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TikTok to restrict users who repeatedly post problematic topics from ‘For You’ feed
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TikTok will make entire accounts temporarily ineligible for its For You feed if users have a pattern of posting about extreme fitness, conspiracy theories, sexually suggestive material, and a wide range of other top...
theverge.comComcast rolls out ‘Now’ prepaid phone and internet plans
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Comcast announced today that it’s expanding its “Now” branding to include two prepaid services: Now Internet and Now Mobile. Of the two, the mobile plan appears to be genuinely new, as it’s a prepaid cellular option that offers unlimited 5G ...
theverge.comStability AI is giving more developers access to its next-gen text-to-image generator
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The next generation of the text-to-image AI model Stable Diffusion is still in preview, but Stability AI is making it available to some developers via API and a new content creation platform. S...
theverge.comThe invisible seafaring industry that keeps the internet afloat
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On the afternoon of March 11th, 2011, Mitsuyoshi Hirai, the chief engineer of the cable maintenance ship Ocean Link, was sitting in his cabin 20 miles off Japan’s eastern coast, completing the paperwork that comes at the ...
theverge.comYouTube’s ad blocker crackdown now includes third-party apps
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YouTube is bringing its ad blocker fight to mobile. In an update on Monday, YouTube writes that users accessing videos through a third-party ad blocking app may encounter buffering issues or see an error message that r...
theverge.comSenator Elizabeth Warren claims TurboTax ‘relentlessly’ upsells customers in letter to FTC
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Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) has written a letter to the Federal Trade Commission, saying that TurboTax “continues to relentlessly upsell” customers while also directing them away from services that would otherwi...
theverge.comBluesky lifted its ban on heads of state signups
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Bluesky is apparently ready for a bigger challenge. It says it’s allowing heads of state to sign up now, a little over two months after it opened for general signups. In May last year, the site asked its users not to give invitation codes to...
theverge.comDbrand’s brash social media schtick just cost the company $10,000
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Dbrand, the phone case company known for its sassy attitude toward users and tech companies, gave $10,000 to a customer as an apology after it made a racist comment about their last name.
On Tuesday, Dbrand reposted a complaint from a custom...
theverge.comThe Weather Channel’s parent company has a new AI tool to make hyperlocal weather videos
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Generative AI could be coming to your local TV station as The Weather Company, aka the people that run The Weather Channel, is bringing AI tools to make weather videos.
The Weather Company...
theverge.comMeta says it’s fixing ‘HD’ photo sharing in Facebook Messenger
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Facebook rolled out the ability for Messenger users to share 4K photos back in 2017. Now, Meta has announced that users can share HD photos in the app. Confused? We were, too, so we asked about it. The short answer i...
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