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For younger audiences, The Daily Show is delivering much more than just one Moment of Zen. Recently, the Comedy Central show achieved its best ratings among Adults 18-49 in more than eight years. The show is also increasingly connecting with those audiences on social, with Comedy Central noting that The Daily Show is the most-viewed cable program in 2026 so far, with 2.5 billion views, up 56% from 2025.At ADWEEK’s Social Media Week on Wednesday, The Daily Show cast and producers talked about their social strategy and how the show was finding new audiences in today’s digital-first world.First and foremost,…
Bluesky’s website and app are still struggling on Thursday after experiencing service interruptions that COO Rose Wang attributed to a denial-of-service attack. According to the social network’s status page, the issues began around 2:42 a.m. ET time on Thursday and have continued since. ScreenshotImage Credits:screenshot of Bluesky Currently, the Bluesky site and app will load at times, slowly, and other times will throw error messages. For instance, switching to a particular feed within the app displays a message that says “This feed is currently receiving high traffic and is temporarily unavailable. Please try again later. Message from server: Rate Limit…
Speech-to-text capability is now baked into all modern computers. But what if you didn’t have to dictate to your computer? What if you could type just by thinking?Silicon Valley startup Sabi is emerging from stealth with that goal. The company is developing a brain wearable that decodes a person’s internal speech into words on a computer screen. CEO Rahul Chhabra says its first product, a brain-reading beanie, will be available by the end of the year. The company is also designing a baseball cap version.The technology is known as a brain-computer interface, or BCI, a device that provides a direct…
Elias Weiss Friedman started The Dogist Instagram account in 2013 to photograph dogs on the streets of New York as a passion project. Today, he’s expanded from photography to video and platforms like YouTube, photographing about 50,000 dogs.The success of The Dogist is a result of Friedman leaning into his niche. Shortly after starting the account, The Dogist started getting press. Within a year, Friedman scored a book deal and hit 1 million followers. The Dogist now has more than 10 million social media followers.“Whatever it is you like about the world—even if it seems a bit obscure—follow that, and…
Google on Thursday announced that Gemini’s Personal Intelligence feature will get Nano Banana-powered image generation to create images with personalized context. That means its AI images can be created using Gemini’s understanding of your likes and interests, without those having to be explicitly noted in the prompt. This works because Gemini already has context of your data through Google account connections, such as Gmail and Google Photos. So, instead of typing “Generate an image of my dream home, my interests are tennis and music,” you can now just say, “Design my dream home.” Image Credits:Google What’s more, the Nano Banana-powered…
More Good MacBook AccessoriesWe’ve tested a lot of MacBook accessories. Here are 10 more solid options if you’re hunting for something more specific.Harbor London Sleeve for $159: Prefer a more luxe laptop sleeve? WIRED editor Julian Chokkattu has had a good experience with Harber London’s full-grain leather sleeve. The inside is lined with wool felt to keep your machine scratch-free, and the black or tan leather exudes luxury. It fits a variety of MacBook models, including the largest 16-inch model. The flap stays shut thanks to magnets, so your MacBook won’t easily slip out. You can even charge the laptop…
Keurig Dr Pepper‘s Mark Shorey, its integrated social and communications director, said the brand’s “crazy, beautiful, unignorable” fandom has been one of the biggest gifts of his career.Since its founding in 1885, the Coke challenger’s “irreverence” has struck a chord with customers. “It’s always gone a little bit against the grain. It’s always been a little abnormal, a little weird. That’s our special sauce,” the marketer said at ADWEEK’s Social Media Week 2026.A decade ago, Dr Pepper decided to lean into its community, putting social at the center of its marketing strategy. It saw an opportunity to earn its way…
You’ve doubtless heard of hybrid cars, but what about a hybrid cement or glass plant? Likely not, since nearly all of them today run on fossil fuels. But that might change soon — one startup has developed a way to incorporate electric heat into existing facilities. And like a hybrid car, it lets companies save money while also using fewer fossil fuels. “We hybridize industrial processes,” Carlos Ceballos, co-founder and CEO of NOC Energy, told TechCrunch. “Most companies are willing to electrify, but they don’t want to get rid of fossil fuels yet. In the energy transition, they want to…
Anthropic is moving into a new London office as it seeks to expand its research and commercial footprint in Europe, setting up a scrap between the leading AI labs for talent emerging from British universities.The company, which opened its first London office in 2023, is moving to the same neighborhood as Google DeepMind, OpenAI, Meta, Wayve, Isomorphic Labs, Synthesia, and various AI research institutions.Anthropic’s new, 158,000-square-foot office footprint will have space enough for 800 people—four times its current head count—giving it room to potentially outscale OpenAI, which itself recently announced an expansion in London.“Europe’s largest businesses and fastest-growing startups are…
After nearly eight years of refining a social-first newsroom built on short-form Instagram explainers and audience trust, former CNN correspondent and News Not Noise founder Jessica Yellin said she’s turning her focus to longer-form video on platforms like YouTube.The shift serves both to shield her audience from low-quality AI content and to meet a rising demand for deeper, more substantive stories.“We want to do more long-form content because audiences are demanding that deeper connection and more context,” Yellin said onstage at ADWEEK’s Social Media Week on Wednesday, April 15.Instagram will still serve as Yellin’s “top of funnel,” with stories there optimized…
Meta is raising the prices of its virtual reality headsets due to the rising cost of memory chips, the company announced on Thursday. Starting April 19, the price of the Meta Quest 3S (128GB) and Meta Quest 3S (256GB) will go up by $50 to $349.99 and $449.99, respectively. The price of the Meta Quest 3 is going up by $100 to $599.99. “We’re making this change because the cost of building high-performance VR hardware has risen significantly,” Meta wrote in its blog post. “The global surge in the price of critical components — specifically memory chips — is impacting…
Thirty-four members of Congress are demanding that the Department of Homeland Security and Immigration and Customs Enforcement provide detailed information about how tools developed by Palantir and “a range of surveillance companies” are fueling Trump’s ongoing immigration crackdown, according to a letter shared exclusively with WIRED.On Thursday, the lawmakers sent the letter to DHS secretary Markwayne Mullin and acting ICE secretary Todd Lyons. It outlines significant concerns they have about how DHS uses software developed by Palantir, as well as facial recognition from Clearview AI, social media surveillance tools from PenLink, cell tower simulators from L3Harris, and and cellphone surveillance…
Paramount is back in the upfront, but this year’s pitch is a curveball compared to years past.Heading into its annual client upfront dinners, with the first L.A. event kicking off April 16, Paramount Skydance has a new ad sales chief: Jay Askinasi now takes the helm as chief revenue officer, while former ads leader John Halley departed in March.Meanwhile, there is no shortage of storylines surrounding the company amid the annual advertising showcase. For instance, Jeff Shell, Paramount Skydance’s former president, departed the company amid ongoing legal battles. Plus, the company’s $110 billion merger with Warner Bros.
Fashion giant Express has patched its website to fix a security flaw that allowed anyone to view other people’s order details and personal information, TechCrunch has exclusively learned. At least a dozen of Express’ customer orders had been publicly listed in web search engine results. The security flaw exposed order confirmation pages on Express’ online store, revealing details of purchases and who made them. The exposed information contained customer names, phone numbers and email addresses; postal, billing, and delivery addresses; order details, including the items that a customer purchased; and partial payment card information, including the card type and the…
Other MagSafe Grips We’ve TestedSpigen OM104 MagSafe Phone Grip: The OM104 is a phone/grip combo accessory for MagSafe and Qi2 devices that comes with a flexible nylon strap to slide your finger through while holding your phone. Dual magnets and a robust metal construction make the OM104 feel like money well spent, and even after hours of sliding my finger in and out of the strap, it still feels soft, flexible, and most importantly, comfortable. It has one annoying design oversight. As you slide your phone in and out of your pocket, the nylon strap will start to droop down.…
Setup was relatively quick and painless. You just have to unbox four speakers, a soundbar, and a subwoofer, attach their power cables, and plug in everything. Pairing happens through the LG ThinQ app, which allows you to set up the Sound Suite system and tune it to exactly where you’re sitting in the room using your cell phone’s microphone.You can also set up each speaker to play music and group it with any other LG smart speakers you might have around your home, like the more affordable $250 M5 bookshelf speaker, to create a whole-home system.Once all the components were…