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Teddy Solomon just moved to a new house in Palo Alto, so he turned to the Stanford community on Fizz to furnish his room. “Every time I show up to buy something from somebody, I grill them about the marketplace, because I'm really curious about their experience,” Solomon, a co-founder of F

Snapchat is introducing new ways for users to personalize their accounts, the company announced on Tuesday. The updates, which are mostly available for Snapchat+ subscribers, allow users to do things like design a personalized house on Snap Map, share super quick Snaps and edit their Bitmoji, among

The Supreme Court on Monday vacated two judicial decisions concerning Republican-backed laws from Florida and Texas aimed at limiting social media companies’ ability to moderate content on their platforms. The Supreme Court is sending both cases back to the lower courts for further review, n

Welcome back to technewss's Week in Review — technewss's newsletter recapping the week's biggest news. Want it in your inbox every Saturday? Sign up here. This week, Apple finally added support for Rich Communication Services (RCS) to Messages as part of the second developer beta o

President Joe Biden's administration is doubling down on its interest in the creator economy. In August, the White House will host the first-ever White House Creator Economy Conference, which will invite a group of influential social media personalities and industry professionals to discuss iss

Who had the better performance at Thursday night’s presidential debate, X or Threads? Though not the top concern among social media users, it’s one of the questions people are asking themselves after watching the disastrous debate play out across the two platforms. Meta, which nearly a

The Supreme Court on Wednesday rejected a Republican-led challenge to the Biden administration’s communication with social media companies to combat online misinformation on topics related to COVID-19 and the 2020 election. The ruling overturns an injunction, which was currently on hold, th

Snapchat on Tuesday announced a new suite of safety features, including updates to its account blocking functionality and enhanced friending safeguards, making it difficult for strangers to contact users on its platform. The new move comes amid concerns over predators exploiting teens on social med

Butterflies is a social network where humans and AIs interact with each other through posts, comments and DMs. After five months in beta, the app is launching Tuesday to the public on iOS and Android.  Anyone can create an AI persona, called a Butterfly, in minutes on the app. After that, the

Welcome back to technewss's Week in Review — technewss's newsletter recapping the week's biggest news. Want it in your inbox every Saturday? Sign up here. Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference had a sizable focus on AI. Apple unveiled its generative AI offering, Apple Intelli

New York's state legislature has passed a bill that would prohibit social media companies from showing “addictive feeds” to children under 18, unless they obtain parental consent. The Stop Addictive Feeds Exploitation (SAFE) for Kids Act defines an addictive feed as one where the content i

Welcome back to technewss's Week in Review — technewss's newsletter recapping the week's biggest news. Want it in your inbox every Saturday? Sign up here. There's more bad news for Byju's. In a research note, HSBC estimates that the Indian edtech giant, once valued at $22 b

Ms. Rachel isn't a household name, but if you spend a lot of time with toddlers, she might as well be a rockstar. She's like Steve from Blues Clues for the next generation — instead of a network TV show, she has a YouTube channel with 10 million subscribers. A music teacher named Rachel

The internet has been home to all kinds of content for a long time, so it was no surprise to anyone when people started tweeting porn at each other. X (formerly Twitter) has long had many active NSFW (not safe for work) communities, and though the social network unofficially allowed people to post