IT総合 Houseparty’s founder launches Towns, an open source group chat app that comes with a blueprint
After launching a pair of well-loved but ultimately star-crossed social apps, Ben Rubin is going all-in on decentralizat...
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IT総合 Supreme Court arguments this week could reshape the future of the internet
The Supreme Court is examining a short but potent law this week that, if altered, could rearrange the modern internet.
S...
IT総合 Roblox wants to let people build virtual worlds just by typing
AI chatbots can spit out convincing — if at times overconfident — natural language responses, but what if an AI could bu...
IT総合 LGBTQ organizations report a recent uptick in Twitter hate
Twitter is still in the early days of its Elon Musk era, but the company’s new owner hasn’t hesitated in lea...
IT総合 Epic Games launches Postparty, an app for sharing Fortnite clips
Modern gaming now boasts persistent online worlds and graphics that rival reality, but sharing gameplay videos or even s...
IT総合 Twitter is telling users that they’re over the daily tweet limit
Twitter users have seen their fair share of erratic policy changes and weird bugs lately, but today they can’t eve...
IT総合 Meta’s Reality Labs lost $13.7 billion on VR and AR last year
Mentions of the “metaverse” were relatively few and far between in Meta’s quarterly earnings call this...
IT総合 Elon Musk says that Twitter will start sharing ad revenue with creators ‘today’
Twitter’s new owner is making moves to build in more revenue streams for creators — or at least he’s tweetin...
IT総合 Meta stock perks up as the company promises a ‘year of efficiency’
Meta is all-in on becoming a lean, mean cash-printing machine.
In its Q4 earnings call on Wednesday, Meta CEO Mark Zucke...
IT総合 Superstrata e-bike review: Rebel without a cause
Superstrata’s e-bike is a strange specimen — there’s no two ways about it.
In some ways that makes sense; the bike’s con...
IT総合 The best Twitter alternatives worth checking out
We’ll be straight with you. There’s no 1:1 Twitter replacement — not yet, and possibly not ever.
Still...
IT総合 Meta will restore Trump’s Facebook account ‘in the coming weeks’
Two years after the company formerly known as Facebook suspended then-President Donald Trump’s accounts indefinite...
IT総合 Critical Role’s second campaign will get its own Amazon animated series
Amazon is deepening its ties to hit Dungeons & Dragons actual play series Critical Role, entering a multiyear deal w...
IT総合 Roblox taps former Google Play VP for creator role
As Roblox bets big on the future of user-generated content, the online game platform ubiquitous in the under-13 age grou...
IT総合 Microsoft is sunsetting social VR pioneer AltspaceVR
AltspaceVR has had a few close calls over the years, but the company that built virtual social spaces well before “...
IT総合 More universities are banning TikTok from their campus networks and devices
Public universities across a widening swath of U.S. states have banned TikTok in recent months, and two of the country’s...
IT総合 Netflix founder Reed Hastings steps down as co-CEO
Netflix founder and co-CEO Reed Hastings announced Thursday that he would step down after more than two decades at the c...
IT総合 YouTube plans to modify profanity rules that prompted creator backlash
YouTube’s gaming community pushed back against the company this week after some creators saw their old videos demo...
IT総合 Instagram and Facebook introduce more limits on targeting teens with ads
Meta is making some changes to how its apps handle advertising and young users. Under the new rules, advertisers on Inst...
IT総合 Stardew Valley’s big update is now available for iOS and Android
If there’s anything Stardew Valley fans want, it’s more Stardew — and that’s now the case for anyone p...
IT総合 3 views: What does the future of social media look like after Twitter?
Twitter’s demise might be overstated, but we still can’t unsee what we saw in 2022.
The newly Elon Musk-owne...
IT総合 Twitter just banned prominent journalists who cover Elon Musk with no explanation
On Thursday evening, Twitter suspended a number of prominent journalists on the platform without warning or explanation....
IT総合 Twitter suspends Mastodon’s account, making a good case for Mastodon
A day after Twitter crafted a new policy to explain its decision to ban an account that tracks Elon Musk’s private...
IT総合 Fortnite and MrBeast will give away $1 million in a pop-up game challenge
The world’s most popular YouTuber is taking over a corner of Fortnite and somebody will walk away with $1 million....
IT総合 Roblox will let 13+ users import contacts and add recommended friends
Roblox is adding two new ways for people who spend time in its virtual worlds to find old friends and make new ones.
The...
IT総合 The FTC is suing to block Microsoft from buying Activision
The FTC announced Thursday that it would sue to block Microsoft’s acquisition of gaming giant Activision Blizzard....
IT総合 Cinder’s content moderation software is custom-built for trust and safety teams
A startup from former Meta employees aims to streamline the content moderation process for companies grappling with some...
IT総合 Meta’s Oversight Board wants Facebook to be more transparent about VIP accounts
A year ago, The Wall Street Journal revealed that Facebook operated a two-tiered content moderation system. Normal users...
IT総合 Lensa AI, the viral app making ‘magic avatars,’ raises red flags for artists
If your Instagram is awash in algorithmically generated portraits of your friends, you aren’t alone. After adding ...
IT総合 Elon Musk vicariously publishes internal emails from Twitter’s Hunter Biden laptop drama
Elon Musk reminded his followers on Friday that owning Twitter now means he controls every aspect of the company — inclu...