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Companies across the tech industry have been laying off staff and reducing hiring after explosive growth during the pandemic.
Plus, in this week’s Installer: A bunch of fun Spider-Man stuff, a book about our attention, more GPUs, and more.
The livestreaming platform announced that this week, every channel will get the ability to edit and share clips straight to Instagram.
How useful that is for Twitch’s gaming-focused creators is up for debate, but with TikTok’s future in question, adding Instagram to the mix seems sensible.
The new version of Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp -- free of in-app purchases -- debuted last December at $9.99 for a limited time.
For those who have been dragging their feet on buying the new Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp Complete for either iOS or Android, that limited time offer runs out before the end of this week. At 1AM ET on January 31st, the game will increase in price to $19.99.
Now listed as self-published by developer Second Dinner instead of ByteDance-owned Nuverse, the card battler has escaped the TikTok ban and is back for iPhone / iPad players, even though the Google Play listing still doesn’t work.
It was only gone for about a week, but now iOS players can download Marvel Snap to new devices and install updates again. TikTok’s fate remains undetermined.
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Cat toy apps like “Meow Cat Game” aren’t new, but my orange fuzzball Trevor is. If you need a way to distract your energetic kitty for a while then they might just buy you enough time to get some work done.
In an X post announcing the change yesterday, the company also said that Canvas, its ChatGPT coding helper feature, now has the ability to render HTML and React code.
OpenAI added that Canvas has rolled out to the ChatGPT desktop app for macOS.
You can log into multiple WhatsApp accounts on one iOS device in a recent iOS beta version, writes WABetaInfo.
In the case of Android phones, which have had the feature since 2023, you need a multi-SIM card phone and a second phone number to register another account.
You can catch the national mood from time to time using the iOS App Store’s top free apps list.
After today’s TikTok chaos, the top 20 apps there are taken up mostly by VPNs and video editing or social media posting apps, with a little ChatGPT and Temu sprinkled in for good measure.
The Apple Mail app in macOS 15.4 will be able to use AI to sort your emails by categories like transactions or promotions, as well as surface “Priority” emails at the top of your inbox, according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman in today’s Power On newsletter.
The features have already been part of the iPhone mail app since iOS 18.2.
Users will be able to post up-to-four-image photo posts and 1-minute-long videos, according to TechCrunch. Comments will be supported, as will DMs. Developer Sebastian Vogelsang plans to launch Flashes “in a matter of weeks” after an iOS TestFlight beta period, the outlet writes.
The app will reportedly be free to use with some subscription-based features, just like Vogelsang’s other Bluesky client called Skeets.
