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Back to news homeBacked by former Facebook and Twitter execs, Tagg launches social branding app for Gen Z
Gen Z isn’t satisfied with the social media they grew up with, so they’re building the apps that they want to use. A “social branding” app for creative teens and […]
This BusKill ‘kill cord’ can tell your laptop to self-destruct if snatched
Journalists, activists, and human rights defenders face a constant battle to keep files safe from a growing set of digital threats and surveillance. But physical attacks can be challenging to […]
TikTok rolls out GIPHY support, HD videos, cat sound effects, among other new features
In addition to announcing coming changes to its For You feed, TikTok today announced a handful of updates to its lineup of camera and editing tools, including new features for […]
General Catalyst leads $7M investment in AR startup selling NFT jetpacks
After months of NFT mania and Facebook’s recent name change to Meta, it’s fair to say that “metaverse” chatter has reached a fever pitch. And while crypto investors are buying […]
Andreessen Horowitz backs NFT investor group behind rare Wu-Tang Clan album purchase
The crypto collective that bought Wu-Tang Clan’s ‘Once Upon a Time in Shaolin’ album and an NFT of the original Doge image has a new member: venture capital firm Andreessen […]
Snap paid $250 million to creators on its TikTok clone this year
Snap announced today that it paid over $250 million to more than 12,000 creators this year on Spotlight, its TikTok clone. Unlike Snapchat’s friend-to-friend, ephemeral messaging, Spotlight allows users to […]
Justin Kan debuts Fractal, a Solana-based marketplace for gaming NFTs
While OpenSea has already seemed to win the lion’s share of NFT marketplace traffic, competing storefronts are still striving to find their niche and prepare for a future where NFTs […]
Vercel acquires Turborepo
Vercel, the well-funded front-end development platform from the team behind Next.js, today announced that it has acquired Turborepo, a high-performance build system for JavaScript and TypeScript monorepos, an increasingly popular […]
Google disrupts Russian botnet that infected 1 million Windows machines
Google is suing two Russian individuals it claims are behind a sophisticated botnet operation that has silently infiltrated more than 1 million Windows machines worldwide. In a complaint filed in […]