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Twitter has announced that a button to toggle captions for its video player is now available for everyone on iOS and Android. The button, which shows up in the top-right corner of the video if it has captions available, lets you choose whether you want to see written descriptions. Twitter started testing this feature in April, but it was only available to a limited number of iPhone users. For years, whether subtitles show up or not on your mobile device has been determined by a variety of factors, like if you’ve turned closed captions on in your phone’s accessibility settings, or if you’re watching the video with your sound off. While those are still taken into account, now you can easily turn them on or off whenever you want, just like you already could on Twitter’s website and many other video platforms. The choice is now yours: the closed caption toggle is now available for everyone on iOS and Android!Tap the “CC” button on videos with available captions to turn the captions off/on. https://t.co/GceKv68wvi— Twitter Support (@TwitterSupport) June 23, 2022 If you want to see an example of the toggle, you can check out The Verge’s tweet with a trailer…

Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) became a victim of “pardon bombing” Thursday on Twitter.It happened after the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol revealed that the lawmaker was one of at least five members of Congress who attempted to get pardons from then-President Donald Trump for their roles in helping Trump attempt to overturn the 2020 presidential election.But Gaetz wanted his pardon to be a lot broader than his role in Trump’s election fraud, according to Cassidy Hutchinson, a former aide to White House chief of staff Mark Meadows.She told the committee that Gaetz had been pushing for a pardon since early December, according to Business Insider.Former White House senior adviser Eric Herschmann told the committee that the “general tone” of the pardon request revolved around the idea that “We may get prosecuted because we were defensive of, you know, the president’s positions on these things.”However, Herschmann noted that the pardon Gaetz was angling for may have been intended to also protect him from the sex trafficking investigation swirling around him.“The pardon that he was discussing, requesting, was as broad as you could describe, from... the beginning of time up until today, for any…

As part of its ongoing efforts to expand into e-commerce, Twitter today announced a new partnership with Shopify. The deal will see Twitter launching a sales channel app that will be made available to all of Shopify’s U.S. merchants through its app store. The app allows merchants to onboard themselves to Twitter’s Shopping Manager, the dashboard offered by the social media company where sellers can access product catalog tools and enable other shopping features for their profiles. The news follows Twitter’s recent launches of shopping-related features, including this month’s introduction of a “Product Drops” feature, and Twitter’s earlier launches of mobile storefronts and livestream shopping. Meanwhile, Shopify says orders placed through partner integrations, like Twitter, quadrupled in the first quarter of 2022. Merchants will be able to use the new sales channel app to connect their Twitter account to their Shopify admin then get set up with Twitter’s Shopping Manager and other free tools Twitter built for “Professionals.” This includes Twitter’s launch of a new feature called Location Spotlight, announced earlier this month, which allows local businesses in the U.S., Canada, U.K., and Australia to display information like their street address, contact info, and operating hours directly on their profile.…

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Staff and wire reports  |  Austin American-StatesmanTwitter's board has recommended unanimously that shareholders approve the proposed $44 billion sale of the social media company to billionaire and Tesla CEO Elon Musk, according to a regulatory filing Tuesday.Musk reiterated his desire to move forward with the acquisition last week during a virtual meeting with Twitter employees, though shares of Twitter remain far below his offering price, signaling considerable doubt that it will happen.On Tuesday at the Qatar Economic Forum in an interview with Bloomberg, Musk listed the approval of the deal by shareholders as one of several “unresolved matters” related to the Twitter deal.More: Elon Musk says Austin-based Tesla battling through 'tough quarter'More: Elon Musk sells $8.5 billion worth of Tesla stock following Twitter dealMore: Wild idea: Rancher offers Elon Musk free land to move Twitter HQ to Williamson CountyShares of Twitter were essentially flat just before the opening bell Tuesday and far short of the $54.20 per-share that Musk has offered to pay for each. The company's stock last reached that level on April 5 when it offered Musk a seat on the board before he had offered to buy all of Twitter.In a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission…

Twitter’s board of directors reiterated its call for shareholders to approve the proposed $44 billion acquisition of the firm led by Elon Musk, but the billionaire Tesla CEO separately warned of three “unresolved” issues that are holding up the transaction. In an SEC filing, Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal and Chairman Bret Taylor both urged shareholders to vote in favor of the deal in an upcoming special meeting. They noted that shareholders would receive $54.20 for each share of Twitter stock they own. After news of the filing started to circulate, the stock rose nearly 3% in early trading to around $38.76. It has lost more than 20% of its value since the merger plan was revealed in April, though most tech shares have seen a similar downturn amid worsening economic conditions. Meanwhile, Musk offered a decidedly gloomy outlook on the economy in an appearance at the Qatar Economic Forum in Doha. He said a recession “is inevitable at some point,” adding that the a near-term recession is “more likely than not.” As to the status of the Twitter takeover, which is backed by more than a dozen other investors, Musk flashed a yellow light and indicated that his previously stated…

On the internet, nightmare fuel just about everywhere you look. The latest source: Dall-E Mini, an AI tool capturing attention on social media thanks to the weird, funny and occasionally disturbing images it creates out of text prompts.Batman surfing. Erin Carson/Dall-E Mini Dall-E Mini lets you type a short phrase describing an image, one that theoretically exists only in the deep recesses of your soul, and within a few seconds, the algorithm will manifest that image onto your screen. Odds are you've seen some Dall-E Mini images popping up in your social media feeds as people think of the wildest prompts they can -- perhaps it's Jon Hamm eating ham, or Yoda robbing a convenience store. This isn't the first time art and artificial intelligence have captured the internet's attention. There's a certain appeal to seeing how an algorithm tackles something as subjective as art. In 2016, for example, actor Thomas Middleditch made a short film based on a script written by an algorithm. Google has produced more than a few tools tying art and AI together. In 2018, its Arts & Culture app let users find their doppelgangers in famous paintings. Or Google's AutoDraw will figure out what you're trying to…

Japan set to fine Twitter, Meta, Google if they neglect domestic registry: Report The Japanese government is set to levy fines against 48 tech companies for failing to register their headquarters in the country, the Nikkei newspaper reported on Monday. The Twitter app is seen on a smartphone in this illustration taken July 13, 2021. (Photo: Reuters) The Japanese government is set to levy fines against 48 tech companies including Twitter Inc., Facebook- owner Meta Platforms Inc and Alphabet Inc's Google for failing to register their headquarters in the country, the Nikkei newspaper reported on Monday. Copyright©2022 Living Media India Limited. For reprint rights: Syndications Today

Illustration by Mitchell Preffer for Decrypt This week was easily the industry’s worst of 2022: Prices crashed across the board, with every leading project sinking by double-digit percentages over seven days.  Market leaders Bitcoin and Ethereum hit lows not seen since 2020 as crypto’s total market cap briefly bottomed out near $845 billion, more than two-thirds below the all-time high of $3 trillion seen in November. As of this writing, it’s around $859 billion, a recovery of 1.85% in the last 24 hours. There were more than just prices to scream about, however. On Crypto Twitter, many were discussing Celsius’s decision to freeze all withdrawals last Sunday. That night, the decentralized finance platform’s native CEL token took a 70% hit in one hour, evoking fears that the entire sector is in danger. After all, it was just last month that Terra collapsed. Jon Wu, who leads growth at the Ethereum layer-2 privacy network Aztec, launched a popular and lengthy broadside against Celsius, accusing the lenders of luring customers with “dangerous use of meaningless platitudes” while pursuing “truly degenerate trading strategies.” Wu explained how Celsius’s insolvency was tied to the company’s decision to use custodied funds to buy a lot of…

A weekend Twitter duel (it didn’t really escalate to a beef) between Ja Morant and Draymond Green all started with Klay Thompson the night the Warriors clinched the NBA title.“There is this one player on the Grizzlies who Tweeted ‘strength in numbers’ after they beat us in the regular season and it pissed me off so much,” Thompson said from the podium, referring back to a mid-season Jaren Jackson Jr. Tweet. “I can’t wait to retweet that thing. Frigging bum…“Going to mock us? Like, you ain’t ever been there before, Bro. We been there. We know what it takes. Hold that. Twitter fingers, can you believe it? I’ve got a memory like an elephant. I don’t forget. There were a lot of people kicking us down.”Morant saw that and thought the Grizzlies were living rent free in the Warriors’ heads after their second-round matchup. got a lot of real estate 😂 https://t.co/5JYqhn8Vw0 — Ja Morant (@JaMorant) June 17, 2022Green responded, and it was on. We traded that real estate in @JaMorant the property value was higher in Boston https://t.co/X7Du6zSiZF — Draymond Green (@Money23Green) June 19, 2022Morant wants the Warriors on Christmas, but Green even had thoughts on that. nah in…