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6 days ago | 
sherwood.news | Ryan Broderick |Adam Bumas
Doechii performs at the Grammy awards in February (Kevin Winter/Getty Images)TikTok’s original strength was that it could make anyone famous. Now it’s just pushing the celebs who parachute into trends. Ryan Broderick, Adam BumasRapper Doechii’s song “Anxiety” is everywhere right now. It is, of course, almost entirely thanks to TikTok. But what’s fascinating is how differently “Anxiety” has been performing on the app compared to previous viral hits.
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2 weeks ago | 
sherwood.news | Ryan Broderick |Adam Bumas
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg attends the inauguration of President Donald Trump (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)Meta’s social platform keeps shifting what users see in their feed, but data shows an interesting postelection tilt. Ryan Broderick, Adam BumasWe all know deep down that Meta’s Facebook is not the cultural hub it once was.
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1 month ago | 
sherwood.news | Ryan Broderick |Adam Bumas
In case there was any question, we are firmly in the era of Chinese gaming. Remember “Black Myth: Wukong,” one of the most popular Steam games of all time? As we wrote last year, the game was entirely developed in China.
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2 months ago | 
sherwood.news | Ryan Broderick |Adam Bumas
The DeepSeek freak-out has gotten quieter lately. Markets have calmed. Nvidia’s stock is pulling itself out of the hole it fell into late last month. And data from Appfigures shows that downloads for DeepSeek’s AI assistant app have leveled off after their feverish start, and it’s now about as popular day to day as OpenAI’s ChatGPT. As news reports about the new Chinese AI tool hit the web, demand for the app skyrocketed.
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2 months ago | 
technewstube.com | Adam Bumas |Angela Watercutter
Tech News Tube is a real time news feed of the latest technology news headlines.Follow all of the top tech sites in one place, on the web or your mobile device.
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2 months ago | 
wired.com | Adam Bumas |Angela Watercutter
Oh yeah, I remember those feeds. They had stopped posting, so I was like, I'll just go straight to the source and read it there instead of waiting for this weird bot account to post it. And I just so happened to get into a stupid argument with my boyfriend at the time, and I was like, you know what? This is funny because it's ridiculous, and I think other people will enjoy this. So I typed it up and put it on Reddit.
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Dec 4, 2024 | 
sherwood.news | Ryan Broderick |Adam Bumas
Creator EconomyLeanThe video site is reliant on a class of producer that no longer makes enough money on the platform to stay afloat. Good luck with that. Ryan Broderick, Adam BumasIn October, Supper Mario Broth, a cross-platform blogger and video maker who covers Nintendo history, published a heartbreaking plea to his fans, explaining that he could no longer make a living on ad money from his YouTube channel alone.
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Nov 19, 2024 | 
wired.com | Adam Bumas
On October 25, the small fan community behind a chronicle of fandom called Sexypedia awoke to find that years of work had been erased. Anyone who tried to visit the wiki was greeted by a message informing them the wiki had been “closed.” The volunteer archivists panicked and scrambled to pick up as many pieces as they could—and move them to a new home. Sexypedia’s name comes from the tongue-in-cheek idea of the Tumblr Sexyman.
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Nov 19, 2024 | 
technewstube.com | Adam Bumas
Tech News Tube is a real time news feed of the latest technology news headlines.Follow all of the top tech sites in one place, on the web or your mobile device.
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Nov 12, 2024 | 
sherwood.news | Ryan Broderick |Adam Bumas
The Times is now the leading publisher on Facebook. Ryan Broderick, Adam BumasAs America surveys the aftermath of Donald Trump’s reelection, questions continue to swirl about what could have driven such a tremendous share of the vote toward a man who barely won the electoral vote, lost the popular vote in 2016, and lost both in 2020. But Democrats, desperate for answers, can scratch one possible culprit off their list of who to blame: Facebook.
