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…

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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…

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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…

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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,…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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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