Mark Zuckerberg says Meta is establishing a new “top-level” initiative called Meta Compute to build “tens of gigawatts” of AI infrastructure during this decade
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Snap will begin publishing its guidelines for serving personalized Snapchat content, after previously sharing them with publishing partners and some creators
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Disney rolls out ad-supported Disney+ for $7.99 per month; the ad-free version will now cost $10.99 per month, up from $7.99
but not on Roku Ty Pendlebury / CNET : Disney Plus Review: Not Just for Kids Brian Swint / Barron's Online : Disney+ Ad-Supported Tier Is Here. It's Not Cheaper. Tom Pritchard / Tom's Guide : Netflix ...
Sources: Amazon is developing a live audio feature, led by its Music division, with a focus on live music and potentially radio and podcasts
Amazon is investing heavily in a new live audio feature that's similar to other live audio offerings like Clubhouse, Twitter Spaces and Spotify's new live audio platform, sources tell Axios. Tweets: @...
Simulmedia launches playerWON, which lets developers offer players in-game perks in exchange for watching 15- or 30-second ads in gaming consoles and PCs
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Facebook says it will start testing Live Audio Rooms in Groups and expects to roll out the feature to everyone on the Facebook app by the summer
Clubhouse, Fleets, whatever Facebook just announced, etc. etc. But not everything works best as audio, IMO. Some things are better consumed and stored as text. But then, I am an old Sara Fischer / @sa...
Apptopia: Clubhouse has been downloaded 4.7M times since its launch, growing rapidly from 1M downloads at the end of 2020
From a billion-dollar valuation for social Internet's “it” … Washington Post : Clubhouse 101: What you should know about the invite-only, audio social app Nicolás Rivero / Quartz : Black creators, not...
Facebook announces new security tools rolling out next year: mobile support for security keys, expansion of the Facebook Protect program, and more
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Google will pay publishers $1B+ through 2023 to create and curate high-quality journalism for the new Google News Showcase, starting in Germany and Brazil
to help convince governments not to take a whole lot more than that Sundar Pichai / The Keyword : Our $1 billion investment in partnerships with news publishers Byron Kaye / Reuters : Google drops Aus...
Snap is testing a feature that would allow users to share Snapchat content, like original shows and content from its Discover partners, off of the platform
Sara Fischer / Axios : Tweets: @joshconstine See also Mediagazer Tweets: Josh Constine -SignalFire / @joshconstine : “Downloadability” is the next big social network feature. Snapchat saw how DLs mad...