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X is closing its Communities feature in May, X Head of Product Nikita Bier has announced. Communities were introduced before Twitter was acquired and rebranded by Elon Musk, and act as a way for users to create, join and moderate public groups focused on a particular interest. Communities make it possible to follow a feed made up of only the people or subject matter you care about, but they haven’t been used at the scale the social platform wanted.”Communities had a great vision, but they were used by less than 0.4% of users — yet contributed to 80% of spam…
With Asha Sharma at the helm, Xbox is making moves. It’s trying to speed up overdue updates for features on console, it’s changing Game Pass to try to bring down the cost, and it’s even ditching the “Microsoft Gaming” corpo-speak that came into vogue after the gaming division became way more than just a console business following the Activision Blizzard acquisition announcement. Now Microsoft’s recently minted gaming executive is doing something even more unusual: making her pitch directly to Xbox players on how she plans to fix the platform and where it’s headed next. “Players are frustrated,” Sharma wrote in…
Preparations are underway for launch of NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope as soon as early September on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The Roman space telescope will provide deep, panoramic views of the cosmos, generating never-before-seen pictures that will revolutionize our understanding of the universe. Before Roman arrives at the launch pad, however, the telescope will complete final inspections, checkouts, and fueling at NASA Kennedy’s Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility (PHSF). The 40-year-old facility is a dedicated dual-use complex for clean room and hazardous material operations, where numerous spacecraft…
While I’m one of those gym rats who isn’t afraid of the cardio section, I still can’t fully wrap my head around people who run for fun or train for marathons. However, if I were a runner at heart instead of a hardcore Netflix and Apple TV+ binge-watcher, I’d definitely want a running smartwatch to be my workout buddy. And those, sadly, don’t come cheap.On the bright side, Amazon has a lovely deal on the Garmin Forerunner 965 in Black right now that saves you a whole $100. This allows you to snag one for just under $500. Even though…
Some Rednote users have reported that their accounts were automatically converted from the Chinese to the international version of the website recently. One American user, who asked to remain anonymous to avoid being punished by the platform, shared a screenshot with WIRED showing that when he logged into the platform in April, a banner appeared that read “Your account is a rednote account. We have automatically redirected you to rednote.com.”The user says he registered his account with a Chinese phone number years ago, but suspects his account was converted because of using a non-Chinese IP address. “I have never posted…
Microsoft is planning to get rid of more US employees via its first voluntary buyout program, CNBC reports. The buyout program will reportedly be offered to US employees at “the senior director level and below whose years of employment and age add up to 70 or higher,” and could cover up to 7 percent of the company’s US workforce.With around 125,000 employees in the US as of June 2025, that could mean up to 8,750 will be offered a paid exit when Microsoft begins its program in May. That’s a smaller figure than the 15,000 or so employees the company…
Overwatch is in the second season of its reboot era, and alongside new characters every season, the big swing Blizzard promised was that it would finally start moving the series’ story forward in a meaningful way. Now that we’re two seasons in, we’re still in the early stages of Overwatch‘s new story rollout, but Blizzard is already cooking at a frequency fans have been waiting a decade for. To catch you up, Blizzard kicked off Overwatch’s 2-less reboot with Vendetta dethroning Doomfist and taking over the Talon terrorist organization. Though it remains to be seen if the gauntlet-sporting villain is…
With Artemis II complete, NASA is pushing ahead with plans to build a permanent human habitat on the moon, and retired Canadian Space Agency astronaut Chris Hadfield wants to make sure one crucial piece of technology is awaiting the future crop of lunar settlers: a guitar.”We keep a guitar on the International Space Station … and as we start to settle the moon over the next five or 10 years, we’re going to need a musical instrument there,” Hadfield told Live Science in an interview. “Music is really important. Even NASA, a very strict science and engineering organization, recognizes how…
Meta is making another steep cut to its staff, this time to the tune of a 10 percent reduction in its workforce. About 8,000 people will be laid off and about 6,000 open jobs will also be eliminated, according to Bloomberg.In an internal memo from Janelle Gale, Meta’s head of human resources, the latest cuts are “part of our continued effort to run the company more efficiently and to allow us to offset the other investments we’re making.” Those “other investments” are likely in artificial intelligence. Meta is building its own models and apparently training them on its own staff.…
In this week’s episode of Uncanny Valley, we talk about Tim Cook’s legacy as CEO at Apple and what his long-rumored departure means for the future of one of the world’s biggest companies.