flight crashed in Kazakhstan, killing 38. The airline's chief hailed the pilots' heroism after 29 passengers survived. Read more âș
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The asking price â $200 million for the land alone â is more than what Bezos paid for any of his three properties on the island. Read more âș
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A CPU-Z screenshot has surfaced, allegedly detailing a 16-core X3D CPU based on Zen 5 which is likely to be the Ryzen 9 9950X3D. Read more âș
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Netflix passed two tests on Wednesday when it streamed live NFL football games for the first time in its history. Read more âș
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Villains were everywhere and more relatable than ever. Across pop culture, social media, and IRL, the phenomenon went full-on main character. Read more âș
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The cat death appears to be the first case of H5N1 in the U.S. traced to raw pet food. Read more âș
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Apple today announced the upcoming launch of its annual New Year promotion in Japan, providing customers with a free Apple gift card worth up to „30,000 with the purchase of eligible Apple devices. Customers in Japan can get an Apple gift card when shopping at Apple from January 2 to January 5, and as a bonus, the first 50,000 people to purchase an iPhone 15, iPhone 14, or iPhone SE... Read more âș
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Your skin needs UV protection year-round. Here are the best expert-tested sunscreens for your face. Read more âș
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Honda and Nissan have officially confirmed rumors that they're pursuing a merger, the companies wrote in a joint press release. Each would continue to operate under its own brand, but with a new joint holding company as parent. If Nissan-controlled Mitsubishi also came on board, the combined group would become the world's third largest automaker by sales volume and have a net worth of up to $50 billion. "Today marks... Read more âș
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Elon Musk's X has hiked prices for its ad-free Premium+ subscription service to $22 a month, up from $16 before ($168 to $229 annually), TechCrunch reported. That represents a 37.5 percent increase, the largest since Elon Musk purchased the platform previously known as Twitter back in 2022. One stated reason for the hike is that Premium+ is now "completely ads-free," with X claiming that it's a "significant enhancement" to the... Read more âș
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If you're traveling for the holidays today, I hope you're not flying on American Airlines. As of this morning, the airline said on X that all of its flights were currently grounded, with no current time table for when flights will resume. As The Verge notes, a notice posted by the Federal Aviation Administration confirms that there is a "nationwide groundstop" for all AA flights; it also says that this... Read more âș
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Movie icon and super spy James Bond seemed to be on another rise to the top of the box office just a few years ago, but things have been almost as quiet as a shot from a Walther PPK with a silencer ever since then. Daniel Craig took on the role in 2006 with Casino Royale and passed the baton with 2021âs No Time to Die in one of the... Read more âș
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Spoilers follow for âJoy to the World.â If thereâs one thing Steven Moffatt loves to do with Doctor Who, itâs to find a monster buried in the mundane. Heâs made statues, shadows, lost children and even the idea of silence into some of the showâs most terrifying villains. Sadly, the mysterious extra door you often find in older hotel rooms isnât as universal a concern, but itâs still a rich... Read more âș
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Lilium, a company working on flying taxis that can take off and land vertically, has ceased operations. As TechCrunch notes, German media GrĂŒnderszene was the first publication to report that it laid off 1,000 workers a few days ago after it failed to secure more financing to continue its technology's development. Patrick Nathen, the company's co-founder, has announced that the company has stopped all operations on LinkedIn. Tagging his co-founders,... Read more âș
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A new report published by the child safety groups Heat Initiative and ParentsTogether Action details the alarming presence of inappropriate apps that are rated as suitable for children as young as four years old on Appleâs App Store. The groups worked with a researcher to review as many apps as possible in the span of 24 hours, and say they ultimately identified over 200 apps that contained âconcerning content or... Read more âș
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It looks like Meta is preparing to add displays to its popular line of Ray-Ban smart glasses, according to a report by Financial Times. These screens could show up in a future iteration of the device as early as next year. The likely release window is the second half of 2025. According to folks familiar with Metaâs plans, the screens will be on the smaller side and will likely be... Read more âș
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This week, we're looking back at our hellish 2024 and trying to figure out where to go from here. We began the year with enormous hype around artificial intelligence, but that's cooled off after seeing how useless many AI features have been. It's also clear that many companies, including Microsoft and Apple, are trying to push half-baked AI concepts onto users. Looking forward, we're expecting a rough few years for... Read more âș
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Last week, Google allegedly instructed contract workers evaluating Gemini not to skip any prompts, regardless of their expertise, TechCrunch reports based on internal guidance it viewed. Now, contractors have allegedly been instructed not to skip prompts that ârequire specialized domain knowledgeâ and to ârate the parts of the prompt you understand,â adding a note that itâs not an area they have knowledge in. Apparently, the only times contractors can skip... Read more âș
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