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It was not long ago that building a sophisticated app required a team of experienced programmers hovering over their keyboards. Now, AI has made it possible for a novice with no coding knowledge to whip up high-quality apps from scratch.Emergent, founded out of Y Combinator’s startup class of 2024 by…
Grok is still more than willing to generate sexualized AI images of real people. After doing some tests, I quickly found out that it’s still possible — you just have to use the X and Grok apps.Over the past few weeks, Elon Musk’s AI image-generation tool has faced backlash for…
An app that asks a blunt question — “Are you dead?” — has become a hit in China.The app, called “Si Le Me” (Chinese for “are you dead”), requires users to “check in” by pressing a button. If they fail to do so for two consecutive days, the app alerts…
Branda Statman has had some “scary times” on LinkedIn. Not scary in terms of worrying about her safety — scary in terms of embarrassment. Statman, a brand manager who lives in Phoenix, has scoped out exes or potential partners on the platform more than once without switching to private browsing…
Making plans with your friends should be easy.However, between the various group chats, stacked schedules, and endless distractions, those plans can often fall to the wayside.Enter Rodeo, a new app from former C-suite executives at dating app Hinge. Cofounders Sam Levy (who was Hinge’s COO) and Tim MacGougan (CPO), who…
Spotify Wrapped could already feel humiliating. This year, there are more opportunities than ever to flip over the stone that is your phone habits and see what crawls out.Last year, my top artist was Florence + The Machine. I stand by it; “What Kind of Man” is one of the…
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Shari Williams, a 41-year-old social media strategist based in Chicago. It’s been edited for length and clarity.In 2017, my four-month contract at an advertising agency was wrapping up with no word of a job offer or extension. I thought to myself,…
When you spend a dollar at Apple’s App Store, up to 30 cents of that goes to Apple.Now, a US court ruling may change that radically — opening up a future where Apple collects almost none of the money users spend on apps.Emphasis on may: Developers and regulators have been…
Temu is not exactly new news, I know.Chinese e-commerce giant Pinduoduo launched the marketplace in the US back in 2022, and it has since taken the retail world by storm. [userAs a retail reporter, I’ve written about Temu and its impact on US companies, but I never got around to…
It’s not you, it’s AI.At least that’s the popular refrain on social media: The thing standing between you and a new job is an algorithm. It’s an idea that can help make sense of a dizzying job market where applications can meet speedy rejections or, worse, go unanswered.Yet, often, technology…
