Tech

Source: The Verge Instagram is adding the ability to share your live location with friends in your DMs for up to one hour at a time so you can find each other when arriving at concerts, outings, and other gatherings. The feature works within Instagram’s direct messages, which also gets a few other new features,…

Source: The Verge Banned from Twitch, de-monetized on YouTube, and with Kick essentially telling him “no thanks,” Rumble is one of the last places available to Beahm if he wants to continue to make money streaming, especially as his other working relationships dwindle. After the news broke regarding the reason for his Twitch ban, Midnight…

Source: The Verge Apple engineers are wrestling with where to put the SIM card, battery, and thermal materials in the rumored iPhone 17 “Slim,” according to The Information. Although US iPhones haven’t had SIM cards for a couple of years now, they’re required to in China, making it a tricky, but necessary hurdle to get…

Source: The Verge Cars are getting more efficient and less polluting, resulting in better air quality for everyone, according to a new report from the Environmental Protection Agency. But with a new administration coming in that has made climate change and air pollution less of a priority — and drilling for more fossil fuels more…

Source: The Verge Threads will now let users decide what feed they want as their default when opening the app. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced the news in a post, saying that you’ll be able to choose between For You, Following, or any custom feed that you’ve set up. Zuckerberg’s post notes that Threads is…

Source: The Verge Nvidia says its new AI music editor can create “sounds never heard before” — like a trumpet that meows. The tool, called Fugatto, is capable of generating music, sounds, and speech using text and audio inputs it’s never been trained on. As shown in this video embedded below, this allows Fugatto to…

Source: The Verge The European Union says Twitter alternative Bluesky violates the EU Digital Services Act rules around information disclosure, reports Reuters. But since Bluesky isn’t yet big enough to be considered a “very large online platform” under the DSA, the regulator says it can’t regulate Bluesky the way it does X or Threads. The…

Source: The Verge During the campaign, Trump vowed to eliminate President Joe Biden’s “EV mandate” on “day one” of his presidency. And now with this transition underway, his advisors have already discussed including a measure to kill the $7,500 tax credit for new EV purchases as part of a broader tax reform package. If Trump…

Source: The Verge Today’s episode of Decoder is a little different: I’m talking with GoDaddy CEO Aman Bhutani, and we did this one live onstage last week at an event hosted by AlixPartners in Palo Alto, California, so you’ll hear the audience in the background. GoDaddy is one of those companies that feels tied to…