Snap is testing a “simplified version of Snapchat,” CEO Evan Spiegel wrote in a letter to employees published on Snap’s website Tuesday. The CEO says the simplified version aims to improve the platform’s accessibility and usability. For those that remember Snapchat’s 2018 redesign, this news may do little to stoke confidence. Spiegel attempted to rally […]
X is testing a video conferencing tool
Elon Musk’s X has already declared it aims to compete with LinkedIn for job listings and PayPal for payments. Now, it wants to take on the likes of Zoom, Google Meet, and Microsoft Teams with a video conferencing tool. One of X’s employees, Chris Park, posted last week that the company had its first internal […]
Opkey, an AI-based ERP testing platform, raises $47M
Companies are experimenting with services like ChatGPT to help workers write memos, answer questions, and much more, yet one of the clearest signs of how much traction AI is really getting in the world of enterprise IT is how often it figures in the more routine applications that organizations use. Today, a startup that exemplifies […]
Waymo to begin testing driverless robotaxis on San Francisco freeways
Waymo plans to start testing its fully autonomous vehicles with no human safety driver on freeways in the San Francisco Bay Area this week. Its employees will be the first guinea pigs. For those who didn’t already know, Waymo got the approval from California regulators to charge for autonomous rides on the freeway back in […]
YouTube is testing a sleep timer on its Premium tier
YouTube routinely experiments with new features on its Premium tier, and its latest test involves a sleep timer that pauses the video after, well, a set period of time. It’s not an earth-shattering feature, but it’s still bound to be handy for people who like to go to sleep with long podcasts or white noise […]