Pinterest is using AI to try and help you find the fashion accessories you’re looking for, even if you can’t describe them in your own words. The company is using a “Visual Language Model” to generate descriptive words of styles and the overall “vibes” of image Pins on its site, and will let you click…
Intelligent driving features are the new battleground in China’s merciless car market, with competition spurring brands to world-leading advances — but a recent fatal crash has seen the government intervene to put the brakes on runaway enthusiasm.Advanced driver-assistance systems (ADAS) help with tasks ranging from cruise control to parking and collision avoidance, with the ultimate…
Photo: Spencer Platt (Getty Images) U.S. stocks dropped sharply on Monday, continuing a volatile stretch for Wall Street as geopolitical tensions, earnings anxiety, and Fed uncertainty collide. The tech-heavy Nasdaq led the losses, down almost 2.2%, with the S&P 500 off 1.7% and the Dow Jones Industrial Average falling 604 points, or 1.5%. The VIX…
President Trump’s tariffs have prompted American online shoppers to ditch fast-fashion upstarts Temu and Shein in favor of two other Chinese e-commerce platforms — DHgate and Taobao — both of which have climbed into the top 5 most downloaded programs on Apple’s App Store. Viral videos on TikTok feature Chinese manufacturers urging American consumers to…
The escalating tech war between the US and China is redrawing the global technology map—and India finds itself both exposed and empowered by the fallout. Aniruddh Suri, nonresident scholar at Carnegie India and author of The Great Tech Game, laid out the implications in this edition of The Gist. What began as a trade war…
Go to any run club in the world and there’s a good chance that everyone there has two things: a Garmin smartwatch to track their run and a Strava account to brag about it. Given the global running boom, it makes Strava’s lack of any modern, in-app training plans a curious and glaring omission. Or,…
As Sonos continues a company-wide effort to redeem itself after last year’s app snafu, it’s adding a well-known industry name to its board of directors. This morning, Sonos announced that Hugo Barra is joining the board to replace Mike Volpi, who is stepping down after 15 years — the longest tenure of any board member….
The US House of Representatives has followed the Senate in voting to overturn a Consumer Financial Protection Bureau rule that would give the watchdog oversight of tech giants such as Apple, Google and X, that offer digital payment apps and wallets. Editorial This content has been selected, created and edited by the Finextra editorial team…
Microsoft has started testing a new update to its Copilot app on Windows that will let you share your screen or apps with the AI assistant. Copilot Vision was originally limited to Microsoft’s Edge browser, but it’s now extending to any app on your PC. Copilot Vision will be able to do things like coach…
Meta is developing a version of Instagram for iPad, according to The Information. Currently, running Instagram on an iPad is just a blown-up version of the iPhone app, so an official Instagram app from Meta would be a very welcome change. Why would Meta do this now, after ignoring Apple’s tablet for over a decade?…