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Apple released its first set of public beta versions of iOS 17, iPadOS 17 and macOS Sonoma on Wednesday. With these releases, the company introduced new features such as full-page screenshots, bilingual Siri and better SMS sorting for dual-SIM users. The Cupertino-based company has added support fo

Meta announced today that Roblox is coming to Meta Quest VR headsets, starting with an open beta that will be available on App Lab in the coming weeks. Roblox, a major player in the metaverse space, was rumored to become available on Meta Quest VR headsets sometime this year. Players will be able t

Apple just dropped a public beta of macOS 14 Sonoma. Perhaps you've been swimming in those wine country waters for a while now. After all, back at WWDC, the company announced that it was opening up early access to its new operating systems to anyone with a developer account — not just tho

Apple just published the first public beta of iOS 17. Unlike developer betas, that's the beta version that should be stable enough to be used by regular people. The company still plans to release the final version of iOS 17 this fall. But Apple is going to release betas every few weeks over the

Ahead of the highly anticipated “Barbie” premiere on July 21, Bumble is launching a new experience where users can get message suggestions from all the Barbies and Kens featured in the movie, including main Barbie (played by Margot Robbie), President Barbie (Issa Rae), Ken No. 2 (Simu Lu) and m

After a slowing of the app economy that saw consumer spending drop for the first time in 2022, things are starting to look up. According to a new report on in-app spending for the first half of 2023 from app intelligence provider data.ai, there’s once again positive growth in mobile consumer

On Tuesday, Google released new scheduling-related features for Gmail with Google Calendar integration, including quick event creation and easy availability sharing. Gmail will now have a calendar icon at the bottom of the conversation view, which will have two options — “Create an event

Meta announced today that users can now use their avatars to answer and make video calls on Instagram and Messenger. The company says the new functionality will allow users to take part in video calls in instances where they’re not camera-ready. The result is an animated video call where you

eBay announced today that it has closed its acquisition of Certilogo, a company that provides AI-powered apparel and fashion goods digital IDs and authentication. The financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. The Milan-based company will continue to be led by CEO Michele Casucci. Certilogo us

Discord is introducing a new Family Center opt-in tool designed to make it easy for parents and guardians to learn more about who their teens are friends with and talk to on the platform, the company announced on Tuesday. The official rollout of the parental controls comes two months after Discord

Google Calendar has launched a new feature that lets professionals or freelancers allow their customers to book paid appointments. This could be useful for people such as therapists or teachers providing time-based services. The company has partnered with Stripe for the facility, so

Snap announced today that it is rolling out an integration with the link-in-bio tool Linktree to let people show off their work and other profiles on Snapchat. The social network is late to allow links in the profiles of creators. Until now, it only allowed brands and Snap Stars — the biggest cre

FrontRow, a hobby-learning and community platform featuring celebrities in India, has shut down, technewss has learned and confirmed. The three-year-old startup sought to build a community where well-known artists and athletes taught their craft to consumers. The startup had raised about $18 milli

"speakable-summary" style="text-align: left;">Instagram’s text-based app Threads has achieved the mark of 100 million signups in just five days, according to a tracker. The Twitter rival was launched on July 6 (or July 5 in the Americas) Adam Mosseri, Instagram’s head, also confirmed the