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You know the scenario all too well if you sell on Facebook Marketplace. You post an item, and the messages arrive within minutes. “Is this available?” “Still for sale?” “Can you do 20 bucks?” Answering those questions eats up time you simply don’t have when you are juggling work, life, and that pile of stuff you finally decided to declutter. Meta believes it has a solution for the chaos. The company is introducing AI-powered tools on Marketplace that handle buyer texts automatically. Sellers can now enable auto-replies that pull information straight from their listings, including the price, description, and pickup…
Tinder just held its first-ever product keynote, Tinder Sparks 2026, announcing several major updates across AI, new social formats, and real-world dating events. But out of everything announced, the safety upgrades deserve the most attention. Online dating can be dangerous, and getting that part right matters more. Tinder is rolling out a new wave of trust and safety improvements powered by AI models. By integrating AI into its platform, the company aims to strengthen its safety features, enhance user protection, and create a more secure environment for its users. How does this feature work? Tinder is upgrading two of its…
Dating apps are losing their grip on Gen Z, a generation increasingly fed up with endless swiping and shallow matches, and companies are scrambling to find a solution. Recently, Tinder announced a slew of features, including IRL (in real life) dating sessions, to combat swipe fatigue. Now, Bumble is trying to address this issue, and its answer is generative AI. As reported by TechCrunch, during its Q4 earnings call, Bumble announced a new AI assistant called Bee. It’s designed to work like a personal matchmaker, learning your values, relationship goals, communication style, and more, and then using all this information…
WhatsApp is introducing a safer way for younger users to stay connected with friends and family. The messaging platform now allows parents to create protected WhatsApp accounts for kids under 13, giving guardians more control over how the account works. Instead of leaving safety decisions to automated systems, parents can be in charge of their child’s privacy settings and messaging environment. How to create and manage WhatsApp account for children under 13? You can follow these steps to set up a parent-managed WhatsApp account for preteens on both Android and iOS: Download WhatsApp from the Google Play Store or Apple…
YouTube introduced a more affordable subscription tier in the US last year called YouTube Premium Lite, offering viewers a cheaper way to watch most videos without ads. The plan is designed for people who mainly use YouTube to watch videos and want a less interrupted viewing experience without paying for the full YouTube Premium bundle. At launch, Premium Lite focused on one core benefit: removing ads from most videos. Since then, YouTube has updated the plan with additional features that were previously exclusive to the full Premium subscription. With ads becoming harder to avoid on YouTube, more viewers are starting…
Apple’s long-rumored foldable iPhone is shaping up to be the most expensive device the company has ever put in someone’s pocket. A fresh leak from Weibo-based tipster Instant Digital reveals that the iPhone Fold may launch in three storage tiers — 256GB, 512GB, and 1TB — with Chinese yuan-converted prices landing at approximately $2,320, $2,610, and $2,900, respectively. A foldable phone that costs more than a MacBook Pro? That last figure is genuinely startling. Apple’s base M5 MacBook Pro starts at $1,699, while the M5 Pro model begins at $2,199 with a 1TB SSD. In other words, the top-tier iPhone…
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Tinder is trying something a little ironic for a dating app: getting people off their phones and into the real world. The company has unveiled a set of new features, including in-person singles events and virtual speed dating sessions. It is designed to revive interest in online dating and bring users back to the platform. The announcements were made during Tinder’s first-ever product keynote, where the company outlined several updates aimed at refreshing the app and attracting younger users. Parent company Match Group has reportedly invested about $50 million in product development to support the push. Why is Tinder suddenly…
Amazon is reportedly planning to move its annual Prime Day shopping event earlier in the summer, shifting the massive sales event from its traditional July slot to late June. The change, first reported by Bloomberg, would mark one of the biggest scheduling tweaks to the company’s flagship retail promotion in years. Prime Day has typically been held in mid-July, becoming one of the most important sales events of the year for Amazon and its marketplace sellers. The promotion was originally launched in 2015 as a way to celebrate Amazon’s anniversary while also encouraging more users to sign up for the…
NASA has announced a new target date for the highly anticipated Artemis II crewed mission to the moon: April 1. It may be on April Fools’ Day, but the space agency is deadly serious about finally getting its massive SLS (Space Launch System) rocket, Orion spacecraft, and four astronauts airborne in what will be the first crewed lunar-bound flight since the final Apollo mission in 1972. The upcoming mission will take the crew around the moon rather than landing on its surface, with the first lunar landing of the Artemis era currently targeted for 2028. NASA shared the new target…