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Google confirms it deleted Maps Timeline data for some

Google confirms it deleted Maps Timeline data for some

John Ray

Google Maps users have recently been complaining on places like Reddit that their Timeline data — the app’s historical record ...

Spotify’s HiFi streaming could finally arrive this year

Spotify’s HiFi streaming could finally arrive this year

John Ray

It’s been nearly four years since Spotify announced a HiFi tier for its music streaming service that would support lossless ...

RedNote Scrambles to Hire English-Speaking Content Moderators

RedNote Scrambles to Hire English-Speaking Content Moderators

Mickey Vernon

The Chinese social media platform Xiaohongshu—better known internationally as RedNote—is scrambling to boost its ability to moderate English-language content after ...

A Book App Used AI to ‘Roast’ Its Users. It Went Anti-Woke Instead

A Book App Used AI to ‘Roast’ Its Users. It Went Anti-Woke Instead

Mickey Vernon

Fable, a popular social media app that describes itself as a haven for “bookworms and bingewatchers,” created an AI-powered end-of-year ...

I Spent a Week Eating Discarded Restaurant Food. But Was It Really Going to Waste?

I Spent a Week Eating Discarded Restaurant Food. But Was It Really Going to Waste?

Mickey Vernon

It’s 10 pm on a Wednesday night and I’m standing in Blessed, a south London takeaway joint, half-listening to a ...

Judge Hints at Plans to Rein In Google’s Illegal Play Store Monopoly

Judge Hints at Plans to Rein In Google’s Illegal Play Store Monopoly

Mickey Vernon

A jury in December found that Google broke US antitrust laws through deals and billing rules that gave an unfair ...