Sarah Perez

After Apple loosened its App Store guidelines to permit game emulators, the retro game emulator Delta — an app 10 years in the making — hit the top of the…

X users will now be able to discover posts from new Communities that are trending directly from an Explore tab within the section.

At Google’s I/O developer conference, the company made its case to developers — and to some extent, consumers — why its bets on AI are ahead of rivals. At the…

This latest release, one of many announcements from the Google I/O 2024 developer conference, focuses on improved battery life and other performance improvements, like more efficient workout tracking.

Google is preparing to launch a new system to help address the problem of malware on Android. Its new live threat detection service leverages Google Play Protect’s on-device AI to…

As Google revamps itself for the AI era, offering AI overviews within its search results, the company is introducing a new way to filter for just text-based links. With the…

In the coming months, Google says it will open up the Gemini Nano model to more developers.

Soon, Android users will be able to drag and drop AI-generated images directly into their Gmail, Google Messages and other apps.

Google Play has a new discovery feature for apps, new ways to acquire users, updates to Play Points, and other enhancements to developer-facing tools.

In addition to the body of the emails themselves, the feature will also be able to analyze attachments, like PDFs.

Google’s Circle to Search feature will now be able to solve more complex problems across psychics and math word problems. 

People can now search using a video they upload combined with a text query to get an AI overview of the answers they need.

The AI upgrade will make finding the right content more intuitive and less of a manual search process.

Unlike ChatGPT, Claude did not become a new App Store hit.

The social network has announced an updated version of its app that lets you offer feedback about its algorithmic feed so you can better customize it.

The Twitter for Android client was “a demo app that Google had created and gave to us,” says Particle co-founder and ex-Twitter employee Sara Beykpour.

The newly announced “Public Content Policy” will now join Reddit’s existing privacy policy and content policy to guide how Reddit’s data is being accessed and used by commercial entities and…

Dating apps and other social friend-finders are being put on notice: Dating app giant Bumble is looking to make more acquisitions.

Private social networking is making a comeback. Gratitude Plus, a startup that aims to shift social media in a more positive direction, is expanding its wellness-focused, personal reflections journal to…

Google has found a way to bring a variation of its clever “Circle to Search” gesture to iPhone users. The new interaction, launched in January, allows Android users to search…

Meta is rolling out an expanded set of generative AI tools for advertisers, after first announcing a set of AI features last October. Now, instead of only being able to…

Apple isn’t yet ready to unveil its broader AI strategy — it’s saving that for its Worldwide Developer Conference in June — but the tech giant did make sure to…

X’s Premium subscribers will be able to read a summary of posts on X associated with each trending story featured on the For You tab in Explore.

Despite spending more than $100 billion on R&D over the last five years, Apple isn’t planning to spin up too many new data centers to run or train AI models.

The new filing, along with Epic’s proposal, will help to inform Judge James Donato in a hearing scheduled on May 23 about what actions to take next to put Google’s…

Following various reports citing frustrated posts from users on Reddit, Spotify is quietly confirming the change.

TikTok is adding new ad products that will allow marketers to better control what sort of content their ads appear against.

The newer format allows users to curate content from around the web and from Pinterest combined with images they optionally snap using their phone’s camera to express their style, interests…

Google told TechCrunch that Flutter will have new updates to share at I/O this year.

Since Elon Musk acquired Twitter in the fall of 2022, the market for Twitter alternatives has been saturated with would-be competitors ranging from smaller startups to open source apps to…