In early April 2024, we will deprecate Facebook News – a dedicated tab in the bookmarks section on Facebook that spotlights news – in the US and Australia. This follows our September 2023 announcement that we deprecated Facebook News in the UK, France and Germany last year. This is part of an ongoing effort to better…
Elon Musk’s crusade against the extremism research organization the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) will have its day in court on Thursday. Elon Musk’s X sued the CCDH last year, accusing it of “actively working to assert false and misleading claims about X.” The nonprofit, formed in 2018, conducts research on social media platforms…
Members who updated their skills on a regular basis (multiple times a year) received promotions 11% faster than those who rarely updated their skills. This speaks to the value of continuous learning and instilling a learning culture. (It also emphasizes the importance of keeping your LinkedIn profile up to date!) Final thoughts Previously, similar LinkedIn…
Turkey’s National Lottery Association recently announced it would ban of popular streaming platforms Twitch and Kick within the country. The decision comes amid growing concerns about gambling activities on these platforms. Both Twitch and Kick have faced controversies involving gambling, with prominent streamers like xQc and Trainwreckstv participating in such activities during their broadcasts. However,…
After months of rumors, we may have just gotten our eyes (sort of) on Apple’s newest iPad Pro. The device showed up in some CAD (computer-aided design) drawings that popped up online, per MacRumors, which pointed out that these things tend to leak out of China-based actories from time to time. This shouldn’t surprise anyone,…
Reading Time: 5 minutes I used to hate attending in-person events. I would focus on going from session to session, head down, avoiding having to talk to anyone in the halls, and I certainly wasn’t interested in networking events. When one conference invited me on a two-hour cruise with a few hundred marketers, I couldn’t say no fast enough….
WhatsApp is rolling out a new update for the Windows native app through the official beta channel on the Microsoft Store, bringing the version up to 2.2407.9.0. What’s new in this update? WhatsApp is rolling out a pop-out chat feature, and it’s available to some beta testers! Common questions Answers Name of the feature? Pop-out…
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The Last Repair Shop Pull out your hankies for this deeply moving — and joyous — documentary short about the largest remaining workshop of its kind in the U.S., the musical instrument repair shop for the Los Angeles Unified School District. Created in 1959, the workshop maintains and repairs the 80,000 instruments played by students…
YouTube Create brings video editing to Android, negating the need for a high-end computer and file transfers. Now, the YouTube Create app is available in 13 more countries and brings some convenient features. The last few years have seen Shorts become a popular outlet for creators to upload TikTok-style videos to YouTube. With that, the…
The veteran Silicon Valley journalist Kara Swisher has a new memoir out. But if you’re buying it on Amazon don’t be misled into buying AI-generated garbage. According to 404 Media, ripoffs of Kara Swisher’s new book Burn Book: A Tech Love Story, have proliferated on Amazon. A quick search for “Kara Swisher burn book” on…
$103,000. $560,000. $3.2 Million. These are some of the figures creators reported making in 2023. In other words, there’s no better time to be a content creator than right now. You don’t get those numbers without a deep understanding of content creation as a business. And you don’t get “business” status without understanding pricing. So,…
Andres Suarez and Michael Bolin, two software engineers at Meta, join Pascal Hartig (@passy) on the Meta Tech Podcast to discuss the ins and outs of DotSlash, a new open source tool from Meta. DotSlash takes the pain out of distributing binaries and toolchains to developers. Instead of committing large, platform-specific executables to a repository,…
Although an app’s downloads aren’t an exact proxy for usage, they can hint at where the market is headed. And in the case of the alt-Twitter wars, the app winning the game right now is Instagram’s Threads. Meta’s take on Twitter now sees triple the daily downloads of X (formerly Twitter) on iOS globally, and…