Exploring the Creative Power of CSS Filters and Blending
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Read moreTarget to launch its own version of Amazon Prime, starting at $49/year
During Target’s investor event on Tuesday, the retail giant announced it is launching a paid membership program, Target Circle 360, on April 7 to compete with rivals Amazon and Walmart. The subscription tier includes unlimited free same-day delivery for orders over $35 and two free-day shipping, along with other perks
Read moreGoogle takes aim at SEO-optimized junk pages and spam with new search update
Google today took aim at the SEO industry which has gamified search rankings to destroy the value of Google Search results. Often, consumers’ web searches for product recommendations, reviews, deals, and discounts, return low-quality or spammy websites that don’t deliver the expert reviews or useful promotions they promise, despite their
Read moreLawmakers introduce bill that would punish app stores for hosting TikTok
Illustration by Nick Barclay / The Verge After a long reprieve from serious congressional scrutiny, lawmakers are taking another crack at getting TikTok to sever ties from its Chinese parent company, ByteDance. The leaders of the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party, chair Mike Gallagher (R-WI) and ranking
Read moreOpenSea’s partnership with Coachella is a sign that NFTs can be more than profile pictures
The NFT sector has not yet returned to the glory of its 2022 heydays but that hasn’t stopped the evolution of the tech. For instance, OpenSea has partnered with the music and arts festival conglomerate Coachella to release three NFT collections that offer both virtual and tangible real-life VIP experiences
Read moreYouTube is experiencing outages too, site confirms
Several social media websites are experiencing outages on Tuesday morning. YouTube confirmed that some users are having trouble loading videos on the platform; meanwhile, platforms like Discord and Meta’s Threads, Facebook and Instagram are down as well. According to a post on Google’s support page, users may be experiencing an
Read moreDiscord comes back online after widespread outage
Discord is back online after an outage this morning, the company confirmed to TechCrunch. The outage came as Meta’s Instagram, Facebook and Threads all went down this morning. YouTube has also confirmed that its service is having issues this morning too, and that it’s working on a fix. “This incident
Read moreTesla’s Berlin factory to shut down for days after suspected arson attack cuts power
Tesla’s factory outside Berlin, Germany will likely be shut down for days and cost the automaker more than $100 million, after a suspected arson attack on the local power grid. The fire didn’t spread to Tesla’s factory and nobody was harmed, though employees were evacuated. Thousands of residents in the
Read moreNew geospatial data startup streamlines satellite imagery visualization
These days we have a ton of geospatial data coming off the increasing numbers of satellites circling in our atmosphere, but it takes some serious processing power and engineering prowess to turn that data into something useful. A couple of former Uber engineers, Sina Kashuk and Isaac Brodsky, who helped
Read moreFacebook, Instagram and Threads are all down in massive Meta outage on Super Tuesday
Reports are coming in that a number of Meta’s top social apps, including Facebook and Instagram, as well as its new app Threads, are all experiencing an outage on Tuesday morning. When loading the apps or websites, users receive an error message that “something went wrong” and to try again
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