IT総合 Rooms, an interactive 3D space designer and ‘cozy game,’ arrives on the App Store
Cozy game, interior decorating app, learn-to-code primer or something in between, the interactive, 3D spaces builder kno...
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IT総合 IT総合 X rival Bluesky hits 2M users, says federation coming ‘early next year’
Bluesky, the company building a decentralized alternative to Twitter/X, announced today it has hit 2 million users ̵...
IT総合 A Quibi-like app called ReelShort hit record downloads and revenue this month
Was Quibi a failure or just before its time? This month, a short-video app and Quibi-like entertainment service called R...
IT総合 Several popular AI products flagged as unsafe for kids by Common Sense Media
An independent review of popular AI tools has found that many — including Snapchat’s My AI, DALLE, and Stabl...
IT総合 Threads starts testing hashtags…without the hash
Instagram’s Threads app has been duping Twitter/X in a number of ways and today it’s adding one more feature...
IT総合 Instagram adds new features, including custom AI stickers, photo filters, a clip hub and more
Alongside a bevy of creator updates, Instagram is adding a new feature that will allow users to create custom stickers f...
IT総合 Ads watchdog files FTC complaint against X, formerly Twitter, over unlabeled ads
X, formerly Twitter, was caught running unlabeled ads on its platform in September. Now that issue, which has been ongoi...
IT総合 Meta seeks legislation that would require parents to approve teens’ app downloads
Meta wants to shift the burden of monitoring social media usage among teens back to the app stores — and to parent...
IT総合 Google Photos turns to AI to organize and categorize your photos for you
Google Photos is rolling out a set of new features today that will leverage AI technologies to better organize and categ...
IT総合 Online pet goods retailer Chewy lays off 200+ employees
Chewy, the online pet supplies company that sold to PetSmart in 2017 for $3.35 billion, but then split off a few years l...
IT総合 Andreessen Horowitz backs Civitai, a generative AI content marketplace with millions of users
AI image generator Stable Diffusion already has a lot of fans, and now those experimenting with the new AI technology to...
IT総合 Venmo gets a new way to split expenses among groups
PayPal-owned Venmo is rolling out a new feature starting today that will allow its users to track and manage multiple ex...
IT総合 TikTok’s newest feature lets you save favorite songs directly to Spotify or Amazon Music
TikTok is teaming up with streaming music services, including Spotify and Amazon Music, on a new feature that will allow...
IT総合 Pebble, a startup that tried and failed to take on Twitter, finds new life on Mastodon
Pebble, a startup that took on Twitter and failed, has returned from the dead — as a Mastodon instance, it seems. ...
IT総合 Elon Musk says X is changing its algorithm to highlight smaller accounts
The company formerly known as Twitter is preparing to roll out a “major update” to its algorithm, according ...
IT総合 Threads now lets users opt out of having their posts appear on Facebook and Instagram
In response to user feedback, Instagram’s Threads will now let users turn off automatic sharing of their Threads p...
IT総合 Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg details Tumblr’s future after re-org
This week, WordPress.com owner Matt Mullenweg confirmed his company would be shifting the majority of Tumblr’s wor...
IT総合 5 things we learned from the Epic-Google antitrust case this week
Though Match settled its antitrust case with Google over Play Store fees for north of $300 million, Fortnite maker Epic ...
IT総合 Meta and Amazon team up on new in-app shopping feature on Facebook & Instagram
Meta may have abandoned its efforts around live shopping on Facebook and Instagram, but the social networking company st...
IT総合 The Match-Google antitrust settlement netted the dating app maker over $300M
Last week, Google and Match reached a settlement in the app store antitrust case where Match had sought the right to off...
IT総合 Google Play tightens up rules for Android app developers to require testing, increased app review
Google today is announcing strengthened protections for Android developers publishing apps to its Google Play store. The...
IT総合 Fakespot Chat, Mozilla’s first LLM, lets online shoppers research products via an AI chatbot
Earlier this year, Mozilla acquired Fakespot, a startup that leverages AI and machine learning to identify fake and dece...
IT総合 Google’s AI-powered search experience expands globally to 120+ countries and territories
Google’s AI-powered search experience is rolling out worldwide, after initial launches in select markets including...
IT総合 Sutro introduces AI-powered app creation with no coding required
AI is already transforming the way we search, gather information, create, code, decipher data, and more, and now it may ...
IT総合 Spotify brings 15 hours of monthly audiobook listening to Premium subscribers in the U.S.
Roughly a month after Spotify announced that a selection of audiobooks would become a part of its Premium subscription, ...
IT総合 PopSockets unveils a photo case and accessory designer, powered by AI
Ready to put your AI prompting skills to work for product customization? Smartphone case and accessory maker PopSockets ...
IT総合 Fabric introduces an AI-powered workspace and home for all your information
Can AI provide a better filesystem and workspace for personal productivity? That’s what a new startup, Fabric, lau...
IT総合 What to know about Fortnite maker Epic Games’ antitrust battle with Google, starting today
Match may have settled its antitrust lawsuit with Google last week, but Fortnite maker Epic Games is still set to go to ...
IT総合 Bumble announces its hiring Slack CEO Lidiane Jones as its next chief exec
In a fast-moving news cycle, a personnel change wouldn’t seem to catch our attention, but this morning dating app Bumble...
IT総合 Why Mozilla is betting on a decentralized social networking future
Consumers are hungry for a new way of social networking, where trust and safety are paramount and power isn’t cent...