The Chicago Portfolio School, one of the biggest creative pipelines in the city, is leaving students and instructors in the dark ahead of its summer session. The for-profit organization, which charges students upwards of $19,300 per year, has collected tuition checks without providing complete scheduling for a semester scheduled to start today, according to several…Read More
Using a brand faithfully doesn’t necessarily qualify you to be a spokesperson. In this case, however, the experience might really come in, uh, handy. Grooming and lifestyle brand Manscaped has tapped comedian Pete Davidson for a four-year brand partnership deal. But based on the 30-second spot announcing the new team-up, things aren’t off to the…Read More
There have not been many tweets from Twitter employees discussing Elon Musk’s decision to back out of acquiring the company, and there’s a reason for that. Once news broke late Friday of Musk’s about-face, Twitter general counsel Sean Edgett said in an email to employees, obtained by Mitchell Clark and Alex Heath of The Verge,…Read More
Wikipedia is a unique fountain of free knowledge, but the world’s most popular encyclopaedia isn’t always accurate. The site’s crowdsourced editing model is prone to vandalism and biases. While its reputation for accuracy has improved, even Wikipedia doesn’t consider itself a reliable source. The Wikimedia Foundation, the non-profit organization that oversees Wikipedia, regularly explores new solutions for these shortcomings. Its latest effort harnesses the power of AI. The foundation recently teamed up with Meta to improve Wikipedia’s citations. These references are used to corroborate crowdsourced information on the site, but they’re often missing, incomplete, or inaccurate. While Wikipedia volunteers double-check…
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If you were a teen in the early 2000s, you likely remember LimeWire. For some millennials, it was their first introduction to music, as the peer-to-peer file-sharing service allowed users to download and upload songs, videos and images–sometimes illegally. After LimeWire was shut down in 2010 because of a legal battle with the Record Industry…Read More
NASA Administrator Bill Nelson recently expressed concerns over China’s aims in space, and in particular, that China would, in some way, claim ownership over the Moon and stop other countries from exploring it. In an interview with a German newspaper, Nelson cautioned, “We must be very concerned that China is landing on the Moon and saying: ‘It’s ours now and you stay out.‘” China immediately denounced the claims as a “lie”. This spat between the administrator of NASA and Chinese government officials comes at a time when both nations are actively working on missions to the Moon – and China…
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Messenger released a chat theme called “Our Places” that allows users to add a changing background to conversations. When users activate the “Our Places” chat theme in a conversation, they can select a geographic location to assign to the theme. As time passes in this real-world location, the chat’s background will update to match the…Read More
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg revealed in a Facebook post Monday that Reactions on WhatsApp have been expanded to include a full emoji keyboard. Reactions debuted on WhatsApp in May with six options: crying face, heart, joined hands, mouth open, tears of joy and thumbs up. Users of the Meta-owned messaging application can long-press on a…Read More
The Instagram application allows users to activate a feature that will help them save cellular data when they’re not connected to a Wi-Fi network. When users turn this feature on, photos and videos in the Instagram app may take longer to load when their device isn’t connected to Wi-Fi. Our guide will show you how…Read More
Playboy’s iconic party mansion will soon have a home in the digital realm. The media company is set to launch a virtual version of the real-life building on metaverse platform The Sandbox as it continues to flesh out a strategy around what proponents say is the next iteration of the internet, or web3. The MetaMansion…Read More
