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Strava appears to have disabled a key tracking feature over privacy concerns
This will come as no surprise to those who’ve been following the news of the past couple of weeks, but it appears that Strava’s disabled at least one top feature as it works to get to the bottom of recent privacy concerns over its mapping features. The app’s Segments feature looks to be at least…
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Snapchat slips in features like fonts and do not disturb amidst redesign
Snap is waking up to the “Time Well Spent” movement Facebook is already addressing. Snapchat is offering a way to mute specific people without formally blocking them. Meanwhile, the sweeping redesign that’s slowly rolling out comes with ways to jazz up your Snaps with colorful text styles and multiple captions. The new features focus around making…
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Buglife wants to put the power to report mobile software bugs in users’ hands
Every day we encounter bugs in mobile apps. They may lock up or perform in a way we didn’t expect, but what if you could report the bug to developers as it happened with all of the contextual information they need to fix the problem? That’s what Buglife a member of the Winter 2018 Y…
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The Pixel 2’s Visual Core photo processor now works with Instagram, WhatsApp and Snapchat
Visual Core was a strange little surprise from Google when it revealed it back in October. The system company waited three weeks until after the Pixel 2’s announcement to talk up the system-on-a-chip that had been lying in wait inside the handset the whole time. For most of its life, the photography-focused processor has been…
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Here’s how to stream the Super Bowl tonight
The NFL season ends tonight with the New England Patriots losing to facing off against the Philadelphia Eagles in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The game starts at 6:30pm ET / 3:30pm PT and this year will be aired on NBC, meaning if you have cable or an HD antenna you can just tune into NBC to watch. If you want…
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How Facebook stole the news business
Big news outlets stupidly sold their soul to Facebook. Desperate for the referral traffic Facebook dangled, they spent the past few years jumping through its hoops only to be cut out of the equation. Instead of developing an owned audience of homepage visitors and newsletter subscribers, they let Facebook brainwash readers into thinking it was…
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Spotify is testing a new playlist-based music app that’s a lot like Pandora
Spotify is testing an app that sees it move firmly into Pandora’s territory. ‘Stations’ is a new Android-only app that is being piloted by the company in Australia — it was first noticed by app analytics firm Sensor Tower on Tuesday. This app offers a ‘lean-back’ option to listen to music based on genres and…
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Appeals court rules that Tinder’s pricing violates age discrimination laws
A California appeals court has sided with Allan Candelore, a man suing Tinder over the pricing for its premium service, Tinder Plus. Specifically, Candelore and his lawyers argued that by charging $9.99 per month if a user is under 30, versus $19.99 per month if you’re 30 or older, Tinder is discriminating based on age,…
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Imverse’s groundbreaking mixed reality renders you inside VR
What if you could look down and see your actual arms and legs inside VR, or look at other real-world people or objects as if you weren’t wearing a headset? The team at Imverse spent five years building this incredible technology at EPFL, the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology of Lausanne. “We were working on…
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La aplicación de noticias Artifact agrega voces de texto a voz de IA, incluidas Snoop Dogg y Gwyneth Paltrow
Aplicación de noticias personalizada Artefacto, desarrollado por los fundadores de Instagram, está agregando hoy otra característica nueva impulsada por IA. La compañía está lanzando una función de texto a voz impulsada por IA en asociación con Perorar que permitirá a los usuarios de Artifact escuchar artículos de noticias leídos en voz alta. La función no…
