Thomas Germain's posts

Marketers woke up on Sunday to find the social media giant's ad system was eating up their entire budgets. Meta…

Twitter removed an estimated 407k legacy verification badges Thursday. Twitter responded the only way it knows how:…

Newly crowned Parler CEO Ryan Coyne won't run a "politically motivated advocacy organization." Say goodnight, Alt…

Elon has deployed a lot of losing business strategies at Twitter. Now he's requiring a subscription to Twitter Blue…

In a fawning interview on the TED stage, CEO Shou Chew's made a pitch for why his app is good for the world.

A new Republican bill would let Iowa kids work 6-hour night shifts, get jobs in factories, and serve alcohol.

A new test shows Google's "Privacy Sandbox" ad targeting tools perform only a little worse than Chrome's browser…

Substack chief Chris Best said he didn't want to "engage in speculation" about statements like “all brown people are…

Researchers found racist beliefs are baked into ChatGPT, and the chatbot will tell you all about it with a few…

What does URL actually stand for? LTE? And what's the difference between the internet and the "World Wide Web?"

Watch an interactive day in the life as AI-powered sprites interact, form memories, and pursue their individual…

“If you want to know what the future of AI looks like, look at chess. It happened to us first, and it’s going to…

To replace the cookie in Chrome and Android, Google has an offering for the world called “Privacy Sandbox." Here's…

He was the public face of big problems at big tech. Now he wants to help regulators and companies assure the public…

Elon is obsessed with giving himself public deadlines, which would be way less embarrassing if he was as interested…

The dramatically named AMERICA Act would prohibit big companies from owning multiple parts of the digital ad…

My one-sided "conversations" with Spotify's new AI DJ pose a question: can a corporation, or a robot, for that…

A fake tweet cost drug giant Eli Lily $15 billion. Here's 10 more that could spank corporations if trolls get…

The “Sound of All Human Knowledge” will identify Wikipedia content on smart speakers and other audio platforms.

Alexa, Siri, and Google Assistant can be tricked to unlock doors, reads texts, disable alarms, and more with the…