In a seven-part threaded post yesterday, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg outlined near-future plans that aim to enhance opportunities for influencers and digital
After a two-year pandemic-related hiatus, Vidcon, one of the world’s largest annual gatherings of digital and social media creators, the creator econom
Last July, Slack unveiled a new real-time collaborative feature called Huddles. It offered audio-only conferencing optimized for informal, on-the-fly conversations—and felt like manna for anyone who was weary of video conferencing via Zoom and similar services.
Slack users greeted Huddles enthusiastically, adopting them
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On May 2, just hours before Politico published a leaked Supreme Court draft opinion to overturn Roe v. Wade, the
Even by Elon Musk’s exaggerated definition of weird, the past 24 hours or so have been more than a bit peculiar.
On Tuesday alone, Musk stoked investor fears at an economic forum; both dissed cryptocurrency and pumped it up; swung the ax at his flagship company while the board and shareholders of the company he’s chasing voted on whether they wanted the deal to proceed; and is having to deal with at le
When one of our students told us they were going to drop out of college in August 2021, it wasn’t the first time we’d heard of someone ending their studies prematurely.
What was new, though, was the reason. The student had become a victim of a cryptocurrency scam and had lost all their money—including a bank loan—leaving them not just broke, but in debt. The experience was financially and psychologically traumatic, to say the least.
This student, unfo
It’s hard to imagine that three random words have the power to both map the globe and keep your private data secure. The secret behind this power is just a little bit of math.
What3words is an app and web-based service that provides a geographic reference for every 3-meter-by-3-meter square on Earth using three random words. If your brain operates more naturally in the English measurement system
The Steam Deck is a portable gaming system that breaks the biggest rule of gaming systems.
Unlike practically every major game console that’s come before it, the Steam Deck, from PC gaming giant Valve, doesn’t lock users into one ecosystem. While Valve’s own Steam store is the default way to buy and play games, the Steam Deck also lets users install whatever software th
The Milady Maker NFT line was meant to be something small. Only 10,000 “Miladys” were minted and there are around 3,000 currently owned on OpenSea, all of which depict cutesy anime girls sporting different outfi