Month: October 2023
Satya Nadella tells a court that Bing is worse than Google — and Apple could fix it
Microsoft’s Bing search engine is not as good as Google. Believe it or not, it seems nobody — not even Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella — disputes that fact. But over hours of contentious testimony from Nadella during the landmark US v. Google antitrust trial, the reason for that inferiority became…
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Elon Musk sued for defamation for falsely identifying man as neo-Nazi protestor
Elon Musk, the billionaire owner of X (formerly known as Twitter), is being sued for defamation over posts he made falsely accusing a man of pretending to be a neo-Nazi to stir up a “false flag” operation earlier this year. In June, a fight broke out between two far-right groups…
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Blizzard says it’s building ‘revitalized’ Overwatch esports after OWL season ends
Hours after the Florida Mayhem were crowned the 2023 Overwatch League Grand Champions, the Overwatch League itself has likely come to its end. In a post on X (formerly Twitter) this morning, Blizzard said that it’s working on “building our vision of a revitalized esports program.” As a result, earlier…
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MrBeast is putting his snack brand’s logo on NBA jerseys
YouTuber MrBeast, aka Jimmy Donaldson, has struck a new partnership with the Charlotte Hornets that will plaster his snack company’s logo on the NBA team’s jerseys. The Charlotte Hornets announced that Feastables has become the team’s official jersey patch partner for the 2023–2024 season. Not only will the Feastables logo…
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Paris Hilton is getting a special deal to post on X
X, the company formerly known as Twitter, has made a special revenue sharing deal with Paris Hilton and her media company, 11:11. It even includes a custom hashtag for a word that Hilton has been trying to popularize since at least 2019: “sliving.” A combination of the words “slaying” and…
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Samsung will reportedly bring its game streaming service out of beta this week
Samsung is reportedly set to formally launch cloud gaming inside the Samsung Game Launcher on Galaxy phones at its developer conference this week on October 5th, according to the Korea Economic Daily. The new cloud service, which has been in slowly expanding beta for a few months now, is targeted…
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