Paid subscribers should now see around half as many ads as everyone else in the For You and Following timelines. The feature was recently added to a support page, delivering on one of Musk’s long-promised premium benefits. But be warned:
“The half ads feature does not apply to... ads on profiles, ads in Tweet replies, promoted events in Explore, promoted trends, and promoted accounts to follow.”
NPR’s Twitter page has been given a “US state-affiliated media” label, a designation normally reserved for outlets like Russia Today or China Xinhua News.
Using the label for NPR directly contradicted Twitter’s own guidelines. “State-financed media organizations with editorial independence, like the BBC in the UK or NPR in the US for example, are not defined as state-affiliated media for the purposes of this policy,” one support page read as of yesterday. Now, however, the page only references the BBC.
Neither US state-owned news network Voice of America, nor the UK’s BBC have had the label applied. So what did NPR do wrong?
After relying on Chinese suppliers for manufacturing for years, Apple CEO Tim Cook is exploring other options.
A new report from Bloomberg tracks the company’s attempts to diversify its supply chain, from making AirPods and Macs in Vietnam, to iMacs in Ireland, and iPhones in India.
One interesting tidbit: after making a big deal about its American-made Mac Pros, Apple “now does only token assembly of the devices in the country.”
9to5Google has spotted a new Google device in the FCC’s database that could be the Pixel Tablet. It appears to be an Android device that supports Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and ultra wideband (UWB), but not cellular connectivity, which would be weird for a phone.
It suggests that a) the Pixel Tablet could launch soon (perhaps at Google I/O next month?) and b) it’ll support the short-range UWB wireless protocol.
