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For six years, I have found myself randomly wondering “is this the year Phoebe Bridgers finally puts out a new album?” The answer has always been a resounding “no.” That changed on May 8, when mysterious flyers appeared in Roswell, New Mexico, announcing a show that same day at the Liberty, a venue that holds a few hundred people. Equally small popups announced by flyer have followed in places…

Creator Assistant can generate content ideas based on recent viral trends. Meta just revealed a new AI tool called creator assistant, which is intended to give content creators a “brainstorming partner.” It’s built into the Facebook dashboard and is being pitched as a novel way to understand traffic analytics and that sort of thing. “Rather than analyzing a bunch of different dashboards and…

Meta has launched Business Agent to automate conversational commerce workflows directly inside its messaging applications. The software allows global retail brands to execute transactions and field support tickets without human intervention. Deploying this architecture places agentic AI directly at the core of social commerce. Meta integrated these workflows natively into Instagram, Messenger,…

It’s strange to see your life playing out on the big screen, but that’s what it felt like when I got an advanced look at TikTok Never Dies, a new documentary chronicling the high-stakes legal drama around banning TikTok in the United States. I’m not actually in the film, but as a China tech reporter, I’ve closely followed every twist and turn of the saga it covers, from when President Donald…

Google is launching Search profiles, giving creators a page to pull their content together from different platforms. The profiles show articles, videos, and social posts in one place. People can follow their favorite websites and creators to see more of their content in Google Discover. What Search Profiles Include Creators can customize their profile with an avatar, bio, website link, and linked…

The rapid adoption of AI in writing, design, and analysis, to name just a few areas, came with mixed results: it made workflows faster and easier in some ways, and more complicated in others. The constant need to switch between tools and contexts comes at a cost, and is a frequent source of frustration for practitioners.  When AI entered the mainstream across multiple industries, organizations…

Meta has quietly embedded face-recognition technology for its smart glasses into an app downloaded to millions of phones, according to a WIRED analysis of the company’s software. Code discreetly added to Meta’s AI app over multiple updates this year shows that the feature, internally called “NameTag,” identifies people captured by the glasses’ camera and, when activated, alerts the wearer when it…

Banish any memories of Ferrari’s 2004 venture into laptops. Coinciding with the Monaco Grand Prix, and with HP in tow, Ferrari is charging at the world of laptops again with a product that has an eye-watering, Tifosi–baiting price of $5,599. The HP Scuderia Ferrari AI PC is a limited-run notebook that’s the result of two years of collaboration between the PC maker and iconic car company. The…

Have you ever wanted to wave a magic wand at something and make it yours? Well, now you can, so long as you have enough money in your debit account to pay for it. Cash App, the digital payments service operated by Block, has offered its users the ability to use free physical cards since 2017. Now, anyone with a Cash App card can pay $25 to turn that card into a pearlescent, sparkly magic wand.…

Google is rolling out Search profiles in the U.S. for publishers within Google Discover. Search profiles gives publishers a landing page that searchers can click on and view, the landing page includes a large header image, a way to follow the publisher and a place to showcase their latest articles, videos and social posts, all in one place. Google has been testing this for several months,…

It’s like the Major and the Monitor had a baby. James Trew for Engadget RATING : 8 / 10 Pros Impressive ANC Long battery life Very comfortable Replaceable battery Cons No aptX support Wired mode still requires power Marshall’s Major headphones are now in their fifth iteration, an unusually long lifespan for the often-overlooked on-ear category. The original model launched the same year…

In Part 1 of this series, -2, a time-series foundation model. We got our hands dirty by walking through a real case study and saw what Chronos-2 can do straight out of the box, with no training. But as we noted at the end of Part 1, zero-shot isn’t always enough. In cases when: Your data may look unlike anything in the pretraining mix. The model keeps making systematic errors. You do have rich…

Snapchat sent phone alerts to adolescents during school hours, urging them to share what was going on in their classrooms. Meta paid “teen ambassadors” to promote Instagram and hand out swag to their friends at school. TikTok gave the National PTA millions of dollars, in part to throw school events about online safety and provide favorable comments to journalists. Again and again, the world’s…

The job description hasn’t changed much in five years. Most SEO roles, whether they sit in-house or at an agency, still get written around the same core: keyword research, on-page optimization, technical audits, content briefs, link building, and reporting. Maybe a bit of CRO if the JD writer was feeling ambitious. The problem is that the job those skills add up to is no longer the job that moves…

It more than doubles your gaming time while giving you a better grip. Belkin Belkin has introduced a new charging grip for the Switch 2 that lets you game longer and be more comfortable doing it. The Gaming Charging Grip for Nintendo Switch 2 comes with a 10,000 mAh power bank, built-in charging cable and modular grips for the Joy-Cons.  To use it, you slide your Switch 2 into the charger case…

When OpenAI unveiled ChatGPT at the end of 2022, it kicked off the chatbot boom. Then last year, new systems from OpenAI and Anthropic incited a new technological push with so-called A.I. agents that can perform tasks like personal digital helpers. Now, a San Francisco start-up called Arena, which tracks hundreds of thousands of artificial intelligence users, is trying to take some of the mystery…

The Tarnished Edition includes the Shadow of the Erdtree expansion and other goodies. We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Elden Ring is finally launching for the Switch 2 on August 28, following a lengthy delay. Elden Ring: Tarnished Edition is a comprehensive collection that includes the main game and the Shadow of the Erdtree expansion. It also features new classes,…