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Threads is getting a new transparency feature that allows users to see how their accounts are being reprimanded for breaking the platform’s rules. Video ads are also making their debut on the platform.The new account status dashboard is similar to existing account features on Instagram and Facebook, showing when posted content has been removed or lowered in feeds. It also shows posts that can’t be recommended to other users because they violate the Threads community guidelines, and tells users if they’ve been blocked from using certain features on the platform. If Threads users believe they have been penalized erroneously, the account status dashboard can facilitate an appeal.The feature aims to give users more clarity when action is taken against their account, make it easier to avoid ...

Le 22 avril, la Station spatiale internationale a accueilli un nouvel instrument, l’horloge de haute précision Pharao (pour Projet d’horloge atomique à refroidissement d’atomes en orbite), dans le cadre de la mission ACES (Atomic Clock Ensemble in Space) de l’Agence spatiale européenne. Grâce à des atomes quasi immobiles dont on vient sonder les propriétés par des lasers, le tic-tac de Pharao ne dévie que d’une seconde tous les 300 millions d’années (soit moins d’une minute depuis le Big Bang). De quoi permettre de tester comme jamais les prédictions de la théorie de la relativité générale, selon laquelle on vieillit plus vite loin d’une grosse masse comme la Terre, qu’au sol. Cette prédiction a déjà été confirmée, mais ACES doit améliorer la précision vingt fois. Avec l’...

Dans le consortium de recherche multidisciplinaire« HIPE Human Lab », à Marseille, le 3 juin 2024. UAR HIPE HUMAN LAB C’est une réalité : nous ne sommes pas égaux face à la chaleur. Sportifs de haut niveau, amateurs ou militaires en exercice : tous peuvent cependant être confrontés au risque croissant du coup de chaleur à l’exercice (CCE), qui ne dépend pas que de la température extérieure. Contrairement au coup de chaleur « classique », qui touche habituellement les personnes fragiles, le CCE frappe le plus souvent les sujets jeunes et sans antécédents particuliers. Il se manifeste par une hyperthermie (température centrale généralement supérieure à 40 °C), associée à la survenue aiguë de troubles neurologiques, lors d’un effort physique ...

The moment the white smoke appeared above the Sistine Chapel, I immediately turned on my television, because I wanted to see who the new pope would be, and then hopped on social media, because I knew that the internet could tell me more about the new pope faster than television could. That, and the memes would be good. The memes came first, naturally, flying in harder and faster than they ever did with Pope Francis, because the new pope was American. Not just that — Robert Francis Prevost, now Pope Leo XIV, was from Chicago, with a bio full of cultural touchstones that the American meme economy grasped immediately: Did the pope ever drink Malort? Was the pope a Cubs or a Sox fan? Was God going to intercede on behalf of the Knicks in the NBA playoffs because the pope graduated from Villa...

Netflix is removing the last two shows listed on its Interactive Specials page: Black Mirror: Bandersnatch and Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt: Kimmy vs. the Reverend, reports What’s on Netflix. The two specials will be pulled on May 12th, 2025, according to the publication, so if you want to watch them, you’ll want to catch them soon.Bandersnatch wasn’t Netflix’s first interactive special, but it was arguably the platform’s most famous. It was a dark, choose-your-own-adventure-style movie, and after it launched, Reddit detectives immediately went to work to decode the many choices throughout the film. (Though it didn’t work on every device that could play Netflix.)The removals perhaps shouldn’t be surprising following Netflix’s decision late last year to pull all but four of its interactive ...

The US government is bringing up Starlink adoption in the midst of tariff trade talks with other countries, according to a report from The Washington Post. In recent weeks, several countries have moved forward with licensing the Elon Musk-owned satellite internet company, including India, Somalia, Lesotho, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Bangladesh, Pakistan, and Vietnam.Internal messages seen by The Post suggest that US embassies and the State Department are encouraging countries to make way for US satellite internet services like Starlink. The messages don’t promise lower tariffs in exchange for adopting Starlink, but “they do indicate that Secretary of State Marco Rubio has increasingly instructed officials to push for regulatory approvals for Musk’s satellite firm,” The Post repor...

When Adam Mosseri took over Meta-owned Instagram as CEO in 2018, the app was experiencing what he’d later call “concerning” drops and plateaus in user engagement, thanks partly to fierce competition from a new app: TikTok. Instagram estimated in 2019 that 23 percent of the decline in time spent on Instagram in the US was due to TikTok. Bytedance’s video app kept expanding through the onset of the covid-19 pandemic. “We can’t explain it all, but what’s clear at this point is that we need to adapt, and do so quickly,” Mosseri wrote to his team in March 2020. Instagram needed to recover, he testified Thursday in a DC courtroom, because “you’re either growing, or you’re slowly dying.”Mosseri described the dire situation while testifying in the Federal Trade Commission’s antitrust trial agai...

The DOJ charged Mashinsky with securities fraud in 2023, accusing him of misrepresenting Celsius’s business and finances. It also claimed Mashinsky artificially inflated the price of the platform’s token, CEL, by “spending hundreds of millions purchasing it on the open market.” Mashinsky pleaded guilty to one count of securities fraud and one count of commodities fraud last December.“Alexander Mashinsky targeted retail investors with promises that he would keep their ‘digital assets’ safer than a bank, when in fact he used those assets to place risky bets and to line his own pockets,” US Attorney Jay Clayton said in the press release. “In the end, Mashinsky made tens of millions of dollars while his customers lost billions.”

Apple is launching a new global Viral Chart playlist in Apple Music that consists of tracks people are discovering through the company’s Shazam service. The playlist, which is updated daily, shows the top 50 songs people have heard playing out in the real world and have logged through Shazam. You can see charts on Shazam’s website as well.The playlists use “Shazam’s data to offer a comprehensive view of today’s fastest-growing songs across the globe, David Emery, who works for Apple Music in the UK, says on Threads. Emery notes that charts reflect songs going viral on Shazam in “real time” and then ranks them based on “their weekly growth in Shazam volume.”As of writing, the top viral songs in the list include Shake It To The Max (FLY) [Remix] by Moliy, Nothing’s Gonna Stop Us Now by St...

Powered by a 5,400mAh battery that Razer says is good for up to 14 hours of use, the Clio uses adjustable straps to attach to “most high-back gaming and office chairs” so that it’s positioned directly behind your head. Inside each of the cushion’s angled wings is a near-field speaker that uses a 43-millimeter driver paired with a passive radiator that work together to deliver “crisp, clear trebles and deep, punchy bass you can hear and feel.”The Clio speaker wirelessly connects to Bluetooth-compatible devices like smartphones, tablets, and handheld consoles, but is also compatible with Razer’s HyperSpeed Wireless protocol for a low-latency connection to a gaming PC. Support for THX Spatial Audio creates a more immersive listening experience when using the Clio on its own, but it can be ...