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Microsoft’s AI-powered Canva-like Designer app lands on iOS and Android

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Microsoft announced on Wednesday that its AI-powered Designer app is officially coming out of preview and is now available to all users on iOS and Android. The Canva-like app lets people generate images and designs with text prompts to create things like stickers, greeting cards, invitations, collages and more. Designer is now accessible in more […]

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The Way app offers a chance to meditate alongside a Zen Master

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A new app called The Way is aiming to help people explore the deeper side of meditation through a single, structured path guided by an authorized Zen Master. Founded by uncle-and-nephew duo Henry Shukman and Jack Shukman, The Way wants to help people move beyond modern mindfulness practices offered by popular meditation apps like Headspace

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Local experience discovery startup, Bigfoot, adds GenAI to fast-track weekend planning

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Can generative AI substitute for having a social graph? California-based local experiences discovery startup Bigfoot is hoping the addition of a conversational interface to its weekend planner website — in the form of an AI chatbot it’s branding Littlefoot which launched last week — will give it a more personalized feel while making it easier

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Tinder’s AI Photo Selector automatically picks the best photos for your dating profile 

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Tinder revealed last year that it was testing a photo-selection feature that uses AI to help users choose the best photos for their dating profiles. Now dubbed “Photo Selector,” the Match-owned dating app officially launched the feature on Wednesday. It’s now available to all users in the U.S. and will roll out to international markets

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Korean prosecutors file warrant to arrest Kakao founder for stock manipulation

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South Korean prosecutors said on Wednesday that they have filed an arrest warrant for Brian Kim, the founder of Korean internet giant Kakao, as part of an investigation into alleged stock market manipulation related to a high-profile bidding war for SM Entertainment, one of the country’s biggest music labels, in 2023. The warrant comes a

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Popular podcast player Overcast has been rebuilt from the ground up for its second decade

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Developer Marco Arment launched the popular podcasting app Overcast a decade ago. Now, he has rebuilt and redesigned the app for the current era. While most the changes aren’t going to be visible, one main difference is that you can no longer stream podcast episodes. Instead, you have to rely on downloads. Arment justifies this

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