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Universal Music Group and Meta have inked an expanded licensing deal. Photo Credit: Dima Solomin Universal Music Group (UMG) has inked an “expanded global agreement” – including a framework for addressing “unauthorized AI-generated content” – with Facebook and Instagram parent…
It’s basically blackjack for jokes Image credit: spelafort Conan Throwbrien welcomes its host to the stage with discordant jazz and uncanny colour bars glitches. It feels eerie. Desperate. A crushing inevitability. Four joke topics appear at the bottom of the…
Snapchat’s updated its Ads Manager platform to simplify the campaign creation process, most notably reducing the steps required to set your campaign objectives. As you can see in this image, Snap’s reduced the amount of available objectives from eleven options…
Meta and Universal Music Group (UMG) announced on Monday the expansion of their multi-year music licensing agreement, which enables users to share songs from UMG’s music library across Meta’s platforms (Facebook, Instagram, Horizon, Threads and WhatsApp) without violating copyright. What’s…
Both Russia and Venezuela have blocked access to the encrypted messaging app Signal, The Verge reports. The Russian news service Interfax broke the news about the block on the Signal app in Russia. Russia’s telecommunications watchdog Roskomnadzor restricted the app…
As the most popular messaging app in the world, millions of people depend on WhatsApp to deliver messages to friends, coworkers, acquaintances, and loved ones daily. According to WhatsApp, the messaging service recently crossed the 100 million user threshold in the…
Players have taken to Discord and other popular discussion apps to voice their frustration on the new phase’s Nightmare Prime War Mode, which typically ends by defeat in about two minutes. As an avid player of Once Human, I’ve seen…
Snapchat’s subscription service, Snapchat+, has surpassed 11 million subscribers, according to an announcement made today. Launched in 2022 with just six features, Snapchat+ quickly grew, reaching 1 million members within weeks. Now, it offers over 40 exclusive features, including Chat…
In addition to the bans announced in the last week of July, Bangladesh announced fresh bans on TikTok and YouTube this Friday. It all started on July 17 when mobile internet was disabled in response to the growing protests against…
The excerpts below are taken from Discovery Program oral history interviews conducted in 2009 by Dr. Susan Niebur and tell the story of the hurdles the MESSENGER (MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry, and Ranging) mission team faced with the technical…