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Jacob Kastrenakes

Jacob Kastrenakes

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    TikTok doesn’t want you to know too much about hashtags.

    The company has started hiding details on how popular hashtags are... after researchers and journalists kept using them as a measure of how widely controversial and harmful topics had spread on the platform.

    Jacob Kastrenakes
    Jacob Kastrenakes
    Should minivans come with tray tables?

    Volvo’s first electric minivan puts them in the back seat, so your kids can bring their gaming laptops along for the ride to soccer practice.

    The vehicle is headed to China only for now, and I’ve seen some criticism of in-car tray tables as potentially unsafe in the event of a crash — so don’t pull your laptops out just yet.

    The back seat of Volvo’s EM90.
    The back seat of Volvo’s EM90.
    Image: Volvo
    Snap is cutting 10 percent of its staffSnap is cutting 10 percent of its staff
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    Jacob Kastrenakes
    Jacob Kastrenakes
    It’s been 10 hours.

    I’m just going to highlight a line from the Vision Pro’s user guide:

    Never use Apple Vision Pro while operating a moving vehicle, bicycle, heavy machinery, or in any other situations requiring attention to safety.

    Jacob Kastrenakes
    Jacob Kastrenakes
    I haven’t seen these Apple stickers before.

    TechCrunch spotted what appears to be one of the only photos of Apple’s modified version of the iPhone for security researchers. If you want to know more, TechCrunch talked to the researcher who took the photo about what’s different.

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    Jacob Kastrenakes
    CEOs can be friends with the people setting their pay —

    apparently they just have to disclose it first.

    Axios writes that CEOs other than Elon Musk should still be fine to receive pay packages as big as they’d like, so long as they keep their board processes buttoned up.

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    Jacob Kastrenakes
    Xreal raises 17,000 Vision Pros worth of funding to compete with Apple.

    $60 million sounds like a lot, but how much can it really buy you these days?

    The extra money should allow Xreal to make up to 2 million AR headsets in 2025, per Bloomberg. Its latest, the Air 2 Ultra, ships in March.

    Jacob Kastrenakes
    Jacob Kastrenakes
    YouTube thumbnails are make or break.

    Just look at how many image and title iterations The Try Guys go through when trying to make sure a video pops off.

    If you’re interested in seeing more, the TikToker below is using a tool called CreatorML to view the thumbnail history.