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Instagram head Adam Mosseri released a lengthy video late Wednesday explaining the social network’s ranking algorithms and addressing potential concerns of shadowbanning. The at-times-technical, nine-minute video comes just weeks ahead of the rumored launch of Instagram’s new, decentralized text-based Twitter clone. Nobody’s Really Watching ReelsOn the issue of shadowbanning—which Mosseri previously said doesn’t exist on Instagram—he tried to pour cold water on rumors saying Instagram suppresses users’ content if they…

Music streaming giant Spotify on Tuesday reported that it had 515 million monthly active users as of the end of March, beating expectations, as its operating loss deepened.The Swedish company also saw the number of paying subscribers grow to 210 million.Analysts queried by Factset had expected the total monthly active users to reach around 501 million on average, and paying subscribers to reach 207 million.Spotify said in a statement it had posted its "strongest" first quarter "since going public in 2018," with nearly all…

Turns out spewing conservative vitriol across your social media platforms can make you a few enemies. Right-wing personality Matt Walsh’s Twitter account was hacked, and the alleged culprit has now said that it was because he had nothing better to do.How To Remove Followers From TwitterIn an interview with Wired, Doomed—the hacker’s alias—told the outlet that he was bored and was “stirring up some drama” when he hacked Walsh’s Twitter account last night. Doomed claims he took control of Walsh’s social media account and…

Gimlet Media is a podcast network behind fan favorite shows including Reply All and Science Vs that are hosted solely on Spotify.Image: Rokas Tenys (Shutterstock)After spending years and hundreds of millions of dollars in building up an in-house suite of paywalled podcasts on its streaming service, Spotify is now re-evaluating that exclusivity and has revealed to employees that Gimlet Media podcasts will start being licensed to other platforms.How to Hide Your Sensitive Images in Google PhotosGimlet Media is the podcast…

AI voice synthesis is getting more and more sophisticated, which also means it’s more open to abuse.Graphic: ArtemisDiana (Shutterstock)Who could have possibly seen this coming? AI image generators have been used to create non-consensual pornography of celebrities, but why would that same user base dare abuse a free AI text-to-speech deepfake voice generator? UK-based ElevenLabs first touted its Prime Voice AI earlier this month, but just a few weeks later it may need to rethink its entire model after users reported a…

Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson spoke about the asteroid horror story, dubbed the Chelyabinsk disaster, in Russia. Know just how dangerous an asteroid can be. On February 15, 2013, an asteroid exploded over the city of Chelyabinsk, Russia. The explosion resulted in the asteroid breaking down into small pebbles which rained onto Earth in the form of debris. The debris itself was not the cause of any real injury or damage. Amazingly, the real threat was from the explosion that took place and the shock wave that…

If you kiss a frog, you don’t get a prince. But if you lick a Sonoran desert toad (Incilius alvarius, formerly Bufo alvarius) you might have a transformative, quasi-religious psychedelic experience—or you might get sick and die. And either way, the National Park Service is asking that you don’t do it on the agency’s land. “As we say with most things you come across in a national park, whether it be a banana slug, unfamiliar mushroom, or a large toad with glowing eyes in the dead of night, please refrain from licking.…

The host claimed that a school succumbed to pressure to accommodate a furry student at the behest of their aggressive mother.Joe Rogan talks a lot of shit, and his newest narrative involved schools providing litter boxes to students that identify as furries. Except that’s not true—obviously—and Rogan clarified his fibon a recent episode of his podcast.In an episode of The Joe Rogan Experience, titular host Joe Rogan followed up on his previous comments claiming that a school agreed to put a litter box in the bathroom so…

In case you somehow missed the news: It’s official, Elon Musk has bought Twitter. It’s been months of tedious back and forth, lawsuits, whistleblowing, and inanity—but finally, that headline I wrote back in April is accurate.And, as the cogs of Musk’s Twitter takeover begin to turn, chaos abounds. It is, so far, unclear which of the billionaire’s promises to unleash “free speech” upon the platform will actually come to fruition. How, for instance, will Elon Musk manage the various authoritarian world leaders…

If you enjoy the cringe comedy stylings of master manipulator and Canadian business school graduate Nathan Fielder, know that you’re not alone. In fact, you’re in company with everyone’s favorite richest man on Earth. Elon Musk also apparently feels a deep connection to Fielder’s off-kilter humor, and is sure that he could/should/would be friends with the funny man.The Tesla CEO first invited the former Nathan For You host to lunch at SpaceX in 2016, according to a report from The New York Times. And he continued to…