YouTube said Wednesday that it is now cracking down on such videos — especially if videos with topics breaking news or current events — starting in India. The company noted that it will also start enforcing stricter rules against clickbait titles and thumbnails in the coming months. The enforcement will include YouTube removing such videos without issuing a strike against the creator of the channel at the beginning of this program. Last year, the company launched a program for creators to take an educational training course to wipe out any warnings against their channels. “We’re strengthening our efforts to tackle…
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Once, not long ago, booking a table at a hot new restaurant didn’t entail a midnight dash to Resy. Truly, we didn’t know how good we had it then. Hours-long lines out the door are now the norm, not the exception, in major cities from New York to Los Angeles. Evan Felcher and Mattia Ros were tired of the stress, waitlists, and the hassle that come along with modern dining. After the two friends, who’d met in college as tennis rivals, reconnected in NYC over jobs in finance (and a professed love for the city’s culinary scene), they started brainstorming…
Avara, the company behind Aave, Lens, and Family, is announcing a $31 million funding round led by Lightspeed Faction. With Lens, Avara is building a decentralized protocol that could serve as the infrastructure for social and consumer apps. This funding announcement comes a few weeks after Lens unveiled a completely overhauled version of its protocol, Lens v3. Originally built on the Polygon blockchain, consumer apps that are using Lens v2 include NFT creation and sharing app Zora, Twitter-like platforms Hey and Kaira, and subcommunity-focused app Orb. Why are crypto developers still trying to create the next big social network? It…
File transfer service WeTransfer is now limiting users to 10 transfers per month with its free plan. The company is already applying the new limit to users, as per a support page. At the same time, WeTransfer is adding some perks to the free plan, including increasing the overall file transfer limit from 2GB to 3GB, adding unlimited portals (collaborative folders to work with clients) and reviews, password protection for all transfers. It is also removing a 5% fee on paid transfer, a program that allowed users to sell files on the platform. The company, which was acquired by Italy-based Bending…
Five years later sounds like a half-baked sequel to a well-known zombie flick franchise. But it’s a reference to how long it’s taken a data access complaint against Netflix to deliver a penalty decision in the European Union. The fine that’s — finally — been issued under the bloc’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is for €4.75 million ($5 million at current exchange rates). Netflix, meanwhile, raked in around $33.7 billion in annual revenue in 2023 alone. The Dutch data protection authority (DPA) concluded that the streaming giant failed to adequately inform customers what it does with their data, which…
Many sites saw their organic traffic decline in 2024, in big part due to the rise of AI-generated search results.Many queries no longer lead to click-throughs, and even when users click, it is hard for companies to get more context on searches made within apps like ChatGPT or Perplexity. The answer to this problem is sometimes called generative engine optimization, or GEO, in a nod to SEO. “Some call it AI search visibility optimization, which is a bit longer, but I believe is a bit more accurate,” said Otterly.AI CEO Thomas Peham (on the right in the image above). Like…
A speaker at the annual NeurIPS AI conference has drawn criticism—not for her opinions about AI, but for the way she referred to a Chinese student. During her keynote presentation on “How to optimize what matters most,” MIT Media Lab Professor Rosalind Picard (pictured above) included a slide quoting an excuse given by a “Chinese student who is now expelled from a top university” for using AI, with the student supposedly saying, “Nobody at my school taught us morals or values.” The slide also includes a note from Picard saying, “Most Chinese who I know are honest and morally upright.”…
The all-electric 2025 Lucid Air Pure is a dreamy, sexy car that’s no less luxurious for being the cheapest trim in Lucid’s Air lineup. I felt fancy and discerning driving around, but in an understated way – as if I were wearing designer sweatpants. But does fancy equal value? I spent about 10 days driving the Air Pure on two different coasts to find out. And the tl;dr is: Yes, but only if those over-the-air updates keep coming through. The Air Pure is a technological dreamboat in many invisible “under the hood” ways — like its ultra efficient electric motor.…
AI agents are supposed to be the next big thing in AI, but there isn’t an exact definition of what they are. To this point, people can’t agree on what exactly constitutes an AI agent. At its simplest, an AI agent is best described as AI-fueled software that does a series of jobs for you that a human customer service agent, HR person, or IT help desk employee might have done in the past, although it could ultimately involve any task. You ask it to do things, and it does them for you, sometimes crossing multiple systems and going well…
The Nintendo Switch 2 has been the subject of speculation and rumors for a long time now, with fans looking for the slightest hint of news at every major gaming event. There have been several leaks, some more plausible than others, but two big leaks have emerged this weekend: one from Reddit and another from Dbrand. The other leak comes from a Dbrand accessory listing, although it feels somewhat intentional. Take a look at the X post below. Dbrand told The Tech Spot that the device inside the case is, in fact, the Nintendo Switch 2. The company, known for…
