How would Twitter describe its own relationship with the media?With a poop emoji.That was the company’s seemingly on-the-record reply to an emailed question from the Guardian. To be fair, it’s now the automatic reply to any inquiry directed to [email protected]... More »
Ireti Kingibe is not the usual Nigerian politician. Four years ago, the engineer wife of a former minister was considering leaving the country for the US or Britain, or at least going on a cruise.The self-declared idealist was “profoundly disappointed” with ho... More »
Fellow journalists who have spoken to TikTok press representatives have told me that company reps open my emails requesting comment with trepidation. One journalist said a rep told them that invariably I’ll be asking them to comment on an internal policy, a le... More »
Since his message on Saturday in which he predicted the Tuesday arrest that never happened, the former president has posted or reposted more than 80 times on Truth Social, the Twitter clone he built after he was booted from that platform following the Jan. 6 C... More »
/ The SEC’s letter suggests a next step could come soon, while execs say they’re prepared to defend its crypto staking product Coinbase Earn and other products in court. Illustration by Alex Castro / The VergeCoinbase execs revealed today that the crypto excha... More »
I lost my AirPods, and I simply refuse to pay to buy new ones. The latest third-generation AirPods — which are fantastic! I reviewed them! — start at $169. The older second-gen version is $120 (yes, there are sometimes deals online). These prices aren’t ridicu... More »
/ The new ‘Creator Economy 2.0’ pool is a new way for Epic to pay Fortnite creators. Image: Epic GamesEpic Games is trying to make a better economy for Fortnite creators with what its calls “Creator Economy 2.0,” which it announced at its State of Unreal keyno... More »
In a post on his website Truth Social on Saturday, Trump railed against any impending charges and called on supporters like Lejeune to protest. "THE FAR & AWAY LEADING REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE AND FORMER PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, WILL BE ARRESTED ... More »
This vermouth-braised chicken recipe is definitely a “winner-winner chicken dinner.” In fact, as much as I love dry vermouth in a cocktail, if my bottle had only 1/2 cup left, I’d rather use it to make this recipe.I used eight medium chicken thighs weighin... More »
No one has been able to shut up about artificial intelligence since OpenAI unleashed ChatGPT onto the world in November. But this week, there was so much AI chatter that even people who work in the field have been struggling to keep up. First, Google announced... More »
The infinite monkey theorem states that if you let a monkey hit the keys of a typewriter at random an infinite amount of times, eventually the monkey will type out the entire works of Shakespeare.Today’s puzzle involves a monkey typing out something a little s... More »
Published19 MarchShareclose panelShare pageCopy linkAbout sharingBy James GallagherInside Health presenter, BBC Radio 4You cannot escape the hype around weight-loss injections. Social media is full of before-and-after pictures. They are the source of wild goss... More »