June 25, 2025

Meta is adding AI-powered summaries to WhatsApp

Meta announced on Wednesday that it’s adding an AI-powered summaries feature to WhatsApp. The optional new feature uses Meta AI to summarize unread messages in a chat. This summary would only be visible to you, not others in your chat, the company notes. The feature builds on the AI technology that Meta released in April, […]

Google flags apps made by popular Chinese e-commerce giant as malware

March 21, 2023

On Monday, Google announced that it had flagged several apps made by a Chinese e-commerce giant as malware, alerting users who had them installed, and suspended the company’s official app. In the last couple of weeks, multiple Chinese security researchers accused Pinduoduo, a rising e-commerce giant that boasts almost 800 million active users, of making […]

Google flags apps made by popular Chinese e-commerce giant as malware by Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai originally published on TechCrunch

India won’t tolerate abusive, obscene content on streaming services, minister warns

March 21, 2023

India will not tolerate use of abusive language in movies and TV shows on on-demand video streaming services, a key minister has warned in a move that illustrates how the nation’s IT rules have “handed over direct ministerial power for censorship.” Anurag Thakur, Union Minister of Information Broadcasting and Sports and Youth Affairs, said at […]

India won’t tolerate abusive, obscene content on streaming services, minister warns by Manish Singh originally published on TechCrunch

Duolingo is working on a music app

March 20, 2023

Duolingo, a language learning app with over 500 million users, is working on a music app, TechCrunch has learned. The Pittsburgh-based tech company currently has a small team working on a music product and is hiring a learning scientist who is an “expert in music education who combines both theoretical knowledge of relevant learning science […]

Duolingo is working on a music app by Natasha Mascarenhas originally published on TechCrunch

Pickle launches its truck unloading robot arm

March 20, 2023

Somewhere along the way, ProMat turned into a robotics show. It’s no surprise, of course. Logistics and automation go hand in hand these days. In the decade since Amazon absorbed Kiva, same- and next-day delivery have become an industry standard. Retailers who can’t match those once impossible speeds are destined to fall behind — and […]

Pickle launches its truck unloading robot arm by Brian Heater originally published on TechCrunch