The Verge

JUNE 1, 2020

TikTok on Monday laid out a series of actions it plans to take to address criticisms that its recommendation algorithm suppresses black creators. TikTok said it will “stand in solidarity with the Black community” on Tuesday by participating in “ Black Out Tuesday ,” a day of action against racial injustice planned by the music industry.

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The Verge

JULY 21, 2021

So you’ve started posting videos on Tiktok , and now you’re ready to up your game. The way the TikTok algorithm is designed, it rewards videos that use certain trending sounds, effects, or hashtags. Here’s how to improve your TikTok strategy by using trends to your advantage. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge.

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The Verge

JUNE 17, 2021

Today, it’s launching Creative Kit for Spotlight, which will allow app developers to give users the power to publish directly to Snapchat’s TikTok rival, Spotlight. Developers can also set up hashtag topics that’ll tag this content, so they can track how well it’s doing, and viewers can see everything made with that effect.

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The Verge

JUNE 17, 2021

The app’s video feed / TikTok clone will start including ads today across the globe. Ads will be identified by a small “sponsored” tag below the name of the advertiser’s account. Get ready to start seeing ads in Instagram Reels. Instagram started testing ads in Australia, Brazil, Germany, and India in April.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 17, 2021

YouTube and TikTok leave you to the mercy of their algorithms. Spoiler issues aren’t limited to Twitter, of course: other platforms like YouTube and TikTok have similar issues, where reactions or whole illegally filmed scenes from the movie make their way onto people’s homepages or For You feeds.

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The Verge

JULY 8, 2021

Okay, this article is for those who have never posted a video on TikTok. To begin, there are actually more TikTok newbies than you’d think. But the service is definitely worth exploring: TikTok is a really fun (and sometimes even educational) app. Here’s how to create your own TikTok video. The rest of you? Are we alone?

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The Verge

JULY 30, 2021

Facebook had an image outage in 2019 that showed all of its users the photo tags that are usually hidden, displaying machine-assigned descriptors like “Image may contain: people standing.” Oh, that must be somebody dancing,” thinks McCann when she encounters a TikTok with no audio besides music.

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The Verge

JUNE 16, 2021

Many minority language streamers lack an official language tag for their streams, and these creators see their content lost in the miscellany of the “Other” tag, making it hard for other speakers to find, connect with, and enjoy gaming in their own language. Two groups who missed out were Basque and Galician streamers.

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The Verge

MARCH 10, 2022

Each cartridge set falls within a color palette — red, pink, orange, nude — and each tube has its own NFC tag. That tag allows the device to recognize each individual cartridge, its expiration date, and how much is left. Each cartridge has an NFC tag that allows the device to identify which color it is, and how much is left.

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Dataconomy

AUGUST 14, 2023

The buzz around Flipper Zero grew, especially on TikTok, where it was featured in numerous videos of hackers and aspiring script kiddies playing mischief in public places. Engagement with RFID tags and cards In conjunction with NFC, Flipper Zero can engage with RFID, even reading a hotel key card.

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Vox

JULY 11, 2022

In spring 2020, several large, family-friendly TikTok accounts posted videos where they pulled pranks on their friends and family members. But they were ads, according to Influencer Marketing Factory, an agency that took credit for the campaign on its website and its own TikTok account. Christina Animashaun/Vox.

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The Verge

MARCH 12, 2021

Along with the announcement of Learning from Videos today, Facebook says it’s deployed a new content recommendation system based on its video work in its TikTok-clone Reels. Usually, when AI models are trained on data, those inputs have be to labeled by humans : tagging objects in pictures or transcribing audio recordings, for example.

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Vox

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

The Apple Vision Pro may be a marvel of modern industrial design befitting its four-figure price tag, but it still looks like a gaudy set of ski goggles. They could be looking for a friend down the street while simultaneously watching a TikTok video and talking to a voice assistant. This is still the big dream for computing.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Legal experts point out that what sellers are doing is allowed: you can resell items you’ve purchased, whether it’s a 30-year-old commemorative T-shirt or a sweater you found at the thrift store that still had the tags.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 2, 2024

Inconsistent product tagging and inaccurate descriptions (often handled manually by key account or merchandising managers) can ensure products are hidden beyond customers’ reach. The tagging system ensures that each product is appropriately categorized and labeled, reducing errors and inconsistencies.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

TikTokers have demonstrated that Disney’s text-to-speech TikTok voice , meant to sound like Rocket the Raccoon, would refuse to read words like “gay,” “lesbian,” or “queer” out loud. TikTok hasn’t commented on why this happened, but videos posted to highlight the issue still have the words blanked out.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

Nor do I expect anyone to ever buy it for me, particularly now that its original, already extravagant $800 price tag has gone up by a full fifth (when you can buy it at all). That, and maybe our followers on TikTok would think I look cool. Sean Hollister, senior reports editor. Kaitlin Hatton, social media manager, e-commerce.

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Vox

JUNE 3, 2023

Going a step further, the company announced it’s partnering with publishers like Midjourney and stock photography site Shutterstock to let them self-tag their images as AI-generated in Google Search. In many cases, Gregory says, it’s unclear exactly what social media platforms’ rules are about allowing AI-generated content.

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The Verge

APRIL 15, 2021

You scroll through people’s profiles, similar to a TikTok feed. Its unique selling point is an interface that feels closer to a Snapchat-style story or a TikTok feed, rather than the swipeable cards found in other dating apps. You can add captions and location tags to your photos. Video: Feels. Screenshot: Feels.

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The Verge

JULY 28, 2021

Prompted with the hashtag #preteen, Instagram was recommending posts tagged #preteenmodel and #preteenfeet, both of which featured sometimes graphic comments from what appeared to be adult male users on pictures featuring young girls. This could explain why TikTok has become a popular home for conspiracy theories.).

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

It does include Tiktok, which is hilarious.) You can now tag your Notes, which is such a no-brainer I’m surprised it took Apple this long to implement it. Just type a hashtag followed by a word anywhere in the note in question, and it’ll show up as a tag in a “Tag Browser” on the left sidebar. I will use these.

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The Verge

AUGUST 26, 2021

According to Zhan, Snap is working to add camera shortcuts to its TikTok rival Spotlight, potentially letting the viewer of a video quickly jump into their camera with the same configuration used to create the video they just watched. Snap wants Scan to be an important way that users discover AR lenses going forward.

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The Verge

JUNE 8, 2021

And, we came up with this tag phrase, you know, “YC is with you from cradle to IPO.” And so the creators might go to a YouTube or a Twitch or TikTok or wherever. TikTok doesn’t look like YouTube at all. And one of the things that alums always talked about was, “What are the other services YC could provide you after the batch?”.

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GeekWire

AUGUST 5, 2020

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has been leading the company back to its roots in business software and services, plus cloud computing, but is now negotiating a potential deal to buy social video giant TikTok. The clock is ticking on TikTok. Previously: What would Microsoft do with TikTok? GeekWire Photo Illustration). With a Sept.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

Now, a decade and a half later, I find myself getting back into skating because of a very different type of video that lives mostly on TikTok. Arriving at skateboarding TikTok isn’t hard to do. I occasionally go back through my like history on TikTok to rewatch some of these clips, like this one showcasing the world’s cleanest 180 gap.

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The Verge

JANUARY 13, 2021

Part of that interest could’ve been due to the solar-panel roof, or the aggressive $37,500 starting price tag, or, maybe people were just interested in seeing if Fisker would actually be able to get a car to the mass market this time. Photo by Intel. Intel’s discrete GPU.

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GeekWire

AUGUST 6, 2020

Microsoft is considering buying a bigger chunk of fast-growing social media giant TikTok. According to a report in The Financial Times , Microsoft has discussed the possibility of buying TikTok’s business in Europe and India. Previously, Microsoft had expressed an interest in TikTok’s business in the U.S.,

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GeekWire

AUGUST 7, 2020

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday blocking all transactions with ByteDance, the China-based company that owns TikTok, in 45 days. BREAKING: President Trump just issued an executive order "on Addressing the Threat Posed by TikTok." ByteDance and TikTok have denied the allegations.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

Verge news editor Chaim Gartenberg also joins the show to talk about the various other announcements from this week, including Apple’s new iPad Air , Apple’s new subscription bundle , the PS5’s $499 price tag , and what happened at Facebook and Oculus’ big AR / VR event.

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GeekWire

MARCH 27, 2023

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella called the company’s negotiations to buy TikTok in 2020 “the strangest thing I’ve ever worked on.” ” (GeekWire Photo Illustration) With the future of TikTok in the U.S. TikTok’s move into search ads changes things. … They go to TikTok or Instagram.”

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

It’s a phenomenon I’ve seen with a lot of the young TikTok stars. Then, out of my control, some media outlet broke an embargo and leaked two sentences from what I hope was a pretty nuanced essay and just put those tag lines out into the world. They get famous in part because they’re very approachable.

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Vox

MARCH 14, 2024

. | Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg via Getty Images Former Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin is among those lining up to buy TikTok if Congress enacts a law that forces its Chinese owner to sell. If the legislation is signed into law — and if it survives likely legal challenges — the question then becomes: Who would buy TikTok?

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 12, 2022

The price tag, a whopping $68.7 Oracle’s bid for stake in teen video app TikTok on hold. 11, a bid by Oracle and Walmart for 20% of TikTok Global, a sort of mobile YouTube used by millions of teenagers, was still on hold. It’s Atlassian’s sixth ITSM acquisition in four years. Microsoft to buy Activision Blizzard for $68.7

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

Facebook and TikTok have blocked hashtags that were being used to spread misinformation and conspiracy theories about the presidential election. TikTok blocked #sharpiegate, #stopthesteal, and the more general term #riggedelection. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge. Both sets of blocked hashtags were spotted by TechCrunch.

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The Verge

JUNE 9, 2020

ByteDance said it would restrict Chinese engineers’ access to TikTok and other overseas products. Instagram users after posting black squares and tagging 10 friends pic.twitter.com/oVepS6b2wn — Cryptic (@CrypticNoOne) June 2, 2020. Police brutality is an on-demand service in the United States,” writes TC Sottek. ( The Verge ).

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The Verge

MAY 4, 2021

But Shopify doesn’t really fit into the same category of laws as Twitter or Facebook or other social media platforms — so it has a different set of moderation challenges, and it’s worth thinking about whether the enterprise software that powers online stores should have to meet the same moderation standards as TikTok or YouTube. Here we go.

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The Verge

AUGUST 23, 2021

As the Michigan governor’s race heats up, a handful of candidates are turning to TikTok to build followings ahead of the 2022 election. Both candidates have built large followings on TikTok, Soldano and Kelley boasting over 74,000 and 35,000 followers, respectively, as of publication. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge.

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