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YouTube Music celebrates 10 years with new features that help it compete with Spotify

Artificial Intelligence, Media & Entertainment / Sarah Perez

YouTube is celebrating 10 years of its YouTube Music app on Thursday with the launch of new features that bring it closer to rival Spotify and others. The app will now include “Taste Match” playlists, which are playlists that combine multiple users’ overlapping interests, similar to Spotify Blend. The app will also start notifying users

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Google, sorry, but that Pixel event was a cringefest

Artificial Intelligence, Hardware / Sarah Perez

“I P 6 8! I P 6 8!,” shouted late-night host Jimmy Fallon, trying and failing to fake excitement about the new Pixel smartphones. Fallon, who likely had never heard the technical term before, didn’t seem to realize that IP68 — a rating that indicates phones can survive being submerged in water — isn’t all

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Meta rolls out AI-powered translations to creators globally, starting with English and Spanish

Apps, Artificial Intelligence / Sarah Perez

Meta is rolling out an AI-powered voice translation feature to all users on Facebook and Instagram globally, the company announced on Tuesday. The new feature, which is available in any market where Meta AI is available, allows creators to translate content into other languages so it can be viewed by a broader audience. The feature

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Your next customer is on the TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 expo floor — will they find you or your competitor?

Artificial Intelligence, Startups / TechCrunch Events

Image Credits:Eric Slomonson, The Photo Group 10:07 AM PDT · August 19, 2025 TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 lands in San Francisco from October 27-29, and the Expo Hall is already packed with early adopters, startup scouts, and enterprise buyers looking to discover what’s next. If you’re not there to show off your product, your competitors will

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Why I finally left Spotify

Artificial Intelligence, Media & Entertainment / Amanda Silberling

After our decade-long relationship, I’m breaking up with Spotify. It’s nothing personal. It’s just that Spotify and I have grown up, but we haven’t grown together. Over the years, I’ve been tempted to leave Spotify many times. I know that the company faces accusations of poor streaming payouts for artists compared to its competitors, and

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