Insta360’s new Link webcams are cheaper but can still follow you around

Insta360’s new Link webcams are cheaper but can still follow you around

Insta360 has announced two new versions of its Link webcam with smaller designs and new automated tracking capabilities optimized for presentations or livestreaming. The $199 Link 2 carries forward the innovative two-axis gimbal of the original while introducing improvements to its noise reduction capabilities, while the $149 Link 2C doesn’t move itself at all. Both … Read more

Tech YouTuber MKBHD’s Panels app is a bit underwhelming

Tech YouTuber MKBHD’s Panels app is a bit underwhelming

Tech YouTuber Marques Brownlee, or MKBHD, is stepping out of the reviewer role and into the mindset of a builder. This week, he launched a wallpaper app called Panels on iOS and Android, where he’s personally curating high-quality digital wallpapers from artists — but of course, there’s a catch. In order to access high-resolution wallpapers … Read more

MoneyGram blames ‘cybersecurity issue’ for ongoing days-long outage

MoneyGram blames ‘cybersecurity issue’ for ongoing days-long outage

U.S.-based money transfer giant MoneyGram has blamed an unspecified “cybersecurity issue” for an ongoing days-long outage affecting the company and its users. In a post on X on Monday, MoneyGram said it had “identified a cybersecurity issue affecting certain of our [sic] systems.” The company previously said a “network outage” was the cause of the … Read more

Snapchat taps Google’s Gemini to power its chatbot’s generative AI features

Snapchat taps Google’s Gemini to power its chatbot’s generative AI features

Snap has entered into an expanded partnership with Google Cloud to power generative AI experiences within Snapchat’s My AI chatbot. The chatbot will leverage the multimodal capabilities of Gemini AI to enable the chatbot to understand different types of information like text, audio, images, and videos. Gemini is powering the Google Lens-like features that Snapchat … Read more

As the open social web movement grows, a new nonprofit launches to expand the ‘fediverse’

As the open social web movement grows, a new nonprofit launches to expand the ‘fediverse’

A new project launching today aims to capitalize on the momentum now being seen within the fediverse — also known as the open social web, which describes a network of interconnected social networking services powered by the ActivityPub protocol. Co-founded by the co-author and current editor of ActivityPub, Evan Prodromou, a new nonprofit organization called … Read more

TikTok comes for Google’s ad business as it starts letting advertisers target its search results page

TikTok comes for Google’s ad business as it starts letting advertisers target its search results page

After building out its Search product over the past few years to take on Google, TikTok is now taking its Search ambitions even further by allowing advertisers to target its search results page. TikTok announced on Tuesday that it’s launching the “TikTok Search Ads Campaign,” a new keyword-based search solution that enables brands to appear … Read more