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The Reddit moderators who coordinate many celebrity AMAs will no longer do so
Active solicitation of celebrities or high profile figures to do AMAs. Email and modmail coordination with celebrities and high profile figures and their PR teams to facilitate, educate, and operate AMAs. (We will still be available to answer questions about posting, though response time may vary). Running and maintaining a…
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Meta’s Twitter competitor, Threads, briefly showed up on Google Play
Alessandro Paluzzi, a developer who routinely digs into app code to expose unreleased features, tweeted early this morning that Meta’s Twitter clone, Thread, had been released into the Google Play store. It appears as though that was a mistake, however, because the app is nowhere to be found now. Paluzzi included…
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The Sims 5 will be free-to-play, according to this now-deleted job listing
The Sims 5 will be free-to-play, according to a now-deleted job listing that briefly popped up on publisher EA’s careers website. The job advert was swiftly pulled offline – shocking, I know – but not before the internet saw, and screenshotted, the website and advertisement, which you can see for…
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Assassin’s Creed 4 Black Flag is reportedly getting a remake
Rumor has it, Ubisoft is rebooting Assassin’s Creed 4 Black Flag. According to two sources who have opened up to Kotaku, Ubisoft’s remake of the 2013 sea-shanty smasher is “still in its earliest stages” but reportedly involves the team based at Ubisoft Singapore. In news unlikely to surprise you,…
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Elon Musk blames data scraping by AI startups for his new paywalls on reading tweets
Twitter CEO Elon Musk continues to blame the social media site’s new limitations on “data scrapers & system manipulation” as he announced new “temporary” limits on how many posts people can read. Musk tweeted late Friday that the “drastic & immediate action was necessary” because of AI companies “from startups…
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I solved VR murders at Polus Point: the VR games and apps I played in June 2023
This month I’ve used VR to become an action movie star in Pistol Whip, explore the new Polus Point map in Among Us, and entered a VR bowling tournament in ForeVR Bowl. June has been a jam-packed month for VR – what with Apple announcing its brand new Apple Vision…
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