The Atlantic launched its website in November 1995, 138 years after it first went into print. The magazine began in response to one information revolution; the website appeared at the dawn of another. Now, 30 years on from the launch, you can buy a copy of the first printed edition of the magazine on eBay, but you can't find much of the original website. The internet, notable for remembering just about everything, seems to have forgotten that particular piece of its own history.
Working as a digital nomad sounds like a sweet deal. You mostly get to set your own hours (depends on the kind of remote work, really), which typically lets you work from anywhere in the world. Want to see the sunny beaches of Southern California or explore New England during the fall? You're your own boss, so go right ahead. As long as you have one of the many essential accessories for digital nomads and a stable internet connection, that is.
After YouTube discontinued its private messaging feature in 2019, the platform is now reintroducing this functionality for a select group of users. Users with access to the test are able to share videos directly on the mobile app, including long-form videos, Shorts, and even live streams. They'll be able to tap the Share button to open a full-screen chat within the app, allowing them to start a private one-on-one conversation or a group chat. Friends can reply with a video of their own, or simply type a response or use emojis.
When something becomes old and then new again during my lifetime, I might be forgiven for feeling at once quite aged and a little sentimental. But suggestions that the landline telephone may be having a cultural renaissance just make me feel old and somewhat triggered by experiences of fraught teenage social negotiations over the long obsolete rotary dial phone of my youth.
The company is redesigning its screen time management page and adding new features to it. These include an affirmation journal with more than 120 positive prompts that let users set your intent for the day, a sound generator that can play calming sounds like rain or ocean waves, and a breathing exercise module. The company said that the page will also feature content from creators who talk about limiting screen time, using parental tools, and customizing their feeds.
Decentralized social network Bluesky, a competitor to X and Threads, announced on Wednesday that it's making further changes to its moderation process. Specifically, the company said it's introducing new updates around how it tracks violations of its Community Guidelines and enforces its policies. This includes the inclusion of new reporting categories in the app, changes to its "strike" system for violations, and more guidance provided to those who violate the rules.
In conversations with creators this past week, we identified a few opportunities to provide more education around certain policies and what is not allowed on YouTube. For example, in the channel terminations we reviewed and upheld, we saw examples of creators mass uploading content with the sole purpose of gaining views, likes or other metrics; mass uploading auto-generated or low-value content; mass uploading content scraped from other creators with minimal edits; content misleading people into clicking off-platform;
Children and teens are surrounded by technology, and it is imperative to set them up for success. Developing digital literacy among youth is a critical part of child-rearing today. Digital literacy, according to the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO; 2018) is "the ability to access, manage, understand, integrate, communicate, evaluate and create information safely and appropriately through digital technologies." There are many areas of competence within digital literacy, one of which is safety (UNESCO, 2018).
"Both Herzog and Asendorf in their own respective ways with Infinite Garden and PXL DEX have created technically complex work that uses the blockchain as a medium to create collaborative works that engage the collector," says Robert. "Speaking of engaging collectors, Sam Spratt's Monument Game and Butcher's Checks have both continued to express the convergence of game theory within digital art, alongside the idea of collector as co-creator in the work."
In the world of decentralized finance blockchains, Ethereum (CRYPTO:ETH) remains the go-to option for developers and users seeking both the broadest ecosystem to transaction on, as well as the most stable and secure network of its peer group. Recent technological upgrades have changed the game for Ethereum investors and users, with the Merge upgrade a few years ago ushering in a proof-of-stake infrastructure, allowing Ethereum to compete for staking market share and enhancing its growth and stability profile over the long-term.
I will say the one thing I notice a huge change in is that fake positivity vibe. Back in those days, we weren't forced to 'be a team.' We became a team by working along with one another and getting the job done. We found our work buddies and became friends outside of work, sometimes, but again, totally on our own.
By activating the feature, I thought I was building up savings in the background. Then I discovered hundreds of transactions, made without my knowledge For years, I was Revolut's biggest cheerleader. As a travel writer, I relied on it for switching currencies with a swipe, avoiding the hidden fees traditional banks may charge. It felt like the future of banking: sleek, fast, user-friendly.
"Up high, down low, in heaven, six seven!" That's the gag that my kids paused over their breakfasts this morning to get me to do with them-twice. (Just as funny the second time, right?) If you're around kids at all these days, you've likely encountered this "six seven" business, the words said in a delighted lilt, and often accompanied by some kind of dance, shimmy, or hand gesture.
I know it sounds dumb or facetious or fraudulent to claim something popped into your head (like a prizeworthy thesis dropping into my hands as I walk onto the stage at the professional conference, clueless until then and now indebted to a fickle, periodically enraged alcoholic liaison-to-the-intelligentsia genie), but I swear this is the case, and it doesn't happen to me often.
Extremist groups like cults, conspiracy thinking, which has become rampant in a digital age, and the types of political radicalization that are proliferating in online spaces are all related to the same underlying process, which is that of scam culture. Scam culture is defined as predatory processes that exploit individual vulnerabilities for profit. For instance, conspiracy thinking is often promoted by prominent influencers in online spaces as a way to not only advance their content but specifically monetize and profit off of users' fears.
The company is launching an assistant called Moneybot that can answer questions about spending patterns and income, and provide insights for maintaining savings and setting aside money for investments. The chatbot will be available to select users at launch, with broader availability planned for the coming months. Users can ask questions like "Can you show me my monthly income, expenses, and spending patterns?" to get reports about their accounts.
Google users throughout the US have been cut off from their private data due to a massive outage affecting server connections. According to outage-tracking website Downdetector, users of Google Drive currently can't access their files, with widespread reports of server connection failures and an inability to open documents like Google Sheets or Docs. Users regularly rely on Google Drive for everyday cloud storage, real-time collaboration on work or school projects, and seamless syncing across phones, laptops, and tablets.
For Snapchatters, Bitmoji isn't just an avatar. It's your digital identity, the way you show up with friends, share your moods, and represent yourself online. With Comic Bitmoji, we're giving you more choice in how you express yourself, whether that's embracing the latest 3D styles or throwing it back to the look that started it all. As you may recall, when they were originally launched, Bitmoji characters were essentially comic book format, 2D depictions,
No one - except maybe Sam Altman - loved Sora 2 as much as I did when it first launched. I spent so much time using it during the first few days that I was easily burning through my phone battery by 5 p.m. ( Tim Cook: Let's talk about that later.) And I was wasting huge chunks of my workday (To my editor: Let's not talk about that later) making silly videos of myself and my friends.
Threads is testing out a new podcast integration, which will enable you to add your podcast details to your profile in the app, which will then populate previews of your show when shared in Threads posts, via a custom thumbnail image and link. And Threads chief Connor Hayes says that this is just the beginning, with more features being developed to help podcasters build an audience in the app.
This man immediately freezes, stands up and gives his girlfriend a little bit of side eye. This guy does it on his "emetophobic wife," who screams and gets up immediately. It goes exactly as it sounds: People are taking big swigs of milk, innocently lying on their partners and spitting up the milk in their mouth all over them, like they're babies spitting up.
