Hbomberguy’s 4-hour YouTube video about plagiarism set social media abuzz

We lost Twitter and got X. We tried out Bluesky and Mastodon (well, some of us did). We fretted about AI bots and teen mental health. We cocooned in private chats and scrolled endlessly as we did in years past. For social media users, 2023 was a year of beginnings and endings, with some soul-searching in between.

X outage: Many X (formerly Twitter) users who opened the app and website to check posts and catch up to the daily trends today morning were met with a rude awakening when they found empty timelines on their home feed. The realization set in quickly that the Elon Musk-owned social media platform had suffered yet another outage. This was the experience of thousands of users, and the situation is still ongoing. However, it was not the first time a social media platform has suffered an outage, with similar incidents making headlines throughout the year. Let us take a look at the 5 major social media outages in 2023.

IâÃÃve hesitated for the longest time to make my workspace totally wireless. Despite plenty of high-quality wireless mice, keyboards, and headsets being available on the market, the added burden of needing to recharge or the possibility of a Bluetooth connection dropping has always scared me away from using them permanently. I might be finally coming around, though, thanks to the Corsair HS80 Max Wireless Gaming Headset. In all my time testing this headset, it hasnâÃÃt required a single recharge, and hasnâÃÃt dropped a single connection. When it comes to high-quality gaming headsets, this might just be my new favorite.

It didn't receive much fanfare outside of tech circles, but Meta Platforms Inc. took a pretty monumental step last week. For the first time, it allowed content posted on one of its apps to be interoperable with a social network it didn't own or control. After two decades of running a strictly walled garden, Meta was starting to open up.

Sunset Overdrive, Insomniac's Xbox console exclusive from 2014, netted the studio just enough money to buy a current-gen console.

When it comes to passionate fanbases, you'll struggle to find many as passionate as Final Fantasy. Most of the time, that passion translates into amazing fan art, cosplay, music, and every other work of creative art you can think of. Unfortunately, it can also manifest into something rotten, as legendary Final Fantasy writer Kazushige Nojima recently complained about abuse he's been receiving on social media over the direction of Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth.

NASA says that the orbits of asteroids can be changed by Jupiter's massive gravity and by occasional close encounters with planets like Mars or other objects. These accidental encounters can knock asteroids out of the main belt and hurl them into space in all directions across the orbits of the other planets. With the help of its advanced space and ground-based telescopes, NASA has now revealed that an asteroid is expected to pass Earth by a close margin today, December 19. Know the details of this close encounter.

The founder of leading Chinese AI firm SenseTime and an influential computer scientist has suddenly passed away, the company said in a statement Saturday. "It is with an extremely heavy heart that we announce to everyone the sorrowful news: Our beloved founder... Tang Xiao'ou, due to illness that could not be treated, left us forever at 23:45 on December 15, 2023," SenseTime said in an online post.

It’s been nearly a year since T&W (Tawney and Wilder) and the Zen’shiri Trading Post have been supplying a variety of delightful mounts, pets, toys, and transmogs to the citizens of Azeroth. To celebrate, players who have earned the monthly special reward from the trading Post twelve times will be rewarded with a new achievement, “Trading Post Enthusiast” along with a new color-shifting transmog — the Burden of Unrelenting Justice transmog set.

In an effort to keep up with the AI race, Microsoft has been scrambling to add new features to its various Copilot tools. Earlier this week, Microsoft Edge Copilot AI received an update that added a useful feature that allowed it to generate text summaries of videos. Not only that, the feature also lets users ask the Copilot questions about the video. The feature is similar to the one Google Bard received a couple of months ago where, through its YouTube extension, it could do similar things. But it appears that just like Google Bard, Microsoft Edge Copilot is also limited in its functionality and can only summarize videos in specific conditions.

Prime Video has released a handful of new images, previewing more of the upcoming animated musical comedy series. The new series from Vivienne Medrano, A24, and Bento Box Entertainment will premiere on January 19, 2024. The new batch of images shows off more of the characters.

All the buzz around Grand Theft Auto 6’s official reveal made it the most-viewed non-music video on YouTube in the first 24 hours after publish, according to Guinness World Records.