2+ hour, 12+ min ago   (236+ words) Software companies love offering apps on a subscription. Why take a customer's money once for the old-fashioned "buy it and own it forever" model when you can take their money every month in perpetuity? Or at least until the app…...

2+ hour, 36+ min ago   (314+ words) This far along into the life of the internet, we know to be skeptical of emails, search results, Facebook posts, Instagram links, and dang near everything else online, because everybody and everything is out to scam you. But LinkedIn, with…...

19+ hour, 46+ min ago   (520+ words) Since 2008, Stack Overflow has been an immensely helpful resource for developers, allowing them to crowdsource answers to their coding questions " and resulting in a vast online repository of coding knowledge. But as Dev Class reports, the advent of generative AI…...

2+ day, 15+ hour ago   (757+ words) Nearly a third of Latino adults without home broadband rely on their smartphone for internet access. A new analysis by the Pew Research Center found that 28% of U.S. Latino adults are smartphone dependent, meaning they rely on their handheld device for…...

2+ day, 22+ hour ago   (249+ words) A low-cost smartphone app with a blunt premise has shot to the top of China's paid app rankings. Known as "Are You Dead?" or "Dead Yet?" the app prompts users to regularly confirm they are alive by tapping a check-in…...

6+ day, 6+ hour ago   (398+ words) Some of Cursor's most important AI features didn't come from a formal road map. One was built over Thanksgiving, says its engineering head. Ginsberg said he built a debugging feature over the Thanksgiving holiday simply because he wanted it and…...

1+ week, 10+ hour ago   (451+ words) Some CEOs are showing up to meetings with a working prototype and saying, "Look what I built," says Replit chief executive Amjad Masad. Masad said many leaders feel "disempowered because they've delegated a lot of things." "They don't have as…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (1058+ words) My clearest memory from middle school is pacing in my bedroom, phone in hand, repeating the word "wake" again and again. I was testing a voice app I had written. If I said the phrase just right, the app would…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (535+ words) Eventually, at midnight on Sunday, DoorDash's CEO Tony Xu stepped in to debunk the claims the company referred to Dashers as "human assets," and that it tracked their "desperation score," or didn't make their priority delivery faster. "This is not…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (516+ words) A Chinese AI chatbot embedded inside the country's most widely used app briefly went off the rails, snapping at a user. Tencent's AI assistant, Yuanbao, which is built into WeChat " China's dominant super app used daily by tens of millions…...