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Sam Altman’s Worldcoin is going to need some new business cards printed up because it’s dropping the “coin” in its name. The OpenAI CEO’s startup is shifting from cryptocurrency to focus more on its identification technology and it just unveiled a new version of its signature gadget.

Bloomberg reported that the new company called (wait for it) World will focus its eye scanning tech on confirming



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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg
  • Meta terminated employees who used $25 Grubhub credits meant for office meals on non-food items.
  • Meta employees reacted to the news on the company's Blind channel.
  • Some of the posts were sympathetic to those impacted, while others said the firings were deserved.

"Grubgate" is reverberating around Meta.

The tech giant recently fired roughly two dozen



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Amazon wants Prime Video to be the place you watch coverage of election night. The company announced today that it will be streaming a live election night special on Prime Video hosted by former NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams. The show will kick off on November 5th at 5PM ET.

“Brian Williams will be joined live by guests including prominent



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Netflix used to burn through cash. Now it's minting money.
  • Netflix makes money. A lot of money.
  • This is not news now. But a few years ago, when the company was burning billions a year, it wasn't a foregone conclusion.
  • Good luck, would-be Netflix competitors!

Netflix made a lot of money in the last three months.

Yawn. What else is new? Netflix is the clear winner of the



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YouTube is testing a revamp of its Premium Lite subscription tier. User screenshots made the rounds on social media this week, and today a Google rep later confirmed to multiple other outlets that the plan is being tested in Australia, Germany and Thailand. This new version would have "limited ads," which the fine print describes as most videos being ad-free, "but you may see video ads on music



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Alex and Tim from "Love Is Blind" season seven.
  • Alex and Tim broke up before the weddings on "Love Is Blind" season seven.
  • Tim told Alex he never wanted to see her again.
  • Here's a recap of what happened, and what they've both said about the breakup since filming.

"Love Is Blind" season seven is almost at its end. With only one episode left, couples have been dropping like flies.

That



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Activision says it has “disabled a workaround to a detection system” in Modern Warfare III and Call of Duty: Warzone that led to legitimate players getting banned by the Ricochet anti-cheat system. The company says the problem “impacted a small number of legitimate player accounts,” and all accounts affected were restored.

However, zebleer, who runs the



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We warned you that this change was coming – but X has just made it official: Blocking on Elon Musk's social media platform, formerly known as Twitter, will no longer actually block users from viewing content — and now users appear to be fleeing X once again. 

Essentially, a block on X will now just mean that a blocked user can't interact with your