Tech
AI Summary
- The popular word game Wordle is set to make its television debut as a game show on NBC, signaling a shift in digital content's migration to traditional media.
- TikTok is experimenting with a new ad-free subscription tier in the UK, a move that could reshape user experience and monetization strategies for social media platforms.
- Discord is enhancing its Nitro subscription with the inclusion of Xbox Game Pass Core access, merging gaming and community features for added subscriber value.
- Venmo is undergoing its most significant redesign in years, indicating a strategic push to evolve beyond its core peer-to-peer payment function amidst a changing financial tech landscape.
- Nvidia continues its aggressive investment in AI, committing a substantial $40 billion to equity deals this year, underscoring the immense capital flowing into artificial intelligence development and infrastructure.
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TechCrunch
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NYT’s Wordle to become a TV game show
an hour ago
by Sarah Perez
Apps, Gaming, Media & Entertainment, games, mobile games, NYT, WordleThe popular mobile puzzle game will become a TV game show next year.
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TikTok launches an ad-free subscription plan in the UK
2 hours ago
by Aisha Malik
Apps, Social, social media, TikTokUsers who sign up for the plan won’t see ads on TikTok, and their data won’t be used for advertising purposes.
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There aren’t enough rockets for space data centers. Cowboy Space raised $275 million to build them.
3 hours ago
by Tim Fernholz
Space, AI, baiju bhatt, Aetherflux, Cowboy Space CompanyCowboy Space Corporation wants to put data centers in orbit. First, it has to build the rockets to get them there.
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Discord launches Nitro Rewards, giving subscribers access to the base tier of Xbox Game Pass for no extra cost
3 hours ago
by Amanda Silberling
Apps, Gaming, discord, Discord Nitro, Nitro Rewards, Xbox Game PassDiscord's Nitro Rewards program will give Nitro subscribers access to Xbox Game Pass, and discounts from Logitech, SteelSeries, and other gaming brands.
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Venmo’s biggest makeover in years comes at a very interesting time
4 hours ago
by Lauren Forristal
Fintech, Apps, VenmoThe timing is notable. PayPal, which owns Venmo, is restructuring to spin Venmo off as a standalone business unit — a move widely seen as laying the groundwork for a potential sale. Stripe has reportedly expressed interest in buying PayPal outright.
Hacker News
- Ratty – A terminal emulator with inline 3D graphics 6 hours ago
- Training an LLM in Swift, Part 1: Taking matrix mult from Gflop/s to Tflop/s a day ago
- Killed by Apple an hour ago
- Hardware Attestation as Monopoly Enabler a day ago
- Gmail registration now requires scanning a QR code and sending a text message 8 hours ago
Engadget
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OpenAI sued by spouse of FSU shooting victim
34 minutes ago
by Jackson Chen
AIFlorida's attorney general also opened an investigation into ChatGPT recently on similar grounds.
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Discord's Nitro subscription now includes a slightly nerfed Xbox Game Pass
an hour ago
by Kris Holt
GamingThe Nitro Rewards program also includes discounts on Logitech G and SteelSeries gear.
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NBC is turning Wordle into a TV show
3 hours ago
by Steve Dent
Gaming, TV & MoviesThe NYT's word game has been pretty much everywhere else.
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Forza Horizon 6 has leaked a week ahead of launch
3 hours ago
by Steve Dent
GamingUnencrypted files were downloaded from Steam and shared by pirates.
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TikTok is rolling out an ad-free option in the UK
4 hours ago
by Sarah Fielding
Social MediaIt's the first time an ad-free subscription has been offered in an English-speaking country.
The Verge
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Live updates from Elon Musk and Sam Altman’s court battle over the future of OpenAI
19 minutes ago
AI, Elon Musk, Law, News, OpenAI, Policy, Tech, xAISam Altman and Elon Musk are facing off in a high-stakes trial that could alter the future of OpenAI and its most well-known product, ChatGPT . In 2024, Musk filed a lawsuit accusing OpenAI of abandoning its founding mission of developing AI to benefit humanity and shifting focus to boosting profits instead. Elon Musk, his financial manager and Neuralink CEO, Jared Birchall, and OpenAI cofounder Greg Brockman have already testified before the jury. Shivon Zilis , a former OpenAI board member who shares four children with Musk, took the stand on Wednesday, and the courtroom also watched former OpenAI CTO
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GM settles California lawsuit claiming it sold driving habit data to insurance companies
35 minutes ago
by Emma Roth
GM, News, Privacy, Tech, TransportationGeneral Motors has agreed to pay $12.75 million to settle a California data privacy lawsuit that accused the automaker of selling driver location and driver data, as reported earlier by Reuters . In a proposed settlement filed on Friday , GM agreed to stop selling customer information to data brokers for five years and must give California drivers the ability to stop its OnStar service from collecting location data. GM became the subject of several lawsuits after a 2024 report by The New York Times revealed that automakers, including GM, had been sharing driving data - such as speed, hard
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Matter and OpenADR team up to connect smart homes to the grid
an hour ago
by Jennifer Pattison Tuohy
Matter, News, Smart Home, TechSmart energy management just took a step closer to becoming simpler. This week, the organizations behind Matter , the smart-home interoperability standard, and the OpenADR protocol , which sends signals between the grid and the home, announced an agreement to work together . This should make it easier for connected appliances to participate in demand response programs (DR) and, hopefully, save you money. In demand response programs, a customer agrees to reduce or shift their electrical usage in exchange for utility bill credits or other incentives. The Connectivity Standards Alliance, which runs Matter, and the nonprofit OpenADR Alliance have …
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Joanna Stern is not a robot, but she lived with them
2 hours ago
by Nilay Patel
AI, Creators, Decoder, Podcasts, Streaming, Tech, YouTubeMy guest today is longtime friend of the show Joanna Stern. You all know Joanna: she is the former senior personal technology columnist for The Wall Street Journal , a former Decoder guest host, one of my cofounders here at The Verge , and also just one of my very closest friends. I mention that because Joanna just left that lofty perch at The Journal to start her own media company called New Things . She’s starting with her new book about AI, called I Am Not a Robot , which is out this week on May 12th . You’ll
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TikTok is letting UK users pay to remove ads
3 hours ago
by Jess Weatherbed
Creators, News, Tech, TikTokTikTok is preparing to roll out a paid, ad-free version of its app in the UK. The new subscription announced today will be available to users over 18 "over the coming months," according to TikTok's announcement and will cost £3.99 (about $5.40) per month. In exchange for that, TikTok will remove ads from the user's feed and promises to not use their data for undefined "advertising purposes." This "pay or consent" model is likely in response to the UK's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and other privacy laws that forbid companies from harvesting personal data for advertising without getting explicit
Wired
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Papa Johns Is Getting Into Drone Delivery—but Not for Pizza
4 hours ago
by Aarian Marshall
Gear, Gear / Gear News and Events, Pie, in, the, SkyA new collaboration with Alphabet’s Wing will only deliver sandwiches. It demonstrates the tricky parts of taking to the sky.
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A Chevron Texas Power Plant Seeks School District Tax Break
5 hours ago
by Molly Taft
Science, Science / Environment, Texas, Two, StepThe move could save the oil company hundreds of millions, even as Texas lawmakers start looking at reining in incentives for data centers.
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CUDA Proves Nvidia Is a Software Company
6 hours ago
by Sheon Han
Business, Business / Computers and Software, Machine, ReadableThere’s a deep, forbidding moat that surrounds Nvidia—and it has nothing to do with hardware.
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I Work in Hollywood. Everyone Who Used to Make TV Is Now Secretly Training AI
6 hours ago
by Ruth Fowler
The Big Story, Culture / TV, Lights,, Camera,, AnnotationFor screenwriters like me—and job seekers all over—AI gig work is the new waiting tables. In eight months, I’ve done 20 of these soul-crushing contracts for five different platforms. It’s bad.
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Keyboard Shortcuts I Learned From My Cat
6 hours ago
by Justin Pot
Gear, Gear / How To and Advice, Press, PawsEvery time my cat Mira walks across a keyboard, I learn a few new Mac and PC keyboard shortcuts I never knew about.