Technology

Step aside, Tinder Swindler — meet the latest Hinge Cringe. A 37-year-old tech executive from Philadelphia claims she fell for an online romance scam known as “pig butchering” — a cryptocurrency investment scheme she says drained her bank account of more than $450,000. The loss prompted Shreya Datta to rent a cheaper apartment, sell her car and reflect on the …

Back in the 1990s, long before the pandemic made remote work the new normal, a few tech geeks at a Canadian company named Research In Motion, working out of a cramped office space in Waterloo, Ontario — under the leadership of founder Michael Lazaridis and CEO Jim Balsillie — all but invented the concept. Right around the turn of the …

Billionaire Elon Musk revealed Thursday that he has hired a female executive to replace him as CEO of Twitter. Musk, who has served as Twitter’s top boss since he acquired the company for $44 billion last October, did not initially say whom he had chosen for the key role. “Excited to announce that I’ve hired a new CEO for X/Twitter,” …

Tesla shouldn’t be calling its partially automated driving system Autopilot because the cars can’t drive themselves, the top US transportation official says. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg says he’s concerned about Tesla’s marketing of the system, which is under investigation by his department in connection with crashes that have caused at least 14 deaths. “I don’t think that something should be called, for example, an …

To ensure a successful campaign, it is essential to take some crucial steps prior to launching an advertisement on Instagram or Facebook. Five things you should do are as follows: 1. Identify your campaign objectives: Define your advertising campaign’s goals in detail. Do you want to raise sales, generate leads, raise brand awareness, or increase website traffic? You will have …

Instagram ads can be a powerful tool for promoting your products or services and reaching a large audience. Consider the following strategies to get the most out of Instagram ads: 1. Obviously characterize your objectives: Determine your goals before you start running Instagram ads. Would you like to increment brand mindfulness, direct people to your site, produce leads, or lift …

Ads on Instagram that bring in a lot of sales require a well-thought-out strategy and knowledge of the platform’s advertising features. A step-by-step guide to creating successful Instagram ads is provided below: 1. Set Your Objectives: Obviously recognize your goals for running Instagram promotions. Is it to produce mark mindfulness, drive site traffic, increment transformations, or lift deals? Realizing your …

Google is adding features that will help users identify pictures that were generated through artificial intelligence — a move that came after deepfake images of Pope Francis in a Balenciaga puffer jacket and Donald Trump resisting arrest took the internet by storm earlier this year. The latest move by Google came as critics, including Elon Musk and the “Godfather of …

AI-generated images that mimic an artist’s style is a form of identity theft and compete with the very creatives whose work was used to train the models, a fine artist suing two artificial intelligence firms told Fox News. AI platforms like Midjourney and Stable Diffusion use text and images from across the internet and other sources to train their machines to …

If you grew up playing Millsberry online with dial-up internet and immediately texted your crush when you got your first iPhone in middle school, you may be a “zillennial.” Millennials (or Generation Y) are adults born between 1981 and 1996, while Gen Zers are anyone born between 1997 through 2012. But some young adults feel those markers are too rigid, …