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Advertisers slashed spending on X by more than 55% ahead of this year’s Super Bowl::Top advertisers including NFL Enterprises, McDonald’s, and YouTube, spent $48.4 million on X ads in 2022 — last year, they spent just $21.1 million.

The first Americans have already started wearing the new augmented and virtual reality glasses, Apple Vision Pro....

Amazon could soon be on the hook for safety of third-party products it sells and ships — Government order could classify it as a distributor, potentially exposing it to more legal claims::undefined

A new online payment system that is socially, ecologically, and fiscally responsible, to make finance easy for common people. That’s the aim of the Next Generation Internet pilot named NGI TALER. This project, coordinated by the Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), is operated by a consortium of eleven partners from...

Yeah, because everyone is asking for that. They will force ads into everything they can, because Google is an Ad company.

Comcast reluctantly agrees to stop its misleading “10G Network” claims | Comcast said it will drop “Xfinity 10G Network” brand name after losing appeal.::Comcast said it will drop “Xfinity 10G Network” brand name after losing appeal.

Users of Google Chrome on Windows 10 and 11 are reporting that they have suddenly found themselves using Microsoft Edge, with their Chrome browsing sessions appearing in Edge....

Unprofitable SF tech giant Okta lays off 400 workers, dozens in California::Okta, the San Francisco-based maker of identity and access tech, is laying off 400 workers, including 83 in California. CEO Todd McKinnon announced the news.

We Asked A.I. to Create the Joker. It Generated a Copyrighted Image.::Artists and researchers are exposing copyrighted material hidden within A.I. tools, raising fresh legal questions.

It used to be that you would do a search on a relevant subject and get blog posts, forums posts, and maybe a couple of relevant companies offering the product or service. (And if you wanted more information on said company you could give them a call and actually talk to a real person about said service) You could even trust...

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Kids Don’t Think Congress Has Their Best Interests In Mind With Their Grandstanding ‘Protect The Children’ Hearing::We’ve covered a few stories this week related to the Senate hearing on “kids safety” and there’s going to be a lot more in the coming weeks as those same Senators grandstand and yell about “protect...

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Zoom is cutting about 150 jobs, or close to 2% of its workforce::Zoom on Thursday confirmed that it’s cutting about 2% of its workforce, becoming the latest tech company to announce layoffs.

The EPA is proposing that ‘forever chemicals’ be considered hazardous substances::undefined

Around late 1986, Sega released the “Sega AI Computer”. This is one of Sega’s least well known and rarest systems. Not much is known about this system apart from a small amount of information in Japanese and American flyers and press articles. The information we have is still piecemeal and may be partly inaccurate....

Zuckerberg to Get $700 Million a Year From Meta’s New Dividend::Meta Platforms Inc. Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg stands to receive a payout of about $700 million a year from the social media giant’s first-ever dividend for investors.

The emergence of new technologies has indeed made it easier for me to deliver lectures to my students. These technologies encompass a wide range of tools and platforms that can enhance the teaching and learning experience. Some of the emerging technologies for teaching and learning include big data in education, cloud computing,...

Technology makes it easy for me to deliver lectures to my students in several ways, such as enhancing interactive learning, fostering student engagement, and differentiating instruction. Educational technology, such as the audience response system (ARS), virtual classrooms, and interactive software, can make classroom teaching...