Meta launches a Threads beta program for Android
Android users can soon get a sneak peek at upcoming features for Meta Threads, the new Twitter rival that may already have Elon Musk feeling the heat. A Meta engineer announced on the platform that...
View ArticleXbox Game Pass Ultimate $1 deal is back for new users
Microsoft might be raising the price of Xbox subscriptions in most countries, but it's sweetening the deal for newcomers. The company is once more running a promo that offers the first month of Xbox...
View ArticleMiffed ‘Rainbow Six Seige’ player sentenced for swatting Ubisoft Montreal’s...
A disgruntled Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Seige gamer who called in a fake emergency to Ubisoft’s Montreal office was sentenced this week to three years of community service, according to The Montreal...
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Google Calendar allows users to indicate their location at specific times of...
Google has expanded an existing feature for Calendar to give users an easy way to let their co-workers know where they can be reached at different times of the day. The company first launched "working...
View ArticlePick up a Google Nest Hub (2nd gen) for just $55
The well-reviewed Google Nest Hub (2nd gen) is now available for just $55 via a Wellbots code. That’s a discount of $45, as the smart display normally retails for $100. All you have to do is order the...
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James Webb telescope captures the most distant active supermassive black hole...
The James Webb space telescope has given scientists the capability to discover celestial objects they wouldn't have been able to otherwise, such as ancient galaxies that theoretically shouldn't exist....
View ArticleTwitch is finally adding Stories and a feed for discovering new streamers to...
It’s probably safe to say no one could have predicted that LinkedIn would add Stories before Twitch, but here we are. Nearly eight years after Instagram lifted the feature from Snapchat, Twitch...
View ArticleApple will stream the first episode of 'Foundation' on YouTube
Late last month, Apple uploaded the debut episode of Silo to Twitter to promote the show's season one finale. Now it's doing the same with its other tentpole sci-fi series. Starting Monday, you can...
View ArticleHayao Miyazaki's final film will be Studio Ghibli's first IMAX release
Hayao Miyazaki's final film, the tentatively titled How Do You Live?, is coming to IMAX theaters. The milestone marks a first for Miyazaki and the animation studio he co-founded nearly four decades...
View ArticleThe old, good version of TweetDeck is back
Earlier this week, Twitter began migrating users to the "new" version of TweetDeck after its decision to limit how many tweets people could view temporarily broke the previous iteration of its list...
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Hitting the Books: Amazon's unique 'threat' to digital commerce
When it comes to online merchandizing, nobody is bigger than Amazon. The same can be said for Walmart's utter domination of physical retail. But for a brief time in 2016, the two behemoths sought to...
View ArticleChatGPT saw its first-ever user decline in June
After a meteoric rise in popularity late last year and into early 2023, it looks like OpenAI’s chatbot is beginning to lose some steam. According to data internet analytics firm Similarweb shared with...
View ArticleScientists make ibuprofen and other common painkillers from paper industry waste
It's probably fair to say that when most people conjure images of the pharmaceutical industry, it's not often there's an association between the production of life-saving drugs and environmental...
View ArticleEvernote is relocating to Europe after laying off most of its US workforce
Evernote has axed most of its workforce. In a statement shared with SFGate, Bending Spoons, the Milan-based app developer that bought the company last November, said Friday it had laid off nearly all...
View ArticleLotus' Eletre SUV shows the company has finally grown up
We all need to mature someday, and for Lotus, that time is now. Welcome to the Eletre, the company's first production SUV. An electric one at that, with comfortable seating for four or een five. Lotus...
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Meta's Threads races to 100 million users in under a week
Meta's Twitter competitor is off to a flying start. In under five days of the app going live, Threads already has more than 100 million users according Quiver Quantitative's Threads Tracker. It helps...
View ArticleElgato's Stream Deck+ gets its first discount at Amazon
If you're looking to up your streaming game this summer, now might be the time to do it. Elgato's Stream Deck + is down from $200 to $180 — a ten percent discount. This deal is one of the first real...
View ArticleGoogle is testing its medical AI chatbot at the Mayo Clinic
Google is already testing its Med-PaLM 2 AI chat technology at at the Mayo Clinic and other hospitals, The Wall Street Journal has reported. It's based on the company's PaLM 2 large language model...
View ArticleApple's iPad Mini falls back to $400 at Amazon
Prime Day is almost upon us and we're seeing some early gadget deals, including Apple's sixth-generation iPad Mini back on sale for $400. This discount takes 20 percent off its sticker price of $500...
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The Morning After: Meta's Threads tops 100 million users in under a week
In just four days of the app going live on Wednesday evening, Threads already has more than 100 million users, according to Quiver Quantitative's Threads Tracker. Thread is a sibling app to Instagram,...
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