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Twitter announced earlier this month that it would restrict free use of its API, the programming interface that enables developers to communicate with Twitter. While the change undoubtedly has an impact on startups and independent developers who are creating tools to make the platform entertaining and safe, it also poses …

In order to address a vulnerability that hackers were actively using to compromise Apple devices, Apple on Monday released a new version of the operating systems for the iPhone and iPad. Apple stated that it “is aware of a report that this issue may have been actively exploited” on the …

Microsoft has confirmed that it is finally killing off Yammer, the business social network it bought for $1.2 billion more than ten years ago. Yammer’s founding team was based in San Francisco, and co-founder David Sacks officially launched the company at a TechCrunch startup event in 2008. Before Microsoft intervened …

According to four people with knowledge of the situation, Amazon is in talks with Times Internet to investigate buying MX Player, one of the biggest on-demand video streaming services in India, as the American e-commerce company looks to expand its entertainment ambitions in the important international market. Three sources warned …

A “highly-targeted” phishing attack led to the access of internal documents and source code, according to Reddit. Reddit’s chief technology officer, Christopher Slowe, also known as KeyserSosa, stated in a post that on February 5, the company learned about the “sophisticated” attack aimed at Reddit staff members. According to him, …

With the help of feature gates and other experimentation tools, Statsig, a well-funded Bellevue, Washington-based startup that enables product teams to test and evaluate new features (using real-time data from actual customers), announced today that it is essentially making its feature gating capabilities available for free to most users. All …

In his second State of the Union address of his term, President Joe Biden will speak to the nation on Tuesday evening. The president is scheduled to comment on data privacy and children’s online safety issues, according to a White House press release. According to the briefing, Biden will urge …

2022 marked a breakthrough year for artificial intelligence. Early in the year, image generation models like DALL-E, MidJourney, and StableDiffusion were introduced and received a lot of attention. Near the end of the year, ChatGPT became extremely popular. According to CB Insights, $49 billion in venture capital was invested in …

A number of startups are vying to surpass Canva and unseat Adobe’s hegemony in three-dimensional modeling. PixCap, a newly funded participant, is entering the fray with a web-based, no-code 3D design tool. Singapore-based PixCap, which was established in 2020, recently received $2.8 million from a seed funding round. It was …

Allow space for yet another play about preventative health: After four years of covert development, Spotify founder Daniel Ek quietly launched a body scanning service in Sweden on Friday, putting an end to rumors about his new “health tech” startup, Neko (via Tech EU). Ek, who described the healthcare system …