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YouTube is working on a feature that will fix the messy home feed

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Finding a YouTube video that truly matches our interests can sometimes be a challenge. The video-sharing platform appears to have recognized this issue and is taking steps to address it with its new experimental feature, “Your Custom Feed.”  The new test aims to tackle the frustration users often face with algorithm-driven recommendations that sometimes miss […]

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Speechify adds voice typing and voice assistant to its Chrome extension

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Speechify has largely been a tool that helps you listen to articles, PDFs, and documents. The company is now adding voice detection features to its Chrome extension, including voice typing and a voice assistant that answers your questions. In the last 12 months, there has been a proliferation of voice detection tools, thanks to overall

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Spotify to raise US prices in first quarter of next year, report says

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Spotify is planning to raise subscription prices in the U.S. in the first quarter of next year, according to a new report from the Financial Times. The move will mark the streaming service’s first price rise in the US since July 2024. The company recently raised prices in several other countries, including the U.K., Switzerland,

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Pocket Casts now lets you create a playlist of your favorite podcast episodes 

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Pocket Casts, the podcast app owned by Tumblr’s parent company Automattic, launched a new feature that lets you create podcast playlists, allowing you to organize your favorite episodes in just the order you like. You can either create a playlist manually, or Pocket Casts can automatically create one for you.  Playlists are designed to better

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Facebook takes on Reddit with launch of nicknames for Facebook Groups

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Facebook Groups are getting more Reddit-like with newly added support for nicknames. The feature, which allows users to post under a custom username instead of their real name, provides an alternative to posting anonymously. With anonymous posting, users can share without the post being connected to their Facebook profile and real-life identity, but this approach

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Pew’s latest social media report shows X’s staying power in the U.S., despite competition

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Threads and Bluesky still have quite a way to go to catch up with X in the U.S., according to data from Pew Research Center’s latest report released this week. The research firm asked about these smaller services for the first time and found they’re each used by just under 1 in 10 U.S. adults

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X begins rolling out the ‘About this account’ feature to users’ profiles

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Elon Musk’s X has begun rolling out a new feature for user profiles that will display information about the account, including where it’s based, how many times the account has changed its username, the account’s original join date, and how the user downloaded the X app. The new information is meant to reduce inauthentic engagement

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Phictly’s new app brings people together over their favorite books and TV shows

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In the early days of social media, posting a rant about the latest episode of “Grey’s Anatomy” on Myspace felt like the ultimate Thursday night activity. And discovering a Facebook group called “Team Jacob Forever” was one of the best finds. Nowadays, finding that perfect niche community can seem impossible, but a new social app

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