IT総合 Reddit will start paying you real money for your karma
Reddit announced a contributor program on Monday, which awards users actual, real money for their fake internet points. ...
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IT総合 IT総合 Meta’s Horizon Worlds is rolling out on web and mobile
After more than a year and a half in development, Meta is bringing Horizon Worlds out of the headset. The VR social app ...
IT総合 The very memeable ‘Trombone Champ’ is coming to Nintendo Switch
When Trombone Champ came out on Steam last September, it was met with immediate internet hooplah. It’s a rhythm ga...
IT総合 Mila Kunis and Ashton Kutcher’s ‘Stoner Cats’ NFTs get smoked by the SEC
It’s been a disastrous week for Mila Kunis and Ashton Kutcher, and it’s only Wednesday. The SEC has charged ...
IT総合 Wicked Saints is making Pokémon GO for young activists
Jess Murrey isn’t your typical founder. After ten years working in nonprofits to train young activists, Murrey and behav...
IT総合 Olivia Rodrigo releases ‘get him back!’ video, filmed on iPhone 15 Pro
We don’t know who Olivia Rodrigo is trying to get revenge on, but she’s surely going to “get him back!...
IT総合 Portrait Mode gets an upgrade on the iPhone 15
Portrait Mode wowed us when it debuted with the iPhone 7 Plus, all the way back in 2016. With its two lenses (remember w...
IT総合 These TikTokers are making ‘Get Ready With Me’ videos in Spanish to connect with their roots
Kait Montalvan is a lifestyle and beauty TikToker, but her “get ready with me” videos aren’t standard fare. Like other v...
IT総合 Patreon pilots Discord-like chatroom feature
The fan membership platform Patreon is beginning to roll out a chat feature, connecting creators directly with their fan...
IT総合 Clubhouse is trying to make a comeback
Remember Clubhouse? At the peak of pandemic lockdowns, the invite-only social audio app soared with 10x month to month g...
IT総合 Prosecutors in every state push to combat AI child exploitation
The Attorneys General in all 50 U.S. states, plus 4 territories, signed onto a letter calling for Congress to take actio...
IT総合 Texas cannot yet enforce ID checks on porn sites
A Texas judge issued an injunction today to stall the enforcement of an online age verification bill. The Free Speech Co...
IT総合 Meta avatars are finally getting legs (in beta)
It’s time to beta test Meta’s greatest technological innovation since the News Feed: legs. Now on Meta Quest...
IT総合 Connections is The New York Times’ most played game after Wordle
The gamers behind the Gray Lady have a new game to add into our morning rotations: Connections, which invites the player...
IT総合 The mugshot that launched a thousand memes
Memes can happen in the blink of an eye, like a Jeopardy! contestant who accidentally makes a sexual innuendo under the ...
IT総合 They made a scary matcha Pokémon
A new Pokémon just dropped, and it’s literally a chipped teapot of matcha. It is called Poltchageist, and yes, tha...
IT総合 Triller’s S-1 filing claims 550M users, but its app installs fall far short, new data shows
TikTok competitor Triller is preparing to go public, but estimates from Apptopia call its self-reported user numbers int...
IT総合 Match Group is going steady with AI, appoints Zynga alum to lead AI-focused team
Match Group, the company behind dating apps like Tinder and OkCupid, is getting serious about its relationship with AI.
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IT総合 Charles Martinet, the voice of Mario, is stepping down
Charles Martinet, the voice actor who has portrayed Mario since 1991, is stepping down, Nintendo announced Monday mornin...
IT総合 BeReal gets more social with ‘friends of friends’ feature
BeReal is trying to be real. And if we’re being real, what’s the point of that Discovery feed, anyway?
The o...
IT総合 Okay, fine, I want Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg to fight
Elon Musk has disappointed me many times. He bought my favorite social network and made it bad. He has mistreated worker...
IT総合 7 VCs explain why the creator economy still has legs
The White House is briefing TikTokers about the war in Ukraine. A Twitch streamer’s PS5 giveaway sparks a bonafide riot....
IT総合 Creators vow not to scab as SAG-AFTRA, WGA strikes continue
As Hollywood’s writers and actors unions remain on strike, studios are turning to content creators to promote thei...
IT総合 Want to pay less for your X ads? Just place them next to spam
X says it has “delivered a decade’s worth of innovation focused on creating an engaging and healthy environment...
IT総合 Cramorant is back, baby
The Pokémon Presents livestream on Tuesday morning was pretty mid. We knew that the Pokémon Scarlet & Violet DLC was...
IT総合 Authors are losing their patience with AI, part 349235
On Monday morning, numerous writers woke up to learn that their books had been uploaded and scanned into a massive datas...
IT総合 SoftBank sues IRL over ‘elaborate scheme’ that swallowed $150M
SoftBank once invested in social app IRL at a $1.1 billion valuation. Now, the Japanese investment firm is suing the def...
IT総合 TikTok competitor Triller files to go public
Triller has long teased its ambitions to go public, and now, the short form video platform seems to on its way to an IPO...
IT総合 Reddit is down, per user reports
User morale isn’t the only thing that’s down at Reddit. More than 30,000 people have reported outages on Red...
IT総合 YouTube star MrBeast sues ghost kitchen behind MrBeast Burger
YouTube mega-success MrBeast is suing Virtual Dining Concepts, the company behind his ghost kitchen food chain, MrBeast ...