Instagram may implement a way to share comments on other Instagram posts in Threads, according to Alessandro Paluzzi, who often reverse engineers Meta’s social media apps to find future features. Paluzzi shared an image showing that when commenting on an Instagram post, there could be a new drop-down menu that allows users to choose to […]
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Insight Partners It is reportedly close to making capital commitments of more than $10 billion for its 13th fund, According to the FT. The FT report notes that two of Insight’s portfolio companies were acquired last week. One of them, threat intelligence firm Recorded Future, was sold to Mastercard for $100 million. $2.65 billionwas wholly
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Last summer, film fans mourned the death of actress Shelley Duvall, 75. Best known for The Shining, Time Bandits, and many other films, he began to distance himself from acting in the early 2000s before retiring completely after the 2002 independent film. Manna from heaven. But in 2022, she surprised everyone with the news that
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Nick Frosst, co-founder of Canadian AI startup Cohere, valued at $5.5 billion, has been a musician his entire life. He told britcommerce that once he started singing, he never shut up. That remains true today. In addition to his full-time job at Cohere, Frosst is also the frontman of Good Kid, an indie rock band
The names, songs, and networks may have changed over the years, but Power Rangers has always stuck to the same strategy. Whichever season you watched, you pretty much knew what you were getting into week to week, which helped make it a reliable show for kids around the world back in the day. Surprisingly, the
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At some point midway through the film, as Driver’s Caesar speaks to the camera, the screen goes blank for a moment. There was confused applause from those who thought it was all over (if only we had been so lucky), but then, with the lights still off, a man ran up onto the stage in
I have a guilty pleasure, and it’s not that I’ve ever rewatched Glee in its entirety (yes, even the awful later seasons), or read an inordinate amount of Harry Potter fan fiction in my life. My guilty pleasure is playing LinkedIn games. To answer the obvious question: wait, LinkedIn has games? Yes. In May, LinkedIn
Can artificial intelligence technology help solve difficult problems? It’s a generic question that’s heard more and more these days, and the answer is usually no. But a new study published in the journal Science There is hope that large language models could be a useful tool in changing the minds of conspiracy theorists who believe
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In early 2018, VC Mike Moritz wrote in the FT that “Silicon Valley would do well to follow China’s example,” noting that the pace of work at tech companies was “furious” and that China offered “investment opportunities in the best companies.” Soon after, it all imploded. Worse still, as the FT notes in a new
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One of the jobs that data storage and destruction company Iron Mountain does is archiving media industry vaults. What it has been seeing lately should be a wake-up call: About a fifth of the hard drives dating back to the 1990s that have been sent to it are completely unreadable. Music Industry Publication Mix I
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