TikTok looks to be taking on popular messaging services like Meta’s WhatsApp and Apple’s Messages, as the company announced on Monday that it’s adding group chats to its platform. You can now create group chats with up to 32 people to chat and share content together. While people often share TikTok videos with each other […]
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Apple has threatened to remove crowdfunding app Patreon from the App Store if creators continue to use unsupported third-party billing options or disable transactions on iOS, instead of using Apple’s own in-app purchasing system. In a blog post and email to Patreon creators about upcoming changes to membership in the iOS app, the company says
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Prediction marketplace Polymarket, which lets users bet on real-world events, is partnering with AI-powered search engine Perplexity to display news summaries of events. 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. There’s also a search box that
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For every yin, there’s a yang; for every action, a reaction; and for every piece of proprietary software, there’s an open source alternative. Or something like that. The issue of “openness” in technology has rarely been so front and center in the public consciousness as it has these past couple of years. Twitter’s steady demise has
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Turkey appears to have restored access to Meta-owned Instagram, after blocking the app on August 2. Abdulkadir Uraloglu, the country’s minister of transport and infrastructure, posted today that the ban would be lifted at 9:30pm Turkish time. Cybersecurity monitor NetBlocks says, “Live metrics show that Instagram is being gradually restored on internet providers in #Turkey
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From internet protocols and operating systems, to databases and cloud services, some technology is so omnipresent most people don’t even know it exists. The same can be said about OpenStreetMap, the community-driven platform that serves companies and software developers with geographic data and maps so they can rely a little less on the proprietary incumbents
Tragedy has again struck a famous Silicon Valley family. Former YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki has passed away, according to social media posts by her husband, Dennis Troper, and by Google CEO Sundar Pichai. She was 56. Wrote Troper on Facebook earlier Friday night, “It is with profound sadness that I share the news of Susan
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Over on Threads, the talk of an X “exodus” is blowing up. Anecdotally, at least, people report seeing an influx of new users and other online friends leaving Elon Musk’s X to join Meta’s Threads, with some even deactivating their X account in the process. But while users’ timelines filled with this chatter and various
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Lyft is working on a new feature that could help eliminate the pain of surge pricing. With Price Lock, Lyft says you’ll be able to pay a monthly fee in order to cap the price on a specific route at a specific time of day. So it could be particularly useful for riders who rely
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YouTube routinely experiments with new features on its Premium tier, and its latest test involves a sleep timer that pauses the video after, well, a set period of time. It’s not an earth-shattering feature, but it’s still bound to be handy for people who like to go to sleep with long podcasts or white noise
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