A new female-founded dating app called After is launching in Austin, Texas on Thursday with the mission of tackling ghosting and holding people accountable. What sets the app apart from the rest of the dating app scene is that After requires users to share why they have unmatched a person before they are allowed to […]
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AI has already given us some weird demos. And friends, it’s only going to get weirder from here. As the tech world runs screaming head first into the uncanny valley, lines will blur and every will continue getting stranger. Take, for example, Wednedsay’s Meta Connect keynote. There was a constant drum beat Meta AI and
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Announced at Meta Connect 2024 on Wednesday, Meta is launching a new VR app called Hyperscape that renders recreations of real-life spaces in high fidelity, so you can explore them while wearing a Quest headset. Available in beta in the U.S., Hyperscape lets you use a phone to scan a room and then recreate it.
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Canva just announced new enhancements to its developer platform, such as including premium apps with its Pro subscription, a translation feature for apps, better discovery mechanisms, and new API functionalities. The creative tool company started its developer program in June 2023 to let developers build add-ons that people can use in Canva. Think of them
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Meta’s AI assistant, Meta AI, is getting a new voice mode of sorts. At the Meta Connect 2024 developer conference in Menlo Park on Wednesday morning, Meta announced that Meta AI can now respond back to questions out loud across platforms where it’s available: Instagram, Messenger, WhatsApp, and Facebook. You can choose from several voices,
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Benjamin Franklin once wrote that nothing is certain except death and taxes. Let me amend that phrase to reflect the current AI gold rush: Nothing is certain except death, taxes, and new AI models, with the last of those three arriving at an ever-accelerating pace. Earlier this week, Google released upgraded Gemini models, and, earlier
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Audible, the Amazon-owned audiobook service, continues to experiment with AI to improve audiobook discovery and offer customized recommendations. Recent tests involve AI-powered tags, which analyze customer feedback to offer tailored suggestions according to individual preferences, and topic pages that recommend tags to help you find closely related subjects. The experiments are only available to 50%
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The nostalgic ’90’s PC game Backyard Baseball is coming to Steam on October 10, 27 years after its initial release. It’ll cost $10. The arcade-style baseball game is a cult favorite among sports fans who grew up with the game, many of whom are now in their 20s and 30s (and some, like Bobby Witt
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Tech YouTuber Marques Brownlee, or MKBHD, is stepping out of the reviewer role and into the mindset of a builder. This week, he launched a wallpaper app called Panels on iOS and Android, where he’s personally curating high-quality digital wallpapers from artists — but of course, there’s a catch. In order to access high-resolution wallpapers
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After building out its Search product over the past few years to take on Google, TikTok is now taking its Search ambitions even further by allowing advertisers to target its search results page. TikTok announced on Tuesday that it’s launching the “TikTok Search Ads Campaign,” a new keyword-based search solution that enables brands to appear
