Google Meet now lets you discreetly switch from desktop to phone. Here’s how. https://ift.tt/myp28jq Finally, long-overdue feature comes to Google Meet. On Wednesday, Google announced a new update for its video conferencing and calling platform Google Meet, which lets users switch devices while connected to a call without dropping the stream. Essentially, this allows users to seamlessly swap between their desktop and mobile devices without other users in the Google Meet knowing about it. With this update, Google Meet brings a feature to its platform that at least one competitor, Zoom, has had ..read more

Reddit is down: Why you’re getting a 502 bad gateway error https://ift.tt/LqH3bdi Reddit was down for lots of users on Thursday, April 25. The site confirmed it was experiencing a back end issue. The company wrote Thursday afternoon: "An issue with a Reddit backend has impacted many users on our site. We are looking into the cause." So if you’re getting something like a 502 bad gateway error message, that’s the reason. When Mashable tried to load the site on desktop a bit after 1 p.m. ET we got a typical, "Oops, something went wrong, please try again later." User reports of issues began to sp ..read more

President Biden will continue to use TikTok to campaign even after banning it in the U.S. https://ift.tt/dHgW8S6 Despite signing the TikTok "ban" bill, President Joe Biden plans to continue to use the platform to campaign for re-election reports the Financial Times. Biden signed the bill into law yesterday (April 14) as part of a foreign aid package sending 95 billion dollars to Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan. The bill requires TikTok’s China-based parent company ByteDance to divest itself from the app within the next year. If the company fails to do so TikTok will be banned in the U.S. The dead ..read more

Fallout 4 next-gen update releases today. Here’s what it includes https://ift.tt/oPREZWn Been watching Fallout on Prime Video? It turns out there’s a bunch of Fallout video games you can play right now if you like that show — and the latest one just got a juicy re-release of sorts. As was announced in a blog post earlier this month, 2015’s Fallout 4 just got a shiny new coat of paint. Officially set to launch on April 25 (which you may have noticed is today), Fallout 4 officially has PS5 and Xbox Series ports that promise a plethora of improvements to the nine-year-old game. Here’s what that ..read more

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WBD Reveals First-Party Data Platform to Unify Buying Across Its Portfolio https://ift.tt/cIeQLMo Warner Bros. Discovery is continuing to lean in on data ahead of the TV upfront. Top line WBD announced Thursday that it is launching Olli, a first-party data platform that utilizes data, audience intelligence and adtech solutions to create seamless campaign planning, activation and measurement across the company’s portfolio. In addition, the new first-party data platform will power WBD’s converged Data-Driven Video offering. Between the lines With the announcement, WBD is looking to allow brands ..read more

Consumer Relationships Aren’t Built on Financial Incentives https://ift.tt/zL4GjQy One of the most-discussed topics of 2024 will be the deprecation of third-party cookies, making other sources of data even more important to businesses. The most valuable of these other data sources is zero-party data, which is proactively provided by customers—typically because that customer actually wants to hear from the brand, and often because there is an incentive for the exchange of that data. Zero-party data differs in that it’s willingly shared, with clear communication and transparency on how the data ..read more

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