Pavel Durov, the founder of the messaging platform Telegram, has been in the headlines since his arrest at a private airport near Paris on Saturday, reportedly in connection with an investigation into criminal activity on the his app. While many stories since have centered on free speech (i.e, should what happens on Telegram stay on […]
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The arrest of Telegram founder and CEO Pavel Durov in France is starting to impact the app’s traction and ranking. On Saturday, the founder was arrested for allegedly allowing illegal activity to thrive on the social app by failing to moderate messages adequately, particularly in areas involving drug trafficking, money laundering and the distribution of
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Niantic is releasing a new version of its Scanniverse app to let users capture objects around them with more details. Scanniverse 4 will allow users to capture places and objects in 3D through a Gaussian Splitting technique, which captures more data points about an object for accurate and rich representation with faster rendering. The company
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Music streaming service Tidal has launched new features that let artists track royalties and manage the music they have songwriting credits for on the platform. Music royalties are Byzantine in their complexity. In the U.S., all collaborators on a given track, including the composers and performers, must be registered with a Performing Rights Organization (PRO)
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Disappearing posts on social networks are handy if you have a habit of deleting them through third-party tools or the context of those posts is short-lived. Earlier this month, Threads said it is testing ephemeral posts only as an internal prototype. But now, the company told TechCrunch that it is testing posts that disappear within
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A nod to the Myspace era, Instagram just launched a new feature that allows you to add music to your profile. The feature is in collaboration with singer Sabrina Carpenter, who released a teaser of her new song “Taste” on her Instagram profile ahead of her album release on Friday. To add a song to
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Instagram says it’s not testing ads in Threads and has no immediate plans to monetize after multiple developers and reverse engineers uncovered references to ad products in the app’s code, including the word “ads” itself, as well as references to sponsored items and ads configuration. A JSON file that developers used, presumably for testing purposes,
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Meta for months has been experimenting with letting people cross-post from Instagram and Facebook to Threads, its social networking platform competing with X (formally known as Twitter). Meta confirmed to TechCrunch that the feature has officially rolled out globally to all countries where Threads is available. The new cross-posting capability is part of Meta’s larger goal
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It’s taken 16 weeks to get there, but Anthropic’s AI app Claude has hit a notable milestone: It crossed $1 million in gross mobile app revenue across iOS and Android. Nearly half of that revenue has been generated by users in the U.S., according to new data from app intelligence firm Appfigures. However, Claude is
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WeTransfer’s expiry dates have been a major paint-point for users — especially creatives. Thing is, if you don’t download the files the moment you get the link or email you can easily forget to do so before the link expires. At which point you’ll have to ask for it to be resent. Which can get
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