Spotify plans to shut down Heardle on May 5, after acquiring the Wordle-inspired music guessing game in July 2022, to focus on other music discovery objectives
Its Music-based Wordle Chris Morris / Fortune : Heardle is going silent as Spotify shuts down its music guessing game Tweets: Dan Nguyen / @dancow : Seems like a low bar, sure, but...
Twitter quietly updates its developer agreement with a clause banning third-party clients, after claiming the company was “enforcing long-standing API rules”
This Twitter Developer Agreement ("Agreement") is made between you … Sean Heber / The Breakroom : Twitterrific: End of an Era Timi Cantisano / XDA Developers : Twitter's next updat...
Twitter quietly updates its developer agreement with a clause banning third-party clients, after claiming the company was “enforcing long-standing API rules”
In case there was any doubt about Twitter's intentions in cutting off the developers of third-party apps …
Sources: Twitter froze some staff access to content moderation and policy enforcement tools, raising worries about a misinformation spike before the US midterms
Twitter Inc., the social network being overhauled by new owner Elon Musk, has frozen some employee access to internal tools used …
Sources: Elon Musk asks trusted staff from his other companies, including 50+ from Tesla, two from Boring Company, and one from Neuralink, to help at Twitter
- Tesla CEO Elon Musk, now sole director and CEO of Twitter, is asking employees of the social network to redesign their subscription and verification systems within one week.
Amazon says Prime members can send gifts with a phone number or email address, no physical address required, rolling out to mobile users in the continental US
There's currently no way to opt out of the new feature — Amazon is launching a new gifting feature today that will allow subscribers … Source: About Amazon .
Sir Clive Sinclair, the creator of the landmark ZX Spectrum who helped popularize the home computer, dies at age 81
Creator of the landmark ZX Spectrum and the less commercially successful C5 died after a long illness — Sir Clive Sinclair, the inventor and entrepreneur who was instrumental …
Ford announces it has hired former Tesla and Apple executive Doug Field as its chief advanced technology and embedded systems officer
Michael Wayland / CNBC :
Microsoft won't block users from getting Windows 11 on most old PCs if they install using ISO files, but they won't get Windows Updates, including security ones
Microsoft won't block users from getting Windows 11 on most old PCs if they install using ISO files, but they won't get Windows Updates, including security ones
Windows 11 will run on older CPUs — Microsoft is announcing today that it won't block people from installing Windows 11 on most older PCs.
Microsoft says it won't block users from getting Windows 11 on most older PCs if they install directly using ISO files, and not via Windows Update
Windows 11 will run on older CPUs — Microsoft is announcing today that it won't block people from installing Windows 11 on most older PCs.
John McAfee has died by suicide in a Spanish jail cell, according to his lawyer, hours after news that he would be extradited to face federal charges in the US
and prison system so cruel—that native-born defendants would rather die than become subject to it. Julian Assange could be next. Until the system is reformed, a moratorium should r...
Facebook says it will begin testing ads on Oculus headsets, starting with the shooter game Blaston, and won't use data stored on devices to target ads
but I think one factor is that the Quest 2 is an excellent consumer product with no real peer on the horizon save the rumbles from Apple, and Apple will be fine. What competition w...
Tesla says deliveries of Model 3 and Y vehicles in North America will no longer be equipped with radar for Autopilot and instead rely on a camera-based system
Sean O'Kane / The Verge :
Microsoft is enticing Zoom users to Teams with new free 24-hour meetings, allowing up to 300 people to join calls via the web without an account
Microsoft Teams is getting a big feature before the holidays Jon Fingas / Engadget : Microsoft hopes to win over Zoom fans with free 24-hour Teams web calls Arjun Tomar / Microsoft...
Microsoft is making a big push to entice Zoom users to Teams with a new free all-day video calling feature with up to 300 people on the web
Microsoft Teams is now free to use for 24-hour video calls all in a browser — Microsoft is making a big push to entice fans of Zoom …
Microsoft is launching its Surface Duo dual-screen Android phone on September 10 for $1,399, with preorders starting today in the US
Microsoft is launching its Surface Duo dual-screen Android phone on September 10th, priced from $1,399. After months of Microsoft executives teasing …
Kuo: iPhone shipments could decline by 25-30% if Apple is forced to remove WeChat from its App Stores around the world under Trump's EO
In a worst-case scenario, Apple's annual global iPhone shipments could decline by 25-30% if it is forced to remove WeChat from its App Stores around the world …
Sources: Twitter had preliminary talks with TikTok about combining with TikTok's US operations, expecting it would face less antitrust scrutiny than Microsoft
Microsoft still seen as front-runner in bidding for video-sharing app's U.S. operations — Twitter Inc. TWTR -1.46% …
Inside the efforts to sell TikTok as Trump keeps sending contradictory signals, amid shouting matches between Mnuchin and Navarro in the Oval Office
Trump advisers Mnuchin and Navarro fought over TikTok as Silicon Valley dealmakers tried to get closer to Trump