Month: June 2024
The Future of Vaping After the Fall of Juul
This week, we talk to the hosts of the new podcast Backfired about how the e-cigarette industry got to where it is today and where it can go from here. Source
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The Morning After: Microsoft’s Surface Pro Copilot+ is the best Surface tablet yet
Twelve years on, Microsoft has finally made an Arm-powered Surface tablet that doesn’t send our reviewers into a rage. The 2024 Surface Pro, or the Surface Pro Copilot+, is the fastest and most efficient Microsoft tablet we’ve seen, especially when paired with its Flex keyboard. The new OLED screen is…
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YouTube is trying to make AI music deals with major record labels
After debuting a generative AI feature last year that produces music in the style of famous artists like Charli XCX, John Legend, and T-Pain, YouTube is now asking major record labels to allow it to clone more musicians. According to the Financial Times, the Google-owned video platform is offering to…
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Amazon hits $2 trillion market valuation for the first time
In a historic milestone, Amazon has reached a market cap of more than $2 trillion for the first time, while maintaining its position as the fifth most valuable company in the world. Dominated by Big Tech, the top five sees Amazon in fifth place with a market cap of $2.014…
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Meta’s Oversight Board made just 53 decisions in 2023
The Oversight Board has published its latest annual report looking at its influence on Meta and ability to shift the policies that govern Facebook and Instagram. The board says that in 2023 it received 398,597 appeals, the vast majority of which came from Facebook users. But it took on only…
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Uber will pay you $1,000 to ditch your car for five weeks
Traffic got you down? If the idea of locking your car keys in a drawer and using alternate means of transportation sounds intriguing, Uber has the challenge for you. Today, the ridehailing company announced the One Less Car trial, in which 175 people in the US and Canada will be…
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