IT総合 Substack rival Ghost confirms it will join the fediverse in 2024
Ghost, an open-source rival to Substack’s newsletter platform, has confirmed it will this year officially join the...
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IT総合 IT総合 Amazon Music follows Spotify with an AI playlist generator of its own, Maestro
Spotify isn’t the only one to dabble with AI playlists — on Tuesday, Amazon announced it would do the same. ...
IT総合 Open-source Substack rival Ghost may join the fediverse
While the launch of a survey isn't necessarily a commitment to federating Ghost, it is another signal pointing to the br...
IT総合 Apple pulls a Game Boy emulator for App Store violations, but says game emulators are allowed
iGBA was an ad-supported copy of the open-source project GBA4iOS that offered a Game Boy game emulator for iOS.
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IT総合 Quibi redux? Short drama apps saw record revenue in Q1 2024
This represents an over 8,000% increase from $1.8 million in the first quarter of 2023, when just 21 apps were available...
IT総合 Lyrak to take on X by combining the best of Twitter with fediverse integration
Lyrak is a new X rival that aims to differentiate itself by focusing on real-time news and monetization options for crea...
IT総合 Flipboard deepens its ties to the open source social web (aka the fediverse)
Flipboard, a Web 2.0-era social magazine app that is reinventing itself to capitalize on the renewed push towards an ope...
IT総合 YouTube is turning off kids’ ability to write comments in supervised experiences
YouTube’s comments section, historically, has had a bad reputation, but a change rolling out could prevent kids fr...
IT総合 Google brings AI-powered editing tools, like Magic Editor, to all Google Photos users for free
Google Photos is getting an AI upgrade. On Wednesday, the tech giant announced that a handful of enhanced editing featur...
IT総合 Poe introduces a price-per-message revenue model for AI bot creators
Bot creators now have a new way to make money with Poe, the Quora-owned AI chatbot platform. On Monday, the company intr...
IT総合 eBay adds an AI-powered ‘shop the look’ feature to its iOS app
EBay on Tuesday launched a new generative AI-powered feature to appeal to fashion enthusiasts: a “shop the look...
IT総合 WordPress.com owner Automattic acquires multi-service messaging app Beeper for $125M
The deal, which was for $125 million according to sources close to the matter, is Automattic's second acquisition of a c...
IT総合 X adds support for passkeys globally on iOS
X, formerly Twitter, is rolling out support for passkeys, a new and more secure login method compared with traditional p...
IT総合 Meta’s X competitor Threads invites developers to sign up for API access, publishes docs
After opening its developer API to select companies for testing in March, Meta’s Twitter/X competitor Threads is n...
IT総合 Now at the top of the App Store, The Eclipse App is a great companion for Monday’s solar eclipse
The app includes cloud cover forecasts, guides that pinpoint when totality will occur at your exact location, and inform...
IT総合 Spotify launches personalized AI playlists that you can build using prompts
AI playlists will initially become available to users on Android and iOS devices in the U.K. and Australia and will be i...
IT総合 Snapchat turns off controversial ‘Solar System’ feature by default after bad press
Less than a week after The Wall St. Journal reported on how a Snapchat feature dubbed “solar system” was add...
IT総合 Threads missed its earthquake moment as the term didn’t trend until the afternoon
That's not to say people weren't discussing the earthquake on Threads — many were.
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IT総合 X warns that you might lose followers as it does another bot sweep
X is warning users they may see a reduction in their follower counts as the company attempts to clear the network of som...
IT総合 Hoping to stall a ban, TikTok says it generated $14.7B for US small businesses last year
In addition, it says that over 7 million U.S. businesses rely on TikTok and that 224,000 jobs were supported by small bu...
IT総合 WhatsApp goes down in Meta’s second big outage this year
For the second time in just over a month, Meta’s apps including WhatsApp, and possibly Messenger and Instagram, ar...
IT総合 Facebook takes on TikTok with a new, vertical-first video player
This gives Facebook a way to better compete against other popular video platforms that rely on algorithmic recommendatio...
IT総合 @Potus just joined the fediverse via Instagram Threads
The fediverse — the name for the social network made of interconnected servers, like Mastodon and others — j...
IT総合 Meta (again) denies that Netflix read users’ private Facebook messages
The document alleges that Facebook even cut spending on original programming for its Facebook Watch video service so as ...
IT総合 Chat app Telegram challenges Meta with the launch of new ‘Business’ features and revenue-sharing
Telegram Business introduces options like a customized start page, plus the ability to set business hours, use preset re...
IT総合 The AltStore, an alternative app store coming to the EU, will offer Patreon-backed apps
To comply with the new European law, Apple is introducing APIs and frameworks that allow developers to distribute apps i...
IT総合 Google Podcasts is shutting down soon, users urged to move to YouTube Music
Google is shutting down its Podcasts app in the U.S. in a matter of days. The company has begun warning the app’s ...
IT総合 X confirms plans for NSFW Communities
The changes appear to confirm the earlier tests of NSFW communities spotted by various researchers and reverse engineers...
IT総合 After spat with TikTok, UMG expands Spotify partnership to include music videos and more
In the wake of Universal Music Group’s (UMG) public spat with TikTok, which saw the label pulling its full catalog...
IT総合 Elon Musk says all premium subscribers on X will gain access to AI chatbot Grok this week
Following Elon Musk’s xAI’s move to open source its Grok large language model earlier in March, the X owner ...