Apple is reportedly working on more satellite features for iPhone
Apple is reportedly looking to expand its iPhone's satellite capabilities beyond emergency assistance and texting.
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Coda Music is rolling out tools for labeling and blocking AI-generated tunes, WhatsApp will face further EU regulation, and Threads is adding features for creators to promote their podcasts
-Coda Music used the recent backlash around Spotify co-founder Daniel Ek as a way to differentiate itself from the number one streamer, calling out Ek’s controversial funding of defense technology firm Helsing earlier in the year. Coda Music announced a new feature that feels designed to answer another of the recent Spotify controversies: AI slop music flooding the platform. In response, Coda Music is launching AI identification tools with the purpose of finding and labeling songs that weren’t composed by actual humans.
-WhatsApp is following in the footsteps of fellow Meta-owned companies, Instagram and Facebook. Bloomberg reported that the European Commission will give WhatsApp's open channels the designation of Very Large Online Platform (VLOP) under the Digital Services Act.
-Threads is rolling out some new features for sharing podcasts and podcast episodes. Creators have the option to add the link to their show to their bio page; after that, their posts with show and episode links will appear with an audio preview.
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Patreon is adding a discovery feed to help creators avoid social media platforms
"I feel like we're competing with what Instagram should have and could have become, but did not," Patreon CEO Jack Conte said.
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Broadcom announced an AI chipset that translates audio in real time, Meta is killing off the external Facebook Like button, and Ford's F-150 Lightning may be sunset
-Broadcom and a company called CAMB.AI are teaming up to bring on-device audio translation to a chipset. This would allow devices that use the SoC to complete translation, dubbing and audio description tasks without having to dip into the cloud.
-Next year will see the end arrive for two of Facebook's external social plugins. The platform's Like button and Share button for third-party websites will be discontinued on February 10, 2026.
-Ford may be on the verge of sunsetting the F-150 Lightning truck. The model is an electric pick-up truck, and the best-selling one in the US, but the publication cited Ford execs who said the company would consider halting production completely on the F-150 Lightning.
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Apple is reportedly working on more satellite features for iPhone
Apple is reportedly looking to expand its iPhone's satellite capabilities beyond emergency assistance and texting.
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