Spotify announces Taste Profile editing in beta, the first time it lets users fine-tune its recommendations, starting with Premium subscribers in New Zealand
At the SXSW conference on Friday, Spotify co-CEO Gustav Söderström announced a new feature, launching in beta …
Meta will recommend using Unity and Unreal's built-in OpenXR support, after developers said Meta's Unity and Unreal integrations blocked other PC VR headsets
At Meta, our core philosophy is that a vibrant, multi-platform development community … X: Kent Bye / @kentbye : Public response from Meta about their controversy around OpenXR. Honestly happy to see s...
Signal's Meredith Whittaker says AI agents doing tasks on users' behalf pose security and privacy risks and refers to their use as “putting your brain in a jar”
techcrunch.com/2025/03/07/s... … Paul Rietschka / @prietschka : Agents agents agents! — Yes, Whittaker is right! — Also: agents agents agents! If you say it enough — I've been told — it becomes t...
A profile of former Tinder CEO Renate Nyborg and her new startup Meeno, which provides an AI-powered chatbot for relationship advice on iOS and has raised $4.9M
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Q&A with Figma CEO Dylan Field on the failed Adobe deal, competing with Adobe, Figma's new Multi-edit tool, building tools, AI, AGI, Dev Mode, the web, and more
The leader of design toolmaker Figma on life after the failed Adobe deal and what comes next in a live interview from SXSW. Threads: @reckless1280 Threads: Nilay Patel / @reckless1280 : Very much enjo...
Digital Marilyn, an interactive AI avatar of Marilyn Monroe that was created using GPT-3.5 by Soul Machines and Authentic Brands Group, was unveiled at SXSW
Can't wait to meet Digital Marilyn? Enter your details below and you'll … Cheyenne MacDonald / Engadget : AI Marilyn Monroe adds to the list of dead celebrities digitally resurrected without consent ...
Digital Marilyn, an interactive AI avatar of Marilyn Monroe that was created using GPT-3.5 by Soul Machines and Authentic Brands Group, was unveiled at SXSW
One of Marilyn Monroe's most famous quotes was, “I don't mind living in a man's world as long as I can be a woman in it.”
An interview with Gowalla co-founder and CEO Josh Williams as he re-launches his location-based social networking app at SXSW, 14 years after its debut
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SXSW shows crypto and the metaverse are underwhelming, mundane, and pathetic; the biggest boosters are rich enough to generate interest but not social utility
The first SXSW in three years was taken over by crypto-mania fueled by marketing hype. — It did not really hit …
The state of crypto and the metaverse, as seen at SXSW, is underwhelming and pathetic, showing off only how rich its boosters are and little of social utility
The first SXSW in three years was taken over by crypto-mania fueled by marketing hype. — It did not really hit … Tweets: @chrismessina , @oneunderscore__ , @nd_kane , @mariabustillos , @jscros , @bi...