Apple released the public betas for its next generation of software on the iPhone, Mac, iPad and Apple Watch on Monday. You can now test out iOS 18 and many of its new features, except for Apple Intelligence, which is coming to beta this fall, and provide feedback to Apple. Anyone interested in trying out […]
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YouTube Music is introducing two new ways to boost song discovery on its platform. YouTube announced on Monday that it’s experimenting with an AI-generated conversational radio feature, and rolling out a new Shazam-like tool to help users discover the name of a song by singing, humming or playing parts of it. The new AI-generated conversational
Deezer is the latest music streaming app to introduce an AI playlist feature. The company announced on Monday that a select number of paid users will be able to create custom playlists with a text prompt using its “Playlist with AI” feature. The launch of the new feature comes a few months after Spotify and
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Half a decade ago, a ton of apps started to implement a dark mode. This included YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, Hulu and WhatsApp. Apple and Google began offering a systemwide dark theme for their mobile operating systems in 2018. However, Wikipedia has finally caught up and has started implementing dark mode for its mobile website in
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Bytedance’s video editing app CapCut will stop offering free cloud storage to host creative assets starting August 5. In the past few days, users have received notifications about Capcut changing its terms for the free tier. Until now, the company used to have 1 GB of free cloud storage — this is going away. You
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The full and final text of the EU AI Act, the European Union’s landmark risk-based regulation for applications of artificial intelligence, has been published in the bloc’s Official Journal. In 20 days’ time, on August 1, the new law will come into force and in 24 months — so by mid-2026 — its provisions will
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You know you’ve made it as a startup when the big tech companies start ripping you off. That appears to be the case with Retro, the popular photo-sharing app that’s gained a following among those who appreciate the ability to share photos and videos more privately with friends and family. The company was recently caught
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Following years of talk around Apple’s lack of innovation when it comes to Siri, Apple has promised the launch of a smarter version of its digital assistant coming this fall. Siri is getting a slew of new features and updates thanks to the addition of Apple Intelligence, the company’s generative AI offering, and a partnership
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WhatsApp now allows businesses to send authentication and login codes through its API to users in India. The company confirmed that it enabled this functionality in India starting July 1. Meta introduced this ability for merchants to authenticate users in other geographies last year. However, it started allowing these types of messages from organizations in
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WhatsApp Business is changing its per-conversation rates for businesses — a conversation is a 24-hour thread between sellers and users. The company is reducing rates for utility messages and raising rates for marketing messages. Meta charges businesses through four categories of messages: Marketing (offers, new products), Ulitity (order updates, account balance), authentication (one-time passwords), and
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