Month: February 2021
PS5 restock: how to track PS5 console stock on Twitter – and get it this week PS5 restock
This week may be unprecedented for our PS5 restock Twitter tracker, which has led to hundreds of people claiming the hard-to-buy Sony console the moment we send out a tweet. As predicted, there wasn’t new PS5 stock Saturday or Sunday. But we expect Walmart to have new stock later this…
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Cybersecurity firm says social media bots hyped GameStop during trading frenzy
A cybersecurity firm found that bots were promoting GameStop stock on social media before and after the stock’s frenzied rise last month, Reuters reported. Massachusetts-based PiiQ Media says social media bots promoted Dogecoin, GameStop, and other “meme” stocks in posts on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and YouTube. The firm estimated that…
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Minneapolis hiring social media influencers for former police officers’ trials
Minneapolis is hiring social media influencers to share “city-generated and approved messages” during the trials of four former city police officers charged in the May 2020 killing of George Floyd, according to the Minnesota Reformer. The Minneapolis city council approved the plan on Friday, which calls for six influencers to…
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Lordstown Motors’ electric race truck is (mostly) ready for off-roading
Lordstown Motors wants to prove its Endurance electric truck is ready for the wilderness through a familiar strategy: it's entering a prominent race. Autoblog reports that Lordstown has unveiled a race-ready version of its Endurance Beta truck th… Source
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New AI ‘Deep Nostalgia’ brings old photos, including very old ones, to life
An AI-powered service called Deep Nostalgia that animates still photos has become the main character on Twitter this fine Sunday, as people try to create the creepiest fake “video” possible, apparently. The Deep Nostalgia service, offered by online genealogy company MyHeritage, uses AI licensed from D-ID to create the effect…
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PSN is down: outage continues to disrupt online games for PS5, other Sony consoles PSN is down
Update: PSN is down on Sunday, and the problems with playing some online games are now being reported by users. Here’s what we know about the outage. PSN is down with a major outage right now, according to Sony’s official PlayStation Network status page – and the fact that we…
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