Two months after announcing that it was beginning to test ads in search results, Instagram said today that it now allows for ads in search results via the Instagram Marketing API. These ads will show ...
Meta is waging its latest round of layoffs on Wednesday, estimated to impact about 6,000 people. These cuts are part of the company's so-called "Year of Efficiency," in which Meta is being massively r...
A new public health warning this week from the U.S. surgeon general explores concerns that social media use among children and teens poses serious risks that science has only just begun to understand....
A growing number of founders are leveraging the power of technology to help solve some of society's biggest problems, from developing self-monitoring digital health platforms that give patients more a...
[photo1]It's some kind of cruel joke that Kimi wa Houkago Insomnia, Golden Kamuy, and Vinland Saga are now all airing on the same night. And it's a weeknight at that. This season has me stretched to...
The crackdown on cryptocurrency escalated today after lawmakers called for consumer trading to be regulated like gambling.In a new report by a cross-party committee, British politicians claimed the li...
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One of the largest pharmacy service providers in the United States has confirmed that hackers accessed the personal data of almost six million patients.PharMerica operates over 2,500 facilities across...
With a U.S. ban of TikTok looming, the company is introducing a new mental health awareness hub to allow users to learn about well-being topics, connect with advocates and support organizations that p...
[photo1]Paresh DaveLinda Yaccarino is going to have to change her tune. As a long-time executive overseeing ad sales at global television giant NBCUniversal, she spent years fighting social media comp...
Tinder is updating its community guidelines in a bid to keep the dating app safe and respectful, the company announced today. As part of the updates, Tinder will automatically remove social handles fr...
In the early days of messaging, each correspondence was final. Email, AIM, SMS--if you sent it, the other person would see it, with zero chance for retraction. Today, however, we live in the future, ...
[photo1]Andy GreenbergElon Musk's long-promised launch of encrypted direct messages on Twitter has arrived. Like most attempts to add end-to-end encryption to a massive existing platform--never a...
The U.S.'s first over-the-counter birth control pill may be on its way. A panel of FDA advisors voted unanimously to recommend approval of Opill, a progestin-only birth control pill that would be take...
[photo1]Justin PotI'm not here to judge anyone who pays for Twitter Blue. However, I'm not a fan of pay-to-win mechanics. At this point, Twitter is a game where players compete for the most ...
A race to reserve usernames is kicking off on Discord.Starting in the next couple of weeks, millions of Discord users will be forced to say goodbye to their old four-digit-appended names. Discord is r...
For the past year, everyone's been predicting that the muted exit environment and bone-dry funding market would bring a reckoning for many late-stage companies.We've been seeing layoffs and cost-cutti...
We love an update--new features, new stability, a fresh look at the apps we use each and every day. Now, it's WhatsApp turn once again to add new changes to the messaging app virtually everyone with a...
Humans are predictable: When we want to know something, we're probably going to google it. Companies (including digital media sites like Lifehacker) know this, and often try to "game the algorithm" by...
Reddit is introducing a series of updates to make it easier for users to share content from its platform, acknowledging that it previously "didn't make it easy" to do so. As part of the update for iOS...