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Games weren’t the biggest thing on app stores for the first time ever last year
2+ hour, 4+ min ago (702+ words) Users spent more in-app on non-game applications than games in 2025. The mobile app industry has come a long way since early iPhone users would impress their friends by getting their phone out, tilting it at a 45 degree angle near their…...
Georgia lawmakers introduce data center construction moratorium amid statewide pushback
5+ day, 23+ hour ago (453+ words) More and more communities across the US are wrestling with the pros and cons of having a data center come to town. Georgia has become a hotspot of resistance to the data centers planned by Big Tech, according to a…...
There are now more than one million “.ai” websites, contributing an estimated $70 million to Anguilla’s government revenue last year
1+ week, 3+ day ago (814+ words) Data from Domain Name Stat reveals that the top level domain originally assigned to the British Overseas Territory of Anguilla passed the milestone in early January. From Sandisk shareholders to vibe coders, AI is making, and breaking, fortunes at a…...
See for yourself just how massive Meta’s Hyperion data center is
1+ week, 4+ day ago (776+ words) It's hard to overstate just how massive Meta's Richland Parish, Louisiana, data center site is. Use this tool to compare it to where you live. Massive. Titanic. Humongous. These words fail to capture the actual scale of Meta's Hyperion data…...
Why people are flirting on LinkedIn — and job hunting on Tinder
1+ week, 6+ day ago (691+ words) The job market is tough and so is dating. Americans are starting to mix the two. The internet has solved a lot of information problems, with a simple online search offering advice on everything from how to do laundry or…...
Google gives Gmail an AI overhaul as Gemini gains on ChatGPT
3+ week, 3+ day ago (602+ words) This could represent a huge shift in how the world's biggest email provider works. The idea is to turn email into something closer to a living to-do list. By drawing on information from users' emails and calendars, Gmail will suggest…...
Teens banned from social media might just turn to AI chatbots instead
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (740+ words) As Australia enacts a world-first ban, a survey finds more US teens are using social media " and chatbots " daily. This week is a dark one for web-obsessed teens living Down Under (or at least they might think so) after Australia's…...
Forget fatigue — we’re now in the age of “subscription captivity,” per the WSJ
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (326+ words) For many of us, monthly charges for services that let us enjoy free delivery from our favorite retailers, watch thousands of movies and shows, listen to millions of songs (and then get told how old our taste makes us), stay…...
The New York Times, Chicago Tribune sue Perplexity
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (723+ words) The New York Times is suing the AI search engine startup Perplexity, alleging repeated copyright violations. In the complaint, the Times accuses Perplexity of scraping the company's content and generating outputs that are "identical or substantially similar" to Times content:…...
Wikipedia revealed their most read English-language articles of 2025
1+ mon, 4+ week ago (513+ words) The day after his assassination in September, Kirk's page was viewed over 170 times per second, or almost 15 million times, according to figures from the Wikimedia Foundation. Like with most other years, the top entries reflected the fact that millions flock…...