Taylor Swift’s music is back on TikTok, despite platform’s ongoing UMG dispute

April 11, 2024

After ten weeks absent from the platform, Taylor Swift’s music has returned to TikTok — or, at least her more recent songs and “Taylor’s Version” cuts, since she owns those masters. Taylor Swift’s music, and music from all artists signed to Universal Music Group, was pulled from TikTok when the two parties were unable to […]

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Megan Thee Stallion’s favorite app is Pinterest, obviously

April 11, 2024

It actually makes sense that in an era of oversaturation, people would escape to a more quiet and rather peaceful corner of the internet to dream once more.  

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UK’s antitrust enforcer sounds the alarm over Big Tech’s grip on GenAI

April 11, 2024

The UK’s competition watchdog has sounded a warning over Big Tech’s entrenching grip on the advanced AI market, with CEO Sarah Cardell expressing “real concerns” over how the sector is developing. In an Update Paper on foundational AI models published Thursday the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) cautioned over increasing interconnection and concentration between developers in […]

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This US startup makes a crucial chip material and is taking on a Japanese giant

April 11, 2024
It can be dizzying to try to understand all the complex components of a single computer chip: layers of microscopic components linked to one another through highways of copper wires, some barely wider than a few strands of DNA. Nestled between those wires is an insulating material called a dielectric, ensuring that the wires don’t…