Anti-Woke Biotech Entrepreneur Has Already Poured $10 Million Of His Own Money Into 2024 Bid

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Elon Musk Is Paying for Stephen King’s Blue Checkmark to Try to Make It Cool Again

Twitter CEO Elon Musk has revealed that he’s paying for a few celebrities on Twitter to keep their blue checkmarks. The chosen ones include LeBron James and William Shatner, who previously fumed about having to pay $8 a month and said they wouldn’t cough up the cash.

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Apple is reportedly working on a health-led journaling app

Apple allegedly plans to release a journaling app for the iPhone, The Wall Street Journal reported. The app, codenamed “Jurassic,” would align with Apple’s desire to expand into healthcare, with internal documents tying journaling to improved mental health. 

This app could act as a life tracker of sorts, analyzing what your typical day is like, where you go, who you interact with and when you differentiate from a standard routine. Supposedly, it might attempt to even determine the difference between who your colleagues and friends are, using a feature called “All Day People Discovery.” It could work by picking up your proximity to other individuals, though it’s not clear if they would also need an iPhone and the app. 

The comprehensive information Apple may collect isn’t exactly new, but could be very obvious, with a personalization feature using the data it collects to suggest relevant journaling topics. Basically, it seems that if you bring your iPhone on a run, it will suggest writing about a workout. All data could apparently be stored solely on-device, with journaling suggestions automatically deleting after four weeks. 

If Apple does release a journaling app, it could be in direct competition with Day One. The feeling and activity tracker has spent over a decade growing to 200,000 premium subscribers — much with the help of Apple. It received a 2014 Apple Design Award and received repeated App Store promotions. Paul Mayne, its founder, told the WSJ that Apple’s support noticeably dropped off about three years ago, leading him to assume it was making a similar app. Apple has previously been accused of creating its own versions of popular apps — also known as Sherlocking — or taking meetings with companies only to drop off and produce something akin to their idea. 

Apple has not publicly announced anything about the alleged journaling app, and likely won’t until, at earliest, its June developer conference

This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/apple-is-reportedly-working-on-a-health-led-journaling-app-114058422.html?src=rss

Trans Sundance Film Festival Star Koko Da Doll Found Dead At Age 35

The festival’s “Kokomo City” featured the Atlanta resident, who was reportedly shot dead.

How To Record Your Screen On A Chromebook: A Step-By-Step Guide

If you’re a Chromebook user, you have two native options for recording the screen on your laptop. Both methods are simple, and each comes with its own perks.

How To Record Your Screen On A Chromebook: A Step-By-Step Guide

If you’re a Chromebook user, you have two native options for recording the screen on your laptop. Both methods are simple, and each comes with its own perks.

TikTok begins removing videos with climate change misinformation

Last month, TikTok updated its community guidelines to add policies that prohibit videos with climate change misinformation on the app. As The Daily Beast notes, the change is taking effect today, April 21st. According to the service’s announcement, TikTok will no longer allow content that “undermines well-established scientific consensus” regarding the climate crisis. 

TikTok will still allow videos that tackle discussions about climate change, such as government policies related to it, as long as they don’t go against scientific consensus. However, it will start deleting content that violate its new policy today, and any user searching for climate information will be directed to “authoritative information” that TikTok had decided on in partnership with the United Nations. 

Back in 2022, internet trust researchers at NewsGuard have published a report about misinformation. They had found that TikTok is full of false information about, among other topics, climate change, and looking for the term brings up search suggestions like “climate change debunked” and “climate change doesn’t exist.” During the height of the pandemic, looking for COVID-19 videos would also bring up suggestions that include “covid vaccine hiv.” In addition, misinformation was especially prevalent during the presidential election season in the US. TikTok had ended up removing over 300,000 election-related videos and over 50,000 videos sharing COVID-19 misinformation. 

When TikTok introduced its new policy regarding climate change, it also added new rules covering AI tech that creates content. All digitally manipulated or created media on TikTok must now come with the appropriate tag, such as “synthetic,” “fake” or “altered.”

This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/tiktok-begins-removing-videos-with-climate-change-misinformation-105652995.html?src=rss

Texan-Turned-Italian Princess Evicted From Rome Villa

Princess Rita Jenrette Boncompagni Ludovisi, nee Rita Carpenter, abandoned the property after Carabinieri police arrived to enforce an eviction order.

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Twitter Is Giving Some Celebrities A Blue Badge Even If They Refuse To Sign Up

As promised, Twitter is getting rid of verified badges. Some big-name users, however, have received them for free, with Musk covering the costs.