WhatsApp has announced four improvements to the app, including making it faster and easier for you to react to messages with your most-used emoji.
Parent company Meta says it wanted to start the new year by making the app more fun and easier to use, with a set of four enhancements …
Meta the new features in a news post.
Apple recently made a donation to assist with LA wildfire recovery efforts, and is now inviting customers to do the same.
Those based in the US can make a donation to the American Red Cross’s Southern California Wildfires Relief fund though the App Store or Apple Music apps …
CEO Tim Cook today the invitation.
Our hearts go out to all impacted by the ongoing devastation in LA. In addition to Apple’s donation, we’re making it easy to support recovery efforts. If you’re in the US
Several Meta properties including Facebook are reportedly down for users within the last few minutes. Downdetector shows a spike of more than 10,000 reports and climbing for Facebook, Instagram, and Threads.
Downdetector.com is the go-to source for crowdsourcing outage data when services like Meta properties experience outages. See pages for each property to track their status:
For now, Instagram shows by far the highest number of reports.
We’ll update our coverage at the outage progresses.
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TikTok may shut down totally in the US on Sunday, with the app no longer opening at all, according to a new report. This would go well beyond the legal requirement of the ban, which would only prevent new downloads.
However, Congress may be about to throw the company a lifeline, through a proposed new law granting it another 270 days before the ban comes into effect …
In related news, Chinese officials have denied a Bloomberg report that Bytedance is considering selling its US operations to X owner Elon
A fun piece of Apple history has been revealed thanks to a look at how Sonos started and where it is headed. It turns out that ‘father of the iPod ‘ Tony Fadell wanted Apple to buy the premium audio company.
Fadell tried to persuade Steve Jobs to do so, but Apple’s co-founder refused, saying that he instead wanted to sue the company …
The Information’s Nick Wingfield wrote a piece entitled , in which he revealed that an unnamed former Apple exec tried to persuade Steve Jobs to
We know from previous Apple patents that the company is hard at work figuring out ways of embedding Face ID in the display of future iPhones.
The biggest barrier here is that the infrared light needed for Face ID doesn’t travel well through a display – but a newly-granted Apple patent suggests that the company may have figured out a solution …
Former Apple design chief Jony Ive had long seen the holy grail of iPhone design to be “a single slab of glass.” From the front, you would see no
The popular Opera web browser has just released a major update for its iPhone and iPad app. With the new version, Opera is making it easier for users to interact with Aria – the company’s built-in AI – through new Home Screen widgets. Read on as we detail everything that’s new with the latest Opera update for iOS.
As detailed in a , the latest version of Opera for iOS brings new Home Screen widgets. These widgets are fully customizable and let users access key features of the web
Apple has released a new beta 3 update. Just hours after the recent debut of beta 3 for tvOS and HomePod only, watchOS 11.3 has received its beta 3 update too.
Apple’s current beta cycle has been fairly quiet.
For example, watchOS 11.3 currently has no known exclusive features.
More broadly across Apple’s platforms, there’s new robot vacuum support coming to the Home app on supported devices, a Calculator app fix , and Genmoji on the Mac .
But that
Apple introduced Face ID on iPhone all the way , and Touch ID quickly became absent from all but the budget iPhone SE. Now, the SE is about to lose it too . But I think it’s actually the perfect time to bring Touch ID back across the entire iPhone lineup, and Vision Pro is why.
Vision Pro is perhaps Apple’s most advanced technological achievement.
Yet very shortly after buying this ‘spatial computer,’ I immediately wanted Apple to bring a piece of legacy tech back: Touch ID
OpenAI on Tuesday announced a new feature coming to ChatGPT, which will turn the chatbot into a reminder app. Called “Tasks,” the feature will let users ask ChatGPT to remind them about their tasks and even create periodic alerts for specific situations.
OpenAI describes the Tasks feature as an “important step toward making it more of a helpful AI companion that can take on tasks on your behalf.”
With this feature, ChatGPT can send you reminders when you need them, whether they are one-time or recurring.