The Verge

MAY 27, 2021

Disaster Girl sold for around $500,000, Keyboard Cat went for about $64,400, and Nyan Cat brought in around $590,000. Which will probably result in less coverage in tech media because no one wants to get burned — or in this case, bitten — by a story that doesn’t live up to the hype. Charlie, good going, my young friend.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2021

ICON’s list of future plans include the delivery of social, disaster relief and more mainstream housing, Ballard said, in addition to developing construction systems to create infrastructure and habitats on the moon, and eventually Mars, with NASA. “It Despite the hype, construction tech will be hard to disrupt.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 18, 2020

In “The Hype Machine,” Aral explores topics like neuroscience, economics and misinformation before offering potential solutions for resolving what he calls “a full-blown social media crisis.” 2020 was a disaster, but the pandemic put security in the spotlight. Stage Light on Black. Image Credits: Zoox.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

Rather than comparing Woolworth sit-ins to the much-hyped Twitter Revolution, finding the latter coming up wanting, and stopping there, Gladwell might have given some space in the New Yorker to dig a little deeper to find examples of folks using technology to organize in intriguing, successful ways.

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Allegiance Group

APRIL 23, 2024

In fact, political fundraising is like disaster relief. Bottom Line: Keep It Simple Don’t fall for the election year hype. We’ll also outline some ways you can use the election to connect more deeply with your constituents. Political campaigns might raise $20 billion at most, whereas nonprofits raise closer to $500 billion at least.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 26, 2008

Not buying into social media/Facebook hype. This is a disaster for cause marketers who simply can???t He warns us about getting seduced by Shiney Object Syndrome, a common problem where one does not have a target the audience precisely or use a multi-channel strategy - and just sets up a Facebook Cause or Fan Page. s the secret sauce?

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The Verge

JULY 29, 2021

The wait for 10nm and Intel’s new graphics turned out to have been worth it: the new chips outpaced AMD’s in single-core performance when they were released , and they actually lived up to the hype.

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Towards Data Science

OCTOBER 7, 2023

The hype around generative AI is real, and data and ML teams are feeling the heat. Data testing, data monitoring, AI governance , and data observability helps ensure GenAI creates immense value — not embarrassing data disasters — for your organization. Getting started with LLMs? Image courtesy of author.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Moreover, in recent years, hype about claimed environmental benefits from making tweaks to existing agricultural processes has seen the buzzy badge of ‘regenerative’ keenly taken up by some of the biggest names in (junk) food production, from PepsiCo to McDonalds. Some of this hype has — frankly — been unbelievable.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 3, 2023

To fix the climate, these 10 investors are betting the house on the ocean Image Credits: Liang Wendong/VCG (opens in a new window) / Getty Images Tapping the ocean for energy led to disasters like the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, which released nearly 5 million barrels of crude oil into the Gulf of Mexico in 2010. Sound the alarm : The U.S.

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TechCrunch

JULY 7, 2022

Launching a new handset from a new mobile company seems like a recipe for disaster. Essential — with its pedigree and hype — reportedly sold fewer than 90,000 units its first year in existence. phone market was regarded as nearly impossible to crack well before sales figures began dropping.

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The Verge

JULY 6, 2020

It didn’t feel like a disaster to everyone at first, just a setback. Magic Leap was an overinflated hype machine, but we were genuinely doing some great work.”. Magic Leap was an overinflated hype machine, but we were genuinely doing some great work at Studios,” says former senior designer Javier Busto.

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The Verge

AUGUST 24, 2021

Honestly, exotic cars are bad, Ferrari’s new tech is kind of a disaster. I think a lot of people own the stock and are paying very close attention to the hype that helps drive the stock. But generally I think that the luxury brands do a really good job, but I think specifically Mercedes-Benz is great. Tesla has some great stuff.

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Futurism

MARCH 13, 2025

Bukele took to Twitter to hype up the moves as Bitcoin ATMs sprouted up on every street corner. The government's hype wasn't just typical crypto bro babble;so much was riding on it that it had to work. As of early March, 2025, less than 2 percent of the nation's citizens have adopted the much-hyped financial tech.

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Futurism

MARCH 30, 2025

But however much AI hype they drum up, the tech keeps running head-first into reality. The 11x debacle is just the latest incident confirming that the "AI revolution" is currently little more than marketing hype. If AI is the future of work, someone better tell tech companies to clock in before the hype train leaves for good.

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Futurism

MARCH 1, 2025

In better times, Musk might've been able to write off the tumble as a blip, a momentary market fluctuation, since the hype-driven stock has always tended to be volatile. That's a disaster, and we've seen that happen before with examples like Elon Musk, Steve Jobs or Martha Stewart."

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Futurism

APRIL 15, 2025

We've seen numerous products fail to live up to the hype, particularly in the VR space. More on Apple: Apple's AI-Powered Siri Is Such a Disaster That Employees Have Given the Team Developing It a Rude Nickname The post Tim Cook Has a Strange Obsession appeared first on Futurism.

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Futurism

MARCH 27, 2025

That's led to early-adoption disasters , Wall Street burnouts , and a huge drop in support for AI from businesses around the globe. More on AI: AI Hype Will Plunge America Into Financial Ruin, Economist Warns The post CoreWeave's Huge IPO Is Becoming a Disaster, Spelling Trouble for the AI Industry appeared first on Futurism.

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The Verge

JUNE 23, 2020

It was, unfortunately, a disaster. It talks a big game about inclusion and platform integrity, but the reality has often been found to be running far behind the hype. The idea apparently being that not knowing how many underrepresented minorities work at Snap would make it more attractive to underrepresented minorities than knowing.

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Futurism

MARCH 30, 2025

However, if CoreWeave can't survive despite the massive contracts it has with Microsoft , OpenAI , and Nvidia , then investors will have little reason to trust the generative AI hype going forward something many have questioned after the Chinese AI company DeepSeeksuggesteda sustainable alternative toUS AI development.

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Futurism

APRIL 6, 2025

Fans hyped it as the culmination of Elon's visionary genius. The disaster of the Cybertruck is not that it's ugly, or unconventional, or absurdly pointy," Desai concluded. It looks weird and is itself a bold middle-finger to common-sense automotive norms. One person remarked that it was "awesome." A kid screamed "Cybertruck!"

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The Verge

AUGUST 19, 2020

Contrast that with last month’s content moderation disaster, which was essentially a bunch of nonsense that was uttered during a live stream of a press conference. Get those benefits while you can, hype houses! As Kevin Roose notes , Indoctornation was the rare piece of misinformation to be announced 887 times ahead of its arrival.

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Mashable Tech

APRIL 1, 2025

What was once a hot site that a few Reddit users were quick to hype up is now one of the dating sites that Reddit users can't help but diss — in the few instances that AFF is even being discussed at all. You know, like that booty call who's always awake when you text them. Or at least that used to be the case. 10 years ago.

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