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Ride-Hailing App for Women HERide Plans to Compete With Uber

Uber is starting to let women request women drivers. It’s about time, says Jillian Anderson.Anderson founded HERide, which started offering rides in Atlanta in 2022 — three years before Uber announced last month that it would start allowing women to request female drivers on its app.Anderson said she got the idea…

I Created an App to Help Canadians Buy Local and Make Informed Choices

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Sasha Ivanov, founder of Maple Scan. Ivanov, based in Alberta, Canada, has a master’s degree in computer science and is an app developer who studies human-technology interactions.It all came from a really personal moment.Back in February, I was at home watching…

Jack Dorsey Vibe-Coded His New Messaging App

Jack Dorsey: Twitter cofounder, Block CEO … vibe coder.If you missed it, the tech founder recently announced a new encrypted messaging app, Bitchat. The app works by connecting to other devices to communicate using something called a Bluetooth mesh network.Dorsey called it “my weekend project,” a turnaround time that naturally…

AWS Is Revamping Its AI App Strategy and Even Considered Sunsetting Q

Amazon’s cloud business is planning a major revamp of its AI application strategy, with a new bundled service, Business Insider has learned.Internally called Q Business Suite (QBS), the new service is described as a “unified workspace” that combines business intelligence and generative AI capabilities from existing Amazon tools such as…