2025-09-08

Vodafone is testing an AI 'actor' to sell its products instead of paying a human to do it

Vodafone made a commercial starring an AI avatar posing as a real lady. This is interesting because Vodafone is a major global brand and not a fly-by-night TikTok company using a ridiculous deepfake o [...]

2025-09-08

TNW: Events and media signing out, 2006–2025

We want to share an important update with our contributors and community. After the FT Group acquired a majority stake in TNW in 2019, the Covid-19 pandemic severely disrupted TNW’s core revenue str [...]

2025-09-08

Creepy or Fun? Vodafone's New Spokesperson Is AI, Not a Real Person

The company says it's testing out different types of advertising, including an AI character who has appeared in social-media ads. [...]

2025-09-06

Silksong, smacking sticks and other new indie games worth checking out

Welcome to our latest recap of what's going on in the indie game space. Folks, it's here. You know it's here. So, we'll touch on it, but briefly. Some developers and publishers opt [...]

2025-09-06

Your Social Security Number Could Be Stolen Right Now — Here's How to Stop It

You don't need to pay a cent to protect your Social Security number [...]

2025-09-06

I tested this digital audio player and its sound dominates almost any rival, but there's a catch

Not for the first time, Astell & Kern has delivered a digital audio player it suggests represents “the peak of performance and design”. Is the SP400 an actual peak this time, or just another s [...]

2025-09-06

Zuckerberg caught on hot mic telling Trump 'I wasn't sure' how much to promise to spend on AI in the US

Mark Zuckerberg has certainly come a long way in his relationship with President Donald Trump. Almost exactly a year after the president threatened the Meta CEO with imprisonment, the two sat side-by- [...]

2025-09-05

Tesla's board to Elon Musk: Hit these milestones, and we'll make you a trillionaire

It's September 2025, and things are looking peachy keen. Sure, the US job market has taken a nosedive. And yeah, only one in four Americans believes they have a good chance of improving their sta [...]

2025-09-05

Meta is fixing threads on Threads

Meta is finally fixing how threads work on its social network Threads. Prior to this, there was no real way to know how long a thread was or even if a post was part of a longer discussion.<br /> [...]