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Ivan Mehta

Ivan covers global consumer tech developments at TechCrunch. He is based out of India and has previously worked at publications including Huffington Post and The Next Web. You can reach out to him at im[at]ivanmehta[dot]com

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X, the social network owned by Elon Musk, is finally rolling out one of the most sought-after features for direct messages: the ability to edit your message. Over the weekend,…

X now lets you edit DMs — here is how to use the feature

Across the world, regulators have ramped up their efforts to try and increase the safety of kids on the internet. Major social networks are facing scrutiny, and as a countermeasure,…

Hello Wonder is building an AI-powered browser for kids

Apple is likely to unveil its iPhone 16 series of phones and maybe even some Apple Watches at its Glowtime event on September 9.

Apple event 2024: How to watch the iPhone 16 launch

Earlier this month, Google released a new feature with the Pixel 9 series phone to let users add the photographer to a group photo by swapping someone out and taking…

Two Oxford PhDs are building an app to let you remix photos into memes

Apple has added yet more AI features in its latest developer betas for iOS 18.1, and this time we’re getting the ability to remove objects from photos.

Apple’s new iOS developer beta lets you remove objects from pictures using AI
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Brave lays off 27 employees

Web browser and search startup Brave has laid off 27 employees across the different departments, TechCrunch has learned. The company confirmed the layoffs but didn’t give more details about the…

Brave lays off 27 employees

Elon Musk’s X has already declared it aims to compete with LinkedIn for job listings and PayPal for payments. Now, it wants to take on the likes of Zoom, Google…

X is testing a video conferencing tool

Given India’s language diversity, digital content companies already face a challenge in trying to show and translate content accurately. Google is facing a similar problem with AI Overviews recently rolled…

Google’s AI Overviews in Hindi need a quality upgrade

Clockwise is changing up its interface with an AI-powered assistant called Prism that lets you manage calendar invites and scheduling with text prompts.

Calendar tool Clockwise adds new AI-powered interface called Prism

Niantic is releasing a new version of its Scaniverse app to let users capture objects around them with more details. Scaniverse 4 will allow users to capture places and objects…

Niantic aims to build a richer 3D map of the world with a new version of Scaniverse app

Music streaming service Tidal has launched new features that let artists track royalties and manage their work on the platform.

Tidal launches royalty tracking features for artists

Automatically disappearing posts on social networks could be handy for users who have a habit of deleting their posts through third-party tools, or if the context of those posts is…

Threads confirms it is experimenting with ephemeral posts

Small businesses and startups often lack a dedicated travel desk, forcing executives and founders to rely on human assistants or consuming and cumbersome travel apps. Expedia’s former SVP of consumer…

Former Expedia exec’s startup uses AI to help smaller companies book travel

Dropbox has acquired AI-powered scheduling tool Reclaim.ai, which counts Calendly and Index Ventures among its backers. The development was revealed in a blog post on Reclaim.ai’s website Tuesday. Dropbox hasn’t…

Dropbox acquires Index Ventures-backed AI scheduling tool Reclaim.ai

WeTransfer’s expiry dates have been a major pain point for users — especially creatives. The thing is, if you don’t download the files the moment you get the link or…

WeTransfer’s expiry dates haven’t gone away, but you can at least extend them

ElevenLabs, which develops AI-powered tools to create and edit synthetic voices, is making its Reader app available globally with support for 32 languages.

ElevenLabs’ text-to-speech app Reader is now available globally

After bringing AI overviews to the U.S., Google is expanding the AI-powered search summaries to six more countries: India, Brazil, Japan, the U.K., Indonesia and Mexico. These markets will also…

Google is bringing AI overviews to India, Brazil, Japan, UK, Indonesia and Mexico

Twitter alternatives — new and old — have found audiences willing to try out a newer social networks since Elon Musk took over the company in 2022. Mastodon, Bluesky, Spill…

What is Instagram’s Threads app? All your questions answered

Meta’s X rival Threads announced a number of new features today, including the ability to store multiple drafts, a way to rearrange columns on the desktop and insights into the…

Meta’s X rival Threads gains multiple drafts, audience insights and more

Popular iOS pro photography app Halide launched its new version today with a new feature called Process Zero, which does not use AI in image processing. Lux Optics, the company…

Camera app Halide’s latest update adds an option for ‘zero-AI’ image processing

Elon Musk-owned X launched Grok-2 and Grok-2 mini in beta today with improved reasoning. The new Grok AI model can now generate images on the X social network, though Grok…

xAI releases Grok-2, adds image generation on X

Google is adding features for photo editing, plus new apps for storing and searching through screenshots on-device and an AI-powered studio for image generation.

Google introduces new AI-powered features for photo editing and image generation

Music streaming service SoundCloud has launched a merch marketplace called SoundCloud Store. The store will sell SoundCloud-themed items, but will also act as a service for artists to put out…

SoundCloud launches its own merch store, will let artists create their own designs

Opera is releasing its redesigned Opera One browser on iOS as a stable release after testing it in the beta phase for weeks. The new browser has a bottom placed…

Opera is releasing its redesigned browser on iOS

When users click on an event on Polymarket, they will now see a summary of news related to the event based on search results from Perplexity.

Prediction marketplace Polymarket partners with Perplexity to show news summaries

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Open source tools to boost your productivity

TechCrunch has pulled together some open-source alternatives to popular productivity apps that might appeal to prosumers, freelancers, or small businesses looking to escape the clutches of Big Tech.

Open source tools to boost your productivity

Tragedy has again struck a famous Silicon Valley family. Former YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki just passed away, according to social media posts by her husband, Dennis Troper, and by Google…

Former YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki has passed away at age 56

YouTube’s latest test involves a sleep timer that pauses the video after, well, a set period of time.

YouTube is testing a sleep timer on its Premium tier

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.

How to enable Wikipedia’s dark mode

Seeking mental health support is a complex process, but some founders believe that using AI to formalize techniques like cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) can help folks who might not have…

Feeling Great’s new therapy app translates its psychiatrist co-founder’s experience into AI