Snap reported its third-quarter earnings Thursday, the first social media company to offer a financial update amid ongoing economic tumult this quarter. The company, which has seen its stock price plunge to a fraction of what it was worth during 2021’s highs, missed analyst expectations on revenue, bringing in $1.13 billion compared to the $1.14…
Monthly Archives: October 2022
Microsoft Outlook is planning to make it easier to find meeting-critical documents, such as recordings, transcriptions, and minutes, from within the email client itself, without the need to cross over to other applications. The new feature, revealed on the Microsoft 365 roadmap, will likely collate the AI-powered “intelligent recaps” delivered by Microsoft Teams Premium, the…
Google is updating its Messages app by adding new organizing features and multimedia support in a new effort to push the RCS protocol. RCS (Rich Communication Service) is a communication standard that aims to replace the old SMS (Short Message Service) protocol. The more modern standard allows for “richer text features,” higher quality content, and…
EasyList has been hit with a burst of highly unusual traffic that is proving an issue for the community-run project. A post from AdGuard, an ad blocker that utilizes its own filter list, claimed that as EasyList is used by 99.9% of all ad blockers, most users of such tools will be affected too. A…
The 2024 GMC Sierra EV Denali Edition 1. Tim Levin/Insider GMC on Thursday revealed the Sierra EV, a high-end electric pickup truck coming in 2024. The first models will be packed with features and cost $107,000 and up. The Sierra EV Denali Edition 1 promises four-wheel steering, 400 miles of range, and 754 horsepower. Car…
Lionel Bonaventure/Getty Images TikTok’s parent ByteDance planned to use the app to surveil specific Americans’ locations, Forbes reported. A China-based team intended to gather location data on at least two specific US users, per the report. The report is sure to raise more privacy and national-security concerns over TikTok. ByteDance, the Chinese parent company of…
Russian President Vladimir Putin attends the plenary session of the Commonwealth of the Independent States (CIS) Summit, October 14, 2022. Getty Images Putin’s declaration of martial law in occupied Ukrainian territories is being decried as a symbolic, desperate move. The Institute for the Study of War (ISW) said the martial law decree is “largely legal…
In this photo illustration the logo of LinkedIn can be seen on a smartphone on March 10, 2022 in Berlin, Germany. Thomas Trutschel/Photothek via Getty Images Last week, a developer who tracks LinkedIn spotted massive drops in people claiming to work at Apple and Amazon. LinkedIn confirmed to Insider that the purge is part of…
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House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy of California. Kent Nishimura/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images US aid to Ukraine could be in jeopardy if Republicans win the House in the midterms. Several GOP lawmakers and candidates have signaled they would support reducing or cutting off Ukraine aid. “Ukraine unfortunately has been hijacked sometimes in domestic politics….