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Threads makes it easier to evangelize the open social web with a new direct link feature

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Meta’s X competitor, Instagram Threads, is making it easier for users to access their fediverse settings from a single URL — or, rather, it’s making it easier on those who like to request that others turn on the fediverse sharing option on their accounts. Now, instead of posting a request that someone please turn on […]

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Google Wallet to test a feature that turns your US passport into a digital ID

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Google announced on Thursday that it’s introducing new Wallet updates for travelers and commuters. Most notably, Google Wallet will soon start beta testing the ability to create a Digital ID from your U.S. passport. The ID pass will work at select TSA checkpoints when traveling domestically. In addition to TSA checkpoints, Google says it’s working

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Meta, TikTok and Snap pledge to participate in program to combat suicide and self-harm content

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In an attempt to prevent suicide and self-harm content from spreading online, the nonprofit Mental Health Coalition (MHC) today announced a new program, Thrive, aimed at encouraging online platforms to share “signals” of potentially harmful material. Thrive, which counts Meta, Snap and TikTok as founding members, will provide ways for platforms to share hashes —

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WhatsApp brings Meta Verified, customized messages to small businesses in India

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WhatsApp is now letting small businesses in India sign up for a Meta Verified badge and giving them the ability to send customized messages to customers. India is home to more than 65 million small and medium-sized businesses, but only about 5 million of them sell online, according to a joint report by Meta and

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YouTube Shorts’ collaborative Add Yours sticker is now available to all users

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YouTube confirmed on Wednesday that its collaborative “Add Yours” sticker for YouTube Shorts is now fully rolled out. The Google-owned company first announced the feature back in July. The sticker works just like Instagram’s feature of the same name, as it prompts users to share their own take on a creator’s video. Both platforms’ “Add

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Google’s AI note-taking app NotebookLM can now explain complex topics to you out loud

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Google announced on Wednesday that its AI note-taking and research app, NotebookLM, is adding a new “audio conversations” feature. Audio conversations will give users another way to digest and comprehend the information in the documents they have uploaded to the app, such as course readings or legal briefs. Since its launch, the NotebookLM has used

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Apple’s newly available ‘win-back’ offers let developers reach lapsed subscribers

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Following Apple’s iPhone 16 event earlier this week, the company announced to developers on Wednesday the launch of “win-back” offers, a new type of offer for auto-renewable subscriptions in App Store Connect. The company first announced this solution that allows app developers to target lapsed subscribers with specialized offers at WWDC in June. Apple explains

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Meet Verse, an AI-powered creative app that helps Gen Z design and publish expressive content

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Verse, a new AI-powered creative app, is aiming to help Gen Z users create hyper-visual and expressive content. The iOS app allows users to design and publish multimedia content on an interactive canvas with the help of an AI assistant.  You can create a mini website, called a Verse, for things like moodboards, greeting cards,

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