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Meta’s Threads app is getting some new Instagram-like features. According to Instagram head Adam Mosseri, Threads is adding a dedicated media tab which highlights users’ posts with photos and video, as well as photo tagging abilities.
According to Mosseri, the media tab feature is “a long overdue request from the community.” Both X and Bluesky have a “media” section in users’ profiles (Bluesky also recently added a separate tab just for video). Threads’ photo tagging feature, on the other hand, will look fa
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Huawei’s revenue hit $118.3 billion in 2024, a 22% year-over-year increase amid US sanctions. Consumer business and smart car solutions drive impressive performance. Profit margins show pressure from R&D investments. Chinese tech giant Huawei shattered market expectations on Wednesday, announcing a staggering 860 billion yuan ($118.3 billion) in revenue for 2024 – its fastest growth... Read more » Read more ›
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Trump has unleashed a mob of tech-arsonists on the entire federal government. Read more ›
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President Donald Trump's deferred resignation deadline was set for February 6. A federal judge extended it to at least Monday. Read more ›
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The Slayer herself revealed that a Buffy revival has been in the works for a while ahead of this week's announcement. Read more ›
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Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency is moving fast and breaking the law — lots of laws. The scope of Trump and Musk’s sweeping effort to purge the federal workforce and slash government spending has shocked the political world — in part for its ambition, but also in part because of its disregard for the […] Read more ›
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez won plaudits from critics for saying her congressional salary is her only income and she doesn't trade stocks. Read more ›
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Litigation efforts are finally starting to catch up to Musk's blitzkrieg against the government. Read more ›
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Experts question whether Edward Coristine, a DOGE staffer who has gone by “Big Balls” online, would pass the background check typically required for access to sensitive US government systems. Read more ›
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An method driven by artificial intelligence is making it possible to read texts scorched and left buried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 CE. Read more ›
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The giant jet flips the script on the origins of these structures, which were once thought to be linked only to extremely large black holes. Read more ›
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Learn why artists like Taylor Swift, Jay-Z, Pink, Adele, Outkast, Cardi B, and Dolly Parton have never performed at the Super Bowl halftime show. Read more ›
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Old ICE press releases have a little piece of new HTML that’s doing a lot of work. Read more ›
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Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has reportedly infiltrated the headquarters of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the agency that collects and shares vital weather and climate information. Sources have told The Verge, as well as other news outlets, that they’re worried about drastic changes that could impact the public’s access to […] Read more ›
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In his frenetic efforts to increase government “efficiency,” Elon Musk has usurped Congress’s rightful authority over spending while almost certainly breaking a wide variety of federal laws. Donald Trump’s top donor — who has not been elected to any office, or confirmed to any Cabinet position — has shuttered the US Agency for International Development […] Read more ›
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Adding to its must-see factor, Hokum will be produced by the team behind Late Night With the Devil. Read more ›
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After news broke earlier this week about a Buffy the Vampire Slayer reboot, Sarah Michelle Gellar took to her Instagram to address the Hulu series. Read more ›
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President Donald Trump has set his sights on Californiaâs high-speed rail plan, calling it âthe worst-managed projectâ with massive cost overruns that deserve to be investigated. âThey have hundreds of billions of dollars of cost overruns,â Trump told reporters in the Oval Office on Tuesday, according to the Los Angeles Times. âItâs impossible that something […] Read more ›
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Asus China provides free motherboard replacements for customers who succumbed to PCIe damage from Asus' new Q-Release Slim connector. Read more ›
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Doug Ford, the premier of Ontario and a former staunch supporter of President Trump, has announced that the Canadian territory will be “ripping up” a $100 million contract with Elon Musk’s Starlink. The contract was signed in November of last year and tasked Starlink with providing internet service to remote parts of the province. This comes after Trump announced a 25 percent tariff on nearly all Canadian imported goods. This... Read more ›
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On Saturday evening, Trump signed executive orders to impose tariffs on Mexico, Canada and China under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA), with a White House fact sheet claiming the move is meant to hold the US’ largest trading partners “accountable to their promises of halting illegal immigration and stopping poisonous fentanyl and other drugs from flowing into our country.” The orders put 25 percent additional tariffs on imports... Read more ›
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Reddit has temporarily banned the subreddit r/WhitePeopleTwitter after Elon Musk complained about the community. The subreddit is currently inaccessible with a message from Reddit stating that the community has been banned for 72 hours due to “a prevalence of violent content.” The popular subreddit is known for posting funny tweets and memes from X. On Monday, an X account called “Reddit Lies” posted screenshots from a thread on r/WhitePeopleTwitter in... Read more ›
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In one of his first major acts since taking over as chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, Brendan Carr has directed the agency to open an investigation into NPR and PBS. Carr informed informed both organizations of the probe in a letter in a letter that was first reported by The New York Times. In the letter, Carr says that the public media companies may be running afoul of FCC... Read more ›
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Nintendo is caught between its eight-year-old Switch console and the next-gen Switch 2 — a purgatory that usually hits sales. Sure enough, the company announced that it now expects to sell just 11 million consoles this fiscal year instead of the 12.5 million it originally forecast. That's in light of a fairly dismal holiday period that saw sales and profit drop by a third from last year, with consumers likely... Read more ›
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In recent years, the push to ban smartphones in schools has picked up, with advocates citing everything from improving focus to creating a safe environment. Now, a new study out of the UK investigates the effectiveness of these policies on social media use and overall well-being with interesting results. The study, published in The Lancet Regional Health - Europe journal, included 1,227 individuals aged 12 to 15 from 20 schools... Read more ›
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Typically when we think of Apple and "invites," it's because the company is about to show off some new gear at a splashy product launch. But this time around, the product in question is a new invites-feature. The idea behind the new Apple Invites app is that you can create and share custom invitations for any event or occasion. You can use your own photos or backgrounds in the app... Read more ›
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After President Trump announced a 25 percent tariff on nearly all Canadian imported goods (and Canada announced its own 25 percent tariff on American imported goods), Doug Ford, the premier of Ontario — and a former supporter of President Trump — announced the Canadian territory would be “ripping up” a $100 million contract with Elon Musk’s Starlink. The contract was signed in November last year. Musk, boss of Starlink and... Read more ›
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Owners of some early Apple Watch models may be eligible for payment from a $20 million class action settlement. Apple recently agreed to settle a lawsuit that claimed some first generation, Series 1, Series 2, and Series 3 Apple Watches had battery swelling issues that could have caused damage to the devices. The company has denied any wrongdoing and in a statement to TechCrunch said it “strongly” disagrees with the... Read more ›
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The Video Game History Foundation has unveiled its digital library, a massive undertaking that makes the organization's own materials as well as some private collections available for anyone to read. This project was first announced in December 2023, and the collection is still in early access. The VGHF said it would continually be working to digitize and add more content to the library. Even though this will be an ongoing... Read more ›
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