TechSpot

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

However, it didn't live up to the hype as players reported game-breaking issues, especially on Xbox One and PS4. After a series of delays, Cyberpunk 2077 was finally released in December 2020, with millions of players flocking to buy the game. This prompted Sony to remove the title from its digital store.

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

The issue is the content looks very very very young, TikTok user Amber Horsburgh posted in a video. Many members, including Rain, are 21 and under (one even wears braces). Although Rain is an OnlyFans creator, she says shes also a devout Christian and wears a promise ring.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 12, 2020

And the study also found that the other hyped-up reason for 5G, low latency, also isn’t here yet. The reason for these speed and latency issues comes down to some complicated spectrum limitations. The last few years have seen the growth of the 5G Hype Industrial Complex. When it’s faster, it’s only nominally different.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 25, 2020

CD Projekt allegedly failed to convey that the game was “virtually unplayable,” the lawsuit states, and instead marketed it as a success with a few issues that would go unnoticed by players. The plaintiff, Andrew Trampe, is looking to include other investors in the suit to turn it into a class action.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 7, 2006

But I do take issue with the seeming notion that if you???re hype that are much more reasonable and accessible to our nonprofit brethren and sisthren. m not asking people to stop trying to introduce great new Web 2.0 I love it too. re not down with Web 2.0, re not one of the cool kids.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 4, 2023

One of the quieter conversations in venture capital has only grown louder, in my DMs and interviews, over the past few months: The known bias in venture capital has been a branding issue for some of the emerging, diverse fund managers just now splashing onto the scene. It’s not surprising: Hyped-up technologies often get outsized interest.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 29, 2022

He said that the app’s early hype saw it grow 10x in users month over month, a boom that broke a lot of the underlying infrastructure of the app. For months, he said, people had a bad experience on the app because of tech issues and the inability to find a room that matched their interests.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 9, 2021

The feature is powered by Novi, Meta’s digital wallet that launched as a pilot six weeks ago , with payments made using Pax Dollars (USDP) , a stablecoin pegged to the US dollar issued by Paxos. The new pilot has its roots in Facebook’s (now Meta’s) much-hyped cryptocurrency plans, which were officially announced in 2019.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 14, 2009

Yet in addition to bringing greater awareness to that tool, the hype surrounding Moldova revealed misunderstanding of the value of of Twitter for activism and, even though the realists responded strongly, there was not a stand-alone resource which clearly defined how Twitter could be used by activists." Why not check out Penguin Day! "At

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 10, 2007

" or what we call "hype" - how does a small nonprofit avoid getting seduced by the hype? comments from all over world on issues around ???does Having a bad case of work avoidance yesterday - specifically building powerpoint slides and figuring out what to say, I got into an email conversation about Web2.0

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NTEN

MARCH 8, 2012

Understanding how a strategy, announcement, or issue will play out on various platforms can mean the difference between creating a winning campaign and a PR disaster. As social media evolves, every drop of news, hype, or rumor can cause a consumer reaction. Adele Cehrs. Epic PR Group.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 9, 2006

Writing a series I think gives me the space and time to think about particular technology issues in way more detail than I can in one post, and Web 2.0 But there is a lot of hype regarding Web 2.0, and I want to talk about that hype, and talk about the possible pitfalls of jumping on the Web 2.0

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The Verge

JULY 23, 2020

Intel finally got its 10nm chips on the market after years of delays , but now the company has announced that it’s encountered issues with its upcoming 7nm process that will result in delays for the next generation of chips, too. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Verizon and AT&T are hoping new swaths of C-band cellular radio spectrum will help make the 5G hype closer to reality , but the big mid-band 5G rollout may have a side effect. The FAA plans to issue notices for specific airports later. Photo by GEORGE FREY/AFP via Getty Images. You can see them all here (PDF).)

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The Verge

MAY 4, 2021

Consider how much you actually want to use this face unlocking feature everyone keeps hyping up in the first place. And the issue seems to apply whether you’ve installed a pile of apps or not. Update completely fresh Apple Watch, which now has enough free memory to update. Unpair and wipe the Apple Watch a third time.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 4, 2021

By the time the Series B came round, he said Buildots had solved both of those issues, proving that it works, but also that customers were adopting the technology without much sales and marketing. Despite the hype, construction tech will be hard to disrupt. It’s a natural next step for the company.”.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 4, 2021

One part definition, one part aspiration, one part hype In recent months you may have heard about something called the metaverse. Microsoft’s Minecraft gets less hype than Roblox these days, but it enables similar activities through modding. Didn’t we have a whole metaverse hype cycle around Second Life in the ‘00s?

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 1, 2009

Danah’s research shines a bright light on an issue many activists and organizations have been concerned about ever since the media hype around Facebook VS MySpace rose as a loud voice in the conversation about social media use. Tags: issues otherblogs audience community demographics social networking ssir.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

US stocks are set to fall after European stocks went lower thanks to concerns that the Chinese property developer Evergrande and its constituent debt issues could spread to other parts of the market, possibly leading to contagion. Pour some extra coffee, and get hype. On the news front, the global stock market is taking a whacking.

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The Verge

MAY 26, 2020

Those who take issue with the film have every right to make their concerns and arguments heard,” PEN America senior director Summer Lopez said in an April 29th statement. ‘Planet of the Humans’ has gotten some support from advocates for free speech. The film has already sown distrust within environmental circles. “I

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Turning off the PS5 is just one of many other frustrating issues I’ve experienced with the console’s UI. Sony hyped up the console’s ultra-fast SSD for months, and it’s been a revelation to jump from world to world in Astro’s Playroom and Demon’s Souls with hardly any wait time. I do like the PS5 a lot.

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Candid

AUGUST 10, 2023

Before we get completely swept up, let’s not forget the previous technology hype cycles that have come and gone. 2) Fast follow The Gartner Hype Cycle captures the euphoria new technologies tend to generate in the early days. has likely put it near the peak of the hype cycle.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2023

AI is riding high on a curve of hype, which means some of the practical questions that might grow louder over time — the many costs (financial and social), the business models — may not be the most front of mind right now. Today a startup called Fetch.ai is announcing $40 million in funding in anticipation of when that shifts.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 8, 2023

SpaceX hype machine: More and more hype is building for the first orbital flight test of Starship, SpaceX’s ultra-heavy launch system. The hype started to reach a crescendo this week as the U.S. But Post doesn’t want to be just another Twitter clone.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Friday’s announcement is the culmination of an ongoing crackdown on crypto in the country; the Chinese government began issuing warnings about trading in mining cryptocurrencies in May, and in June, the bank told financial institutions to stop processing digital currency transactions.

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The Verge

JUNE 18, 2020

This also helps inform TikTok’s algorithm about videos people might not be interested in — if you’re only interested in Hype House creators , for instance, TikTok may not serve up videos from the “bean side” subgenre on the app. Another issue that TikTok takes seriously is not surfacing dangerous content.

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The Verge

AUGUST 25, 2020

It also nods toward privacy issues, saying that it will “continue to evolve [its] approach to privacy as the technology develops.”. So far it’s focused on bringing phone-based AR to consumers, but it’s hyped more futuristic ideas — like “Live Maps” for smart glasses — during past Connects. A new Quest headset?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 9, 2019

But as my colleague, Steven MacLaughlin points out, “We should keep in mind that AI is a “how” and not a “why” or “what” — but that gets lost in a lot of the hype.” Artificial Intelligence presents a lot of benefits for the social good sector. ” Here’s some recent links that look at the why and what.

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The Verge

JANUARY 21, 2022

I’ve seen at least a dozen people on Twitter voicing this same issue,” Silman told The Verge. “If Even as the fake link remained present in a prominent tweet, the CryptoBatz project continued to hype the public token mint. If you look at the transactions on Etherscan, others lost a lot more than me.”. ETH ($5,046).

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TechCrunch

MAY 28, 2021

Okay, the GPT-3 hype seems pretty reasonable. “Large, general systems of today can have significant benefits, but can also be unpredictable, unreliable, and opaque: our goal is to make progress on these issues,” reads the company’s self-description. How does it do it? What is it “thinking”?

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

“We’ve seen the hype cycles around massively open online courses that were going to transform education,” Waltzer says. “Generative AI is distinct from some of those trends, but there’s definitely a lot of hype. Three years lets things settle. We will be able to see the future more clearly.”

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

It largely lives up to the massive hype , but it hasn’t had a perfect launch. Bandai Namco issued a PSA on the day of release promising updates to fix a PS5 save bug and some PC issues. The huge game, from Dark Souls developer FromSoftware, is set in a world created in part by Game of Thrones author George R.R.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 15, 2021

But while the chip company is bullish on the possibilities of the metaverse in abstract, Intel raises a key issue with realizing any metaverse ambitions: there’s not nearly enough processing power to go around. Crucially, Koduri doesn’t even think we’re close.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

While the specific tactics and techniques for a tool may change, the concepts generally hold constant. Over the years, as I have watched Facebook roll out features and changes, it seems takes a predictable pattern: the big announcement, hype, backlash, more tweaks to the platform, experiments by users/organizations, and learning what works.

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The Verge

MAY 14, 2021

Like the similarly over-hyped mmWave 5G, Starlink is remarkably delicate. Because Starlink’s solution to the line-of-sight issue is to put more satellites into space , and, well, that’s not necessarily great. Look, I know you’re hyped up about Starlink. Why am I hammering this point home? I feel you.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

This is a happy surprise because the 9 Series’ cameras did not initially live up to the hype surrounding OnePlus’ multiyear collaboration with the historic camera brand. Fix known issues and improved stability. Fix the over-sharpening issues in auto mode scenarios. Update Android security patch to September 2021.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 29, 2011

There are a few issues with trying to follow the issue directly via the hashtag. As she says, “ Go one way, and you risk overstating the influence, go the other and you’re dismissed as assuming individuals in the Arab world incapable of leveraging social media tools for organizing.&#. It is a firehouse, uncurated list.

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