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Amazon vs. the world: retail. That’s always been true and always will. Many factors have made the company seem unstoppable. Amazon’s smart purchase and construction of global fulfillment centers is one. Last count, it operated 305 in the U.S., each 800,000 square feet. Local warehouses help the company set the …

Twitter now uses “X” instead of the bird logo. Musk announced the change over the weekend. Website changes are live. Musk tweeted that x.com redirects to twitter.com. Musk called this logo “interim,” so it may change again. https://t.co/bOUOek5Cvy now points to https://t.co/AYBszklpkE. Interim X logo goes live later today. — …

Mark Zuckerberg’s best fortune is Elon Musk. As Musk rebrands Twitter to X, Facebook’s Meta rebrand seems less bad. Zuckerberg can lift weights now, but he needs to help Meta recover from a rough few years. After rebranding to Meta in 2021, Facebook spent $13.7 billion on VR and AR …

Mastodon’s usage is rising as Twitter adopts Elon Musk’s “X” logo. According to a new post from Mastodon founder and CEO Eugen Rochko, the number of monthly active users for his Twitter alternative has steadily increased over the past couple of months to 2.1 million, “not far off from our …

According to the official bug report, Google fixed an Apple employee-discovered Chrome zero-day. The bug is unremarkable, but how it was found and reported to Google is. A Google employee said an Apple employee participating in a March Capture The Flag (CTF) hacking competition discovered the bug. However, that Apple …

Amazon One, a palm-scanning payment system, is set to expand nationwide. The retailer announced this morning that the payment tech will be in all 500+ Amazon-owned Whole Foods Market stores by year-end. Hovering a palm over a reader device activates the biometric payment system. The device then matches the customer’s …

Benjamin, 44, lives near the park in a trendy downtown Dallas neighborhood. He avoids social media. Fort Worth neighbor Dulce, 42, lives in a gated community with terraced houses and green lawns. They look like online entrepreneurs with modest incomes. The two make huge profits by selling access to TheTruthSpy, …

YouTube is testing a 2x speed mode for Premium subscribers. According to YouTube’s experiments page, long-pressing the player sets playback speed to 2x. Mobile users can opt into the test by holding down anywhere on the screen until the top of the window says, “Playing at 2x speed.” It’s online …

Given the global economy, the smartphone market has declined for several quarters. Despite signs of recovery, Counterpoint and Canalys reports suggest the trend is continuing. According to reports, buyers are still seeking cheaper options in the refurbished market or from companies discounting older models to clear stock. According to Counterpoint, …

After 2.5 years as CEO, Ami Gan is leaving OnlyFans. Keily Blair will become CEO. Gan tweeted, “Spending nearly 3 years at OnlyFans while it echoed throughout the cultural zeitgeist, has been beyond rewarding. OnlyFans, the most prominent creator platform for adult content, paid out $10 billion to creators while …