Meta is adding an “activity status” to Threads so that you can see who’s actively online as you’re scrolling your feed. In a post, Threads boss Adam Mosseri pitches it as a “way to help you find others to engage with in real-time.” The activity status will show up next to your profile picture in the feed and on your profile, based on screenshots Mosseri shared. Fortunately, if you don’t want people to know when you’re online, you don’t have to share that. “Only people who have activity status turned on will be able to see when you’re online, and you can turn this off within your...

Microsoft Office 2024 is now available, and you can take advantage of a fantastic late Prime Day deal to save 28% on your purchase.

Based on the Stephen King story and produced by James Wan, the horror film is in theaters February.

The New York Times has demanded that AI search engine startup Perplexity stop using content from its site in a cease and desist letter sent to the company, reports The Wall Street Journal. The Times, which is currently suing OpenAI and Microsoft over allegedly illegally training models on its content, says the startup has been using its content without permission, a claim made earlier this year by Forbes and Condé Nast. The Journal included this passage from the letter: Perplexity and its business partners have been unjustly enriched by using, without authorization, The Times’s expressive, carefully written and researched, and edited journalism without a license. The New York Times prohibits using its content for AI model training. It...

StackSocial is giving away lifetime access to this AI-powered content finder with millions of shows, movies, songs, and more for just $15.

Some dentists are pushing back against the overuse of X-rays, a practice that can expose patients to unnecessary radiation and cost them extra cash.

A new smart collar aims to give pet owners the ability to talk to their fur babies. Or at least fake it.

When you buy the Meta Quest 3 512GB, you can get Batman: Arkham Shadow and a 3-month trial of Meta Quest+.

It was actually kind of great to see the creative team behind Amazon’s Invincible series be very frank about how laborious the animation process is and take their time to get season 2 properly wrapped up. But when the show returns for its third season next year, you won’t have to worry about a big lull in the middle of Mark Grayson’s adventures. Along with dropping a new trailer, Amazon announced today that Invincible’s third season is slated to premiere on February 6th, 2025, with three episodes. Unlike Invincible’s second season, which was split into two chunks that debuted four months apart, the third season will not feature a midseason break, and new episodes will drop every Thursday until March 13th. In the trailer, Mark (Steven...

USDA didn't have a list of products for consumers to avoid during the initial recall of 10 million pounds of chicken last week.