Month: August 2023
TweetDeck is officially becoming a paid service
X, the social network formally known as Twitter, appears to be finally following through on its promise to make TweetDeck a paid service. Many users on X, including social media consultant Matt Navarra, say that they’re seeing a sales page for X Premium (the subscription formerly Twitter Blue) when they…
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It’s official, people aren’t watching TV as much as they used to
Approximately two years ago, Nielsen started using a new metric for measuring how people spend their TV-watching time. It built in buckets for broadcast TV, cable TV, streaming, and a catchall called “Other” that accounted for people using gaming consoles and media players. The latest report shows broadcast and cable…
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Helium Mobile’s suspiciously cheap phone plan is only for the bravest among us
You may be wondering how this is possible. Certainly I am! I have read their explanation several times, and I absolutely have not understood it. I will reproduce it here, in case it makes sense to you: The beauty of Helium Mobile is that it combines the power of the…
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An Iowa school district is using ChatGPT to decide which books to ban
Iowa’s Mason City Community School District is pulling 19 books from school libraries that administrators found to contain “a description or depiction of a sex act” in order to comply with Republican-backed state laws. A key arbiter of whether the books should be banned: ChatGPT. The news that the district…
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Dell fits game-changing 50-year-old tech into its latest touchscreen monitor
Dell is pitching its latest monitor as a game changer in the battle to banish notspots, letting home workers connect to the internet with an Ethernet cable. A LAN port is something of a rarity for a monitor fitted with touchscreen capabilities, with Dell’s 24in P2424HT monitor geared to users…
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Astronomers confirm Maisie’s galaxy is one of the oldest observed
Astronomers have used advanced instruments to calculate a more accurate age of Maisie’s galaxy, discovered by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) in June 2022. Although the star system isn’t quite as old as initially estimated, it’s still one of the oldest recorded, from 390 million years after the Big…
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