Another company hoping to capitalize on Twitter’s upheaval in the wake of Elon Musk’s takeover is the newsletter platform Substack. The company has openly targeted Twitter’s user base over the past few days and has now thrown its hat into the ring as a more direct competitor with the launch of Substack Chat. The new…
The NFL week 9 matchup between the Houston Texans and the Philadelphia Eagles will be the latest game brought to your screen via an 11-year partnership in which Amazon Prime Video is the new home of Thursday Night Football. It’s the first time a streaming service has secured exclusive, season-long streaming rights to NFL games…
UPDATE: Nov. 3, 2022, 11:31 a.m. EDT This article has been updated to reflect new information confirming suspicions about China’s access to U.S. and European user data. Despite the repeated assurances that TikTok’s parent company, the China-based ByteDance, isn’t checking out data collected about users in the U.S. and Europe, it looks like the company…
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Google has released an new open source benchmark that it says will allow robots to perform tasks by writing their own code in response to human-written instructions. The company has launched a new website to reveal “Code as Policies” (CAP), whereby prompts written in plain English can be interpreted into language-model generated programs (LMPs) written…
Welcome to our AMD Radeon 7000 launch event live blog. AMD is hosting a big bash where it’ll show off its next generation of graphics cards to take on Nvidia. This is an exciting time to be a PC gamer, not only do we have more brilliant PC games than we can play, but Nvidia…
While the cybersecurity software market revenue is expected to grow over $100bn by 2026, a digital privacy company has just ditched paid subscriptions for all. The famous provider behind one of the best adblockers around right now, Ghostery has turned to a contributor program instead. This will help keep the software running, while allowing users…
Election 2022 is shaping up to be the most expensive midterm election ever — by a lot. STILLFX/Getty Images Election 2022 will be the most expensive midterm ever, nonpartisan research group OpenSecrets predicts. Federal- and state-level election spending combined will exceed the annual budgets of some US states. At the federal level, the 2022 midterms…
U.S. Federal Reserve Board Chairman Jerome Powell listens as U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen speaks during a meeting with the Treasury Department’s Financial Stability Oversight Council at the U.S. Treasury Department on October 03, 2022 in Washington, DC. Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images The Federal Reserve’s last interest rate hike will be in December, according…
A Toyota dealership in Florida. Joe Raedle/Getty Images High interest rates are hitting car buyers just as vehicles are becoming more available. Parts shortages have made it an expensive nightmare to buy a car for much of the pandemic. The Federal Reserve raised interest rates again on Wednesday by .75% to TK With more cars…