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

Mon, 07/24/2023 - 05:56

Tech Insider

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.
Chesnot/Getty Images; Macall B. Polay/HBO

Tech Insider, twitter, Elon Musk, Linda Yaccarino, x, succession, hbo

Why Threads will never be the new Twitter

Sun, 07/23/2023 - 06:04

Tech Insider : Politics

Threads doesn't have any of the magic that made Twitter popular in the first place.

Twitter, Threads, Tyler Le/Insider

Tech Insider, Media, Discourse, politics, Advertising, threads, twitter

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

Fri, 07/21/2023 - 15:06

Tech Insider

Ryan Gosling as Ken and Margot Robbie as Barbie in — Ryan Gosling and Margot Robbie as Ken and Barbie in "Barbie."
Courtesy of Warner Bros.

Media, Movies, films, Barbie, Oppenheimer, Social Media, Hollywood

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

Thu, 07/20/2023 - 07:44

Tech Insider

first iphone steve jobs — A lot of the takes about the original iPhone have aged very, very badly.
David Paul Morris/Getty Images

Tech Insider, apple, google, Maps, iPhone, Tech, Social Media

Meet Hollywood's hottest new movie star: corporate brands

Thu, 07/20/2023 - 06:01

Tech Insider : Economy

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.
Barbie/Mattel, Mario/Amazon, Tyler Le/Insider

Media, economy, Discourse, Retail, Barbie, Nike, Cheetos

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

Wed, 07/19/2023 - 08:44

Tech Insider : Crypto

crypto regulation — Nuthawut Somsuk/Getty Images

Tech Insider, crypto, Social Media, Influencers, Finfluencer, FCA, UK

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

Wed, 07/19/2023 - 02:39

Tech Insider : Politics

Former United States Secretary of State and National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger.
Adam Berry via Getty Images

News, politics, insider news, Henry Kissinger, Weibo, China, Social Media

Instagram Gets Off the Hook for Copyright Claims on Embedded Photos

Tue, 07/18/2023 - 14:20

Gizmodo

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…