Apple Reportedly Moving Ahead With Ads in Maps App
Hartley Charlton / macrumors - Apple Maps could feature integrated ads as soon as next year, Bloomberg's Mark Gurman reports.In his latest "Power On" newsletter, Gurman said that Apple's plan to bring more ads to iOS is moving "gaining traction," with the Maps app being next in line. T…
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Netflix shuts down its Squid Game mobile studio
Jay Peters / theverge - Netflix has shut down Boss Fight Entertainment, the studio behind the mobile game Squid Game: Unleashed, according to posts from staffers on LinkedIn. Netflix acquired Boss Fight in March 2022, with an executive saying at the time that the studio’s “exten…
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OpenAI's new Sora 2 video generation app went viral. Is it a real threat to Meta?
cnbc - Sora 2 is the latest competitive threat to Meta's social media supremacy.
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Instagram adds a watch history for Reels
Will Shanklin / engadget - Instagram's latest feature should make it easier to resurface videos you've viewed. On Friday, Adam Mosseri revealed a new watch history for Reels. "Hopefully, now you can find that thing that you were trying to find that you couldn't find before," the In…
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OpenAI buys Mac AI interface builder Software Applications Incorporated
Suhasini Srinivasaragavan / siliconrepublic - The start-up is behind ‘Sky’, a natural language interface for Mac computers.Read more: OpenAI buys Mac AI interface builder Software Applications Incorporated
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Instagram Gets New Generative AI Features. What to Know and How to Use Them
Blake Stimac / cnet - You can now tweak your Instagram Stories with more AI video and photo restyling effects.
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Paris-based Kotcha raises €3.5 million to make elite running coaching accessible to everyone
Antonio L. Escárzaga / eu-startups - Paris-based startup Kotcha, co-founded with marathon legend Eliud Kipchoge and the NN Running Team, has raised €3.5 million in pre-seed funding to make professional running coaching available to runners worldwide. The round was led by Racine2, operated by…
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Tinder introduces mandatory facial verification to curb fake profiles
Tinder is rolling out a nationwide facial recognition feature to authenticate new users and reduce catfishing on its platform. The update seeks to bolster user safety by ensuring that profiles accurately represent real individuals, marking a proactive step in the dating app’s ongoing security efforts.
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EA will shut down The Sims Mobile in January
Kris Holt / engadget - The Sims Mobile is going away as EA will shut it down on January 20, nearly eight years after its debut in March 2018. An update that went live on Monday is the final one and the company is delisting the game on October 21. Since the game requires online …
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Spotify now lets people follow venues to find out about concerts
Lawrence Bonk / engadget - Spotify just introduced a feature that lets users follow their favorite concert venues. This will provide people with updates and details about upcoming concerts.Once a venue is selected as a favorite, it gets saved in a user's library. Browsing each venu…
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Oura launches redesigned app and ‘Cumulative Stress’ feature
Aisha Malik / techcrunch - The company also shared that it's pursuing FDA clearance for blood pressure features that give users a likelihood assessment of hypertension.
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X is changing how it handles links to try and keep you in the app
Terrence O’Brien / theverge - X is testing a change to the way it handles links on iOS so that the buttons to like, reply, and repost will always be visible. Normally, when you click a link on X the page opens up and completely covers the original post. Apparently, this leads to fewer…
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YouTube is down worldwide with playback error
Mayank Parmar / bleepingcomputer - YouTube is currently facing a global outage, with users reporting playback errors on both the website and mobile apps. [...]
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Threads now has group chats
Jess Weatherbed / theverge - Meta is adding group chats to Threads, allowing users to message multiple friends in shared conversations instead of sending separate DMs. Threads users can create a group chat by starting a new message and adding up to 50 people who follow their Threads …
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A New Attack Lets Hackers Steal 2-Factor Authentication Codes From Android Phones
Dan Goodin, Ars Technica / wired - The malicious app required to make a “Pixnapping” attack work requires no permissions.
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Apple says goodbye to the Clips app
Anthony Ha / techcrunch - Apple appears to be winding down support of Clips, with the company removing Clips from the App Store and saying it will no longer be making any updates.
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OpenAI’s Sora Hits 1 Million Downloads in Under 5 Days, Faster Than ChatGPT
John Quintet / iphoneincanada - OpenAI’s new video-generation app Sora has taken off in record time, surpassing 1 million downloads in less than five days, according to Bill Peebles, head of Sora at OpenAI. Peebles said on Wednesday that the milestone came “even faster than ChatGPT did …
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Remedy's Control is coming to iPhone, iPad and Vision Pro early next year
Mariella Moon / engadget - Control: Ultimate Edition will be available on the iPhone, the iPad and the Apple Vision Pro in early 2026, its developer Remedy has announced. The developer says you can either "tap into the action with touch controls," which presumably includes hand tra…
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OpenAI’s Sora has already hit more than 1 million downloads
Emma Roth / theverge - OpenAI’s social AI video-generating app, Sora, has reached over 1 million downloads in fewer than five days since its launch. That’s according to Sora head Bill Peebles, who said on Wednesday that Sora racked up downloads faster than ChatGPT did at launch…
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Instagram introduces new ‘Ring’ award for top creators
Aisha Malik / techcrunch - The move comes as Meta has been scaling back its creator payout programs over the past few years.
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