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CNET pushed reporters to be more favorable to advertisers, staffers say
Staff say Red Ventures has breached CNET’s editorial firewalls
Hustle bros are jumping on the AI bandwagon
A revealing look at the threats posted by AI junk
Apple and Google face mounting pressure to remove TikTok from app stores
Sen. Michael Bennet is demanding the companies restrict downloads of the app.
Apple surpasses 2 billion active devices
Apple’s iPhone sales are down 6 percent, but there are now 2 billion of the company’s devices active out there.
White House goes after app store ‘gatekeepers’ Apple and Google
A new report calls Apple and Google “gatekeepers.”
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ChatGPT can’t be credited as an author, says world’s largest academic publisher
But using AI to help write a paper is fine, with proper disclosure.
Bring back personal blogging
The personal blog built the internet, and maybe it can fix it.
How to buy a social network, with Tumblr CEO Matt Mullenweg
Matt Mullenweg explains the myriad challenges now being faced by Elon Musk.
Microsoft’s making Excel’s formulas even easier
Doing even more of the math for you
The Verge on Artificial Intelligence
‘An engine for the imagination’: the rise of AI image generators
An interview with AI image generator CEO David Holz
«“in 10 years, you’ll be able to buy an Xbox with a giant AI processor, and all the games are dreams.”»
Finland is making its online AI crash course free to the world
AI for all, from Bayes to bias
The Verge on Business
WeWork isn’t a tech company; it’s a soap opera
I dedicate this to the energy of We.
Etsy sellers will go on strike in April and want customers to boycott
Sellers are calling for a shopping boycott beginning April 11th.
The Verge on Gadgets
The Verge’s gadgets of the decade
From Google Glass and fidget spinners to iPhones and the Tesla Model S.
Inside Facebook’s metaverse for work
We spent time with Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg in Horizon Workrooms, the company’s new attempt to build a metaverse for work collaboration in Oculus VR.
«It was there that Zuckerberg first appeared through his webcam before donning a headset and teleporting into a chair at the table as his own legless avatar.»
The Verge on Gaming
Biden campaign launches official Animal Crossing: New Horizons yard signs
And they have more in-game events planned for this fall
Google is shutting down Stadia
Google’s cloud gaming service launched three years ago.
The Verge on Google
Google wants to teach more people AI and machine learning with a free online course
A new ‘Learn with Google AI’ site will serve as a hub for AI and machine learning resources
YouTube is a $15 billion-a-year business, Google reveals for the first time
Turns out YouTube is a big moneymaker for Google.
The Verge on Microsoft
Microsoft’s new Fluid Office document is Google Docs on steroids
Fluid is Microsoft’s big push for entirely new documents on the web.
Microsoft is letting employees work from home permanently
Microsoft employees also have options to relocate across the US or internationally
The Verge on Podcasting
Google launches a podcast app for Android with personalized recommendations
Finally taking podcasts seriously.
Spotify will use everything it knows about you to target podcast ads
New ad technology for Spotify-exclusive podcasts is coming
The Verge on Tiktok
The US declared war on TikTok because it can’t handle the truth
The new internet cold war is all about lying to ourselves.
Facebook is changing its algorithm to take on TikTok, leaked memo reveals
Get ready for more random videos in your feed.
The Verge on Twitter
The coronavirus is forcing tech giants to make a risky bet on AI
Machine learning tools have always been the ideal content moderators for Facebook, Google and Twitter — but COVID-19 is forcing their use before they’re ready
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What is the metaverse, and do I have to care?
The dream of an embodied future internet is back.
«The metaverse is bigger than any one service, except when it’s convenient to call that service the metaverse»
The Humiliating History of the TSA
Two decades of pat-downs, and there is little evidence that we are any safer.
Facebook is planning to rebrand the company with a new name
The tech giant wants to be known for more than social media’s ills.
«we will effectively transition from people seeing us as primarily being a social media company to being a metaverse company»
A teenager on TikTok disrupted thousands of scientific studies with a single video
One TikTok created a mystery for some scientific surveys.
«A member of the Stanford Behavioral Laboratory posted on a Prolific forum, “We have noticed a huge leap in the number of participants on the platform in the US Pool, from 40k to 80k. Which is great, however, now a lot of our studies have a gender skew where maybe 85% of participants are women. Plus the age has been averaging around 21.”»
How hard will the robots make us work?
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The Verge on Social Media
Welcome to hell, Elon
Owning Twitter means owning a host of impossible political problems. Is Elon ready?
The next big social network trend? Shortform audio
Voice notes with viral dreams