Microsoft to Shut Down Skype
It is time to say sayonara to Skype, with Microsoft on Friday saying it will be shutting down the video and chat app in May. In its place, Microsoft will be offering a free version of Teams. Current...
View ArticleReddit Co-Founder Alexis Ohanian Boards Frank McCourt’s Project Liberty Bid...
Project Liberty’s bid for TikTok just got a little more social media savvy with Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian joining as a strategic adviser. “He has that broad portfolio of experience… of where...
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Big Tech Stocks Down Big as Wall Street Hit Hard in Wake of Trump’s Tariffs
If, after seeing a who’s who of Silicon Valley executives at President Trump’s inauguration in January, you believed it was going to be the Year of Big Tech, you’d be wrong — at least so far. Instead,...
View ArticleElon Musk’s Request to Stop OpenAI From Going For-Profit Blocked by Judge,...
Elon Musk’s latest attempt to keep Sam Altman from turning OpenAI for-profit has been blocked by a federal judge, but the trial has instead been fast tracked in the interest of the American public....
View ArticleYouTube Launches Premium Lite Subscription Tier for $7.99 a Month
YouTube is expanding its subscription offerings to add Premium Lite, a new option that will allow subscribers to watch most videos ad-free. The company announced this latest development in a Wednesday...
View ArticleWall Street Journal Cuts Tech Reporters and Editors in Media Reconfiguration...
The Wall Street Journal is cutting a number of writers and editors from its technology team, adding another high-profile media company to the list of outlets that have cut jobs so far this year. WSJ...
View ArticleElon Musk Defends DOGE Cuts, Says Bill Clinton Would Be Branded a ‘Far-Right...
Elon Musk said Bill Clinton and Al Gore would be branded as “far-right Republicans” in 2025 for wanting to have “sensible” government spending, based on the criticism he and the Department of...
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Netflix Sees More Than $40 Billion in Market Cap Evaporate on Subscriber...
Wall Street is showing new anxiety about Netflix, with the streaming giant’s stock price continuing its recent slide on Friday. Netflix’s stock is down 4.5% a few hours into trading, a day after its...
View ArticleLauren Sánchez Shares First Zoom Call With Her All-Female Blue Origin Space...
American journalist, author and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos‘ fiancée, Lauren Sánchez, shared a video Friday of her first Zoom call with her all-female Blue Origin crew. Sánchez is set to fly to space...
View ArticleElon Musk Says X Was Hit by ‘Massive Cyberattack’ Monday After Service Outages
Update: Elon Musk said late Monday morning that the mass X outages blocked access to the social media platform earlier in the day was the result of a “massive” cyberattack involving “a lot of...
View ArticleTrump to Buy New Tesla to Support Elon Musk, Fight ‘Radical Left Lunatics’
President Donald Trump said he will be buying a “brand new Tesla” on Tuesday to support Elon Musk, the company’s CEO and the head of his new Department of Government Efficiency. “To Republicans,...
View Article‘Pokémon Go’ Maker Niantic Acquired for $3.5 Billion by Scopely
Mobile-focused gaming company Scopely is buying the gaming business of Niantic, the company behind “Pokémon Go,” for $3.5 billion on Wednesday. The deal will bring a number of other popular games into...
View ArticleDiscovery+ Updates Personalized Content Recommendations, Sign-In and Social...
Discovery+ has made a series of technical improvements as the streamer migrates to the same in-house infrastructure that powers Max. The new features include enhanced personalization recommendations,...
View ArticleMeta Moves to Block Whistleblower From Promoting Memoir Alleging Sexual...
An abitrator has temporarily granted an emergency petition by Meta to stop the promotion of a former employee’s memoir, in which she alleges that she was fired after reporting she was sexually...
View ArticleFacebook, Instagram Roll Out X-Like Community Notes Feature
Facebook and Instagram will launch their new Community Notes feature on March 18 in the U.S., allowing users “with more perspectives to add context to posts,” Meta announced on Thursday. The feature...
View ArticleOpenAI Argues US Will Forfeit AI Lead to China if It Can’t Learn From...
OpenAI shared its game plan on Thursday on ways the Trump Administration can “strengthen America’s lead” on artificial intelligence, as well as “unlock” economic growth and “protect” national...
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The End of Technicolor and Jellyfish Is Implosion of Long-Suffering Visual...
At the 2013 Academy Awards, visual effects supervisor Bill Westenhofer, accepting the award for Rhythm & Hues’ work on Ang Lee’s “Life of Pi,” approached the microphone. “Sadly, Rhythm & Hues...
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Inside the AI Ground War Against Celebrity Deepfakes
In January, a French woman lost $900,000 after falling victim to scammers posing as Brad Pitt who convinced her to send money for medical treatments. The elaborate scheme, which lasted over a year,...
View ArticleGoogle Strikes $32 Billion Deal for Wiz in Company’s Largest Acquisition Ever
Google’s parent company Alphabet on Tuesday struck a deal to acquire cloud security startup Wiz for $32 billion. The deal is easily the largest in Google’s history and bolsters its cloud business as...
View ArticleOpenAI Wants ‘License to Steal’ Copyrighted Material in Plea to Trump,...
Multiple papers owned by Alden Global Capital, the nation’s second-largest newspaper publisher, slammed OpenAI for its recent proposal to the Trump White House to make it easier to use copyrighted...
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