The Comedy Club at the End of the Metaverse
…Come June 15, Meta plans to cut creation features in VR and stop allowing users to build updates or new content on the platform—no more new worlds or seasonal updates, except…
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The Best Browser Extensions to Get More Out of YouTube
…in lots and lots of features to be worthwhile: DeArrow simply concentrates on improving the titles and the thumbnails of the videos you see on the platform. These two key elements of…
Taylor Swift Wants to Trademark Her Likeness. These TikTok Deepfake Ads Show Why
…These ads eventually lead the user to a third-party service that, despite the TikTok name and logo, has evidently been vibe coded using the AI platform Lovable, whose own branding appears…
Meta Silently Added Face-Recognition Code for Its Smart Glasses to Millions of Phones
…release such a feature, we would take a very thoughtful approach before rolling anything out.” Privacy advocates argue that by embedding face recognition into a mass-market wearable platform, Meta could normalize…
Sam Altman’s Orb Company Promoted a Bruno Mars Partnership That Doesn't Exist
…In September, Bloomberg reported that the US Federal Trade Commission was investigating Ticketmaster over whether it had done enough to keep bots off its platform. Anderson .Paak made a cameo at the…
Everything Announced at Google I/O 2026
…Search is also getting a Generative UI feature, which creates different ways of viewing information from search results, so different types of responses—videos, images, news articles—get custom layouts that are…
The 70-Person AI Image Startup Taking on Silicon Valley's Giants
In December, Black Forest Labs raised funds at a $3.25 billion valuation, after signing deals to power AI image-generation features in Adobe and the graphic design platform Canva. It has…
Streamers Like Clavicular Are Humiliating OnlyFans Girls For Clout
…Many called out the hypocrisy of men like Clavicular, who allegedly runs his own OnlyFans agency and features models on streams, for directly profiting off sex workers while publicly excoriating them. A…
The Fight to Hold AI Companies Accountable for Children’s Deaths
…platform,” she alleges. “Product liability claims against generative AI companies are the most straightforward and intuitive path for holding companies like ChatGPT, Character AI, Grok liable.” One such harmful design feature that…
The 19 Most Exciting Cars at the Beijing Auto Show 2026
…Chinese manufacturers' cars offer many technologically impressive features. Lidar sensors, which use lasers for advanced driver assistance, are now even being incorporated into EVs costing less than 100,000 yuan (approximately $14…