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Instagram is internally testing a new Snapchat rival app
1+ hour, 49+ min ago (352+ words) Hey Meta, are you also nostalgic for 2016? As social media users wax poetic and share throwbacks about the social media heyday of 2016, it seems Meta wants to revive a piece of it. Yes, that does sound like Snapchat's original premise....
New York Is the Latest State to Consider a Data Center Pause
3+ day, 3+ hour ago (293+ words) Data center moratoriums are "being tested as a model throughout states in this country," said state senator Liz Krueger, a Democrat, who presented the bill at a press conference Friday with its cosponsor, assemblymember Anna Kelles, also a Democrat. "Democrats…...
Musk’s Starlink Blocks Russian Troops’ Internet Access at Ukraine’s Request
3+ day, 18+ hour ago (1171+ words) Russian troops fighting in Ukraine have reported losing their Starlink satellite internet, according to Russia's pro-war military bloggers, after the SpaceX tycoon Elon Musk acted on a Ukrainian request to curtail access to his network, which Russian soldiers had been…...
Musk’s Starlink Blocks Russian Troops’ Internet Access, at Ukraine’s Request
4+ day, 1+ hour ago (931+ words) Russian troops fighting in Ukraine were reporting internet outages that hindered their fighting ability, Russia's military bloggers said this week, after Elon Musk said he had moved to deactivate his Starlink satellite internet service for Moscow's forces. For years, while…...
How iPhones Made a Surprising Comeback in China
4+ day, 11+ hour ago (376+ words) After a prolonged slump, Apple's business is suddenly thriving again in China. The tech giant said in its latest earnings report last week that revenue from the country rose 38 percent year over year in the last quarter, primarily driven by…...
A Group of TikTokers Tried to Detox Their Timelines. The Memes Were Too Strong.
5+ day, 8+ hour ago (1466+ words) It's really over," says the TikToker @joebro909. TikTok's washed." In the video " a conversation he's having with a character also played by himself " @joebro909 and his alter ego can't find any new memes to send each other. When a new one appears…...
You shouldn’t have posted that. Now what?
5+ day, 9+ hour ago (527+ words) The internet is an archive of so many different versions of ourselves. If you're Gen Z or a millennial, there's a good chance you preserved almost every stage of your life online: old fandoms, old friends, old opinions. And with…...
Grindr is testing a premium AI tier with prices up to $499 a month
6+ day, 6+ hour ago (328+ words) Want to use Grindr's AI products? You might have to cough up almost $500 a month. Grindr is in early testing for a new, higher-priced subscription tier called "Edge," the company confirmed to Business Insider. The company has already piloted this…...
Trump Phones Hit Another Snag
1+ week, 4+ hour ago (460+ words) MAGA supporters hoping to get their hands on Trump Mobile's golden smartphones will need to wait longer. A customer service representative for the mobile service company overseen by the president's sons, Eric and Donald Jr., told the Daily Beast that…...
A Social Network for A.I. Bots Only. No Humans Allowed.
1+ week, 5+ hour ago (1032+ words) Last Wednesday, Matt Schlicht, a technologist living in a small town just south of Los Angeles, launched a new social network called Moltbook. Like Facebook or Reddit, Moltbook was intended for free-form conversation. But his social network came with a…...