80 posts tagged ‘Apps’
Apple Music Replay is here, and it’s still no Spotify Wrapped
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Apple’s year-end review and answer to Spotify Wrapped, Apple Music Replay, has arrived, but it’s still no match for Spotify’s personalized look back at your year in music. The Apple experience — available via a URL at replay.music.apple.com — will show you your top songs, albums, artists, genres, and other information about your listening history […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
The 2024 IPO cohort is coming into focus as Shein, Reddit prep to go public
If Shein and Reddit can do better than our miniscule tech IPO class of 2023, they could leave the sort of accelerative impact that tech startups so desperately need right now. © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
YouTube launches more than 30 ‘Playables’ mini-games for Premium users
YouTube is expanding its games ambition by rolling out access to a set of online games for Premium users after first testing them with select users back in September. The Google-owned company has started notifying Premium users that they can start trying out more than 30 mini-games. Users can play the games instantly and don’t […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Forget Siri. Turn your iPhone’s ‘Action Button’ into a ChatGPT voice assistant instead
With news that OpenAI’s ChatGPT Voice feature is now available to all free users, you can ditch Siri as your main voice assistant on your iPhone — well, specifically on your iPhone 15 Pro and Pro Max, that is. Apple’s latest smartphones support the ability to configure the new Action Button, which replaces the Mute button […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Google’s Bard AI chatbot can now answer questions about YouTube videos
Google has announced that its Bard AI chatbot can now answer questions about YouTube videos. Although Bard already had the ability to analyze YouTube videos with the launch of the YouTube Extension back in September, the chatbot can now give you specific answers about queries related to the content of a video. “We’re taking the […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Google Meet can now detect when you raise your hand IRL
Google launched its hand gesture detection feature on Google Meet that recognizes when your physical hand is raised and triggers the hand raise icon to notify participants in the video call that you have a question. The AI-powered feature was initially announced back in March. Google Meet only detects your hand when it is visible […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Elon Musk says xAI’s chatbot ‘Grok’ will launch to X Premium+ subscribers next week
Shortly after screenshots emerged showing xAI’s chatbot Grok appearing on X’s web app, X owner Elon Musk confirmed that Grok would be available to all of the company’s Premium+ subscribers sometime “next week.” While Musk’s pronouncements about time frames for product deliveries haven’t always held up, code developments in X’s own app revealed that Grok […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Mastodon tackles the problem of ‘reply guys’ with its latest feature
Mastodon’s latest update is tackling a problem Twitter users know all too well: the scourge of the “reply guys.” A colloquial term for the men who regularly reply to women’s posts in an overly familiar fashion, often to “mansplain,” tone police, offer unsolicited advice or gaslight the original poster, reply guys have been a longtime […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.