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Uber promises member exclusives as Uber One passes $1B run-rate

Uber plans to deliver more perks to Uber One members, like member-exclusive events, in a bid to gain more revenue through subscriptions.  “You will see more member-exclusives coming up where member

Reddit tests automatic, whole-site translation into French using LLM-based AI

Reddit — now a publicly-traded company with more scrutiny on revenue growth — is putting a big focus on boosting its international audience, starting with francophones. In their first-ever

Google Wallet is now available in India

Google Wallet has debuted in India as the company’s digital wallet for non-payment use cases — two years after it was launched in the U.S.

Bluesky to add DMs, video support and in-app custom feed curation

The social network said it is planning to introduce direct messages, support for videos, improved custom feeds, and new moderation controls.

NYT Games launches a Wordle archive with access to more than 1,000 past puzzles

The New York Times Games announced on Tuesday that it’s launching a Wordle archive, offering subscribers access to more than 1,000 past Wordle puzzles. The company has started rolling out the 

Bedrock Studio is Amazon’s attempt to simplify generative AI app development

Amazon is launching a new tool, Bedrock Studio, designed to let organizations experiment with generative AI models, collaborate on those models, and ultimately build generative AI-powered apps. Availa

Here’s everything Apple just announced at its Let Loose event, including new iPad Pro with M4 chip, iPad Air, Apple Pencil and more

Today is Apple iPad Event day, and we’re bringing you all the iPad goodness you can stand, summed up in a convenient package.

TikTok sues the US government over law that could ban the app

TikTok is suing the United States government in an effort to block a law that would ban TikTok if its parent company, ByteDance, fails to sell it within a year. The lawsuit, which was filed on Tuesday

Threads is testing cross-posting from Instagram globally

Meta is encouraging more users to post to its X rival Threads. In its latest experiment, the company is providing an easy toggle for users to cross-post from Instagram to Threads, the company told Tec

Photo editing app VSCO launches marketplace to connect photographers with brands

Photo editing tool VSCO has launched a new VSCO Hub to connect professional photographers and brands with each other.

Opera’s AI assistant can now summarize web pages on Android 

Opera announced that Aria, its browser AI product built in collaboration with OpenAI, can now summarize text-based web pages on Android.

Quora CEO Adam D’Angelo talks about AI, chatbot platform Poe and why OpenAI is not a competitor

Quora CEO Adam D'Angelo talks about the challenges and opportunities in AI today, how to build and support a developer community and more.

Jack Dorsey departs Bluesky board

Bluesky’s most prominent backer has left its board. On Saturday, Jack Dorsey posted on X about grants for open protocols from his philanthropic Start Small initiative. This prompted someone to ask D

Farewell, dunks? Threads launches quote controls for all users

Threads users can now exert more control over who can quote their posts. This builds on a feature that already allows Threads users to limit who can reply to their posts (competing services like X and

X launches Stories, delivering news summarized by Grok AI

X's Premium subscribers will be able to read a summary of posts on X associated with each trending story featured on the For You tab in Explore.

Match-owned Archer hits over half a million installs amid dating app slump

With Match and other online dating companies facing a downturn, Archer’s growth is certainly notable.

Instagram now lets you post a secret Story that viewers can uncover with a DM

Instagram is adding a handful of new features for Stories to give users more creative ways to share content and engage with each other, the company announced on Friday. Most notably, the social networ

Google dubs Epic’s demands from its antitrust win ‘unnecessary’ and ‘far beyond the scope’ of the verdict

The new filing, along with Epic's proposal, will help to inform Judge James Donato in a hearing scheduled on May 23 about what actions to take next to put Google’s power in check.

Google will now show labels in Play Store to denote official government apps

Today, after months of testing, Google is rolling out labels in the Play Store to denote official state and federal government apps in more than 14 countries. This new label will help users rule out a

Spotify quietly moves lyrics behind a paywall

Following various reports citing frustrated posts from users on Reddit, Spotify is quietly confirming the change.
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