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Twitter restablece la marca de verificación azul para las cuentas principales, incluso si no pagaron por ella
Después de eliminar miles de marcas de verificación de verificación heredadas el 20 de abril, Twitter está restaurando las marcas de verificación azules para cuentas grandes, incluso si no pagaron suscripciones. Durante el fin de semana, varias cuentas principales (con más de 1 millón de seguidores) recuperaron sus marcas de verificación. Sin embargo, muchos de…
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PhonePe, respaldado por Walmart, desafiará el dominio de Google con una tienda de aplicaciones en India
El gigante fintech indio PhonePe se está preparando para lanzar una tienda de aplicaciones dedicada a los usuarios de Android en India, el último impulso de producto de la empresa respaldada por Walmart que domina el mercado de pagos móviles en la segunda economía asiática más grande. La tienda de aplicaciones, diseñada para ofrecer servicios…
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¿Qué es Auto-GPT y por qué es importante?
La búsqueda de Silicon Valley para automatizar todo es incesante, lo que explica su última obsesión: Auto-GPT. En esencia, Auto-GPT utiliza la versatilidad de los últimos modelos de IA de OpenAI para interactuar con el software y los servicios en línea, lo que le permite realizar tareas “autónomas” como X e Y. Pero a medida…
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Contraception app still being probed by medical agency over unwanted pregnancies
Is there such a thing as bad publicity? It’s an interesting and contested question. To wit: Self styled ‘digital contraception’ app, Natural Cycles — which relies on a set of proprietary algorithms and women inputting their morning body temperature to predict fertility levels each day — has claimed that negative headlines generated after a clinic reported…
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Pinterest hires a new head of computer vision
As Pinterest increasingly tries to sell itself as a startup specialized in computer vision that it plugs into visual discovery, it’s continuing to pick up additional pieces to help continue to build that out. Today, the company said it is hiring former Google computer vision research lead Chuck Rosenberg, who was at Google for 14…
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Google says it removed 700K apps from the Play Store in 2017, up 70% from 2016
The relatively open nature of Android has made it a target for malware authors and other bad actors of all stripes who often try to get their wares onto your phone through both the official Google Play Store, third-party app stores and any other way they can think of. For most users, though, the main…
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Rally Road lets you buy and sell equity shares in classic cars
Want to put your money in something like a 1955 Porsche or 1985 Ferrari but don’t have hundreds of thousands of dollars to spend? Meet Rally Road. The New York-based startup lets investors buy a real equity stake in a classic car for as little as $50. The company just closed a $2.9M seed round…
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Cake raises $5 million for a swipeable mobile browser
A startup called Cake has an ambitious plan to take on incumbents like Chrome and Safari to build a better browser for mobile devices. The company announced this morning it has raised $5 million for those efforts from Peak Ventures, Pelion Ventures and Kickstart Seed Fund. Cake was founded in late 2016 in Provo, Utah by…
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Snapchat enhances Bitmoji with 1.9 septillion avatar options
Now you can customize your Snapchat Bitmoji avatar with 40 skin tones, 50 hair colors, 50 hair treatment options and more so it looks just like you no matter what you look like. Today Snapchat launches Bitmoji Deluxe, a more configurable version of its cartoony avatars that embraces the growing diversity of its users. The…
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Child health advocates call for Facebook to shutter Messenger Kids app
The slings and arrows of outrage keep flying at Facebook. Today a coalition of child health advocates has published an open letter addressing CEO Mark Zuckerberg and calling for the company to shutter Messenger Kids: Aka the Snapchat-ish comms app it launched in the US last December — targeted at the under 13s. At the time…
