Published on: 2025-04-21 23:39:44
Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More 1Fort announced today a $7.5 million seed funding round to improve how small businesses obtain commercial insurance through its AI-powered platform. The New York-based startup, which has experienced 200% month-over-month revenue growth in 2024, aims to automate the outdated, manual processes that have left millions of small businesses underinsured. Bonfire Ventures led
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-22 23:27:01
Artie Beaty/ZDNET Less than two months after Facebook added a new community notes feature that lets users add context to posts with missing or wrong information, TikTok is doing the same with something called Footnotes. The company announced the feature in a blog post yesterday. Also: How to become a Meta Community Notes editor "Footnotes will draw on the collective knowledge of the TikTok community by allowing people to add relevant information to content on our platform," the post explains
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-24 11:40:07
Discord has begun requiring some users in the United Kingdom and Australia to verify their age through a facial scan before being permitted to access sensitive content. The chat app’s new process has been described as an “experiment,” and comes in response to laws passed in those countries that place guardrails on youth access to online platforms. Users may be asked to verify their age when encountering content that has been flagged by Discord’s systems as being sensitive in nature, or when the
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-24 14:34:55
Patreon, the service that lets artists and creators provide exclusive content to subscribers, is launching a new tool that enables creators to livestream natively on the platform. The company said the feature intends to let creators connect with their audiences in real time, whether it's an author hosting a Q&A about a newly published book or musicians testing out new music for their fans. The tool directly competes with similar offerings on platforms like Twitch, but a focus on creator-owned
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-25 03:10:18
Why is an AI company pretending that we’re living in 2022 and working on a new social media platform? OpenAI has money, everyone’s attention, and its iOS app is still the number one download on Apple’s App Store. It doesn’t really need to get into the social media business for cash (most platforms struggle to turn a profit) or prestige. Sure Sam Altman has beefed with both Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg and cockily threatened to make a social media platform, but why divert the company’s resources
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-25 07:00:00
is a news editor covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme. Patreon is taking on Twitch with a new feature that lets creators offer live video streams directly on the platform. The feature will be available “starting this week” to “select creators” in an early access test, and the company plans to roll it out more widely this summer, according to a press release. In the release, Patreon mentioned some features that “creators can expec
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-26 15:10:41
OpenAI is reportedly developing its own social media platform. The Verge, which has broken the news, describes the project as “X-like” in nature. Little is known about the new site beyond the fact that it exists. The Verge writes that the company is working on an “internal prototype” that involves a “feed” feature and may be built around the company’s image-generation capabilities. There doesn’t appear to be a name for the platform, and it’s also unclear whether it would be separate from ChatGP
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-02 03:23:29
'We've focused on becoming more nimble and operating more effectively,' the company said. As it said it would do earlier this year, Google has laid off hundreds of employees from its Platforms and Devices division, The Information reported. That part of the company, which employs over 25,000 people, houses its Pixel phones and smartwatches, Nest devices, the Android and ChromeOS platforms and Chrome browser. In January, Google offered buyouts to let them leave as part of a "voluntary exit plan.
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-03 15:01:27
Jobandtalent, an AI-based “workforce as a service” marketplace that connects people with companies looking for hourly workers, announced it has raised €92 million ($103 million). The Series F — which includes participation from Atomico, BlackRock, DN Capital, Hercules, Infravia, Kibo, and Kinnevik — values the Madrid, Spain-based company at €1.3 billion ($1.5 billion) post-money. On the surface, a unicorn raising a decent round of funding from a well-known list of backers might sound like pret
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-05 07:06:23
is a smart home reporter who’s been testing connected gadgets since 2013. Previously a contributor to Wirecutter, Wired, Dwell, and US News. Aqara is adding support for over 50 new Matter device types, making it one of the most comprehensive smart home platforms in terms of Matter support, alongside Samsung SmartThings and Home Assistant. The company is also bringing advanced bridging to all its Matter controllers, allowing you to integrate Aqara’s many advanced automation features into any Ma
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-11 13:12:39
Trump extends deadline to keep TikTok running in US The social media platform, which says it has more than 170 million users in the US, must close in the US under a law passed by Congress - unless a buyer is found. Trump's first extension was granted after he took office in January and was set to expire on Saturday. "We do not want TikTok to 'go dark'," Trump wrote on Truth Social. "We look forward to working with TikTok and China to close the Deal." The platform is currently owned by Chinese
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-14 15:47:49
As TikTok’s fate in the United States remains uncertain, the tech giant has quietly started testing a new “TikTok for Artists” insights platform that is designed to help artists build their careers, the company confirmed to TechCrunch. The platform will provide artists with tools to promote their songs, understand performance metrics, and engage with fans. The platform is currently being tested in Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Korea, and Indonesia. TikTok plans to bring the platform to additio
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-16 10:59:25
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-16 23:10:27
With the deadline for TikTok to sell or face a ban (again) looming, a new potential buyer has emerged. Amazon has thrown its hat in the ring to take over the popular and addictive video platform, according to a report from the New York Times, offering up a last-minute bid that is likely tied to the retail giant’s desire to milk the lucrative TikTok Shop for every penny it can. Amazon reportedly delivered its bid to Vice President JD Vance and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, two people with t
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-17 23:54:42
Patreon, a subscription platform for online creators, is ge has signed podcasting partnerships with Sony Music Entertainment and Amazon’s Wondery, the company announced on Wednesday. Patreon says the partnerships are designed to make the site a home to fan engagement and exclusive perks for shows from major podcast networks, as the company looks to expand beyond its current base of podcasts. The deal means that Patreon will now offer some of the podcasting industry’s big names on its platform.
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-18 03:02:01
Parents allowed to block children's games and friends on Roblox 59 minutes ago Share Save Graham Fraser Technology Reporter Share Save Getty Images Parents will be able to block their children from specific games and experiences on Roblox as part of new safety measures announced by the hugely popular gaming platform. They will also be able to block or report their children's friends, and the platform will provide more information about which games young users are playing. The measures will on
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-20 09:00:00
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-20 15:12:09
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has joined Bluesky, following in the footsteps of former president Barack Obama, who made his first post on the platform last week. Clinton confirmed her Bluesky account’s legitimacy in an Instagram story and a post on X. In her introductory post, Clinton wrote about the Wisconsin Supreme Court election taking place on Tuesday. The state judicial race is getting unprecedented attention on both sides of the aisle, since it determines the political bent o
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-22 15:02:11
Seattle-based Temporal has made its name over the last several years in the world of microservices — specifically providing a platform to orchestrate the messy business of building and operating integrations and updates across disparate services and apps in the cloud. But the AI boom has come at the company fast. Now, Temporal has raised a growth round of $146 million to build what it believes the next chapter will be in its space: AI, and specifically building microservices to support newer are
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-22 15:32:26
Manus AI, the viral AI agent platform out of China, on Monday morning launched two subscription plans starting at $39 per month. Manus, which is still in beta, is an AI-powered agentic tool that can be used to complete tasks ranging from creating a web page for a wedding invitation to crafting a scoring sheet for a baseball game. In our tests, however, we found that the platform falls short of some of its loftier marketing promises. The cheaper of Manus’ new premium plans is $39 per month and
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-26 07:55:00
In a nutshell: TikTok is slowly but surely gaining support among Americans. According to a recent Pew Research Center survey, 34 percent of US adults now support a ban on the Chinese video sharing app – down from 50 percent in 2023. Conversely, 32 percent of respondents oppose a ban while 33 percent are on the fence. Among those who support a ban, data security and the platform's Chinese ownership were cited as top concerns. Others took issue with the amount of inaccurate information on TikTok
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-26 11:12:40
In Brief TikTok is set to expand its TikTok Shop e-commerce platform to users in France, Germany, and Italy on Monday, Reuters reports. TikTok Shop has been available in the United Kingdom since 2021, and now the company is ready to expand farther into Europe. While TikTok Shop is also available in the United States and saw strong sales over the holiday season, TikTok’s fate in the country remains uncertain. Reuters states that TikTok has been looking to onboard more Europe-based sellers onto
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A note about this moment We actually sat on this post for a while, taking time to figure out how best to present the facts and suggestions below, without it appearing as a takedown post. After all, we are in competition with Vercel in the platform space. Then, the recent security incident around Next.js middleware happened, triggering a small fire on social and drawing criticism about how the incident was handled. This article is not about that security incident. Rather, it is about the large
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-28 03:08:32
This is a long overdue post on iximiuz Labs' internal kitchen. It'll cover why I decided to build my own learning-by-doing platform for DevOps, SRE, and Platform engineers, how I designed it, what technology stack chose, and how various components of the platform were implemented. It'll also touch on some of the trade-offs that I had to make along the way and highlight the most interesting parts of the platform's architecture. In the end, I'll, of course, share my thoughts on what's next on the
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-28 11:42:51
Cloud-based streaming company StreamElements confirms it suffered a data breach at a third-party service provider after a threat actor leaked samples of stolen data on a hacking forum. The platform has reassured users that the attack didn't impact its servers, though older data at a third-party provider they stopped working with last year was still exposed. "We recently became aware of a data security incident involving a third-party service provider we stopped working with last year," the com
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-28 11:10:47
After Elon Musk bought Twitter and changed its name to X, advertisers left in droves due to the harmful and hateful content that Musk allowed to proliferate on the platform. Nothing has changed about the content—if anything, it’s getting worse—but the brands are coming back, according to Bloomberg, because suddenly their money might purchase them some favor with the Trump administration. Bloomberg, citing data from Emarketer, reported that X is projected to generate $1.31 billion in U.S. advert
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-29 03:28:02
If there is one certainty of social media in 2025, it’s this: rage clicks rule. Hyperbole, hate, brash deception—it’s all par for the course—and often rewarded with virality. But Sez Us, an app just launched by veteran Democratic strategist Joe Trippi, believes it’s possible to change that, by punishing users who shitpost for the sake of provocation. The timing may be just right. America is entering an age of oligarchy with a rising wave of right-wing extremism taking hold of global politics.
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-31 02:44:33
The once-iconic music-sharing platform Napster just sold for $207 million, according to reporting by CNBC . A company called Infinite Reality ponied up the cash. What could Napster offer in 2025 to warrant such a price tag? Infinite Reality CEO John Acunto says it’ll be used for marketing in the metaverse. In other words, a platform from 1999 will be used as part of a technology that seemingly peaked in 2021. That sounds about right. More specifically, the company plans on creating virtual 3D s
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In Brief Social network Bluesky, an alternative to X built on open source technologies, has scored a big win in terms of attracting notable users to its platform. The company on Sunday confirmed that former president Barack Obama has joined its service. Bluesky OOO Rose Wang replied to a post where someone wondered if the account posting as Obama was legitimately him by writing “Confirmed!” In his first few posts on the platform, Obama celebrated the 15th anniversary of the Affordable Care Ac
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