Google’s New Email Policies: Cutting Down on Spam and Unwanted Emails Introduction Google today is announcing a series of significant changes to how it handles email from bulk senders in an effort to cut down on spam and other unwanted emails. The company says that starting next year, bulk senders will need to authenticate their…
Peloton Announces Leadership Change: Tom Cortese Steps Down, Nick Caldwell Takes Over Introduction Peloton co-founder and Chief Product Officer Tom Cortese is leaving the company and will be replaced by longtime Silicon Valley veteran Nick Caldwell, the company announced on Tuesday. Cortese, who helped found the connected fitness company in 2012, will transition into an…
Snapchat Partners with Microsoft for Ads in AI Chatbot Snapchat has a new advertising partner in Microsoft for the ads it’s inserting into its AI product, My AI, an AI chatbot introduced earlier this year to the wider Snapchat user base. The company in May said it would begin testing Sponsored Links in My AI…
Spotify Tests Putting Lyrics Behind Paywall to Encourage Paid Subscriptions Spotify’s user base is growing faster than ever, but its paid-subscriber growth isn’t keeping pace with free listeners. That may be why it’s exploring pushing lyrics behind the paywall. Over the past few days, the music-streaming company made waves by locking down lyrics for some…
Preserving History: WordPress Offers 100-Year Domain Registration WordPress, a company that has been around for 20 years, is now selling domains with a 100-year registration length. That means your blog or website will probably live longer than you. Preserving Legacies for Generations to Come The company announced in a blog post that this 100-year plan…
Twitter’s Decline Boosts Mastodon’s User Numbers Mastodon, an open-source competitor to Twitter, is seeing a huge rise in users as it replaces its famous logo with Elon Musk’s favorite letter, “X.” Eugen Rochko, founder and CEO of Mastodon, said in a new post that the number of monthly active users for his alternative to Twitter…
Meta Introduces Llama 2: A New Family of AI Models The generative AI landscape grows larger by the day. Today, Meta announced a new family of AI models, Llama 2, designed to drive apps such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Bing Chat and other modern chatbots. Trained on a mix of publicly available data, Meta claims that…
Stock Market Optimism for the Third Quarter Stock markets have had a surprisingly strong start to the year, but whether this trend will continue is uncertain as investors enter into a seasonally weak period for markets. Despite worries of a recession and the Spring regional banking crisis, the first half of 2023 saw a tech-led…
Pokémon GO Maker Niantic Lays Off 230 Employees Pokémon GO maker Niantic laid off 230 employees today, just one year after it laid off around 90 employees. During last year’s layoffs, Niantic canceled four projects, including a Transformers game. Some Niantic games will meet the same fate this time around. After four months in the…
SoftBank Planning Fresh Layoffs at Vision Fund SoftBank Group Corp is planning a fresh round of layoffs at its Vision Fund investment arm, two people familiar with the matter said, the latest cost-cutting move at the Japanese conglomerate. The layoffs, which could be announced in the next two weeks, may impact up to 30% of…