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X, formerly Twitter, will officially start hiding public "likes" on posts, as soon as today.

The news comes from a source at the company, as reported by the Verge. A few weeks ago, reports emerged that the change (that no one asked for) would be implemented soon.

X's director of engineering Haofei Wang confirmed the news on X back then, saying in a post, "Public likes are incentivizing the wrong

Pew Research and the Knight Foundation just put out a pair of lengthy reports on how Americans are experiencing news and politics on social media. There are a number of noteworthy stats in the research but, for me, it mostly underscores that news distribution is kind of a mess.

It’s not that news has disappeared from X, TikTok, Facebook and Instagram, but the way that most users are encountering

It’s happy hour in Las Vegas, and the MGM Grand casino is crawling with people. The National Finals Rodeo is in town, the NBA’s inaugural in-season tournament is underway, the Raiders play on Sunday, and the U2 residency is going strong at the giant Sphere, so it seems everyone in every bar and at every slot machine is looking forward to something. (And wearing a cowboy hat.) Even

There have been as many failed attempts to get Superman onto the silver screen as there are Superman movies that actually made it—but Superman: Flyby is perhaps one of the most infamous, just for the sheer capacity of what-could-have-beens with the amount of people up for the titular heroic role. Matt Bomer was the…

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iPadOS 18, alongside iOS 18, macOS Sequoia, and VisionOS 2, was highlighted at WWDC 2024. And guess what? For the first time ever, you don't need to rely on a third-party app to use a calculator. Thanks to the new iPadOS 18, there's now a new built-in Calculator app on supported iPads.

Within the Calculator app is a new feature called Math Notes. This utility detects your scribbled mathematical

With only a little over a week left till the TNW Conference in Amsterdam on June 20 and 21, we’re highlighting some of the sessions we’re most excited about. One of the talks I’m really looking forward to this year touches on a purpose very close to my heart: leveraging technology to transform healthcare applications. If you’re as interested in the topic as I am, then make sure not to miss the

• Scientists used AI to find elephants likely have unique names for each other.
• Machine learning analyzed hundreds of elephant calls recorded in Kenya between 1986 and 2022.
• Elephants' ability to recognize name-like calls indicates they may be capable of abstract thought.

Scientists using AI tools have discovered that elephants

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Hello there! Turns out the name-calling in "Dumbo" isn't that far off. Scientists discovered elephants might have unique names for each other. Hopefully, they're not mean ones!

In today's big story, we're looking at Microsoft considering a pricing

• I bought tickets to see Chappell Roan on resale site SeatGeek and spent over $600 to go see her.
• At the door, we learned our tickets were useless and would not get us into the show.
• We had a fun night with other fans whose tickets didn't work, but I'm still disappointed. 

When

• True-crime producer John Balson died by suicide. 
• His family said he was threatened by people connected to a case he was researching and felt overworked.
• Balson stopped working when he was told by doctors that he had developed a migraine disorder.

The family of a true-crime producer who took his own said he was overworked and

The European Union is going impose additional tariffs of up to 38 percent on Chinese-made electric vehicles in an effort to protect the region's manufacturers from unfair competition, according to The New York Times and the Financial Times. The European Commission has already warned Chinese carmakers about the additional taxes, which will go on top of the existing 10 percent tariff on their EVs

Stability AI today launched Stable Diffusion 3 Medium, which the British startup calls its “most advanced text-to-image open model yet.” Comprised of 2 billion parameters, SD3 Medium promises photorealistic results without complex workflows. Crucially, the model can generate these images while running on individual consumer systems. It also overcomes common artefacts in hands and faces, Stability