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Hey, lovely people — it’s that time of week again: Week in Review (WiR) time. For those unfamiliar, WiR is technewss’s regular newsletter that recaps the major events in tech over the past few days. If you’ve been too busy to keep tabs on recent happenings, don’t pani

At its annual developer’s conference, Roblox detailed its near-future plans to expand beyond its identity as a game platform for kids. The company is already pushing into new demographics — Roblox announced that it would foster mature content for 17+ users earlier this year — and a new an

The fan membership platform Patreon is beginning to roll out a chat feature, connecting creators directly with their fanbase in a group message. The offering will become available to some creators today, but will spread more broadly within the coming months. Patreon has long had an integration with

Snapchat today is announcing a series of new safeguards for its app, aimed at better protecting teen users, similar to other efforts introduced earlier by other social apps, like Facebook and Instagram. The company says the new features will make it harder for strangers to contact teens, provide a

Pinterest today announced it’s introducing novel computer vision technology that wl use shape, size and form to identify various body types across the more than 5 blion images on its platform, with the goal of making its search more inclusive. The company says the patent-pending technology wl

Remember Clubhouse? At the peak of pandemic lockdowns, the invite-only social audio app soared with 10x month to month growth, then faded from public discourse almost as quickly as a16z investors opened their wallets. Now, Clubhouse is throwing a hail mary to try to become relevant again. Today, th

It has been a long time coming, but TikTok says that its first European data center is finally operational — partially, at least — with the process of migrating users’ data to the new facility now underway. The short-form social video giant announced it was opening a data center i

Meta today announced that it will be pulling the plug on Facebook News in the U.K., Germany and France starting in early December. The social networking giant said it was part of its “ongoing effort to better align our investments to our products and services people value the most.”

Welcome, folks, to Week in Review (WiR), technewss’s newsletter that recaps the major happenings in tech over the past few days. If you’ve been too slammed to follow the developments play-by-play, you’ve come to the right place. That’s what WiR is for. In this edition of Wi

X, formerly known as Twitter, will begin collecting users’ biometric data, according to its new privacy policy that was first spotted by Bloomberg. The policy also says the company wants to collect users’ job and education history. The policy page indicates that the change will go into

Elon Musk-owned X, formerly Twitter, is now rolling out a feature for paid users to let them hide their likes. This comes after rival social networks Threads and Bluesky rolled out the ability for users to see their own likes in the past few weeks. Paid users on X now have a setting under profile c

Merely weeks after emerging as the apparent heir to address social media's woes and generating over 100 million users in less than five days, Threads appears to be, well, fraying at the edges already with a recently reported 80% drop in daily active users since launch. Just recently, Meta CEO M

A massive social media disinformation campaign linked to Chinese law enforcement is no more, according to Meta. In its latest report on what Meta calls “coordinated inauthentic behavior” — usually covert state-sponsored social media campaigns designed to shape public opinion — the c

Content creation is work, but in such a rapidly shifting social media landscape, creators face an uphill battle fighting for fair pay and ownership of their content — typically without any institutional support. The Creators Guild of America (CGA) wants to change that.  The CGA, which launched l