Tech Meme

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Tinder rolls out $500/month Tinder Select, with perks like the ability to DM others up to twice a week without matching and displaying a SELECT badge  —  Tinder has rolled out its promised high-end membership, a pricey $499 per month subscription dubbed “Tinder Select,” … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: EU blocks Booking.com’s €1.63B acquisition of Etraveli, saying Booking failed to allay concerns that the deal bolsters its dominance in the hotel OTA market  —  Booking Holdings’ (BKNG.O) proposed 1.63-billion-euro ($1.7 billion) purchase of Swedish peer ETraveli Group was blocked … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: Amazon moves some free features, like smoke and CO alarm detection, from its security system Alexa Guard to its $5.99/month Emergency Assist service  —  Amazon has announced that it’s shutting down Alexa Guard — a DIY security feature for Echo devices that listens for intruders or household alarms when you’re away from home. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: EU blocks Booking.com’s €1.63B acquisition of Etraveli, saying Booking failed to allay concerns that the deal bolsters its dominance in the hotel OTA market  —  Booking Holdings’ (BKNG.O) proposed 1.63-billion-euro ($1.7 billion) purchase of Swedish peer ETraveli Group was blocked … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Amrita Khalid / The Verge: Spotify partners with OpenAI to launch an AI-powered voice translation feature that reproduces podcasts in other languages using the podcaster’s own voice  —  What if podcasters could flip a switch and instantly speak another language?  That’s the premise behind Spotify’s … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: EU blocks Booking.com’s €1.63B acquisition of Etraveli, saying Booking failed to allay concerns that the deal bolsters its dominance in the hotel OTA market  —  Booking Holdings’ (BKNG.O) proposed 1.63-billion-euro ($1.7 billion) purchase of Swedish peer ETraveli Group was blocked … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Emilia David / The Verge: Getty partners with Nvidia to launch Generative AI by Getty Images, which lets users create legally protected images using Getty’s library of licensed photos  —  Getty Images is partnering with Nvidia to launch Generative AI by Getty Images, a new tool that lets people create images using Getty’s library of licensed photos. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kyle Wiens / iFixit News: A teardown of the iPhone 15 Pro Max: a redesigned frame for easier back glass repairs, new tetraprism periscope lens, software lockdown makes repairs hard, more  —  Repairable design undermined by parts-pairing DRM  —  iPhone 15 is here, and it boasts a new charge port, titanium frame, a periscope, and a new pro-repair design. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Joanna Stern / Wall Street Journal: OpenAI updates ChatGPT on iOS and Android to let the bot speak in five different voices in a conversational tone, rolling out to Plus and Enterprise users  —  Plus, you can now upload photos, and the chatbot can interpret them  —  You’ll have two reactions to hearing my conversation with the now-vocal ChatGPT: Lees verder op Tech Meme

David Pierce / The Verge: OpenAI rolls out an update to let Plus and Enterprise users prompt ChatGPT using voice commands or by uploading an image, available for other users “soon after”  —  Most of OpenAI’s changes to ChatGPT involve what the AI-powered bot can do: questions it can answer, information it can access, improved underlying models. Lees verder op Tech Meme