Former Twitter engineers are building Particle, an AI-powered news reader
[ad_1] A team led by former Twitter engineers is rethinking how AI can be used to help people process news and information. Particle.news, which entered into private beta over the…
Read More »Google court filing reveals new business details of DuckDuckGo and Neeva
[ad_1] A court filing in the U.S. Department of Justice’s case against Google over its alleged monopoly in the search market has revealed a few notable tidbits about the state…
Read More »In a reversal, Apple is now demanding 30% of the donations to meditation app Insight Timer’s teachers
[ad_1] The CEO of meditation app Insight Timer, Christopher Plowman, is frustrated. He doesn’t think the teachers who leverage his app’s marketplace to reach their students should have to share…
Read More »Can’t decide between Bluesky, Mastodon and Nostr? Nootti’s new app lets you post to all three
[ad_1] Managing a social presence these days can be tough. It’s even tougher for those who are experimenting with the new wave of Twitter-like services, like Mastodon, Nostr, and Bluesky,…
Read More »Yes, Threads is running a fact-checking program, but the system isn’t fully rolled out
[ad_1] Threads, Meta’s Twitter-like service and competitor to X, may be distancing itself from politics, but that doesn’t mean it won’t try to tackle the misinformation that spreads across social…
Read More »Happy Valentine’s Day, dating app downloads are slowing down
[ad_1] It may be Valentine’s Day here in the U.S., but the dating app market isn’t looking as promising as it used to. According to a new analysis by app…
Read More »Twitter alternative Bluesky shows off custom Super Bowl feeds (both with and without Taylor Swift)
[ad_1] Twitter/X alternative Bluesky is gearing up for one of the biggest weekends in social media with the launch of custom feeds prepped for Super Bowl fans. One feed focuses…
Read More »Instagram and Threads will no longer ‘proactively’ recommend political content
[ad_1] Meta doesn’t want its new app Threads to become another Twitter, full of heated political debates and the resulting toxicity that entails. In an announcement today, the company detailed…
Read More »Threads now reaches more 130 million monthly users, says Meta, up 30M from Q3
[ad_1] Instagram Threads now has more 130 million monthly active users, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced during the company’s fourth-quarter earnings today. The text-based social networking app is one of…
Read More »Apple Vision Pro to launch with over 600 apps and games optimized for the new headset
[ad_1] The pace is picking up for the Apple Vison Pro apps ahead of the spatial computing device’s Friday launch as developers ready their apps for the new platform. While…
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