Month: May 2026
Andreessen Horowitz is the midterm elections’ biggest donor
The venture capital firm has reportedly donated $115.5 million during this election cycle. Source
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Netflix’s ad ambitions just keep growing
For the second year in a row, Netflix’s ad-supported tier more than doubled its monthly viewerbase. During its 2026 upfront presentation, Netflix revealed that its $8.99-per-month plan reaches more than 250 million people around the globe, a significant leap from 94 million users reported last year. Netflix first rolled out…
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Instagram hits the copy button again with new disappearing Instants photos
Instagram is once again cribbing from competitors like Snapchat and BeReal with a new photo-sharing format it calls “Instants,” which are ephemeral photos that you can’t edit and that you can only share with your close friends or followers that follow you back. Instants are available globally beginning on Wednesday…
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I delved into the wild world of pet tech to find the 9 best cat-care gadgets — including a feeder with facial recognition, and a self-cleaning litter box with a sealed ‘poop dungeon’
Here at TechRadar, we spend most of our days writing about gadgets for humans. So when I decided to take a deep dive into the world of pet tech, I got a surprise: our pets are just as well catered to as us homo sapiens. There’s a smart solution to…
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May’s PS Plus Game Catalog additions include Red Dead Redemption 2 and Star Wars Outlaws
Premium members are also getting the classic arcade shooter Time Crisis. Source
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Mark Zuckerberg announces ‘completely private’ encrypted Meta AI chat
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg says its new Incognito Chat is “the first major AI product where there is no log of your conversations stored on servers.” Messages in Incognito Chat aren’t saved or stored in users’ chat history, similar to incognito modes on other AI chatbots, but Meta says its…
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