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PayPal anuncia al ejecutivo sénior de Intuit, Alex Chriss, como nuevo director ejecutivo
PayPal está ganando un nuevo CEO, anunció el gigante de los pagos esta mañana. A partir del 27 de septiembre de 2023, el ejecutivo sénior de Intuit, Alex Chriss, se convertirá en presidente y director ejecutivo de PayPal, en reemplazo del actual director ejecutivo, Dan Schulman, según informaron los miembros de la junta directiva de…
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Irak levanta la prohibición de Telegram después de que la aplicación de mensajería cumple con las autoridades
El Ministerio de Telecomunicaciones de Irak levantó la prohibición de Telegram durante el fin de semana, días después de que la agencia bloqueara la aplicación de chat por motivos de seguridad. El ministerio dijo que levantó la prohibición debido a la “respuesta de la empresa propietaria de la aplicación a los requisitos de las autoridades…
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Zuckerberg dice que la pelea con Elon Musk no se hará
NUEVA YORK – El director ejecutivo de Meta, Mark Zuckerberg, dijo el domingo que el dueño de la empresa X, Elon Musk, “no es serio” respecto a la pelea con la que llevan dos meses especulando y que, por tanto, “es hora de dejar pasar” el asunto. “Creo que todos podemos estar de acuerdo en…
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Photoshop’s new generative AI feature lets you ‘uncrop’ images
Adobe is building on Firefly, its family of generative AI models, with a feature in Photoshop that “expands images beyond their original bounds,” as the company describes it. Aptly called Generative Expand, the capability, available in the beta version of Photoshop, lets users expand and resize images by clicking and dragging the Crop tool, which…
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ClassPass introduces credits
ClassPass is not accustomed to sitting idle. The startup, a subscription marketplace that lets users find and book fitness classes, is today introducing credits. ClassPass CEO Fritz Lanman hinted at the change at Disrupt SF last year, explaining that the service has a great market fit with a certain demographic, but doesn’t work as well…
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Facebook’s next money-maker: Messenger Broadcasts
Users might hate it, but Facebook is now testing a self-serve sponsored messaging tool for small businesses that aren’t sophisticated enough to build bots. TechCrunch first reported back in November Facebook internally building a prototype of the Messenger Broadcast tool that let companies blast a message to anyone who’s already started a conversation with them.…
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Instagram code reveals unreleased voice and video calling
Instagram wants to be your phone, not just your camera. And it wants to be better at it than Snapchat. Files buried in Instagram and the Instagram Direct standalone app’s Android Application Packages (APKs) are files and icons for “Call” and “Video Call”. APKs often show files for unreleased features that are lying dormant in…
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MIT study shows how much driving for Uber or Lyft sucks
Ride-hailing giants Uber and Lyft are delivering pitiful levels of take-home pay to the hundreds of thousands of US independent contractors providing their own vehicles and driving skills to deliver the core service, according to an MIT CEEPR study examining the economics of the two app platforms. The report catalyses the debate about conditions for workers…
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Micropodcasting? Facebook tries Voice Clip status updates
More intimate than text but easier to record than video, Facebook hopes voice could get people sharing more on its aging social network. And internationally, where users may have to deal with non-native language keyboards, voice lets them speak their mind without a typing barrier. Facebook is now testing Voice Clips as a status update…
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Air’s app lets you record high-quality home movies without running out of space
These days, home movies aren’t recorded with handheld video cameras, but rather with our smartphones. Unfortunately, there’s a downside. Our iPhones default to lower quality video so recordings won’t eat up storage space; and while you can adjust that all the way to 4K on newer devices, that would drastically increase your storage consumption. You’d…