Elon Musk’s X has expanded its legal battle, now targeting Amazon-owned livestreaming platform Twitch as part of its lawsuit against former advertisers.
On Monday, Twitch was added to X's ongoing lawsuit against brand members of the now-defunct Global Alliance of Responsible Media (GARM), as first reported by Business Insider. X claims in its lawsuit that members of GARM illegally conspired to boycott the platform formerly known as Twitter in late 2022, shortly after Musk acquired the...
Get ready to see just how much everyone was streaming brat and The Tortured Poets Department. That's right, Spotify Wrapped, the day when everyone shamelessly shares their music taste, is just around the corner.
If you're completely lost or desperately trying to secure your most-streamed artist for Wrapped, here's everything you need to know.
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Following ongoing reports that Amazon’s generative AI makeover of Alexa is not going well, it appears Amazon may take a more practical approach to making its smart assistant more useful. According to Business Insider, Amazon is partnering with several companies to make Alexa better at doing things you might want a digital assistant to do: including calling an Uber, tackling Ticketmaster for events, booking dinner through OpenTable, and...
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Sony is bringing a big new feature to the PlayStation Portal: cloud streaming. When it first launched, the device was only able to stream games from your PS5 over Wi-Fi. But as part of a new system update that’s rolling out starting later today, you’ll be able to stream select PS5 games from the PlayStation Plus Game Catalog to your PlayStation Portal.
Sony is launching the feature in beta, and you’ll need to be a PlayStation Plus...
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The “IMG_0001” website features a frame with an old TV static effect and a floating retro Panasonic remote that you can click to start watching random YouTube videos from over a decade ago that were recorded and uploaded from devices such as 2010’s iPhone 4.
Riley Walz, a tech worker who helped stage a fake steakhouse restaurant in Manhattan last year, built the site. He credits...
The Boston Bruins, off to an 8-9-3 start and currently outside of a playoff seed in the clogged Eastern Conference, fired coach Jim Montgomery, the team announced Tuesday, while elevating associate coach Joe Sacco to interim head coach.
Pokémon Trading Card Game Pocket reinvents the gacha game for a Pikachu-loving audience. It’s attracted millions of players—and more than a little controversy.
The Daily Show host urged Democrats to act more like Republicans if they want to get anything done.
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Just one day after 404 Media revealed that HarperCollins struck a three-year AI training deal with an unnamed company, Bloomberg now says Microsoft will use the publisher’s content to train a not-yet-announced AI model.
HarperCollins said in a statement to 404 Media that its deal will include “select nonfiction backlist titles” and that authors will have to opt into the training program.
One author, Daniel Kibblesmith, posted screenshots a few days ago...
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Newell is Georgia’s third-highest recruit of all time behind now NBA players Anthony Edwards and Kentavious Caldwell-Pope.
When it comes to the Georgia Bulldogs, almost everyone’s minds instantly travel to the 8-2 football team vying for a spot in the College Football Playoff with quite a number of NFL hopefuls on the roster.
That has been the case in each of the last four seasons, as the Bulldogs basketball team has been inconsistent, hovering around .500...
Taika Waititi joins the cast of 'Interior Chinatown' to bring to light what it's like to be a marginalized group, like Asian Americans, in America and in Hollywood.
Wicked is easily one of the most anticipated films of 2024, as it's bringing to the big screen a three-time Tony Award–winning musical that defined a generation of theater kids, with a Hollywood-scale spectacle of song, dance, and star power. As the Wicked Witch's origin story told from a place of empathy, it's a movie meant to make us believe in magic again. But even with a cast that boasts two-time Academy Award nominee Cynthia Erivo, pop star Ariana Grande, Bridgerton dreamboat...
It's no secret that Amazon is one of the go-to retailers for Black Friday savings. This year, the mega retailer's Black Friday shopping event kicks off on Nov. 21 and runs through Dec. 2 — and as in previous years, deals started pouring in on Apple products, smartwatches, TVs, and much more days (weeks, even) prior.
Avid shoppers keeping their eyes on exclusive Black Friday deals can enjoy a breezy shopping experience while they benefit from major deals this season, thanks to Amazon's...
Shop now and fa-la-la-la-la until Christmas morning.
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Despite widespread issues with video quality and buffering, Netflix’s live-streamed Mike Tyson vs. Jake Paul boxing match brought in an average of 108 million viewers, based on TVision data in the US and first-party data in global markets. With 65 million concurrent streams, Netflix says the fight was the “most-streamed global sporting event ever.”
Of those simultaneous streams, 38 million were from households in the US, and the...
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A Minecraft Movie has a new trailer giving us a taste at the kind of story moviegoers can expect. The trailer predominately features Jack Black as Steve, the silent protagonist players embody in Minecraft. In the trailer, Black’s Steve is way more chatty, giving us his backstory as a child who quite literally yearns for the mines. As an adult, Steve finds a special blue cube that transports him to the Minecraft world where, “anything you can imagine is...
Canceled oral arguments in one case and a judge’s recusal in another have added to questions about the future of four state cases against Donald J. Trump and his allies.
Perplexity will give users product cards showing relevant items in response to questions related to shopping.
Artificial intelligence search startup Perplexity on Monday launched a shopping hub to attract users, in a bid to beef up its platform as it attempts to take on Alphabet-owned Google’s dominance in the search engine space.
The sixth test flight of Musk’s megarocket is set to lift off from the Starbase facility in Texas this evening.
The sixth test launch of SpaceX’s megarocket Starship is now scheduled for Tuesday, November 19, with a 30-minute launch window opening at 4:00 p.m. CT/5:00 p.m. ET. The rocket is set to lift off from the company’s Starbase facility near Brownsville, Texas. The broadcast will start roughly a half hour before launch, and you can follow along live on SpaceX’s website and X...