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YouTube just doubled the watch hours new creators need to earn money
The number to know is 8,000. That’s how many qualified watch hours a new creator will need over the past year before YouTube lets them turn on ads…
Apple has pulled Telegram from the App Store repeatedly. Why has X never faced the same?
Telegram disappeared from the App Store for about an hour this week. That’s it. One hour, and then it was back, after Apple confirmed it had pulled the…
Reddit wants karma to matter less for new posters, and AI moderation is how
Reddit’s reputation system has spent years doing a job it was never built for. On Wednesday the company said it’s building abuse prevention deep enough into the site…
Spotify just crossed 300 million Premium subscribers
Three hundred million people now pay Spotify every month. That’s roughly three times what Apple Music, the next biggest paid competitor, is estimated to have at around 100…
Snapchat won’t pay you for AI videos anymore [Updated]
Snapchat just drew a line that most platforms have been dancing around for a year: if a video was made entirely by AI, it can’t get recommended in…
Spotify’s new Running Mode won’t track your pace, and that’s the catch
Spotify killed a running feature once before. In 2015 it launched Spotify Running, which used your phone’s hardware to detect your pace and automatically served up music that…
HBO Max is building a TikTok feed into its app, and an AI that takes requests
HBO Max wants you to scroll. The streamer is rolling out two new tools for mobile, and the first one is a vertical short-video feed called HBO Max…
People Under 18 in NYC Would Need to Verify Their Age to Use Social Media
Here’s the number nobody’s talking about: 98 percent. That’s how often a social media platform will have to catch someone trying to fake their way past an age…
X Money launches nationwide for US premium subscribers with 6% APY.
In Brief: X Money launched nationwide on July 27 for US Premium and Premium+ subscribers, integrating banking features directly into the X app. The service offers deposit accounts,…
