Pitchfork Pitchfork‚ the acerbic music site that defined album reviews in the early blogging era‚ is being hollowed out. Owner Condé Nast has decided to merge the music magazine with GQ‚ the men’s interest publication‚ according to a staff memo circulated by Max Tani of Semafor. Launched back when CDs were a thing‚ Pitchfork outlasted the age of music piracy and mp3s and through the rise of digital streaming. Its future as a brand post-merge is now uncertain. Multiple employees were also laid off on Wednesday‚ including editor-in-chief Puja Patel. One laid off writer‚ Matthew Ismael Ruiz‚ estimated that “half the staff” was laid off. “Today we are evolving our Pitchfork team structure by bringing the team into the GQ organization. This decision... Continue reading…

Illustration by Nick Barclay / The Verge Facebook gets data on individual users from many thousands of companies‚ and a new study (PDF) from Consumer Reports tried to put more exact numbers on it. Researchers found that‚ on average‚ Facebook received data from 2‚230 different companies for each of the 709 volunteers. One extreme example showed that “nearly 48‚000 different companies were found in the data of a single volunteer.” In total‚ Facebook data archives showed that 186‚892 companies had provided data on all of the study’s participants. Volunteers recruited with help from The Markup pulled their personal data from Facebook using its Download Your Information tool and shared it with the researchers. Image: Consumer Reports Companies using Meta’s... Continue reading…

At least one streaming service seems to be skeptical about Apple's Vision Pro spatial computer. On Wednesday‚ Bloomberg's Mark Gurman reported that Netflix has no plans to make a native visionOS app for the upcoming mixed-reality headset. Not only is Netflix choosing not to design an app for the Vision Pro‚ but the company won't even support the platform on its existing iPad app. As noted by MacRumors‚ Gurman reported in July 2023 that "Netflix will still let its iPad app run on the headset unmodified." That is no longer the case. The only way to watch Netflix on a Vision Pro will be through a browser. "Our members will be able to enjoy Netflix on the web browser on the Vision Pro‚ similar to how our members can enjoy Netflix on Macs‚" a Netflix spokesperson told Bloomberg. There's no chance that Netflix's decision to skip Apple's headset has anything to do with a lack of resources. If the company wanted to make a visionOS app‚ it certainly would have. That said‚ Netflix has shown an aversion to integrating its app too deeply into other ecosystems. You won't see Netflix shows in your Up Next row on Apple TV‚ and you can't subscribe to Netflix on Prime Video Channels. You can't even sign up for Netflix through the iOS app. Despite some struggles in recent years‚ Netflix is still the most popular streaming service in the world by a wide margin. Snubbing the next major hardware launch from Apple is notable‚ even if it isn't especially surprising given the company's proclivities. Early adopters will still have plenty of entertainment apps to choose from at launch on February 2. In addition to Apple TV+‚ Apple announced that Disney+‚ ESPN‚ NBA‚ MLB‚ PGA Tour‚ Max‚ Discovery+‚ Amazon Prime Video‚ Paramount+‚ Peacock‚ Pluto TV‚ Tubi‚ Fubo‚ Crunchyroll‚ Red Bull TV‚ IMAX‚ TikTok‚ and MUBI apps will all be available on day one. Don't Miss: Apple Vision Pro: Release date‚ price‚ hands-on‚ features‚ and more The post Netflix isn’t making a visionOS app for the Apple Vision Pro appeared first on BGR. Trending Right Now: The best Star Wars documentaries on Disney+ Google banned 13 infected Android apps‚ so delete them from your phone

The Supreme Court's conservative majority on Wednesday signaled that it might greatly reduce the power of federal agencies.

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House Speaker Mike Johnson on Wednesday said he will push for tighter border security during his meeting with President Joe Biden‚ signaling that legislation to send more aid to Ukraine is not possible without a deal.

Former President Donald Trump used his Truth Social platform to go after the federal judge presiding over writer E. Jean Carroll's defamation lawsuit calling him "abusive."

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton affirmed in a letter on Wednesday the state's steadfast refusal to yield control of the southern border property‚ despite the Biden Administration's demands.

U.S. — After a lengthy survey of the political landscape‚ the United States has decided to cancel the 2024 Presidential election and simply draft that Argentinian guy to be America's President.

Archaeologists measured the magnetic fields found in clay bricks to determine the construction date of Babylon's Ishtar Gate.