Tag: internet
Reddit is down – live updates on the huge outage
Reddit suffered a major outage on Wednesday, plunging its millions of devoted users into discussion darkness, with no place to drop their hot takes, memes, and AMA. As of 4PM ET, the popular website was returning a mostly blank page with an upstream error at the top Down Detector put…
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I wasted my day on Bluesky Social and no, I’m not sorry
I would like to say I saw Bluesky Social’s big moment coming. After all, I joined the social network in April 2023 when few knew about it, and Twitter Founder and ex-charmingly quirky tech CEO Jack Dorsey was leading it. I rooted around a bit, and despite its threadbare interface,…
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Bluesky is the new home for millions of disillusioned Twitter users – here’s how to make the switch
Bluesky has seen a million new users join since the US election Twitter (now known as X) is losing hundreds of thousands of users A Chrome extension lets you to find your friends from Twitter on Bluesky Bluesky may become the micro-blogging social media app of choice for disillusioned Twitter…
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Tired of over-processed photos? New Android app joins ‘anti-AI’ alternatives that work like old-school digicams
New Zerocam app lands on Android promising ‘natural photography’ App calls itself an ‘anti-AI’ camera app that removes ‘artificial effects’ The app needs a subscription for full access and unlimited photos A new Android app called Zerocam has just launched to give photographers a more natural alternative to the over-processed…
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Google Learn About is the patient teacher with a bag full of tricks we all wanted as kids
AI chatbots can be useful tools for learning about the world, but they aren’t usually designed as educators and often are full of caveats regarding where their data comes from. Google has debuted a new AI tutor called Learn About to solve those issues. It’s a personal tutor capable of…
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The death of the internet: why the future is terrifying, and how we fix it
The internet is in a precarious place. It’s assaulted from all sides – not by technological problems, but by social ones. Misinformation is rife, marketing and advertising covers every facet of the web, and armies of politicized and automated bots roam the wilds of its social media landscapes, all of…
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