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Screen Protectors Aren’t Great, ChatGPT Can Improve Your Life, and More Tech News of the Week

Donald Trump during a Super Tuesday election night watch party at the Mar-a-Lago Club in Palm Beach, Florida, US, on March 5, 2024.Photo: Eva Marie Uzcategui/Bloomberg (Getty Images)Truth Social, the social media platform launched by Donald Trump in 2022, suffered a widespread outage on Thursday. And it’s unfortunate timing for the former president. He was right in the middle of furiously tweeting (or Truth-ing, to use the site’s tortured parlance) about President Joe Biden’s State of the Union speech. - Matt Novak Read

The ‘Meth Lab Oompa Loompa Lady’ Is Selling Greetings on Cameo for $25

The ‘Meth Lab Oompa Loompa Lady,’ whose real name is Kirsty Paterson, has been through a lot over the past week, but even she wasn’t ready for the latest twist in her story. After being forced to learn an AI-generated script for a disastrous Willy Wonka-themed event in Scotland and facing hordes of hate on X/Twitter, Paterson got a message from someone she never expected: Chrissy Teigen.Let’s Eat a Chocolate Xbox Controller“Somebody get the Wonka meth lab girl on Cameo immediately—while it’s still hot,” Teigen said in a…

How TikTok Is Helping Comedians Break Into The Mainstream

W hen Morgan Jay was cast on a prime-time TV show, he thought he’d finally gotten his big break.  A musical comic since 2007, Jay was sure his 2019 multi-episode appearance on NBC’s Bring the Funny would take his career from long nights and low pay to ticket sales and maybe even the hour-long comedy special of his dreams. While singing about the intricacies of modern dating and strumming along on guitar made fans of judges Chrissy Teigen and Kenan Thompson, it didn’t even “move the needle” on his career,…

Elon Musk Gave Boseman, Bourdain, Bryant Blue Twitter Checks

Twitter CEO Elon Musk forced blue checkmarks on dozens of celebrities and other high-profile users after they refused to pay for Twitter Blue subscriptions in the latest chapter of the blue checkmark apocalypse this weekend. However, blinded by his urge to troll and embarrass the celebrities who wouldn’t pay him $8, Musk accidentally gave blue checkmarks to several dead people.Musk randomly adorned the Twitter profiles of various deceased celebrities, including Norm Macdonald, Anthony Bourdain, Chadwick Boseman, Kobe…

House Republicans Pass Nonsense Tech Censorship Bill

Photo: Pool (Getty Images)House Republicans this week rammed through an ill-constructed, self-aggrandizing “anti-censorship” bill supposedly aimed at preventing federal agents from pressuring tech companies to stifle conservatives. The bill, inspired in part by Republican outrage over Twitter’s handling of the Hunter Biden laptop story and other so-called Twitter Files revelations, passed 219-206 in a straight party-line vote. The bill’s almost guaranteed to die in the Democratically controlled Senate.As written, the

Chrissy Teigen, John Legend expecting child nearly 2 years after son Jack’s death

Alongside the note, Chrissy posted two mirror selfies in a cropped black T-shirt and black sheer underwear, showing off her baby bump Chrissy Teigen/picture courtesy: Official Instagram account Model Chrissy Teigen is pregnant. On Wednesday, Chrissy took to Instagram and announced that she and her husband John Legend are expecting a baby. "The last few years have been a blur of emotions to say the least, but joy has filled our…

Quibi Review: Bite-Sized Content, Terrible Pricing

I've binge-watched 16 episodes and four quarter-movies since morning. Why do I have such free time? Because it was work. The better question though is, how? Well, that's because I've been using Quibi — a portmanteau of “quick bites” — a new streaming service with the tagline: “watch in 10 minutes or less.” Launched Monday globally with over 24 shows featuring the likes of Jennifer Lopez, Nick Jonas, and Game of Thrones' Sophie Turner, Quibi offers a variety of content, spanning mystery dramas, action thrillers, prank…