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Spotify Pauses On Political Ads

Over the past few years, the presidential election and digital political ads have become quite the hot topic. Large social media and technology giants have struggled to deal with the issue of filtering accurate advertisements. Combined with a lack of regulation, there has been lots...

AI Travel Assistant Closes Pre-Seed Round

The founders and team members of the AI-powered travel assistant bot, Eddy Travels, has closed a pre-seed round which was lead by Techstars Toronto. They raised roughly $500,000 which included VC funds from Lithuania and angel investors from the U.S., Canada and U.K. The user...

Facebook To Build Its Own Operating System

Facebook is building a wide array of hardware devices and have the full understanding that their devices currently rely on Android’s operating system. In order to become independent and breakfree from Google, Facebook is currently working on constructing their own operating system from scratch. Their...

Introducing Whisk, The Recipe Platform

Recipe sites and applications have frustrated users for some time now due to the poor user experience that many companies have designed along with the overabundance of ads. A new company called Whisk is attempting to make a splash in the industry by providing users...

Splice Utilizes AI Machine Learning

Splice is an online marketplace for purchasing audio samples and the platform has recently been exploding with popularity. Its revenue and user count has doubled since last year with many paying $7.99 for unlimited access. Now, Splice is investing even heavier on itself by implementing...

Microsoft To Scale Down Cortana Support

Microsoft recently announced that they will be shutting down Cortana’s mobile applications in a number of different markets. The end date for its support on iOS and Android will be January 31st, 2020. Microsoft also will be removing Cortana from Microsoft Launcher. The impacted markets...

Spotify Begins Testing Live Lyrics

TechCrunch has verified that Spotify users in international markets have begun to see lyrics featured in sync with the music they’re listening to. Powered by Musixmatch, the feature is currently being tested by a number of markets. Users have compared the feature update to the...