UPchieve, the free, 24/7 online tutoring and college counseling app for low-income students, announced Thursday it’s giving teachers in Title 1 middle schools and high schools a new tool to ensure their students get the academic support they need. The new offering, called “UPchieve for Teachers,” allows teachers to offer 1:1 support to their students. […]

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The company is in various stages of developing and piloting a range of initiatives focused on dealing with bad actors, harassment, spam, fake accounts, video safety, and more.

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iOS 18 offers the most control over the look and feel of your iPhone's user interface than any other version of Apple's mobile operating system to date.

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At its Made On YouTube event on Wednesday, the company announced a new dedicated space for creators to interact with their fans and viewers. The space, called “Communities,” is kind of like a Discord server built into a creator’s channel. With Communities, YouTube is hoping creators won’t need to use other platforms like Discord or […]

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Parents understand the challenge of keeping young kids engaged in online learning. Nurture is a new app designed for children aged 4 to 7 that features interactive content and games to capture their interest. The company’s mission is to equip children with critical life skills such as socializing, basic financial understanding, mindfulness, fitness, nutrition, and […]

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Snap, Snapchat’s parent company, is expanding its suite of AI tools for creators. At this year’s Snap Partner Summit in Santa Monica, California, Snap announced a new feature, Easy Lens, that translates plain-English descriptions into Lenses, Snap’s brand of augmented reality (AR) objects, 3D effects, characters, and transformations for photos and videos. Available in Snap’s […]

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At Tuesday’s annual Snap Partner Summit, the Snapchat maker unveiled new tools for creators designed to bring its app more in line with its competitors, like TikTok and Instagram. The company also said it will make it easier for creators to connect with brands for sponsored deals and partnerships.  Catching up to rivals, creators on […]

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Snapchat is rolling out a simplified version of the app to some users, the company announced on Tuesday during its Snap Partner Summit, as part of a test to make the disappearing photo app easier to use. “Simple Snapchat” declutters the app’s home screen, removing the Snap Map and Stories tabs, and consolidates its navigation […]

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Just a day after third-party app stores were officially allowed on the iPad in the European Union, Epic Games announced on X that the Epic Games Store can now be installed on iPadOS. However, you need to live in a EU country and have an Apple account registered for that country in order to install […]

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A pair of friends turned founders, Thomas Magnano and Benoit Herbreteau, have created a service that can make your life a little easier if you want to migrate your music listening between streaming services. They founded their company Soundiiz in 2013, which was originally supposed to be a music search interface, but they found that […]

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With iOS 18, users can replace the default camera app on the lock screen with a third-party app. Halide and Obscura — two popular camera apps designed as alternatives to Apple’s default camera app with manual controls and different image processing algorithms — have already taken advantage of that possibility and released updates with shortcuts […]

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Are we at peak social media yet? It’s an interesting question to ponder after the launch of an iOS app offering a social media experience just for one. At a glance, SocialAI — which is billed as a pure “AI Social Network” — looks like Twitter, but there’s one very big twist on traditional microblogging: […]

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Instagram is introducing Teen Accounts to automatically enroll young users into an app experience with built-in protections. The company announced that starting on Tuesday, it will start placing all current and future accounts held by a teenager into a Teen Account. Instagram is also rolling out new updates to its parental supervision feature that allows […]

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Ukraine-based Mac and iOS app developer MacPaw announced today that it is releasing its alternative mobile app store Setapp thanks to the new Digital Markets Act (DMA) rules in the EU. The company has been testing the app store under closed beta for a few months now with select users. MacPaw is now allowing all […]

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Social network Bluesky said Monday that it now has more than 10 million users. This is largely thanks to the rapid growth of the network in the past few weeks after Elon Musk-owned X was shuttered in Brazil. “If you’re reading this, you’re one of the first 10 million users on Bluesky!” the company said in […]

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In this post, we explain the many Microsoft Copilots available and what they do, and highlight the key differences between each.

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Apple’s newest software update, iOS 18, is rolling out today to all iPhone users. While AI technology was heavily hyped as a key part of this upgrade, Apple Intelligence features aren’t part of this release. Instead, Apple says it will release Apple Intelligence features with iOS 18.1 starting with the U.S. before gradually rolling them […]

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On Monday Apple released the new version of iOS, the company’s operating system for the iPhone — iOS 18 is a free download, and it works with the iPhone XR and XS or later, as well as the second- and third-generation iPhone SE. In other words, if your iPhone supports iOS 17, you can install […]

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Apple has officially released iOS 18 and iPadOS 18. We break down all the top new features and how to download it.