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Photo: JOSH EDELSON/AFP (Getty Images)Several news publishers are going to be out millions of dollars as Meta is now saying, in a very subdued way, there’s no place for dedicated news systems on its ever-more algorithmically based social platforms.Axios reported based on anonymous sources from inside Facebook that the company is officially backing out from its contracts with major news publishers. The news was later all but explicitly confirmed by a spokesperson from Meta, Facebook’s parent company.“A lot has changed…

Wordle: The Party Game, a multiplayer board game version of the popular word guessing game will be released on October 1. The game, which which is typically played solo on a smartphone screen, will be turned into a group activity. The New York Times, which acquired Wordle earlier this year is joining hands with American toy company Hasbro to release Wordle: The Party Game. Earlier this week, the publisher announced that Wordle will soon add an option to link Wordle stats to a user's NYT account.According to a report by…

Amazon is gearing up for its toughest labour fight yet, with two separate union elections coming to a head as soon as next week that could provide further momentum to the recent wave of organising efforts across the country.Warehouse workers in Staten Island, New York, and Bessemer, Alabama, will determine whether or not they want to form a union. If a majority votes yes at either location, it would mark the first successful US organising effort in Amazon history. Rejection would notch another victory for the country's…

New York Times Co. has delayed its plan to have employees return to the office a few days a week starting in June due to a Covid spike in New York City, the latest company to make adjustments in the face of a rapid surge in cases.“Based on the city’s guidance and the advice of our health experts, we are pausing the start of our Expected Phase of return to office until conditions improve,” Jacqueline Welch, the Times’s executive vice president and chief human resources officer, wrote in a memo to staff, a copy of which was…

The New York Times moved swiftly to change Monday's answer to its daily Wordle puzzle out of fear that it would be seen as some sort of commentary on the debate over abortion rights.The game, which became a sensation late last year and was bought by The Times in January, gives users six tries to guess a different five-letter word each day.Yet The Times scrambled when it discovered that Monday's word, which had been entered into Wordle's computer programme last year, was “fetus.”The timing was particularly fraught given…

Wordle, the online word-guessing game that has been bought by The New York Times, has become a daily routine for thousands of people. The New York Times has now unveiled WordleBot, an optional feature that reveals at each turn what, if anything, the players could have done to play more efficiently, and breaks down the completed game in the meantime. Players will also receive an overall score for luck and skill on a scale from 0 to 99. Wordle was developed by Josh Wardle.How to use WordleBotFirst, play Wordle. Then head…