Apple Maps will introduce ads this summer
Apple Maps will introduce ads this summer Apple will soon allow businesses to buy advertisements in its Maps app. In an announcement on Tuesday, Apple says ads may appear at the top of your search results in Maps, as well as in a new “Suggested Places” list. They will arrive in-app in the US and […]
Kalshi says it will block politicians and athletes from trading in markets they’re tied to
Kalshi says it will block politicians and athletes from trading in markets they're tied to The prediction market platform Kalshi says it’s rolling out new guardrails to “preemptively block” political candidates and athletes from trading in their own markets, as reported earlier by Axios. In addition to blocking political candidates from trading on their own […]
Apple could put ads in Maps as soon as this summer
Apple could put ads in Maps as soon as this summer Apple will soon bring advertisements to its Maps app on mobile and the web, according to a report from Bloomberg‘s Mark Gurman. The ads, which Apple could reportedly announce this month before rolling them out in the summer, could allow businesses to pay for […]
Halide co-founder is suing former partner for bringing source code to Apple
Halide co-founder is suing former partner for bringing source code to Apple Halide running on an iPhone. | Photo: Allison Johnson / The Verge Lux Optics co-founder Sebastiaan de With made headlines when he joined Apple in late January. The company was behind Halide, one of the most popular photography apps for the iPhone, which […]
OpenAI is planning a desktop ‘superapp’
OpenAI is planning a desktop 'superapp' OpenAI is working on a desktop “superapp” that merges its ChatGPT app, the Codex AI coding app, and its AI-powered Atlas browser into one app, The Wall Street Journal reports. The company is making the change as part of an effort to simplify its various product efforts, according to […]
Robinhood is making a social network
Robinhood is making a social network Robinhood is now beta testing a Twitter-like social media platform it calls Robinhood Social. The trading-focused platform was announced last September at the company’s HOOD Summit, but it’s rolling out to 1,000 people who attended the event and will expand to “an additional 10,000 customers over the coming weeks,” […]
The fast rise and epic fall of Clubhouse
The fast rise and epic fall of Clubhouse In 2020 and 2021, the social media world seemed to be on the verge of complete change. A new app called TikTok was ascendant, bringing a whole new kind of vertical video to phones everywhere. And another app – not as popular, but growing fast, and already […]
Instagram is getting rid of end-to-end encrypted DMs that ‘very few’ people used
Instagram is getting rid of end-to-end encrypted DMs that 'very few' people used Instagram will no longer support end-to-end encrypted messages starting May 8th. In a statement to The Verge, Meta spokesperson Dina El-Kassaby Luce says the platform is discontinuing the feature because “very few people” were using E2EE in their DMs. Instagram has begun […]
Peacock’s NBA streams are going vertical
Peacock's NBA streams are going vertical Peacock is rolling out a native vertical video format for live sports, allowing you to watch games without turning your phone sideways. The feature will roll out to NBA games first this spring and will use an algorithm to track players and zoom in on the action. The launch […]
Anthropic’s Claude AI can respond with charts, diagrams, and other visuals now
Anthropic's Claude AI can respond with charts, diagrams, and other visuals now Anthropic’s latest update to Claude will allow the AI chatbot to generate custom charts, diagrams, and other visualizations during your conversation. If Claude determines a visual is useful based on the context of your chat, it will insert the image in-line, rather than […]