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WhatsApp has recently ramped up its marketing push in the U.S.
The Board wants Meta to change the terminology it uses for labeling explicit, AI-generated images from “derogatory” to “non-consensual.”
Google Maps is improving navigation through flyovers and narrow roads in India through new feature updates.
Since launching xAI last year, Elon Musk has been using X as a sandbox to test some of the Grok model’s AI capabilities. Beyond the basic chatbot, X uses the…
Platforms like TikTok and Spotify have experimented with events on their platforms. But rather than concentrating on concerts and large gatherings, event startup Posh is focusing on intimate gatherings of…
Messaging app Telegram has reached 950M active users, and it aims to cross the 1 billion mark this year, founder Pavel Durov said.
Indian food delivery and quick commerce startup Swiggy is pivoting one of its smaller businesses, Swiggy Minis, into a link-in-bio service.
TikTok is partnering with the music distribution service DistroKid to fast-track the creation of artist accounts for members. The ByteDance-owned short video platform introduced an Artist Account feature last year…
Amazon’s Prime Day event clocked record sales this year, as U.S. consumers spent $14.2 billion across July 16 and 17, according to Adobe Analytics. This marks an 11% jump from…
Adobe’s report noted that consumers spent $7.2 billion on the first day as compared to $6.4 billion on the first day in 2023.
Instagram just announced that it will allow users to add multiple audio tracks to their Reels worldwide. The company noted that users can add up to 20 tracks in a…
Apple initially added a new flashlight UI in iOS 18’s third developer beta, and with iOS 18 now available in public beta, you can try one of the most underrated…
Echo Chunk, a company that is building Wordle-styled daily chess puzzle game Echo Chess, has raised $1.4 million in pre-seed from a16z Speedrun (Andreessen Horowitz’s early-stage games accelerator), founder of…
Developer Marco Arment launched the popular podcasting app Overcast a decade ago. Now, he has rebuilt and redesigned the app for the current era. While most of the changes aren’t…
Apple Intelligence features are not available in the developer beta, which is out now.
If you visited the Wikipedia website on mobile this week, you might have seen a pop-up indicating that dark mode is ready for prime time.
ByteDance’s video editing app CapCut will stop offering free cloud storage to host creative assets starting August 5. In the past few days, users have received notifications about CapCut changing…
Last month, the company also started applying an international authentication rate for activities like sending login codes for cross-border users.
WhatsApp Business is changing its per-conversation rates for businesses — a conversation is a 24-hour thread between sellers and users. The company is reducing rates for utility messages and raising…
Medal, a startup that is better known for its video game clipping product, just announced that it has raised $13 million at a valuation of $333 million from several investors,…
The search giant is updating its Gemini for Android app to be more suitable for foldables with the ability to use Gemini with overlay and split screen interfaces.
This likely rules out reports of Apple gaining an observer seat.
On July 4, YouTube released an updated eraser tool for creators so they can easily remove any copyrighted music from their videos without affecting any other audio such as dialog…
Threads, Meta’s alternative to Twitter, just celebrated its first birthday. After launching on July 5 last year, the social network has reached 175 million monthly active users — that’s a…
A guide to turn off reactions on your iPhone and Mac so you don’t get surprised by effects during work video calls.
Telegram launched a digital currency called Stars for in-app use last month. Now, the company is expanding its use cases to paid content. The chat app is also allowing channels…
Apple unveiled iOS 18 last month at its Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC). Since then, the company has released two developer betas in the last few weeks with extended support for…
After Meta started tagging photos with a “Made with AI” label in May, photographers complained that the social networking company had been applying labels to real photos where they had…
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced on Thursday that the company will begin to surface AI characters made by creators through Meta AI studio on Instagram. The tests will begin in…
YouTube is adding several new features for Premium users, including smart downloads and support for picture-in-picture mode for Shorts, as well as a wider rollout of its “Jump Ahead” feature…
