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“Step Out of the Ordinary: Discover the $365 Aiden Coffee Machine from Fellow”

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The fancy drip coffee maker has a $365 price tag to match. The latest addition to its aficionado-forward lineup is the Aiden coffee machine, a sleek brewer taking a stab at transforming the at-home coffee experience. Even my parents, who have Fellow products laid out on their counter, still use a basic coffee maker. Aiden is designed for them.”The Aiden coffee maker promises precision and customization that rival professional setups, all from the comfort of one’s kitchen. Aiden Precision Coffee Maker is today available for presale for $365 on FellowProducts.com, and the company says it will ship in September.

Meta AI chatbot now being trialed for WhatsApp in India and globally

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WhatsApp is testing Meta AI, its large language model-powered chatbot, with users in India and some other markets, signalling its intentions to tap the massive user base to scale its AI offerings. The company recently began testing the AI chatbot, until now available in the U.S., with some users in India, many of them said. India, home to more than 500 million WhatsApp users, is the instant messaging service’s largest market. Meta unveiled Meta AI, its general-purpose assistant, in late September. The AI chatbot is designed to answer user queries directly within chats as well as offer them the ability to generate photorealistic images from text prompts.

X to discontinue hiding checkmarks feature for paying members

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Last year, Elon Musk-owned social network X rolled out a feature for paid users to hide their checkmarks from others. Just like a lot of decisions taken by X, there is no definite timeline as to when the hide your checkmark feature will go away. I liked being a X Premium subscriber, but I didn't like the dumb checkmark. pic.twitter.com/9vfarfOySV — Haje (@Haje) April 11, 2024BREAKING: #X seems to be removing the ability to hide the verification checkmark! The company also started offering its Premium subscription to these users and Premium+ subscription to users with more than 5,000 verified followers.

ChatGPT enhanced for succinct communication by OpenAI

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ChatGPT, OpenAI’s viral AI-powered chatbot, just got a big upgrade. OpenAI announced today that premium ChatGPT users — customers paying for ChatGPT Plus, Team or Enterprise — can now leveraged an updated and enhanced version of GPT-4 Turbo, one of the models that powers the conversational ChatGPT experience. It was trained on publicly available data up to December 2023, in contrast to the previous edition of GPT-4 Turbo available in ChatGPT, which had an April 2023 cut-off. “When writing with ChatGPT [with the new GPT-4 Turbo], responses will be more direct, less verbose and use more conversational language,” OpenAI writes in a post on X. Our new GPT-4 Turbo is now available to paid ChatGPT users.

It’s Clear: Pinterest is Megan Thee Stallion’s Go-To App

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On the panel, Megan Thee Stallion said she loved the app because it allows her to curate exactly what she wants to see and listed topics ranging from puppies to makeup and workout videos. Megan Thee Stallion talking about her favorite app being Pinterest during ADWeek’s Social Media Week event. pic.twitter.com/mQ1l5jbaJm — Stallion Stats (@MegansStats) April 10, 2024Megan thee Stallion did not respond to TechCrunch’s request for comment. Megan Thee Stallion has a vested interest in Pinterest, having previously worked with the company. It’s true many of them have brand profiles, but it’s likely they also have their own private accounts, like Megan Thee Stallion insinuated during her panel.

“Unleashing Lyrak: The Ultimate Fusion of Twitter and the Fediverse”

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Lyrak to take on X by combining the best of Twitter with fediverse integrationThreads. Once live, Lyrak users will be able to see posts from Mastodon users and vice versa. Founded by London-based web designer and marketer Rishi Siva, Lyrak is named form a lead character in the TV show “His Dark Materials,” Lyra. Lyrak says it will focus initially on getting journalists to join the network, to help it with becoming a real-time social app. “The advantage of being a startup building a social app is that we have a fresh perspective on things.

“Sync and Distribute Your Podcast Episodes on Spotify with Substack’s Newest Feature”

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Most notably, the company is rolling out a Spotify integration that will allow podcasters on Substack to sync and distribute all of their free and paid episodes to Spotify’s streaming service. Plus, the integration will allow Substack podcasters’ existing subscribers to listen to paid episodes on Spotify. Podcasters on Substack can set up a Spotify integration by going into their podcast settings, opening the Spotify dropdown, and then clicking the “Sync to Spotify” option to create a new feed with all current and future episodes. Paid episodes are labeled with a padlock, and listeners need to link their Substack account to Spotify to listen to paid episodes directly on the streaming service. Substack plans to make this data accessible via a creator’s Substack podcast stats page in the future.

“Embracing the Fediverse: Flipboard Expands its Connections with the Open Source Social Web”

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On Thursday, the company announced it’s expanding its fediverse integrations to 400 more Flipboard creators and introducing fediverse notifications in the Flipboard app itself. In total, Flipboard says there are now over 11,000 curated Flipboard magazines available to federated social networking users. In addition to the newly federated magazines, Flipboard is also bringing a more integrated fediverse experience to its own app. 4.3.25), Flipboard users will be able to see their new followers from the fediverse in their Flipboard Following tab, while their Flipboard notifications will now include fediverse reactions and conversations. The company had already begun curating content for fediverse users across a handful of “news desks” (dedicated fediverse accounts) that directed users to interesting articles and links across topics.

Instagram’s Latest Teen Safety Measure: Nudity in DMs will be Automatically Blurred by Meta

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Meta has announced it’s testing new features on Instagram intended to help safeguard young people from unwanted nudity or sextortion scams. This includes a feature called Nudity Protection in DMs, which automatically blurs images detected as containing nudity. Nudity screensNudity Protection in DMs aims to protect teen Instagram users from cyberflashing by putting nude images behind a safety screen. But Meta is taking a further step of not showing the “Message” button on a teen’s profile to potential sextortion accounts, i.e. For example, in July 2021 Meta switched to defaulting young people’s Instagram accounts to private just ahead of the UK compliance deadline.