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Threads begins testing an option to set For You, Following, or a custom feed as the default feed, another improvement seemingly sparked by Bluesky competition (www.theverge.com)
2024-11-26

Strava's new API rules for third parties will make it harder for users across dozens of fitness apps and wearables to integrate their fitness data in one place (www.theverge.com)
2024-11-24

A UN task force proposes taxing crypto mining to raise funds for climate action and cites IMF research that says $0.045 per kWh used could raise $5.2B annually (www.theverge.com)
2024-11-23 Tax Climate IMF

Microsoft releases the first beta preview of its Recall AI feature for Copilot Plus PCs, including Click to Do, a feature similar to Google's Circle to Search (www.theverge.com)
2024-11-23 Google Microsoft AI

Threads is testing AI-powered summaries of what users are discussing in the app's Trending Now section in the US, and improvements to Search and Trending Now (www.theverge.com)
2024-11-23 AI

Snap files to dismiss New Mexico's lawsuit over Snap's alleged child safety issues with predators, saying the complaint misrepresents the state's investigation (www.theverge.com)
2024-11-22 Mexico

SafeRent, an AI screening tool used by landlords, agrees to pay ~$2.3M to settle a discrimination lawsuit and will no longer display certain tenant scores (www.theverge.com)
2024-11-22 AI

Adam Mosseri says Threads is rebalancing ranking to prioritize content from people that users follow, warns that creators' “unconnected” reach may go down (www.theverge.com)
2024-11-22

Microsoft opens up Xbox Cloud Gaming to existing Xbox game libraries, letting Xbox Game Pass Ultimate subscribers stream 50 supported games they already own (www.theverge.com)
2024-11-21 Microsoft Xbox

Amazon unveils the $400 Echo Show 21, an upgrade to the Echo Show 15 from 2022, with a 21" 1080p display and auto-framing camera, and updates the Echo Show 15 (www.theverge.com)
2024-11-21 Amazon

Samsung Galaxy Watch FE review: identical to the Watch 7 with similar health features, but has the guts of a three-year-old Watch 4, poor battery, and one size (www.theverge.com)
2024-11-21 Samsung Battery

Google tightens its rules against “parasite SEO” content, or articles that have little to do with the website's focus, after cracking down on “reputation abuse” (www.theverge.com)
2024-11-20 Google

Sony launches cloud streaming on the PlayStation Portal in beta, letting PlayStation Plus Premium subscribers in some countries stream select PS5 games (www.theverge.com)
2024-11-20 Sony

Microsoft announces Zero Day Quest, a new Black Hat-like hacking event that it says will be the largest of its kind, at its Redmond headquarters in 2025 (www.theverge.com)
2024-11-20 Microsoft

Microsoft debuts the Windows Resiliency Initiative to help avoid another CrowdStrike-like incident, including a Quick Machine Recovery feature (www.theverge.com)
2024-11-20 Microsoft

Microsoft unveils the $349 Windows 365 Link, a mini PC companion for its Windows 365 cloud service that runs a small Windows-based OS, shipping in April 2025 (www.theverge.com)
2024-11-20 Microsoft

A look at emails between Musk and Altman from the early days of OpenAI, discussing its partnership with Microsoft, fundraising, employee compensation, AGI, more (www.theverge.com)
2024-11-19 Microsoft

Telegram updates “mini-apps” to be able to run full screen and be pinned to homescreens; devs can now add subscription plans, a “gift” sending feature, and more (www.theverge.com)
2024-11-19

Bluesky says it has “no intention” of taking user content to train AI tools, ahead of X implementing new terms of service that let it train AI on user content (www.theverge.com)
2024-11-16 AI

Facebook makes Views its primary metric for content, bringing it in line with Instagram; each time a piece of content appears on a screen, it counts as a View (www.theverge.com)
2024-11-16 Facebook Instagram

Mark Zuckerberg says Threads is testing custom feeds for certain profiles or topics; the Threads' version seems easier to use than Bluesky's custom feeds (www.theverge.com)
2024-11-16 Zuckerberg

NASA partners with Microsoft to create Earth Copilot, an AI chatbot that can answer questions about the Earth using NASA's geospatial information (www.theverge.com)
2024-11-15 Microsoft AI chatbot NASA

Fake AI albums targeting real artists are flooding Spotify to profit from royalty fraud, abusing a distribution process effectively based on the honor system (www.theverge.com)
2024-11-15 AI Spotify

TikTok makes its AI ad creation tool, Symphony Creative Studio, available to all advertisers and adds the ability to use content from Getty Images with the tool (www.theverge.com)
2024-11-15 AI

Google plans to stop showing political ads to users in the EU in 2025 due to uncertainties around new transparency rules coming into effect in October 2025 (www.theverge.com)
2024-11-15 Google

Adam Mosseri says Threads had “more than 15M signups in November alone” and it is “going on three months with more than a million signups a day” (www.theverge.com)
2024-11-15

Echoing TikTok's gifting, YouTube is rolling out “jewels” that users can buy to support creators during livestreams, for those in the YouTube Partner Program (www.theverge.com)
2024-11-15 YouTube

Google releases a new free Gemini app for iOS, letting users ask questions and chat via text, voice, or camera, as well as use conversational Gemini Live (www.theverge.com)
2024-11-15 IOS Google

Snap unveils new Snapchat location and privacy tools, including letting parents request their teen's location and view their location-sharing settings (www.theverge.com)
2024-11-15 Snapchat

Google updates Maps to help users search for products like home goods, clothing, and electronics and find stores nearby, improve traffic reporting, and more (www.theverge.com)
2024-11-14 Google

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