When Beeper launched a version of its long-in-the-works “iMessage for Android” app a couple of weeks ago, flaunting its ability to turn green Android texts into Apple’s proprietary blue bubble messages, the upstart knew that this would likely get Apple’s attention. It just didn’t anticipate getting this much attention. Since …

UPDATE: December 8, 5:30 pm. Beeper said on Friday it was experiencing an outage and that some Beeper Mini users were not able to send or receive messages. TechCrunch reported that Android users sending messages to iPhones via Beeper Mini are seeing an error message that reads, “Failed to lookup …

Elon Musk says that advertisers fleeing X after his endorsement of an antisemitic post could “kill” the platform formerly known as Twitter. And he has a simple message for those companies, which include Disney, Apple, and IBM: “Go fuck yourself.” Musk, speaking Wednesday night at the New York Times’ DealBook …

It’s 8 pm on a recent night this fall, I’m finally unwinding, and Del Harvey is texting me. Again. This time she’s sending a screenshot of tense tweets exchanged between the supreme leader of a nation-state and the official Twitter account of a rival nation-state. I respond with a prompt: …

Earlier this week Amanda McCellon, a city government worker and community organizer in the greater Oklahoma City metropolitical area, finally decided to pray to the algorithm. “Dear Algorithm,” began her post on Threads, Meta’s newish Twitter clone. From there, McCellon asked to be connected with 10 topics and like-minded folks …

Mixed reality headsets have gotten their fair share of hype this year, with Apple finally revealing its plans for the Vision Pro and Meta keynoting its new, genuinely impressive Meta Quest 3. But over the past few years, the cofounders at mixed reality company Spatial.io noticed a disturbing trend. In …

The spread of misinformation is a massive problem online, and generative AI is only helping boost the creation of inauthentic or real-but-repurposed media. Even in the pre-generative-AI era, an image surfaced through a quick Google search might have been used out of context or attached to a less-than-reliable website. Google …

The face-computing metaverse still hasn’t gone mainstream, but that isn’t stopping Meta from trying to make it so. Today Meta chief executive Mark Zuckerberg revealed full details about two new hardware products: an updated virtual reality Quest headset and a new set of Meta-powered smart glasses made by Ray-Ban. The …

Earlier this year, the stock-photo service provider Getty Images sued Stability AI over what Getty said was the misuse of more than 12 million Getty photos in training Stability’s AI photo-generation tool, Stable Diffusion. Now Getty Images is releasing its own AI photo-generation tool, which will be available to its …

Just as Apple was wrapping up its annual presentation of a brand-new iPhone today—a whole suite of them, plus a watch—the company’s senior vice president of marketing, Greg Joswiak, let slip that two new iCloud plans would launch on September 18. Somewhat remarkably, the in-person crowd of more than 300 …