Spotify will now let free users pick and play tracks
Spotify is adding new features for free customers that let them pick and play tracks.
Google is a ‘bad actor’ says People CEO, accusing the company of stealing content
People CEO Neil Vogel says Google’s AI crawler can’t be blocked because it would block the web crawler too. This lets the search giant steal its content for AI.
Mastodon rolls out quote posts with protections to prevent ‘dunking’
Decentralized X alternative Mastodon adds support for quote posts, but with additional controls.
The music industry is broken. OpenWav’s new app aims to change that
OpenWav is building a direct-to-fan platform for music artists which lets them keep more of the profits.
Google is shutting down Tables, its Airtable rival
Google Tables, a work-tracking tool and competitor to the popular spreadsheet-database hybrid Airtable, is shutting down. The app will not be supported after December 16, 2025.
Meta adds new features to Community Notes fact checks, including alerts for corrected posts
Now, users will be notified when they’ve interacted with a post on Facebook, Instagram, or Threads that receives a Community Note. Plus, anyone can now request a note or rate a note if it’s been…
Bluesky will comply with age-verification laws in South Dakota and Wyoming after exiting Mississippi
Bluesky says the age-verification laws strike “the right balance,” so it won’t have to exit the states as it did in Mississippi.
After selling to Spotify, Anchor’s co-founders are back with Oboe, an AI-powered app for learning
Oboe is a new AI-powered learning platform that lets you create personalized courses on any topic with a prompt.
The iPhone Air is a hint at the iPhone’s future, which could include foldables
The iPhone Air may not be ready to be your daily driver, but it’s a hint of what’s to come.
Apple’s new iPhone 17 devices don’t have an AI-powered Siri yet. It doesn’t matter.
Until now, Apple has only released what could be considered baseline AI features for its devices, like AI writing tools, summarization, generative AI images (which some complain are not very good), live translation, visual search,…