Roughly a month after Spotify announced that a selection of audiobooks would become a part of its Premium subscription, the company is today expanding the service to U.S. users for the first time. Subscribers will now have access to 15 hours of audiobook listening time per month across a catalog that includes 200,000 titles —…

Instagram is finally testing a feature that will let users turn off read receipts for Instagram DMs. This way, even if you have read someone’s message, they won’t see the “seen” label below the message. Both Mark Zuckerberg and Adam Mosseri announced this feature on their broadcast channels. “We heard your feedback and have started…

OpenAI launched a slew of new APIs during its first-ever developer day. DALL-E 3, OpenAI’s text-to-image model, is now available via an API after first coming to ChatGPT and Bing Chat. Similar to the previous version of DALL-E (e.g. DALL-E 2), the API incorporates built-in moderation to help protect against misuse, OpenAI says. The DALL-E…

OpenAI took the leash (and the “Chat”) off ChatGPT today with the announcement of GPTs, a way for anyone to build their own version of the popular conversational AI system. Not only can you make your own GPT for fun or productivity, but you’ll soon be able to publish it on a marketplace they call…

NVDA, or NonVisual Desktop Access, stands as an exceptional open-source screen reader, readily available at no cost. It seamlessly integrates with Windows operating systems, offering robust support for widely used applications like Microsoft Office and various web browsers. NVDA boasts an array of features, including Braille support, speech synthesizers, and customizable keystrokes. Exciting news for…

X, formerly known as Twitter, is introducing two new tiers for its subscription offering in order to bring in additional revenue. The social media giant is adding a new Premium+ tier that costs $16 per month and offers the “largest reply boost” and removes ads from the For You and Following feeds. The tier also…

We’re getting a first proper look at much-hyped Humane’s “AI pin” (whatever that is) on November 9, and personalized AI memory startup Rewind is launching a pendant to track not only your digital but also your physical life sometime in the foreseeable future. Buzz abounds about OpenAI’s Sam Altman meeting with Apple’s longtime design deity…

Apple just announced a (nearly) complete overhaul of its first-party silicon line, in the form of the M3, M3 Pro and M3 Max. While the new 24-inch iMac is arriving with the M3, the MacBook Pro line is easily the biggest benefactor of today’s Scary Fast event. The high-end laptop is arriving in 14- and…

We felt fairly confident that we would see at least one piece of next-gen Apple silicon as part of tonight’s Scary Fast event. But how’s this for an early Halloween surprise: We just got three new M3 chip models. It’s a sizable shakeup of the company’s standard release schedule. The news follows months of rumors…

Folks banking on the arrival of the iMac Pro will have to wait a bit longer. If you’ve been looking to upgrade your 24-inch all-in-one, on the other hand, Apple’s got some good news. The company just unveiled a refresh to the 24-inch iMac that skips the M2 altogether, in favor of the M3 chip…