IT総合 Amazon turns to AI to help customers find clothes that fit when shopping online
After recently turning to generative AI to enhance its product reviews, e-commerce giant Amazon today shared how it̵...
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IT総合 IT総合 RIP? Third-party podcast app Castro appears to be dead, company goes quiet
The once popular third-party podcast app Castro has seemingly shut down, after earlier saying that it was “activel...
IT総合 Flipboard becomes a federated app with support for ActivityPub
Instagram Threads isn’t the only app joining the decentralized social web, which includes Twitter/X rival Mastodon...
IT総合 US lawmakers call for DOJ to investigate Apple for blocking Beeper’s iMessage app
Apple’s move to cut off Beeper, the app that brought iMessage to Android users, already caught the attention of U....
IT総合 News publisher files class action antitrust suit against Google, citing AI’s harms to their bottom line
A new class action lawsuit filed this week in the U.S. District Court in D.C. accuses Google and parent company Alphabet...
IT総合 Three years after its revamp, Firefox’s Android browser adds 450+ new extensions
For the sliver of the market that opts for Firefox instead of Chrome, the default browser on Android devices, the experi...
IT総合 Spotify confirms test of prompt-based AI playlists feature
Earlier this fall, Spotify was found to be developing a new feature that would allow its streaming app users to create p...
IT総合 Mastodon founder touts Threads’ federation, saying it makes his X rival ‘a far more attractive option’
Mastodon founder Eugen Rochko lauds Threads’ entry into the decentralized social media space, saying the move will...
IT総合 Apple again targets iMessage-on-Android app Beeper, but company claims it has a fix
A few days ago, the mobile app Beeper Mini went back into operation after an attempt by Apple to shut down its service t...
IT総合 Epic Games won its antitrust battle with Google. But what comes next?
Google’s defeat in its antitrust battle with Epic Games was a sweeping victory for the Fortnite maker and a signif...
IT総合 Graysky, a third-party client for X rival Bluesky, gets Trending Topics and a ‘Pro’ subscription
Graysky, one of the first third-party apps for the Twitter/X competitor Bluesky, is launching a subscription service wit...
IT総合 Globetrotter’s new app is a ‘Spotify Wrapped’ for your travel memories
Frequent travelers who want to track their trips and reminisce about their favorite spots and travel memories now have a...
IT総合 Instagram finstas may turn into a new product called ‘flipside,’ meant only for close friends
Instagram is considering a new feature called “flipside” that allows users to establish a new, private side ...
IT総合 Beeper Mini is back in operation after Apple’s attempt to shut it down
Beeper Mini, the app bringing blue bubble iMessage texts to Android users, is back in operation on Monday after a long w...
IT総合 Tumblr’s ‘fediverse’ integration is still being worked on, says owner and Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg
Despite delays, the plan to connect Tumblr’s blogging site to the wider world of decentralized social media, also ...
IT総合 TikTok becomes first non-game app to reach $10B in consumer spending
TikTok’s short-form video app is hitting a new milestone. The app, which reached 1 billion monthly active users in...
IT総合 Senator Warren calls out Apple for shutting down Beeper’s ‘iMessage to Android’ solution
U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) is throwing her weight behind Beeper, the app that allowed Android users to mess...
IT総合 Apple cuts off Beeper Mini’s access after launch of service that brought iMessage to Android
Was it too good to be true? Beeper, the startup that reverse engineered iMessage to bring blue bubble texts to Android u...
IT総合 X’s AI chatbot Grok now ‘rolled out to all’ US Premium+ subscribers, English language users are next
Yesterday, X began rolling out Grok, the “rebellious” AI chatbot developed by Elon Musk’s xAI startup,...
IT総合 Snapchat+ keeps growing as net revenue tops $20M for first time
Snapchat’s premium subscription is showing no signs of slowing growth as it comes off its best month ever, in term...
IT総合 Tumblr tests ‘Communities,’ semi-private groups with their own moderators and feeds
After scaling back operations and reassigning staff to other projects, Tumblr owner Automattic’s CEO Matt Mullenwe...
IT総合 Google launches migration tool ahead of Google Podcasts’ 2024 shutdown
In September, Google announced it would shut down its standalone podcasts app, Google Podcasts, sometime next year. Now ...
IT総合 Meta AI adds Reels support and ‘reimagine,’ a way to generate new AI images in group chats, and more
Alongside other AI updates announced today, Meta AI, the company’s generative AI experience, is gaining new capabi...
IT総合 Meta’s AI characters are now live across its U.S. apps, with support for Bing Search and better memory
Earlier this year, Meta introduced a set of AI characters, including those based on real-life celebs including the likes...
IT総合 Bluesky says it will allow users to opt out of the public web interface after backlash
Bluesky is changing course by allowing users to opt out of a change that would expose their posts to the public web. Las...
IT総合 Google’s AI chatbot Bard gets a big upgrade with Gemini, Google’s next-gen AI model
Google Bard, the company’s generative AI chatbot and ChatGPT rival, is getting am update today that the company cl...
IT総合 Pixel 8 Pro becomes the first smartphone powered by Google’s new AI model, Gemini
The Pixel 8 Pro will now become the first Android smartphone to be powered by Google’s next-generation AI model, G...
IT総合 X is now licensed for payment processing in a dozen U.S states
Elon Musk is moving forward with his plans to turn the company formerly known as Twitter, now called X, into an “e...
IT総合 Beeper reversed engineered iMessage to bring blue bubble texts to Android users
The push to bring iMessage to Android users today adds a new contender. A startup called Beeper, which had been working ...
IT総合 A Y Combinator-backed startup called Velt wants to make more apps collaborative
Online collaboration has become routine thanks to productivity apps like Google Docs and team design platform Figma, amo...