After shifting its gaming strategy to focus more on games played on the TV, Netflix announced it’s acquiring Ready Player Me, an avatar-creation platform based in Estonia. The streamer said it plans to use the startup’s development tools and infrastructure to build avatars that will allow Netflix...
The agency world has always rewarded those who stay ahead of the curve, but figuring out where the curve is today has become increasingly complicated. New tools emerge weekly, client expectations shift constantly and skills that mattered just a year ago don’t always carry the...
The agency world moves at breakneck speed, with each week bringing new tech, AI tools, emerging social platforms and hot takes on what will revolutionize the industry. This constant flood of innovation creates a genuine dilemma for agency leaders. If they invest time and resources...
Apple announced it will allow alternative app stores in Japan and will permit developers to process payments for digital goods and services outside of its own in-app purchase system in iOS. The iPhone maker is not making these changes because it wants to be more open; it’s...
Google is rolling out a beta experience that lets you hear real-time translations in your headphones, the company announced. The tech giant is also bringing advanced Gemini capabilities to Google Translate and expanding its language-learning tools in the Translate app. The new real-time headphone translations experience...
Zoom released its AI assistant to the web as part of its AI Companion 3.0 release. The company is also allowing free users to access the assistant’s features, such as summarizing the meetings, listing action items, or getting insights from meetings with limits. The company...
Spotify may be synonymous with music streaming, but it’s also got a wildly popular developer-tool side hustle called Backstage. Backstage is an open source project that helps companies build their own internal developer portals: a catalog of their developer tools along with quick visualizations of the work...
The Walt Disney Company announced that it has signed a three-year partnership with OpenAI that will bring its iconic characters to the company’s Sora AI video generator. Disney is also making a $1 billion equity investment in OpenAI. Launched in September, Sora allows users to create short videos using...
Spotify is launching music videos in the U.S., Canada, and a handful of other markets, following the feature’s launch in beta in overseas markets last year. The videos, which are provided by music labels under new agreements, will be available only to paying subscribers on Spotify’s Premium plan and can...
Amazon announced that it’s introducing a new AI-powered Fire TV feature that lets viewers jump to specific movie scenes on Prime Video simply by describing them to Alexa+. “Our number one mission at Fire TV is getting you to what you want to watch—fast,” Amazon wrote in a blog...
