Apps

Weeks after laying off 1,300 people (or 15% of the staff), Zoom is introducing new features to compete with numerous companies including Slack, Calendly, Google, and Microsoft. These features include AI-powered meeting summaries, prompt-based email responses, and whiteboard generation along with vi

Apple’s new app for classical music, Apple Music Classical, is now avaable as a free download for Apple Music subscribers. At launch, the service wl be avaable globally, except in select markets, including China, Japan, South Korea, Russia, Taiwan, and Turkey. However, Apple says it wl arrive

Apple today released the iOS 16.4 update to users, which includes a number of new features, like an expanded set of emojis, voice isolation for calls, website push notifications and more. Users can update to the latest version by going to Settings > General > Software Update. While iOS update

In October of last year, Apple announced that hover was being added to the Apple Pencil's bag of tricks. What might sound like a minor update to non-artists represents an important addition to workflow. While digital drawing is more forgiving in terms of correcting errors than its real-world co

Snap’s head of growth and previously longtime product head Jacob Andreou is leaving the social media company after eight years to join Greylock as a general partner. The exec announced his transition plans via a Twitter post noting he would be leaving Snap in May, which Snap also confirms, in

Apple’s iOS 17 software update may include some requested features, according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman. It was previously believed that Apple would skip major changes with the release of iOS 17 to focus on bug fixes and optimizations. These plans seem to have changed, as Gurman notes

While the U.S. government debates TikTok’s future following last week’s congressional hearing, the video entertainment platform today announced a new product called Branded Effects aimed at businesses marketing themselves on its platform. The solution will allow brands to collaborate wi

France is the latest country taking steps to ban TikTok from government-managed devices. Stanislas Guerini, the Minister of Public Transformation and Service, and his services issued a statement announcing the move and the reasoning behind this change. But there's a twist: Instead of simply ban

Pinterest is testing ways to integrate Shuffles collage content into Pinterest, starting with shopping. Shuffles, which is Pinterest’s collage-making app, launched to the general public last November. Now, the company is testing the integration of Shuffles shopping capabilities on the Pintere

The slow but steady Twitter exodus has brought a new abundance of third-party Mastodon apps like Ivory, Mammoth and Ice Cubes that connect users to the increasingly popular open source and decentralized social network. Today, we can add one more app to that list with the launch of Woolly, another s

Legacy Twitter checkmarks are disappearing on April 1st, Twitter says, and in the future, the only way users will be able to get the coveted blue badge is by paying for a Twitter Blue subscription. That points to a big question for Twitter and owner Elon Musk: Will that nail finally drive more take

Zigazoo, the startup known for its TikTok-style video-sharing app for kids, is launching a separate app targeted at Gen Z users. The new app will take the flagship name and is meant for ages 13 and older, whereas the original kid-focused app is for Generation Alpha (3-12) and has been rebranded to

Twitter has changed many things related to its subscription program, Twitter Blue, in the last few hours. The company has made the paid plan available for purchase globally, and also reduced the time new accounts must wait to be eligible for a Twitter Blue subscription to 30 days from 90 days. When

Twitter has picked April Fool’s Day, otherwise known as April 1, to start removing legacy blue checkmarks from accounts that had them on the platform. Despite the significance of the day Twitter chose, the move has been anticipated for months now. Musk tweeted in December that the company wou