Not Even Jeopardy Contestants Know What the Metaverse Is
Mark Zuckerberg isn’t the only person who’s lost a lot of money on the metaverse. On Thursday, three additional public figures made the mistake of betting their cash on the…
Proton Expands Its Privacy Ecosystem With a Password Manager
Encrypted email company Proton has announced one of the biggest new additions to its growing suite of privacy-focused apps: Proton Pass, an end-to-end encrypted password manager. TikTok Bans Are Dumb…
Tech CEO Applauds an Employee Selling Off Their Pet Dog to Accommodate Return-to-Office Push
Meet the new hero of hustle culture: James Clarke, CEO of Clearlink, a Utah-based digital marketing company. This champion of capital had his grindset on lock in a video call…
The Utah and Arkansas Social Media Bans Won’t Protect Us
This week, Arkansas Governor Sarah Sanders signed into law a bill that requires parents or guardians to grant permission for their child to have a social media account. Last month,…
Meta Layoffs Begin and Even the Game Developers Aren’t Safe
Meta has once again taken up the scythe and struck a wide swathe of staff from its field of developers. The first in what’s expected to be a total of…
Kids on BeReal Are Exposed to Sexual Content More Often Than Other Social Networks, Survey Finds
BeReal, a popular new spontaneous image-sharing app designed to show life, “without filters,” had the highest proportion of child users exposed to sexual content of any major social media app,…
Instagram Founders’ News App Artifact Adds ‘Reputation Scores’ and Comments
Image: Courtesy of Artifact Artifact, the personalized news sharing app founded by Instagram’s co-founders, has added comments and discussion on articles, marking the first public social components of the new…
Twitter Is Dead: It’s All ‘X Corp’ Now
Twitter has been subsumed by billionaire Elon Musk in more ways than one. Now, however, the company itself is officially no longer its own entity, having been officially gobbled up…
These 9 Members of Congress Are Defending TikTok on TikTok
Photo: J. Scott Applewhite (AP) With calls for a national ban against TikTok growing more and more common by the week, particularly in Congress, it’s never been a tougher time…
Meta Releases New AI-Based Photo Segmentation Tool to Everybody
Meta has some big AI ambitions, even as it seems like it’s long been playing catch up to OpenAI, Microsoft, and even Google. To make a bit of a splash,…