Welcome to the Tech Mem Right Home for Tuesday, February 13th, 2024. I'm Brian McCullough today.

Threads gets today's topics. I message and Bing, Dodge EU DMA regulations. Why Temu bought a bunch of

Super Bowl ads. In videos chat with RTX lets you run your own chat gepy T right on your

Windows machine and why Microsoft's forthcoming Xbox strategy shift

is potentially such a big deal.

Here's what you miss today in the world of tech. Meta has begun testing today's topics on threads in the US. This is like

Twitter's trending topics and though I haven't seen it myself yet, apparently

it is surfaced in the app on the search

page and in the for you feed. Also this can apparently feature political

content quoting Tech Crunch. Today's topic says the section will be titled are

determined by Meta's AI systems and are based on what people are engaging with on

threads Meta told Tech Crunch. These topics will be surfaced in the app in two places on the search page and in the

for you feed. The machine learning algorithm will take into account a variety of

signals including how many people are talking about a given topic and how many

people have engaged with

posts on that same topic. Meta says its team of content specialists will ensure

the topics aren't in violation of the site's community guidelines and quote

other applicable

integrity guidelines. It also said that Meta's team would check to ensure

that there aren't duplicate topics and that the topics featured

aren't nonsensical or misleading. In addition, users will be able to flag potentially problematic content in the case that a topic

surfaces that violates guidelines but isn't immediately caught by the site's moderators.

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