If culture is shaped by TikTok's algorithmic feed, then it's time for us to decide where we draw the line between necessary marketing and inauthentic growth hacking.
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Google mostly creates products for the web, but it has some new desktop apps today.
Motorola is suing dozens of content creators and social media platforms including Instagram, X, and YouTube over posts it alleges are defamatory.
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Last year, Google announced that it was testing a Google desktop app for Windows that resembles macOS's Spotlight feature, and now the app is available globally in English. You can download the app from Google's website, and it works with PCs with...
Freecash was removed from Apple's App Store after TechCrunch reached out for comment.
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The popular macOS app Little Snitch brought its network-monitoring tools over to Linux this week. In a blog post announcing the launch, one of the developers at Objective Development shared some early results from using the app on Linux: "On Ubuntu...
France's move to ditch Windows for Linux is its latest effort to reduce its reliance on American tech giants.
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Now that Meta released its Muse Spark model, more people are downloading the Meta AI app. And if you join the app, your friends will probably get an Instagram notification about it.
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If you make a mistake in an Instagram comment, you can now finally fix it without having to delete the comment and make it again. On Thursday, Instagram announced that users can now edit their comments within 15 minutes of posting them, which should...
The app was ranking No. 57 on the App Store just before Meta AI's new model launched. Now it's No. 5 — and rising.
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Google Chrome's latest update brings vertical tabs and a cleaner Reading Mode to help manage cluttered browsing.
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Justin Jin’s company Giggles – which he describes as “putting a trading app and TikTok together” – started as a joke.
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Two weeks ago I set aside my M4 MacBook Air and picked up a nine-year-old ThinkPad. It's one of an estimated 200 to 400 million Windows 10 PCs that don't meet Microsoft's requirements for Windows 11. When Microsoft officially ended support for...
Cameo launched a new TikTok integration that allows U.S. creators to offer personalized videos through the app.
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It's April Fools' Day, and Snap is using the occasion to "announce" that it's switching the name of Snapchat's Spotlight feed, the app's Instagram Reels-like feed of shortform vertical videos, to "Reals." In a video featuring co-founder and CEO Evan...
Meta faces thousands more court cases while Congress has proposed numerous bills addressing children’s online safety, some heavily criticized.
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The game is available globally and can be accessed in both one-on-one DM chats and in group chats.
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Meta says these glasses are the most comfortable ones it has ever designed, as they're made for all-day comfort.
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Speechify just launched a native Windows app that employs locally stored models to enable dictation and transcription across apps.
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Ring's app store will allow the company to target broader use cases beyond security, like elder care or business needs.
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