Roblox is introducing mandatory facial verification for all users who wish to access communication features, a change that will begin in January. This decision follows a series of lawsuits and investigations concerning the platform’s child safety systems. The company is…
In 2023, Tayla Cannon moved from Australia to the United States for a job in a city she had never seen before. She described it as having no family and no friends, just a fresh start. As someone who suffers…
Views on sponsored videos on YouTube have risen 28 percent year-on-year. The number of sponsored videos itself has grown by 54 percent in the first half of 2025, according to a report. Ad spend through creator channels has been steadily…
Poe, the Quora app that brings together different AI models into one platform, is launching group chat functionality. The company announced on Monday that users worldwide will now be able to start group chats with up to two hundred people.…
Focus Friend, the screen time assistant from YouTuber and entrepreneur Hank Green, is Google Play’s app of the year. Launched in August, the productivity tool lets you block yourself from distracting phone apps while encouraging you with the aid of…
While building his previous startup, an educational marketplace called ScholarSite, Nicholas Rudder repeatedly encountered the same difficult problem: tax compliance. He explained that marketplaces are responsible for tax on their entire gross merchandise value, not just their commission. This meant…
These days, it is not easy to be a limited partner who invests in venture capital firms. The LPs who fund VCs are confronting an asset class in flux. Funds now have nearly twice the lifespan they used to, emerging…
Waymo is removing the safety operators from its fleet of robotaxis in Miami starting today. This is a key step ahead of its planned commercial launch in 2026 and represents the latest in a series of expansions this year. The…
On Tuesday morning, a significant portion of the internet experienced outages or performance issues. Major services like ChatGPT, Claude, Spotify, and X were affected due to a problem at the internet infrastructure company Cloudflare. Cloudflare reported on its status page…
Indian edtech startup Physics Wallah concluded its first day as a public company on a high note. Its shares closed forty-four percent higher than their listing price, signaling a potential recovery for the country’s edtech sector after a prolonged period…
