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TikTok Will Teach Small Businesses How to Build a Following
The social media platform says companies have been "transformed" after using it. TikTok has announced a new training program, called Follow Me, aimed at helping small businesses use the social media platform. The six-week program was created to "empower more small businesses to dive into TikTok," according to a press release Monday. The platform has become a tool for buildi ... Read more
2022-07-11 19:52:07
Meta AI Tool 'Sphere' Could Help Curb Fake News
Facebook parent company Meta on Monday launched Sphere, an AI information verifier that validates the strength of claims in web entries, as reported earlier by TechCrunch. The tech news outlet provided a demo showing how the software could work on Wikipedia. In a video, Sphere scans citations and then displays whether the information failed or passed verification. Though Wikipedia is interested ... Read more
2022-07-11 19:51:43
Samsung's Next Metaverse Move Is a Roblox Game
Samsung Space Tycoon is a game where you collect Samsung products What is a metaverse again? Maybe, just a game. Samsung's newest "metaverse" move is a game on Roblox, called Samsung Space Tycoon. Its mission? Collect virtual Samsung products. Samsung used to make VR headsets for its phones and has been quiet on the smart glasses front for now. Instead, the company's metaverse aspirati ... Read more
2022-07-11 19:51:27
NASA's Webb Space Telescope Stuns With Most Detailed View of the Cosmos Yet
The most powerful space telescope delivers the highest-resolution image of the infrared universe we've ever seen. Less than a century ago, we — humans — believed the universe ended at the very edge of the Milky Way. At the point where the last starlight of our home galaxy winked out, an endless nothing began. Until Edwin Hubble. The famed astronomer diligently scoured the sky for blinking stars ... Read more
2022-07-11 19:51:06
WatchOS 9: The Best New Apple Watch Features From the Public Beta
All Apple Watches from the Series 4 onward will get the new update. The Apple Watch is getting a major software update with WatchOS 9, adding in-depth running metrics, new watch faces and some clues to what we might see in the rumored Apple Watch Series 8. The WatchOS 9 public beta has just arrived along with iOS 16, which means we get to preview most of the new features ahead of the general rele ... Read more
2022-07-11 19:50:19
Apple's Lockdown Mode: Why There's a New Level of Security for Your iPhone
Three years ago, Apple put up an ad in Las Vegas, showing the backside of one of its devices, with the phrase "What happens on your iPhone, stays on your iPhone." It was a bold, if cheeky, claim. But Apple is increasingly living up to it. The tech giant has been ramping up its commitments to privacy and security with a string of new features that cybersecurity experts say are amounting ... Read more
2022-07-10 23:45:50
Why You Need to Stop Using These Dating App Phrases ASAP
Searching for a match? Here's your official glossary of the phrases to avoid on dating apps. It took a mere three swipes on Bumble to land on a profile bio with the sentence, "I'm an open book, just ask." That might be the least surprising lede I've ever written for an article. If you've spent any time on The Apps, you've likely noticed there's a sameness of language that pervades many ... Read more
2022-07-10 23:44:59
iPhone 14 Rumors Are Heating Up. Here's All the Gossip We've Heard So Far
When is the iPhone 14's release date? How much will it cost? And what will Apple's new iPhone look like? We're collecting all the buzz. We've seen the beta of Apple's latest iPhone software update, iOS 16, but what about a new iPhone? Although we likely have a couple months before its release date, gossip about the iPhone 14 lineup has already started to spread. In fact, the iPhone 14 and iPhone ... Read more
2022-07-10 23:44:25
Best Prime Day Laptop Deals: Grab an Asus VivoBook With an OLED Display for Only $640
Here are the best sales right now on laptops at Amazon, Best Buy and Newegg. Early Prime Day deals have started popping up, and if you're a student getting ready for school, a gamer raring to play or even someone just looking for something to browse on, it's a great time to snag a new laptop. Amazon Prime Day is just days away, but some of the best deals are already here. There are sales on lap ... Read more
2022-07-10 23:42:35
Elon Musk Pulls Out of $44B Deal to Buy Twitter
Billionaire Elon Musk said Friday that he's pulling out of a $44 billion deal to buy Twitter, adding another twist to an ongoing saga in which the mercurial entrepreneur presented himself as the savior of free speech on the influential social network. Musk, who also runs Tesla and SpaceX, said in a letter sent by his lawyer that Twitter breached multiple parts of the merger agreement by failing t ... Read more
2022-07-08 21:03:38