This is how badly X wants you to pay to promote your posts
After Elon Musk warned that "advertisers who post ads that are ugly, shrill, strident or overstate claims about their product will be barred from advertising" on X earlier this month, the platform...
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TikTok is going after Yelp and Google Maps with an in-app restaurant guide
TikTok is launching an in-app restaurant guide in a challenge to other platforms like Yelp and even Google Maps. The company on Wednesday announced the launch of Must Eat, a new section of the...
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Inside Amazon’s Echo hardware event
Amazon swapped its usual big fall hardware showcase this year for a series of smaller launches throughout October. So far this month, it has announced new Fire TV devices, new Kindles, the Alexa...
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Almost all of Amazon’s new Echo gear is available now
Amazon used to blast out dozens of products onstage at annual hardware events. If this October is any indication, the company has wisely changed its strategy to put more focus on each new product...
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Everything announced at Amazon’s October 2026 hardware launch
Amazon had plenty of new gadgets to share at its Echo hardware event this year, along with updates to the AI-powered Alexa Plus after it became available to everyone in the US in February. But the...
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Amazon’s new Echo line is here: the 6 biggest updates
Amazon has just taken the wraps off a bunch of new devices as part of a string of fall announcements. Today's news focuses largely on new Echo speakers, with a few new smart home gadgets sprinkled...
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Spending time with the Echo Time — a smart clock that senses you sleeping
Amazon just announced its newest smart alarm clock - the Echo Time. The baseball-sized smart speaker with a screen, the Time looks like an Echo Dot with Clock and an Echo Spot had a much bigger...
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Amazon’s Alexa Home Map is getting a smarter 3D redesign
Amazon's smart home map interface that shows you where all your connected devices are has been overhauled with new graphics, features, and dynamic effects. The new Alexa Home Map is now an...
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Our first look at Amazon’s big new Echo Show 16
Amazon's latest Echo Show smart display is big, gorgeous, and eye-wateringly expensive. Announced today, the Echo Show 16 costs $499.99 (wall mount included) and is available to preorder now....
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Amazon’s new Echo Studio speaker has a camera
Amazon is giving its premium smart speaker a camera. The new Echo Studio with Home Camera, announced today as part of Amazon's big blast of announcements, has a built-in camera for monitoring a...
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How a grocery merger could expand a surveillance network
Kroger's $1.65 billion proposed acquisition of Giant Eagle might not only consolidate the grocery market, but also a vast surveillance network that includes Flock cameras, a new report warns....
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Amazon’s first digital picture frame lets you add voice notes to photos
Amazon's screen-equipped smart speakers have long been able to display your family's photos, but its new Alexa Photo Frame is purpose-built for that task. It's designed to compete with other...
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Voters in Texas agree: They hate data centers
Ask Texas NAACP president Gary Bledsoe what it's been like to see data center developers descend upon Austin and its surrounding suburbs and he can rattle off project after project facing...
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Meta considered a ‘whisper strategy’ to turn academics against Jonathan Haidt
As Meta was feeling public pressure over teen mental health, and facing an impending onslaught of kids safety trials, the company considered a campaign to discredit a key critic: social...
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Meta quietly launched an ‘AI pet journal’ app
Meta has launched a "tamagotchi-style" pet game called Waddle World, with virtual creatures that chat with users and create doodles to illustrate conversations. According to its Apple and Play...
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Here’s why the iPhone Duo’s hinge could be cracking the screen
Within hours of the iPhone Duo launch last Friday, people reported that the inner screen on some brand new foldable phones was already broken. The issue was similar across many photos shared on...
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Researchers are getting tired of OpenAI gatekeeping its breakthroughs
On Monday, OpenAI announced impressive breakthroughs in mathematics, computer science, and physics, along with what the company says is an evolving approach to communicating its findings. But...
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Elon Musk says Ukraine’s military violated Starlink’s terms of service
Elon Musk claims Ukraine violated Starlink's terms of service before the recent slowdown, as reported earlier by Ars Technica. According to Musk, "Ukraine military violated Starlink terms of...
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Trump is making it easier for fossil fuel companies to leak methane
In its latest gift to oil and gas companies, the Trump administration is expected to announce plans today to weaken rules that guard against methane leaks. Methane is a smog-forming pollutant and...
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VisionQuest is what happens when AI really goes rogue
In Marvel's VisionQuest, a superpowered robot tries to better understand humanity by getting lost in elaborate, digital daydreams in which he and other artificial intelligence-powered beings live...
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