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This year’s Black Friday may be the most competitive shopping season yet, with the biggest retailers and carriers battling it out to serve you the best phone deals. If you’re doing some early holiday shopping (or just missed out on Prime Day sales last month), we’re already seeing aggressive offers from Samsung, Google, Motorola, and, … Read more

A new update for Instagram posted earlier today could fix one of the most frustrating problems for creators. Adam Mosseri, the head of Instagram, announced a new filtering update on Instagram for creators’ inboxes. Instagram users with a creator-designated account can now filter message requests in their inbox based on its sender in a similar … Read more

See at Apple M4 Mac Mini: From $599 Save 3% when you use Apple Card, plus trade-in offers See at Apple M4 Mac Mini Pro: From $1,399 Save 3% when you use Apple Card, plus trade-in offers So you’ve decided that it’s time for a new Mac, but which should you choose? The lineup has … Read more

The holiday season is upon us and your favorite streaming services are happy to let the festivities begin. Welcome to io9’s latest edition of the Nerd’s Watch, where we pare down the enormous lists of new films and television shows arriving on all your favorite streaming services into the sci-fi, fantasy, and horror titles we … Read more

Michal Kosinski is a Stanford research psychologist with a nose for timely subjects. He sees his work as not only advancing knowledge, but alerting the world to potential dangers ignited by the consequences of computer systems. His best-known projects involved analyzing the ways in which Facebook (now Meta) gained a shockingly deep understanding of its … Read more

It’s been almost a year and a half since the Succession finale aired, and Kieran Culkin still hasn’t seen it. “I was in Poland shooting this movie when the last three episodes were airing, and I couldn’t sign into my Max account,” the star, who played Roman Roy, tells Stephen Colbert in the Late Show … Read more

Hyundai is one of several automakers working to make hydrogen-powered electric vehicles a thing, and a good first step is making sure they’re not ugly. I think the designers hit the target with the “Art of Steel” design language used in the Initium concept SUV revealed this week at an event in Korea. It seems … Read more

Part of the mythology of Silicon Valley is the committed founder driving the company to a blockbuster IPO. In reality, startups are 16 times more likely to get acquired. It’s not an outcome that’s frequently discussed, either.  “It’s one of these things that a lot of people don’t really talk about. In Silicon Valley, we … Read more

What you need to know Users on Reddit reported new read receipt indicators for RCS chats in Google Messages and an APK teardown provided more insight. Per the teardown, Google is testing a change in Messages that moves those sent/delivered indicators inside the bubble with your text. A Reddit user discovered that you’d have to … Read more

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR Google Messages is changing how you view timestamps of messages. Users will soon be able to swipe from the right side of the screen to reveal timestamps. Swiping will show timestamps for every message so you don’t have to do it individually. There are a lot of changes that … Read more