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TikTok launched a dedicated TikTok Shop app

TikTok has released a standalone app for TikTok Shop in a few countries, as spotted by social media consultant Matt Navarra. According to its App Store listing, the TikTok Shop app offers: Personalized picks inspired by your interests, LIVE streams & short videos to see products in action, App-only deals, free shipping offers & exclusive first-order benefits that make every order feel worth it, Secure payments for safe checkout, Easy order tracking & 24/7 support from purchase to delivery
https://www.theverge.com/tech/1027772/tiktok-shop-app

Reddit is getting a For You feed

Reddit is switching up its homepage feeds. The company announced today that it’s going to start offering a “new feed experience” that includes both a Following feed to show you posts from subreddits you follow and a For You feed that includes posts from your subreddits and “recommendations related to your interests.” You may already have the new feeds — I actually noticed them on my account yesterday. It’s a big shift for the platform, but not an entirely surprising one, as Reddit hasn’t been shy about wanting to switch up the homepage. Earlier this year, the company announced it would be deprecating r/all, which surfaced posts that were popular across the platform, as part of its “ongoing efforts to simplify Reddit and improve Home feed personalization.”
https://www.theverge.com/tech/1020751/reddit-for-you-following-feeds

The iPhone Duo is a messy, expensive good time

The iPhone Duo is the riskiest Apple product in years. It’s a huge rethink of what an iPhone is and could be, and it contains the seeds of many fascinating ideas that might be great in the future. But that future is yet to come. The iPhone Duo is also one of Apple’s messiest first-generation products in a long time, and right now it will delight gadget nerds and early adopters and likely frustrate everyone else.
https://www.theverge.com/tech/1015028/iphone-duo-review

Getty Images is going private after failed Shutterstock merger

Getty Images intends to file for bankruptcy and go private as part of a restructuring agreement after its plans to merge with rival stock platform Shutterstock fell through earlier this year. On Monday, Getty announced it had secured $533 million from the Getty family and Charles Koch’s investment firm to cut its debt and take the company private, outlining plans to undergo a prepackaged Chapter 11 process “in the coming weeks.”
https://www.theverge.com/business/1009893/getty-images-bankruptcy-private-plans-agreement

OpenAI is sticking more ads in ChatGPT

The company first brought ads to ChatGPT in February. Until now, ChatGPT’s ads only showed a company’s name, logo, and a link to its product in a “sponsored” section beneath your chat. OpenAI’s visual ad format will similarly remain separate from the image you generate and will “not influence the answers ChatGPT provides.” Ads won’t appear if you subscribe to ChatGPT’s Plus, Pro, or Enterprise plans.
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/1004655/openai-chatgpt-visual-ads

Firefox just got a redesign with round tabs, new themes, and Compact Mode

Firefox will look a little different the next time you launch it — more bubbly, with some new pops of color. The browser’s latest update brings a design overhaul to all desktop and mobile users, aimed at modernizing Firefox with bubble-like tabs, a rounded address bar, and refreshed colors, icons, and themes. The desktop and mobile versions of the browser will also now share the same design language. According to Mozilla, the design changes will have “no cost to your browser performance.”
https://www.theverge.com/tech/1001867/mozilla-firefox-157-redesign-compact-mode

Cricut’s new compact crafter prints, cuts, and laminates stickers

Cricut announced its first crafting machines with printing capabilities that are primarily designed as all-in-one solutions for turning photos and other images into precut stickers. The Cricut StickerPix Print plus Cut and Cricut StickerPix Print are also two of the smallest machines in the company’s current lineup and seem ideal for those whose crafting aspirations may be limited by their available storage space.
https://www.theverge.com/tech/1000655/cricut-sticker-pix-print-cut-crafting-printer-machines-stickers