This article sheds light on Shopify gift cards. By default, the system lets you sell them as a digital product through your online storefront or send them straight to a customer via email as a gift. So, how do Shopify …
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Ten days of Twitter chaos
The policy was due to be implemented in a few days. Anyone could pay to get verified and not only would they receive a blue tick, but they would also have priority in replies, mentions and search. In other words, …

Facebook owner Meta expected to announce major job losses
The reason is that many of these giants, including Meta, rely on money from digital ads, which has until now rolled in, in its billions. It’s the reason platforms like Meta are free of charge for people to use. They …

The Best BigCommerce Apps for Merchandising
There are a number of e-commerce sites with specialized app stores. BigCommerce fits this description too. Extensions and applications are becoming more and more popular because of their vast functionality and usefulness for the digital economy. In this article, you’ll …

Algorithms quietly run the city of DC—and maybe your hometown
Dmitry Marchenko/Getty Images reader comments 100 with 68 posters participating Share this story Washington, DC, is the home base of the most powerful government on earth. It’s also home to 690,000 people—and 29 obscure algorithms that shape their lives. City …

Biden’s hugely consequential high-tech export ban on China, explained by an expert
One month ago, the US Commerce Department issued an exceptionally broad set of prohibitions on exports to China of semiconductor chips and other high-tech equipment. The very technical nature of the export controls might obscure just how consequential this new …

Twitter: Musk defends deep cuts to company’s workforce
He also proposed that those paying the $8 per month fee would get their tweets boosted in replies, mentions, and searches, prompting criticism from some people on Twitter that he was creating a two-tier system that would benefit those willing …

Mass layoffs and general chaos: How Elon Musk is changing Twitter
Elon Musk has only been in charge of Twitter since late October. But already, he’s turned the company and its platform upside down. In the days after Musk took over, he booted top executives, slashed rank-and-file headcount, pushed engineers to …

Herzog and Žižek become uncanny AI bots trapped in endless conversation
Enlarge / AI-generated portraits of Slavoj Žižek and Werner Herzog from The Infinite Conversation. Giacomo Miceli / Ars Technica reader comments 70 with 61 posters participating, including story author Share this story This week, an Italian artist and programmer named …