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Illustration: The Verge Meta is starting to test a TweetDeck-like experience for Threads today. It will allow Threads users to create customizable feeds that are stacked in a column interface on the web — just like TweetDeck did before it became a paid service and was rebranded to X Pro last year. “If you’re in the test, you can choose to keep things simple with a single feed, or add separate columns for your favorite searches, tags, accounts, saved posts, and notifications,” explains Meta spokesperson Seine Kim in a statement to The Verge. “You can choose to have specific columns auto-update in real time.” Image: Meta The new TweetDeck-like web experience for Threads. Meta will be selecting Threads users to test this new experience... Continue reading…

Photo by David Gray / AFP via Getty Images The House passed the TICKET Act 388-24 on Wednesday, which would force ticket sellers to show consumers total prices (including fees) upfront and guarantee refunds when events are canceled or postponed. The bill would still need to pass the Senate and be signed by the president to become law, but the overwhelming support in the House is a positive sign. The legislation comes after the Ticketmaster fiasco around Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour tickets, where the ticket-selling platform canceled general sales after high demand it later partially blamed on bots. That prompted lawmakers to haul its top exec from its parent company, Live Nation, into a hearing. In the wake of the disaster, The New York Times reported that the Department of Justice... Continue reading…

The new Ricoh GR III HDF has a highlight diffusion filter instead of an ND filter. | Alex Parkin, The Verge When Ricoh launched its very first office copier, the Ricopy 101, in 1955, the product’s popularity sparked a term — supposedly folks would say “make a Ricopy” instead of “make a copy.” And with the company’s current camera lineup, the GR III, they have made a lot of Ricopies, making only slight changes to each of the pocket-sized point-and-shoot cameras year over year. The latest of which is the $1,066.95 Ricoh GR III HDF. It has the same 24.2-megapixel APS-C sensor and external hardware as all of the other GR III cameras, including the first GR III camera that was released in 2019. But what makes it worth talking about today is the new “HDF” part of its name. It stands for “high diffusion filter.” Whereas previous Ricoh cameras had a... Continue reading…

During Apple's Let Loose event, the company ran an ad highlighting the power of its new M4 iPad Pro. However, social media users disliked Cupertino's idea of using a hydraulic press to destroy art, instruments, and other iconic symbols to represent that all of those things can fit into the thinnest iPad Pro to date. A few days later, the company said it was sorry about the ad, and it wouldn't promote it on TV or other channels: Creativity is in our DNA at Apple, and it’s incredibly important to us to design products that empower creatives all over the world. Our goal is to always celebrate the myriad of ways users express themselves and bring their ideas to life through iPad. We missed the mark with this video, and we’re sorry. While I agree with BGR's Yoni Heisler that Apple shouldn't have apologized for this ad, eventually, everybody moved on from the controversy and bought the new M4 iPad Pro. However, Samsung thought it would be a good idea to pick on Apple's ad by showing how much it cares about creativity. "We would never crush creativity," says the company on an X post, followed by a video. In the commercial, a person enters an area similar to where Apple would have destroyed those iconic symbols, gets a crushed guitar, and starts playing a song. They use the new Galaxy Tab S9 series to see the chords, and the commercial ends with a "Creativity cannot be crushed" slogan. https://twitter.com/SamsungMobileUS/status/1790824457365594487?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw Unfortunately, Samsung swung and missed, as it often does when it tries to fire shots at Apple. People on social media immediately started to complain about the company's ad: "So then how did that guitar get that way? You just found it like that?" a user asked. Opera GX's official account questioned, "So you destroyed a guitar to make this ad?" While Samsung didn't remove the commercial, it has hidden several replies from X users complaining about this uncreative ad. The South Korean company could have promoted the Galaxy Tab S9 very differently, but it decided to try to be funny. As is often the case, the company's ad suffered similar backlash to Apple's. Samsung is famous for creating commercials mocking Apple, such as that iconic commercial after the iPhone X reveal showing Apple users with the same "notch" haircut. However, most of the time, these ads backfire. The best examples are when Samsung ads mock new Apple features that Samsung eventually copies. At the end of the day, people are still buying the new M4 iPad Pro, but can we say the same about the new Galaxy Tab S9? Don't Miss: iPad Pro 2024: Release date, OLED, price, M4, features, Apple Pencil Pro, more The post Samsung tries to mock controversial Apple iPad ad, but fails miserably appeared first on BGR. Today's Top Deals Today’s deals: $3 Alexa smart plugs, Peloton sale, $250 HP laptop, Sony XM5 headphones, more Best deals: Tech, laptops, TVs, and more sales Today’s deals: $20 Apple AirTags, $34 Roku Streaming Stick 4K, $130 Beats Solo 3, $47 Canon printer, more Today’s deals: $50 off new Beats Solo 4, $249 iPad 9th-Gen, $19 Roku Express, $180 ASUS laptop, more

With New York prosecutors' case against Donald Trump barreling toward its end, defense lawyers pressed former attorney Michael Cohen on his criminal history and past lies Thursday as they worked to persuade jurors not to believe the star witness.

A City University of New York college this week canceled an event planned by the Jewish campus organization Hillel that would have commemorated Israel's independence due to concerns about anti-Israel protests.