By Doreen Lorenzo March 12, 2024 Abigail Brody is a design executive who has spent more than a decade of her design career at Fortune 500 companies, including Apple, where she helped to create dark mode and some of the first iPhone’s design explorations. She leads product design at Physna’s Thangs, the fastest-growing 3D model … Continue reading An early Apple designer on what makes an interface truly great
Who makes money when AI reads the internet for us? A new Arc browser feature summarizes search results on a single web page and creates on its own, cheating websites. Pranav Dixit Fri, Feb 9, 2024 Arc Search Last week, The Browser Company, a startup that makes the Arc web browser, released a slick … Continue reading Who makes money when AI reads the internet for us?
Meta makes AI-generated labels a standard across Facebook, Instagram and Threads Brian-Damien Morgan Features Writer Meta has announced that across its social media platforms artificial intelligence (AI) generated images must be labeled going forward. The labeling system that will be titled “Imagined with AI” seeks to help users navigate the images that are created using … Continue reading Meta makes AI-generated labels a standard across Facebook, Instagram and Threads
By Jared Lindzon After years of flip-flopping on remote and in-person work policies, most knowledge workers and employers seem to have reached a hybrid compromise, but questions remain as to whether the truce will last. While not every worker wants to work from home and not every employer is demanding a return to the … Continue reading The return-to-office debate may settling down—in a way that makes everyone unhappy
By Jeremy Caplan January 11, 2024 This article is republished with permission from Wonder Tools, a newsletter that helps you discover the most useful sites and apps. Subscribe here. Bridge makes it easier to introduce people online, and to follow up on those intros. Start by syncing your contacts, or add individual contacts if you prefer. Then … Continue reading Bridge makes online introductions faster and easier
Walmart makes a rare CES appearance to promote AI-powered shopping The new generative AI-powered search functions are available on iOS and Android mobile devices and on the company’s website. Malak Saleh Thu, Jan 11, 2024 Walmart When Walmart announced it would be holding a CES keynote for the first time, we were admittedly a … Continue reading Walmart makes a rare CES appearance to promote AI-powered shopping
By Associated Press December 07, 2023 Meta is rolling out end-to-end encryption for calls and messages across its Facebook and Messenger platforms, the company announced Thursday. Such encryption means that no one other than the sender and the recipient—not even Meta—can decipher people’s messages. Encrypted chats, first introduced as an optional feature in Messenger in … Continue reading Meta makes end-to-end encryption a default on Facebook Messenger
Elon Musk makes changes to headline displays on Twitter/X Sam Shedden / Last Updated: Nov 23, 2023 Elon Musk, the owner of X (formerly Twitter), has announced another change to headline displays on the popular social media platform. Well, less a change and more a reversion. The network will reintroduce headlines in preview cards … Continue reading Elon Musk makes changes to headline displays on Twitter/X
By Christopher Zara November 20, 2023 Layoffs are underway this week at Citigroup as part of a companywide restructuring and simplification plan that was announced by CEO Jane Fraser in September. In a memo to employees on Monday, Fraser said the financial giant’s executive management team has been working with company leaders to implement … Continue reading Citigroup layoffs loom as the financial giant makes some of its most drastic changes in years
Amazon makes Fresh grocery deliveries and pickups available to everyone Prime Members will still get exclusive deals in-store and online. Sarah Fielding Thu, Nov 9, 2023 Adam Davy – PA Images via Getty Images Amazon is expanding its grocery services to the masses — well, at least to everyone who has an account with them. … Continue reading Amazon makes Fresh grocery deliveries and pickups available to everyone
