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YouTube Shorts can now go 2x speed because apparently 60 seconds was already too long for usTech

YouTube Shorts can now go 2x speed because apparently 60 seconds was already too long for us

YouTube Shorts is adding 2x playback speed, because apparently 60 seconds of video content has become an unreasonable ask in 2026. Our attention spans are not okay.

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The woman who turned TikTok into a lifeline for Skid RowCulture

The woman who turned TikTok into a lifeline for Skid Row

Shirley Raines didn't go viral selling a lifestyle - she did it by showing up for Skid Row's unhoused community and refusing to look away. And somehow, millions of people followed.

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AI is catfishing gay men with fake shirtless influencers and honestly, sameCulture

AI is catfishing gay men with fake shirtless influencers and honestly, same

AI-generated male influencers are racking up tens of thousands of followers in gay online spaces, and the comments sections are blissfully, heartbreakingly unaware. Vox reports on the deepfake thirst trap pipeline nobody asked for but here we are.

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Meta's new Facebook AI search mode is basically reading your public posts out loud back to youTech

Meta's new Facebook AI search mode is basically reading your public posts out loud back to you

Meta is rolling out AI Mode for Facebook search, generating answers from publicly posted content across its platforms. Your public posts just became someone else's search result.

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Twitch's CEO thinks your doom-scrolling habit is actually kind of sad (he's not wrong)Tech

Twitch's CEO thinks your doom-scrolling habit is actually kind of sad (he's not wrong)

Twitch CEO Dan Clancy took the VidCon stage to argue that live streaming's real-time community beats passive scrolling hands down. He's not wrong, even if he's obviously biased.

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The UK might ban social media for under-16s and honestly, sameTech

The UK might ban social media for under-16s and honestly, same

The UK is reportedly considering banning social media access for children under 16, following a similar move by Australia. Enforcement might be a nightmare, but the intent is loud and clear.

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Snapchat is finally putting a fence around the kids' poolTech

Snapchat is finally putting a fence around the kids' pool

Snapchat is restricting under-16s to sharing Stories and Spotlight videos only with mutual friends, giving younger users a separate profile experience with tighter privacy defaults.

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TikTok's AI summary feature lasted about as long as your average attention spanTech

TikTok's AI summary feature lasted about as long as your average attention span

TikTok launched an AI feature to summarize videos in text - and pulled it back after the summaries turned out to be, let's say, creatively inaccurate. Classic.

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Meta's own oversight board is dragging the company for banning accounts without explanationTech

Meta's own oversight board is dragging the company for banning accounts without explanation

Meta's Oversight Board is publicly calling out the company for banning accounts without clear explanations or transparency about AI involvement in moderation decisions.

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'Date cancelled' meme killed by brands faster than your last Hinge match ghosted youCulture

'Date cancelled' meme killed by brands faster than your last Hinge match ghosted you

The 'date cancelled' meme gave frustrated daters a funny way to vent about modern romance. Then brands got involved, and here we are.

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