Is this the right time to leave Twitter?
You are invited to 2023, dear reader! While some of us are still musing on New Year’s resolutions (we have the tech to help you Is 2023 the year you break up with Twitter? There’s . All the chaos caused by Elon Musk has breathed new life in many Twitter alternatives. Mastodon, out of all the alternatives, has probably benefited most. Mastodon, an open-source service, gained popularity in 2017 after some Twitter users complained about changes to @-replies’ functionality. (Back then, That This was a huge deal. Mastodon isn’t the only app to get a boost from the turmoil at Twitter, though. There have been other apps, such as CounterSocial with its Tweetdeck-like interface and Tribel, that have seen an increase in their user numbers. There are many new startups. Post News, a new service from former Waze CEO Noam Bardin, has also tried to capitalize on Twitter’s current state.
Meanwhile, Twitter hasn’t been paying its office rent in San Francisco. According to BloombergTwitter was informed by the Hartford Building on December 16th that its lease for the 30th Floor of the Hartford Building would be terminated. So far, it’s .
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The capsule can now be dismantled by the agency.
After to the Moon and back at the start of last month, NASA’s Artemis 1 Orion spacecraft has returned to the Kennedy Space Center. December 30th was the day of the homecoming. Artemis 1’s record-breaking journey began on November 16th, launching atop NASA’s next-generation Space Launch System heavy-lift rocket. NASA will now conduct an “extensive analysis” of the component and determine precisely how it fared during atmospheric reentry. NASA will also get rid of Moonikin Campos (the test dummy NASA sent aboard Orion in order to collect data about how humans might react to travel to the Moon).
Some “mature” content was subject to age restrictions in the app’s past version.
TikTok is launching a new version of its “borderline suggestive model,” which the company uses to automatically identify “sexually explicit, suggestive, or borderline content.” According to a TikTok spokesperson, the new model can better detect so-called “borderline content,” videos that don’t explicitly break the app’s rules but may not be suitable for younger users. Other features include the ability for creators of videos to be restricted to adult viewers.
The Attorney General’s office accused the company of using deceptive techniques.
Washington DC Attorney General Karl Racine announced that Grubhub reached an agreement. Grubhub was accused of charging customers hidden fees and using misleading marketing techniques. The company was sued earlier in the year. It was accused of charging hidden fees, misrepresenting Grubhub+’s “unlimited free delivery”, and charging customers a service fee. The DC Attorney General’s Office also claimed that the company listed 1,000 restaurants in the region without their consent, using numbers to route Grubhub workers and creating websites without the consent of the eateries. Grubhub will pay $2.7 Million to DC residents who are affected by the settlement.
Galaxy phones with a different look
Samsung’s mobile division has a new design chief. The company announced Hubert H. Lee would head up its mobile design team, the unit responsible for designing some of Samsung’s most important products, including its flagship Galaxy S series of phones. After a stint as chief designer at Mercedes-Benz China, Lee has joined the electronics giant.