[ad_1] “If you’re not paying for the product, you’re the product” has long been a popular saying about the business of social media. The saying goes that users aren’t paying for apps like Instagram or Twitter, but rather offering something else: attention (and sometimes content) that is sold to advertisers. implying that it is not. …
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[ad_1] When he moved to a new country last October, he got a new phone number. Ugo, who lives in Europe, where WhatsApp is very popular, didn’t immediately register his new phone number with the app, but was able to continue using it as normal. It was only when I told WhatsApp that I had …
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[ad_1] It’s far from perfect, but if you’re used to the days when Twitter was a surefire place to digest all sorts of breaking news, politics, celebrity gossip, or personal thoughts, it’s time to embrace the new reality. . Twitter is becoming a degraded product. In the four months since Elon Musk took over the …
[ad_1] YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki, who has led the world’s largest video site for the past nine years, is stepping down from her role. She will be replaced by her longtime lieutenant, Neil Mohan. In a letter sent to YouTube employees, Wojcicki said he was leaving to “start a new chapter focused on my family, …
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[ad_1] A massive bipartisan push against Big Tech in the new Congress looks set to protect children. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer was quoted as saying that passing them was a priority for him. I’m here. President Joe Biden recently said the same thing. If this week’s Senate Judiciary Committee hearings show any indication about …
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[ad_1] 2022 has been a miserable year for Meta. Year-on-year, the stock price fell 65%, he laid off 11,000 people, and employee morale plummeted. However, there are signs that things are improving. Earlier this month, the company reported better-than-expected fourth-quarter earnings, and the stock is up more than 20% in his one day. Almost every …
[ad_1] Kelsey can’t do her job without her medication. The resident physician in Wisconsin, who is in her early 30s, takes the generic version of a stimulant called Concerta to treat her narcolepsy as well as her attention deficit and hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Untreated, her ADHD makes it difficult to keep focus and do routine …
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[ad_1] let’s say you want to take yourself magic mike last dance at the AMC 34th Street Theater in Manhattan on Friday. It could happen! Regular tickets are available for $26.88. Or you can pick a seat in the middle of the theater and pay $1 more. If this was a Knicks game or a …
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[ad_1] When Rob Fishman, a former account executive at a tech startup, was laid off in January, he wasn’t sure how to talk about it. Even though tens of thousands of tech employees at startups like his — and at major tech companies like Google, Meta, and Microsoft (which owns LinkedIn) — were being laid …
[ad_1] Super Bowl LVI was only a year ago, but some of the ads I saw back then made it feel like a very different time. The future of the Internet was all about cryptocurrencies, NFTs, and the Metaverse. A company that didn’t exist a decade or three before him spent big bucks to establish …
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[ad_1] Christine Ruiz quit her 9-to-5 job last summer to do the same job as a contractor instead. In both places, she is her manager of compliance, the person who ensures that the company’s software does not violate its policies. But Lewis said she wanted to pursue a higher degree, and that switching from full-time …
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[ad_1] Joe Biden mentioned hamburgers in his 2023 State of the Union address. Specifically, the president wondered why the person who rang your burger order signed a non-compete agreement barring him from working at a higher-paying burger restaurant nearby. , stated that these agreements would soon be banned. That’s the current job of Federal Trade …
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[ad_1] Microsoft has officially taken the lead in the race to build a search engine powered by generative AI. On Tuesday, the company debuted his rumored OpenAI-infused versions of his Bing search engine and Edge web browser, declaring them to be the next evolution of the internet. not google. Satya Nadella, Chairman and CEO of …
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[ad_1] Under intense pressure to compete with ChatGPT — the much-talked-about AI chatbot that has become a viral sensation — Google announced Monday that it will release its own “experimental conversational AI” tool called “Bard.” The company also says it will add new AI-powered features to Google Search. Google will first grant access to Bard …
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[ad_1] Under intense pressure to compete with ChatGPT — the much-talked-about AI chatbot that has become a viral sensation — Google announced Monday that it will release its own “experimental conversational AI” tool called “Bard.” The company also says it will add new AI-powered features to Google Search. Google will first grant access to Bard …
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