The coup-attempting former president’s campaign also said it has $36 million available for the GOP primary, which would be seven times as much as DeSantis.
It’s mind-blowing to think Ahsoka is already over. Fans waited years to see how the character’s story would continue and now, a mere eight episodes later, a major piece of that story has come to its end.
There’s always room for more artificial intelligence in your news feed—at least according to Artifact. The news app developed by former Instagram co-founders Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger is now rolling out AI-generated images for posts on the platform.
Reddit is revamping search and making a key feature of its app more accessible. The company announced a series of updates it says makes search faster and easier across its app and mobile site.
The changes include a new “media” tab in search and within individual subreddits so users can more easily browse images, video clips, and GIFs. Additionally, search results in Reddit’s app and website are getting a simpler, cleaner look.
Reddit is also making search easier for people using the mobile version of its site who aren’t logged in. Now, logged out searches will have more filters, as well as separate tabs for comments and posts. And mobile web searches are 85 percent faster overall, according to the company.
There are also search improvements specifically for Redditors who rely on screen readers. “The posts and comments tabs on the search result page are now screen reader compatible on native mobile apps,” Reddit explains in a blog post. “We’re adding labels, roles/traits, values, and states to all elements on these pages to help redditors discover content and take action. If a redditor uses a screen reader, they can hear the actions available and the results returned on these tabs.”
That change could help the company address some of the long-running accessibility complaints about its app. Members of r/blind were some of the most vocal opponents to the company’s API crackdown, which resulted in the shuttering of many third-party apps. The company later said that it would exempt some accessibility-focused apps from its API fees, but the moderators of r/blind have said the concession isn’t enough, and that the company has “made it impossible for blind Redditors to moderate their own sub.” While Reddit’s latest updates don’t address blind users’ complaints about its moderation tools, the changes could still be a significant improvement for people who browse the app with screen readers.
This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/reddit-is-revamping-search-and-improving-support-for-screen-readers-143054804.html?src=rss
Video showed a group of teens cornering and mocking an Asian American passenger last month.
There’s always room for more artificial intelligence in your news feed—at least according to Artifact. The news app developed by former Instagram co-founders Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger is now rolling out AI-generated images for posts on the platform.
The Bezos-Musk rivalry intensifies this week as Amazon gears up for the launch of two demo internet satellites. This marks the beginning of the Amazon billionaire’s 3,236-satellite-strong megaconstellation that might one day compete with Musk’s leading space-based service, SpaceX—with “one day” being the operative…
Tree planting projects seem like a great climate solution—lots of trees can sequester lots of carbon that would otherwise be warming the atmosphere. But, surprise surprise, it turns out you can’t just plop any old tree into the ground and expect to reap environmental benefits, new research finds.
Posts on X might look quite different, especially if you mainly follow news and media publications. The website formerly known as Twitter has started removing headlines and snippets from posted links, implementing a change Fortune reported in August. Back then, website owner Elon Musk said that the idea came from him directly and that it will “greatly improve the [platform’s] esthetics.” We tested it out by posting one of our stories, and only the article’s image with an overlay of its URL show up when it’s viewed on iOS. On the web, we still see the article snippet and a truncated version of its headline.
Advertisers reportedly didn’t like the new format when they were shown a preview of it, but the change is clearly still pushing through. X’s main reason for the format switch is apparently to make posts look more compact by fitting more of them in the portion of the timeline that appears on screen. In addition, Musk reportedly thinks that it could help lessen instances of clickbait, which rely on headlines with shock value, on the website.
While Musk publicly claims that the primary driving force for the change in format is the website’s aesthetic, it’s no secret that he’s been trying to encourage more people to post long-form pieces directly on X. The website expanded Blue subscribers’ post limit to 25,000 characters under his leadership, and he previously tweeted that journalists who want “more freedom to write and a higher income” should “publish directly” on the platform. More recently, he encouraged “more citizen journalism” on X and said that people can do “live video easily” from their phone.
This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/x-starts-removing-headlines-from-posted-links-011446351.html?src=rss
Sen. Dianne Feinstein, the longest-serving woman in the Senate, died Friday at the age of 90.
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