Google has reportedly started to add Polymarket data to News results

Google News has begun showing Polymarket bets and odds alongside actual stories, according to a report by Futurism. These look to appear as large blocks that include links to numerous ways for people [...]

Instagram Adds New Features, Including Reposts and Maps

Feed posts and public reels can now be reshared on the popular social-networking app. [...]

Rod Fergusson leaves Blizzard after five years leading Diablo

Rod Fergusson, the general manager of the Diablo franchise for the last five years, is leaving Blizzard. Fergusson announced the move on social media, but didn't say where he's going next. B [...]

The one-directional radicalism of Alex Karp: Palantir’s Marxism problem is Palantir

Inside an American government data centre, a system called ImmigrationOS is assembling a stranger’s life. It reaches for a passport record, then a Social Security file, then a year of tax returns, t [...]

A TikTok deal may finally be happening

US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has said that the United States and China have reached a framework deal on TikTok. Speaking to reporters in Madrid after two days of talks with his Chinese counterp [...]

Video of 'Meta Ray-Ban Display' glasses surfaces ahead of Connect

Meta's smart glasses plans were already one of the worst kept secrets, as there have been more than a year of leaks and reports about its work to add a heads-up display to the product. Now, just [...]

Facebook and Instagram stumble for users in Sunday-morning outage

Meta’s two biggest social networks spent part of Sunday morning refusing to behave for a good number of the people who reached for them. Facebook and Instagram both faltered on 19 July, greeting use [...]

Velocity named AdTech Platform of the Year as AI reshapes digital advertising

Digital advertising is entering another structural shift. For years, the industry has been organized around webpages, search queries, social feeds, mobile apps, and increasingly connected television. [...]

Bluesky launches group chats and pivots to communities as growth stalls at 44.8 million users

Bluesky launched group chats on Thursday and outlined a broader pivot toward community features, a strategic shift for a social network that has so far focused on open public posting. Group chats supp [...]