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The good and the bad in the government’s case against Facebook

The Verge

But it’s here: the Federal Trade Commission voted 3-2 to sue Facebook for illegally maintaining a monopoly in social networking , arguing it has used acquisitions and harsh restrictions on third-party developers to prevent competitors from ever gaining a foothold. Mark Zuckerberg said as much in a note to employees Wednesday.)

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A decade of Instagram

The Verge

Ten years ago today, Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger released Instagram into the world. Less than a year and a half later, Facebook acquired it, in what is widely regarded as one of the shrewdest acquisitions in the history of the tech industry. She asks : How many users does Instagram have?

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How Nvidia beat everyone else in the AI race

Vox

In the prospectus filed ahead of its initial public offering in 1999, Nvidia noted that its future success would depend on the continued growth of computer applications relying on 3D graphics. Their competitors were asleep at the wheel,” says Gil Luria, a senior analyst at the financial firm D.A. Davidson Companies.

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The Twitter power users who can’t just quit

Vox

As Twitter’s new owner and CEO, Elon Musk has been openly hostile toward “mainstream media” journalists. But while many prominent journalists have raised concerns about Musk’s actions — and some have shifted to new social media platforms like Mastodon and Post — few have abandoned Twitter altogether.

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Facebook’s next big AI project is training its machines on users’ public videos

The Verge

Today, Facebook announced a new initiative that it hopes will give it an edge in this consequential work: training its AI on Facebook users’ public videos. The resulting machine learning models will be used to create new content recommendation systems and moderation tools, says Facebook, but could do so much more in the future.

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Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 3 review: nearly normal

The Verge

The other new layer on this screen is made up of a couple of Wacom digitizers so you can use a new kind of Samsung S Pen stylus with it. You also can’t use the stylus on the outer display, which means it’s not as good at taking quick notes as the Galaxy Note. Saving those custom layouts to the sidebar is simple, too.

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What Meta employees really think about their company’s brutal year

Vox

The tech CEO was putting it mildly. In 2022, the entire tech industry faced a stock market slump due to rising interest rates, sharp inflation, and other rocky macroeconomic conditions. In 2022, the entire tech industry faced a stock market slump due to rising interest rates, sharp inflation, and other rocky macroeconomic conditions.

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