DoorDash introduces new safety features for riders including reduced notifications • TechCrunch

[ad_1] Delivery company DoorDash is introducing new features for riders including reduced notifications, a request for customers to not text them while they are on a trip, and messaging promoting one-tap replies. DoorDash is updating its iOS app (for iOS 15 or above) to reduce notifications sent to delivery partners while they are on the … Read more

Spotify now lets you select which playlists you’d like to impact your recommendations less • TechCrunch

[ad_1] Spotify is finally introducing a highly requested feature. The streaming service announced today that it’s launching a new “Exclude from your Taste Profile” feature that lets you keep selected playlists from heavily influencing your personalized recommendations. For context, your taste profile is Spotify’s interpretation of your music taste based on what you listen to … Read more

Hands-on with Bing’s new ChatGPT-like features • TechCrunch

[ad_1] Yesterday, Microsoft launched the new Bing on the web and in its Edge browser, powered by a combination of a next-gen OpenAI GPT model and Microsoft’s own Prometheus model. With this, Microsoft jumped ahead of Google in bringing this kind of search experience to the mainstream, though we’ll likely see the competition heat up … Read more

Twitter Blue introduces 4,000 character tweets, says half ads coming soon • TechCrunch

[ad_1] Twitter announced the ability to post longer tweets for paid users Wednesday. So instead of being limited to 280 characters, Blue subscribers can post tweets that are up to 4,000 characters long. The same limit applies to quote tweets and replies. Twitter said that along with long tweets people can post media like images … Read more

Twitter says the basic tier of its API will cost $100 per month • TechCrunch

[ad_1] A week after Twitter made the announcement about shutting down free access to the API, the company said today that it will charge $100 per month for the basic tier of API. This will get developers access to a “low level of API usage” — without specifying what that exactly means — and the … Read more