The Information reports that TikTok’s parent company ByteDance grew its overall revenue to $73 billion in the first half of 2024 — just shy of Meta’s $75.5 billion. The share of ByteDance’s revenue that comes from TikTok grew to 23 percent, meaning its operations outside of China are increasingly important for the company’s bottom line.
If you’re a runner, chances are you’ve seen Matt Choi on your FYP. The popular influencer got disqualified from the New York City Marathon for having assistants on e-bikes filming footage of him during the race. This isn’t the first time Choi has done this and he’s been banned from future NYRR races.
There’s nothing wrong with memorializing your marathon. But maybe just stick to your phone.
Following a version of its electric motorcycle with a design inspired by Nintendo’s atomic purple Game Boy Color, Dab Motors has revealed a Back to the Future customization. It’s got a glowing flux capacitor, DeLorean-themed rims, an elaborate time circuits dashboard, and a speedometer capped at 88mph, which is a bit faster than the bike’s actual top speed.
Nintendo is lowering expectation for Switch hardware and software sales after posting a big drop in net profit compared to the same period last year. Ninty now expects to sell 1 million fewer Switch consoles for the year, and 5 million fewer software units than originally forecast.
Everyone’s waiting for the Switch 2 which the company previously committed to announcing during the fiscal year ending March, 2025.
According to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman:
Apple Inc. is exploring a push into smart glasses with an internal study of products currently on the market, setting the stage for the company to follow Meta Platforms Inc. into an increasingly popular category.
Any potential product would likely be years off, Gurman says. But perhaps we really should be getting ready for a future where everyone wears cameras.
Caitlin Kalinowski will lead robotics and consumer hardware at OpenAI, according to a post on LinkedIn. Kalinowski also worked at Apple as a hardware product design engineer.
Jony Ive — also, famously, formerly of Apple — recently confirmed that he’s working with on an AI hardware project with OpenAI.
Meta originally planned to lift its ban on new election ads at the end of the day Tuesday, but now Axios reports that the company will continue blocking ads for several days after voting ends “to prevent any confusion or misinformation from spreading.”
