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...
Lifestyle Read on The VergeMicrosoft Office 2024 is now available, and you can take advantage of a fantastic late Prime Day deal to save 28% on your purchase.
Business Possible ad Read on GizmodoElon Musk’s plan to reduce X’s dependence on advertising revenue by increasing paid subscriptions is still not taking off. According to a new, third-party analysis of the X Premium subscription service by app intelligence firm Appfigures, X has pulled in approximately $200 million in in-app purchase revenue across iOS and Android since the original 2021 […]
Business Read on TechCrunchBased on the Stephen King story and produced by James Wan, the horror film is in theaters February.
Entertainment Read on GizmodoThe PVV has decided that they do not want Ukraine to become a member of the European Union (EU).
Politics Read on NL TimesThe 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...
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Entertainment Possible ad Read on GizmodoThe Dutch government wants to reduce its stake in ABN Amro from 40.5 to around 30 percent, Minister Eelco Heinen of Finance announced in a letter to parliament.
Business Read on NL TimesSome dentists are pushing back against the overuse of X-rays, a practice that can expose patients to unnecessary radiation and cost them extra cash.
Environment Read on GizmodoA new smart collar aims to give pet owners the ability to talk to their fur babies. Or at least fake it.
Politics Read on WIRED Top StoriesMatt Mullenweg, the WordPress co-founder and Automattic CEO, has been embroiled in a very public and legal fight with WP Engine these last few weeks over the use of WordPress as a trademark, and fees Automattic believes WP Engine owes to the WordPress project – sparring that has resulted in WP Engine issuing legal demands […]
Business Read on TechCrunchWhen you buy the Meta Quest 3 512GB, you can get Batman: Arkham Shadow and a 3-month trial of Meta Quest+.
Business Possible ad Read on GizmodoIt 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...
Entertainment Read on The VergeAfter Elon Musk provided his "long-term" vision for autonomous, humanoid robots at last week's "We, Robot" event, we expressed some skepticism about the autonomy of the Optimus prototypes sent out for a post-event mingle with the assembled, partying humans. Now, there's been a raft of confirmation that human teleoperators were indeed puppeting the robot prototypes for much of the night. Bloomberg cites unnamed "people familiar with the matter" in reporting that Tesla "used humans to remotely control some capabilities" of the prototype robots at the event. The report doesn't specify which demonstrated capabilities needed that human assistance, but it points out that the robots "were able to walk without external control using artificial intelligence" (the lack of a similar AI call-out for any other robot actions that night seems telling). That lines up with reporting from tech blogger Robert Scoble, who posted on social media that he had "talked with an engineer" who confirmed that "when it walked, that is AI running Optimus." For other tasks—like pouring drinks from a tap, playing Rock Paper Scissors, or chatting with nearby attendees—Scoble noted that "a human is remote assisting." Read full article
Business Read on Ars TechnicaUSDA didn't have a list of products for consumers to avoid during the initial recall of 10 million pounds of chicken last week.
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