What's important?: Let Apple or Samsung tell you, you need a new phone every year. I'm here to tell you.....that's a lie.

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What's important?: Senior staffers at YouTube are worried that YouTube Shorts is killing it's long form content. With everyone wanting to be TikTok, THAT may be the bigger problem.

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- https://www.theverge.com/2023/9/3/23857451/youtube-shorts-tiktok-ads-short-video

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What's important?: X is seriously devolving by removing features that make a social network work.... No block lists... No headlines on articles shared... Make it make sense.

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- https://www.theverge.com/2023/8/22/23841012/x-twitter-remove-headlines-news-elon-musk

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What's important?: Elon is on a mission to destroy Twitter and remove all of its built up brand equity. Way to go buddy. Twitter has been renamed and it's slowing becoming a pile of garbage.

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- https://www.theverge.com/2023/7/24/23805415/twitter-x-logo-rebrand-bird-farewell-to-birds

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What's important?: MVNOS, mobile virtual network operators, can save you a load of cash. Stop paying the big dogs for the same service, you and your dollars are contractors....pick up and move to where the grass is greener and better for your pockets.

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What's important?: ChatGPT, AI generated songs and "art" -- can we start to understand the legal implications before we open the floodgates?

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What's important?: Netflix, I'm over you. I'm over not being able to find anything to watch. I'm over actual good shows getting the boot after one or two seasons. I'm over small incremental price hikes with a lessening of overall quality. Peace out.

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What's important?: Now, more than ever, consumers are placing a new car buying decision on whether or not it has Android Auto or CarPlay. With GM wanting to focus on their own infotainment system, I say we make them (and others) regret that decision. Let these new cars rot on lots.

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- https://www.theverge.com/2023/4/4/23669523/gm-apple-carplay-android-auto-ev-restrict-access

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What's important?: Remember during the height of the pandemic when social audio apps like Clubhouse were all the rage? When's the last time you listened on any of these? I don't remember either....

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- https://www.theverge.com/2023/4/4/23670193/spotify-live-shut-down-obamas-audible-amazon-jay-shetty-iheart

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What's important?: I still don't know why deep fakes exist. No one can tell me the usefulness of these monstrosities other than to lie and mislead. Now, TikTok, which has been under fire for years, is taking steps to clean them up.

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- https://www.theverge.com/2023/3/21/23648099/tiktok-content-moderation-rules-deepfakes-ai

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