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Archives for November 2024

Mia Sato
Mia Sato
Extreme boy home makeover.

The TikTok show Boy Room tours the disgusting bedrooms of men, cigarette butts, dirty clothes, and all. It’s gross, funny, and weirdly revealing — and now much more sanitized via an Amazon partnership.

In an HGTV-esque reboot, the show will now give home makeovers featuring Amazon furniture and decor. It serves as a front end to Amazon: Boy Room is also promoting the products via affiliate marketing.

Thomas Ricker
Thomas Ricker
Google TV’s 2024 recap.

Shōgun was the most watched show on Google TV devices in 2024 while Road House was the most watched movie. And starting today you’ll find a curated “best of 2024” collection under the “For You” tab on the Google TV Streamer (4K), Google TV built-in devices, and the Google TV apps.

Jay Peters
Jay Peters
OpenAI is thinking about making its own browser.

The Information has the scoop. If this happens, it wouldn’t be too surprising to me — seems like a natural next step for a company that already has its own search engine and native ChatGPT apps.

OpenAI has apparently also had discussions with Samsung about powering AI tools on its devices, The Information reports.

Jay Peters
Jay Peters
Meta is detailing how it’s fighting ‘pig butchering’ scams.

“This year alone, we’ve taken down over two million accounts linked to scam centers in Myanmar, Laos, Cambodia, the United Arab Emirates and the Philippines,” Meta says.

The scams typically involve a scammer (who is sometimes a forced laborer) building trust with someone, asking them for money, and then disappearing.

Allison Johnson
Allison Johnson
Two telephotos for the price of one.

Oppo has launched the Find X8 series globally, including the X8 Pro with dual telephoto lenses. The standard X8 comes with just one zoom lens, and it looks an awful lot like the OnePlus 13 — also expected to launch globally sooner than later. Both brands sure are leaning into the big circular camera bump look, but there’s an essential piece of hardware still present: the alert slider.

Rendering of the Find X8 and Find X8 Pro.
The Oppo Find X8 in shell pink and the Find X8 Pro in pearl white.
Image: Oppo
Emma Roth
Emma Roth
LinkedIn’s live audio events are going away.

After hopping on the live audio bandwagon in 2022, LinkedIn has decided to discontinue the feature in favor of its livestreaming platform, LinkedIn Live.

Jay Peters
Jay Peters
Steam’s autumn sale kicks off on Wednesday.

Based on a trailer, a lot of great games are getting discounts — might be time for me to finally pick up Animal Well.

The sale runs from 1PM ET on November 27th to 1PM ET on December 4th.