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Australia was the first country to issue a ban in late 2025, aiming to reduce the pressures and risks that young users may face on social media, including cyberbullying, social media addiction, and exposure to predators.
Backed by Alexis Ohanian’s 776 and Kindred Ventures, Zest uses transaction data and AI to generate restaurant recommendations based on users’ real dining habits and the places they frequent.
Users under 16 years old will get a separate profile to show Stories and Spotlight posts to friends that they follow back.
The media giant is pushing to expand its mobile and gaming business.
Pinterest is adding support for Amazon Storefronts, allowing creators to earn affiliate commissions more easily while showcasing their product recommendations in one place.
Apple may begin removing existing apps that it considers stale, low-value, or unable to attract users.
Apple will now recommend apps based on your downloads and behavior.
While iOS 27 isn't bringing major changes, it's still got many small features that could improve everyday usage for iPhone users.
Apple is expanding its App Bundles feature to allow developers to partner with one another on discounted subscription packages.
Apple's new dictation system could compete with Wispr Flow and others.
Apple is putting control back into the hands of parents with more granular screen time features.
Cycle tracker will now notify women when their cycle patterns are suggestive of perimenopause.
While some users liked the sleek, transparent designs that look "glassy," others found Apple's design overhaul from last year to be hard to read.
Google is making Gemini 3.5 the default model in NotebookLM
Apple says a completely rebuilt Search function will competently find the emails, photos and other content you are searching for.
Bending Spoons say its app caters to a user base of over 500 million monthly active users.
Digital wallet app Cash App is launching a new gadget on Thursday, seemingly inspired by the social media trend that involves paying for items in the real world with a tap of a homemade magic wand, which hides a tap-and-pay credit card.
Substack's new Reply Rules feature is currently available for all English-language publications and is designed to give creators greater control over how their audiences respond.
The company said it's worked up a moderation system that uses a blend of AI and human input to moderate both visual and written content.
This open source community project lets you create a StumbleUpon-like experience for recommending your favorite sites.
The app allows users to engage with other fans, explore trending videos, and access curated creator feeds.
Meta told that it's considering ways to monetize the new feature, but didn't share specifics on what that could look like.
X will now let you 'react with video' to posts.
Groceries and household essentials will be a main focus of this year's deals event.
The Mall lets shoppers build a personalized feed of brands, track sales and drops, and discover products across thousands of retailers.
To stop scraping, the company is increasing security around its website and will now only allow authenticated users to view certain data. Earlier, users were able to see details like public profiles and fitness club listings without logging in. The company is putting all that data behind authentication to protect it from unauthorized AI scraping.
Sesame’s new iOS app brings its conversational AI agents to the public, offering more natural back-and-forth interactions designed to feel less like traditional chatbots and more like talking to a person.
New renders offer a closer look at Apple’s planned AI overhaul for iOS 27, including a redesigned Siri experience and standalone Siri app.
The update signals YouTube's ongoing efforts to compete with other platforms for podcast audiences.
Meta is rolling out paid subscription plans for Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp worldwide, while also testing new AI, creator, and business-focused offerings under its broader “Meta One” subscription brand.
With the new scissors icon, you can clip favorite moments from podcasts and share them with your audience.
The streaming service said that, starting today, there will be over 650 long-form magazine articles (available in English only) from publications like Rolling Stone, The Atlantic, Vogue, Variety, Billboard, Vibe, GQ, Wired, Vanity Fair, and Pitchfork.
For years, UMG has pushed platforms, streaming services, and AI companies to implement stricter content moderation policies.
You can now disco ball-ify your entire Pixel home screen, says Google.
Spotify has released a bunch of AI-powered tools that nudge users to create more content. It can be a bit much.
Apple is asking the Supreme Court to narrow the App Store injunction won by Epic Games and overturn the court’s contempt ruling over external payment fees.
The company describes the app as a "dedicated space built for deeper discussions, real answers and communities you care about."
Huxe said that it has pulled its app from App Store and Play Store, and that it will stop working later this month.
Spotify is partnering with Universal Music Group to let Premium subscribers create AI-generated song covers and remixes, with participating artists receiving a share of the revenue.
The AI-powered audiobook generation won't bind authors to an exclusive contract, meaning they are free to publish their generated audiobooks anywhere.
Spotify said that it will monitor activity like streams and shares to determine who is a top fan
One of the most promising introductions at Google’s I/O developer conference on Tuesday was a new way for consumers to use the web: AI agents. Unfortunately, it was also the most confusing.
The company said its plans will range from 1 GB over 7 days to 20 GB over 30 days. Initially, the launch will make the eSIM product available in 29 countries.
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani is launching a Twitch series today at 4 p.m. ET.
Spotify is releasing the new desktop app as a research preview in more than 20 markets.
Spotify will let you generate daily or weekly briefs based on your prompts
The Path says its AI model has scored 95 on the mental health safety AI benchmark, Vera-MH. This compares to a top score of 65 for the consumer bots.
Airbnb will soon let you book luggage storage and car rental services on its app.
Google is completely revamping its search experience, and that doesn't stop at YouTube.
Figma says users can employ natural language text prompts to direct its new AI agent to generate new designs, edit existing ones, or automate tasks such as generating iterations of existing designs.
Google says it's designed the app to be accessible to everyone, from teachers to small business owners.
Google is transforming Search from a list of links into an AI-powered experience filled with conversational answers, autonomous agents, and interactive interfaces — a shift that could further reduce traffic to publishers across the web.
Google unveiled new web-based AI tools that can generate native Android apps in minutes, as the company expands its push into AI-powered software development.
Google expands Gmail’s AI Inbox with conversational voice search, letting users ask Gemini to find buried email details.
Google is embracing the rise of AI coding agents with new Android tools designed to work with platforms like Claude Code and OpenAI’s Codex, allowing developers — or their AI assistants — to build Android apps faster from the command line.
The updates signal Google’s push to turn its Gemini app into an all-purpose AI hub rather than a stand-alone chatbot.
Google is debuting a new AI Ultra plan priced at $100, which will give users 5x more usage limit than the AI Pro plan alongside the Antigravity 2.0 launch.
Most people shop across multiple devices, many retailers, and over the course of many days, which is why Google is launching Universal Cart.
Google is letting users create drafts, take notes, and search for email with voice with the new Workspace update.
Apple announced several new accessibility updates to features like VoiceOver, voice control, live recognition, and real-time caption generation for videos that will be powered by Apple Intelligence.
The app is similar to a meeting notetaker — you can record doctor visits, and it will return an AI summary of the meeting, with the next steps, all of which you share with family and friends if you want to.
Privacy will be a major theme when Apple unveils a new version of Siri.
Osaurus combines local and cloud AI models in a Mac app that keeps users’ memory, files, and tools on their own hardware.
While the Meta-owned social network billed Instants as a new format to share real-life moments as they’re happening, many users are looking for a way to turn off the feature, especially those who have accidentally sent images to others, not fully understanding how the feature works.
Spotify will let creators distribute and monetize video podcasts on Apple Podcasts using Apple’s HLS streaming technology, without changing their existing workflows.
Poppy is an AI-powered app that connects your calendar, email, messages, and other services to surface reminders, suggestions, and tasks based on what’s happening in your life.
X’s new History tab combines bookmarks, likes, watched videos, and read articles into a single place, expanding the app’s role as a save-it-for-later tool.
The feature lets users share disappearing photos with their close friends or mutual followers that can be viewed only once and remain available for 24 hours.
Google unveiled its new AI-first Googlebooks laptops, more agentic Gemini features, vibe-coded Android widgets, Gemini in Chrome, refreshed Android Auto, and more ahead of I/O.
Google’s new Android feature, Pause Point, forces you to wait before opening distracting apps in an effort to curb addictive scrolling habits.
Gemini Intelligence will also include Gboard-based dictation and form-filling capabilities.
The feature is designed to help people get real-time context about trends and breaking stories, as well as receive recommendations, all within conversations.
TikTok is systematically converting its discovery engine into a transaction layer, which both deepens user retention and opens entirely new revenue streams for its new owners.
To create a widget, users will be able to describe what they want using natural language. For example, you could ask the feature to "suggest three high-protein meal prep recipes every week" in order to get a custom dashboard that you can add and resize on your home screen.
Google's transcription feature will initially launch with Samsung Galaxy and Google Pixel phones.
Indigo's new social app lets you cross-post to the open social web, including Mastodon and Bluesky, and browse a unified timeline.