TikTok lets creators charge monthly subscriptions

Tokyo, 25 May, /AJMEDIA/ TikTok says it will start letting some popular accounts at the video-snippet streaming star charge subscriptions for live streams. Similar money-making tools have been added to… Read more

Facebook, Instagram to reveal more on how ads target users

Tokyo, 24 May, /AJMEDIA/ Facebook parent Meta said it will start publicly providing more details about how advertisers target people with political ads just months ahead of the U.S. midterm… Read more

‘Enormously risky’: How NFTs lost their luster

Tokyo, 23 May, /AJMEDIA/ A slew of celebrity endorsements helped inflate a multi-billion dollar bubble around digital tokens over the past year, but cryptocurrencies are crashing and some fear NFTs… Read more

Carbon removal technologies to get $3.5 bil federal investment in U.S.

Tokyo, 22 May, /AJMEDIA/ The federal government is investing in machines that suck giant amounts of carbon dioxide out of the air in the hopes of reducing damage from climate… Read more

Nonprogrammers are building more of the world’s software

Tokyo, 21 May, /AJMEDIA/ Traditional computer programming has a steep learning curve that requires learning a programming language, for example C/C++, Java or Python, just to build a simple application… Read more

Sony brings zero-carbon goal forward 10 years to 2040

Tokyo, 19 May, /AJMEDIA/ Japanese giant Sony brought forward its deadline for reaching carbon neutrality by a decade on Wednesday, saying it is now targeting net-zero emissions across its business… Read more

Musk’s China connections add potential risks to Twitter purchase

Tokyo, 18 May, /AJMEDIA/ Elon Musk’s ties to China through his role as electric car brand Tesla’s biggest shareholder could add complexity to his bid to buy Twitter. Other companies… Read more

Facebook changing with times a decade after stock debut

Tokyo, 17 May, /AJMEDIA/ Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg rang the opening bell remotely to cheers 10 years ago as the beloved social network made its stock market debut, culminating an… Read more

Battery-powered Greek island bets on green future

Tokyo, 16 May, /AJMEDIA/ When deciding where to test green tech, Greek policymakers picked the remotest point on the map: tiny Tilos. Providing electricity and basic services, and even access… Read more

Google gets more multilingual, but will it get the nuance?

Tokyo, 14 May, /AJMEDIA/ About 10 million people speak Quechua, but trying to automatically translate emails and text messages into the most widely spoken Indigenous language family in the Americas… Read more