As it seeks further growth, Nothing is teasing its first product launch of 2025 which is probably the Nothing Phone (3), now expected to see a launch date in March.
We’re expecting the iPhone 17 Air to be Apple’s thinnest ever phone, but with the depth of phones now constrained by the USB-C port, would you go portless to get a thinner iPhone?
Chinese Android smartphone maker Oppo has been teasing an ultra-thin model, and saying that the height of the USB-C port is preventing phones from getting any slimmer …
Life can be really hard and sometimes all we want is to sink onto the couch, turn our brains off and play game after game. That's part of the reason we're such big fans of the Xbox Ultimate Game Pass, which offers access to hundreds of Xbox and PC games all for one monthly price.
Well, right now, you can get a three-month Xbox Ultimate Game Pass for just $34, down from $50. The 32 percent discount means it's a few dollars shy of its December deal, but it's still a great offer. You can shop the sale at Woot for the next two days or until it sells out.
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Kellogg's wants to put the swagger back into breakfast. The food giant has unleashed its refreshed rooster mascot, Cornelius, on the streets of Europe through a series of larger-than-life out-of-home activations, where he crows from the tops of buildings and train stations to wake up a new generation for breakfast. The new ads are part...
WRC anchor Tony Perkins has returned to the Washington, D.C. NBC owned station after recovering from surgery for prostate cancer. "The good news is, I am cancer free at this point," he told viewers, but cautioned he had to take blood tests to be sure the cancer stays away. He was told his cancer, which...
Just as the Inuit language has dozens of words for snow, social media users have come up with numerous playful terms for intimate body parts. To name a few: Booty. Peach. Jigglers. Ta-tas. These nicknames are brazenly celebrated in a new ad from Unilever's flagship deodorant brand, Degree (known as Rexona or Sure internationally). Through...
Former WABC anchor Ken Rosato has joined On New Jersey, a 24/7 livestream news channel, which will begin streaming a local morning news show. Rosato anchored the morning news for New York ABC owned station WABC from 2007 to 2023. "I'm honored to join the ONNJ family and excited to connect with New Jersey viewers,"...
On this special guest episode of the 404 Media Podcast, I talked to Alexzandra Kekesi, VP of Brand and Community at Pornhub. Kekesi started in her current role in August 2023, after working for Pornhub and its parent company for more than a decade. She joined us from Montreal, where Pornhub is headquartered. We discuss the stigma facing the adult industry, Luigi Mangione porn, the trad wife to feet pics pipeline, and algorithms that shut you down for showing side boob. Kekesi also breaks down Pornhub’s choice to pull out of states in more than a third of the U.S., following regressive age verification laws.
Kekesi started working at Pornhub's parent company more than a decade ago, when it was still called Manwin. The company, now named Aylo, has since gone through a lot of change in that time, including stronger moderation and uploading requirements. Now, the entire adult industry is in a battle against politicians who would prefer to see porn eradicated altogether.
When we spoke right before the new year, we were heading into 2025 staring down a new wave of privacy-invading age verification laws that make it harder to access adult content online. We talked through how Pornhub is responding to–and legally complying with–those laws by going dark in states where they're enacted.
We also discussed the increased interest in "tradwife" and "demure" porn, and what that says about the world today. "What's interesting about the Year in Review or even search activity on the site in general is that it is certainly a mirror of what's going on in society in general," she said. "We're hovering somewhere around the ballpark of like 130 million daily visitors. So when you see those fluctuations in traffic or these spikes in searches, it really is indicative of real trends or real change in society."
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In honor of Black History Month, Apple has unveiled its 2025 Black Unity Collection of wallpapers, watch faces, and watch straps. This year’s set is “inspired by the rhythm of humanity,” according to Apple:
Charli XCX and Martha Stewart sip champagne and take selfies while nibbling on their respective girl dinners. Meanwhile, Matthew McConaughey channels legendary Chicago Bears coach Mike Ditka from the team's 1980s glory days. The high-wattage celebrities show up in separate teasers for Uber Eats' upcoming fifth consecutive Super Bowl commercial, giving a few hints about...
What do a refrigerator, Antonio Banderas, and the spirit of Randy "Macho Man" Savage have in common? Ask Bosch, which has made all three the pillars of its debut Super Bowl ad. In a teaser released today, an actor dressed as Savage during his reign as Intercontinental Champion in the '80s struggles while trying to...
Retirement and wealth management firm Empower has a message for its customers: "Get good at money. So you can be a little bad." That's the tagline behind its latest campaign and first work by Goodby, Silverstein & Partners (GS&P), which it brought on as agency of record in November. The campaign includes two new spots:...
A judge has limited FBI powers to trawl through data obtained from tech giants like Apple, Google, and ISPs under FISA (the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act).
Separately, a Cloudflare privacy flaw has been identified in one of Apple’s IT service providers, which could have exposed the rough location of millions of web and app users before it was fixed …
Chinese AI assistant DeepSeek has become the top rated free app on Apple's App Store in the US and elsewhere, beating out ChatGPT and other rivals. It's powered by the open-source DeepSeek V3 model, which reportedly requires far less computing power than competitors and was developed for under $6 million, according to (disputed) claims by the company. At the same time, it offers performance that's on par with Claude-3.5, GPT-4o and other rivals, DeepSeek said last week.
Available on web, app and API, DeepSeek is similar to AI Assistant like ChatGPT with features like coding content creation and research. Its first DeepSeek-R1 release is available under an MIT license, so it can be used commercially and without restrictions.
The company is headquartered in Hangzhou, China and was founded in 2023 by Liang Wenfeng, who also launched the hedge fund backing DeepSeek. To develop the tech, he reportedly stockpiled NVIDIA A100 chips prior to the US export ban and paired those with less powerful chips that can still be imported, according to MIT Technology Review.
However, DeepSeek was still at a significant hardware disadvantage next to rival models from OpenAI, Google and others. That forced the company to be more efficient with its AI models, and it has supposedly been able to build and train them at a far lower cost than previously thought possible.
Analysts from Citi and elsewhere have questioned those claims, though, and pointed out that China is a "more restrictive environment" for AI development than the US. Still, the rise of DeepSeek has raised concerns about the potential profits of rivals like OpenAI that have already invested billions in AI infrastructure. In fact, the news that DeepSeek topped the App Store charts caused a sharp drop in tech stocks like NVIDIA and ASML this morning.
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This photo illustration shows the DeepSeek app on a mobile phone in Beijing on January 27, 2025. Chinese firm DeepSeek's artificial intelligence chatbot has soared to the top of the Apple Store's download charts, stunning industry insiders and analysts with its ability to match its US competitors. (Photo by GREG BAKER / AFP) (Photo by GREG BAKER/AFP via Getty Images)
