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If you're like me, you love to keep up with your friends on Instagram. But sometimes, scrolling through the endless stream of selfies, memes, and ads can be a bit overwhelming. That's why I'm excited to tell you about Threads, a new app from Instagram that lets you stay in touch with your close friends in a more intimate and fun way.

Twitter, the popular social media platform allowing users to share short messages, images, videos, and more, has announced a major rebranding effort to change its name, logo, and features. The company says that the new name, X, reflects its vision of being an "exponential platform" that connects people across the world and empowers them to express themselves freely.

AI porn generators are improving and proliferating. The app has over 350,000 users and half a million images generated daily. AI porn raises ethical and legal concerns. The document reports that Unstable Diffusion is trying to rebrand itself as a platform for creativity and expression, not just porn.

Netflix, the streaming giant that has dominated the entertainment industry for years, is venturing into new territory: live sports. Starting in November 2023, Netflix will offer live coverage of two major sports events: the PGA Tour and the Formula 1 World Championship.

Google is developing a new artificial intelligence tool that can generate news articles from data and facts. The tool is called "Genesis", internally. It is designed to help journalists and content creators produce high-quality and accurate stories in a faster and easier way.

Microsoft and Sony recently announced a major deal that will keep the popular video game franchise, Call of Duty, on PlayStation consoles. This partnership comes as exciting news for fans of the franchise who have been eagerly awaiting the release of the next installment.

In a landmark deal, Microsoft has announced that it will acquire Activision Blizzard, the gaming giant behind popular franchises such as Call of Duty, World of Warcraft, and Overwatch. The deal, valued at $68.7 billion, is the largest acquisition in the history of the gaming industry and will significantly expand Microsoft's portfolio of games and studios.

If you are a user of Threads, the messaging app from Meta (formerly Facebook), you may have noticed that you can no longer access it through a VPN in Europe. This is because Meta has decided to block VPN traffic to Threads, citing compliance with the EU's ePrivacy Directive.

Hey, did you hear the news? Kahoot, the popular online learning platform that lets you create and play quizzes, has been acquired by Goldman Sachs! Yes, you read that right. The investment bank has bought a majority stake in the Norwegian company for a whopping $1.6 billion.

Google has announced that its new natural language generation system, Bard, is now available for users in the European Union. Bard is a state-of-the-art neural network that can produce coherent and fluent texts on various topics and domains, such as news, fiction, poetry, and more. Bard is powered by Google's massive data and computing resources and leverages the latest advances in deep learning and natural language processing.