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New Mythic Quest season 4 trailer just arrived from Apple TV+

8 January 2025 at 07:33

Apple TV+ has two big returning series coming this month: Severance and Mythic Quest. The two shows are polar opposites, but both promise to be a treat for viewers. Today, Apple has released the first trailer for Mythic Quest season 4β€”and it looks very good.

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Microsoft rolls back its Bing Image Creator model after users complain of degraded quality

8 January 2025 at 07:31

Ahead of the holidays, Microsoft said it was upgrading the AI model behind Bing Image Creator, the AI-powered image editing tool built into the company’s Bing search engine. Microsoft promised that the new model β€” the latest version of OpenAI’s DALL-E 3 model, code-named β€œPR16” β€” would allow users to create images β€œtwice as fast […]

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Former CEO of MoviePass’ parent company pleads guilty to fraud over β€˜unlimited’ plan

8 January 2025 at 07:20

The former chief executive of the parent company of MoviePass, Theodore Farnsworth, pleaded guilty to charges of securities fraud and conspiracy after being accused of misleading investors over the service’s β€œunlimited plan.” Farnsworth also pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit securities fraud as the chief executive of Vinco Ventures, a publicly traded company. Helios & […]

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MSC Cruises Is Making Its Super Bowl Debut

8 January 2025 at 07:02
MSC Cruises, the world's third-largest cruise line, will make its Super Bowl debut Feb. 9 with a mix of European style and American comfort. The 60-second ad will star two yet-to-be revealed celebrities traveling on the cruise line's upcoming flagship MSC World America. The work is being created with independent agency Highdive, which is no...

Tools of the Trade: Jonathan McGlothin of 50,000feet

8 January 2025 at 07:00
Tools of the Trade is a feature to highlight the many tools that help make advertising and marketing folks successful. The tools can be anything that helps people perform at their top form, from a favorite drafting table to the best software program to a lucky pen, a vintage typewriter or a pair of headphones....

AT&T will credit you for a day’s service after some fiber or wireless outages

By: Wes Davis
8 January 2025 at 07:23
AT&T logo with an illustrated red and orange background.
Illustration: The Verge

AT&T has announced a new β€œAT&T Guarantee” program promising better communication around outages and compensation that includes bill credits for a day’s service when the outage meets certain thresholds, reports Reuters. The new automatic-credit program covers both AT&T fiber and wireless services.

AT&T promises to email or text customers when there’s an outage and credit them for a full day’s worth of service if the outage meets its criteria. Those include fiber outages lasting at least 20 minutes and β€œwireless downtime lasting 60 minutes or more caused by a single incident impacting 10 or more towers.”

AT&T also says it will issue reward cards worth at least $5 for certain tech support issues like long wait times or failed callbacks.

The company excludes any of these events if they resulted from bad weather, natural disasters, and other events out of its control, according to small print.

Last year, AT&T had multiple outages, including a massive 12-hour one in February last year that the FCC found had cut off 5G and voice for 125 million devices in all 50 states.

Two new smart rings offer AFib detection for $380, or gold for $1,900

8 January 2025 at 07:08

Oura remains the king of the smart ring business – at least until Apple enters the arena – but two competitors are trying very different approaches in launching their own models.

French branch Circular hasn’t made much progress to date, thanks to a plastic construction and an absence of wireless charging, but it has fixed both issues in its latest model …

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Facebook Marketplace to display eBay listings to appease EU regulators

8 January 2025 at 06:59

Meta is set to start displaying eBay listings in its own Facebook Marketplace classifieds platform, in an effort to appease European regulators. Back in November, Meta was hit with a €798 million fine by the European Commission (EC) in Europe for breaching antitrust rules. The EC contended that Meta created β€œunfair trading conditions” by connecting […]

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Retired Chicago Reporter Sets Up Scholarship to Remember Daughter

By: Kevin Eck
8 January 2025 at 06:31
Retired WLS traffic anchor Roz Varon has started up a scholarship fund to remember her daughter, who died last week. Sara Beth Janz was 29 years old when she died in New Mexico from a recent illness, Varon said. "It is with the heaviest of hearts that I share the last picture I took with...

AI-powered startup Infinite Reality valued at $12.25 billion afterΒ  $3 billion fundraise

8 January 2025 at 06:39

Artificial intelligence continues to attract massive investment as 5-year-old AI-focused startup Infinite Reality announced a $12.25 billion valuation following a $3 billion funding round. The company joins a growing group of startups thriving on the rising demand for AI innovations. […]

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This new Apple product could be the sleeper hit of 2025

8 January 2025 at 06:38

Apple’s AirTag item tracker has been a huge hit since it was first released in April 2021. Look around, and you’ll see the circular accessory attached to keys, backpacks, and suitcases everywhere.

This year, Apple will release AirTag 2 – its first-ever hardware upgrade to the product. I think it has the potential to be an under-the-radar success.

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Washington State suing T-Mobile over data breach impacting 79 million people

8 January 2025 at 06:29

Washington State is suing T-Mobile over a 2021 security breach which exposed the personal data of some 79 million people, including 2M Washington residents. Data exposed included social security numbers, phone numbers, physical addresses, unique IMEI numbers, and driver’s license information.

The carrier is accused of failing to follow industry-standard cybersecurity processes, which allowed the breach to go unnoticed for four months …

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Healthcare analytics platform H1 has acquired Ribbon, backed by a16Z and General Catalyst

8 January 2025 at 06:32

H1, a healthcare data analytics platform serving the pharmaceutical industry with data on over 10 million healthcare professionals, has acquired Ribbon, a startup that helps patients find doctors that are supported by their insurance. Financial terms of the deal have not been disclosed. The last time that Ribbon β€” founded in 2016 and a Y […]

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Edtech giant PowerSchool says hackers accessed personal data of students and teachers

8 January 2025 at 06:15

The Bain Capital-owned edtech giant says hackers accessed its customer support portal using a "compromised credential."

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