Elon Musk says its X logo design, which was submitted by a fan, will be refined after some users mocked it

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An effigy of Elon Musk is seen on a mobile device with the X and Twitter lgoso in the background in this photo illustration on 23 July, 2023 in Warsaw, Poland.
Elon Musk with the X and Twitter logos in the background.

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People are comparing Elon Musk's rebranding of Twitter to X with a cringe pitch from Kendall Roy in 'Succession'

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Elon Musk clasps his hands together while wearing a suit at the VivaTech conference, and Kendall Roy from 'Succession' wearing a baseball cap
Elon Musk and Kendall Roy.

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Why Threads will never be the new Twitter

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Twitter logo with the threads logo in its mouth like a worm
Threads doesn't have any of the magic that made Twitter popular in the first place.

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This exclusive chart reveals why the groundswell of buzz around 'Barbie' and 'Oppenheimer' could help reverse Hollywood's box-office doldrums in spite of the actors' strike

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Ryan Gosling as Ken and Margot Robbie as Barbie in
Ryan Gosling and Margot Robbie as Ken and Barbie in "Barbie."

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If you're getting mocked for loving Apple Maps, here's your reminder that people once thought the iPhone was stupid too

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A lot of the takes about the original iPhone have aged very, very badly.

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Meet Hollywood's hottest new movie star: corporate brands

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Barbie, Mario, and a beanie baby with paparazzi flashes surrounding them
Brand-centric films like Barbie have a dark side: They are a symptom of the precarity of today's job market.

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Crypto memes could land you in prison or with an unlimited fine for breaching financial promotion rules, UK regulator warns ‘finfluencers’

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Henry Kissinger is a trending topic right now in China because so many people are surprised he's 100, alive, and going on business trips

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Former United States Secretary of State and National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger.
Former United States Secretary of State and National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger.

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Instagram Gets Off the Hook for Copyright Claims on Embedded Photos

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Just how much copyright protection should an artist or photographer expect after they post their work on social media? It’s a murky legal question by itself that’s now made even murkier as an appeals court digs directly into the nature of HTML to say that—no—that embedded photo isn’t a copy of the original photo, but…

Elon Musk calls Threads' rate limit 'oppressive' as the Meta competitor added restrictions weeks after Twitter limited users to seeing 600 posts per day

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Elon Musk wearing a suit and raising one eyebrow talks to another CEO before a roundtable during the 6th edition of the
Elon Musk.

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