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Lyft wants to make ‘casual carpooling' a thing again

Andrew J . Hawkins March 29, 2016 01:00 pm14 hours ago 2

Ride-hailing service Lyft is launching a new carpooling service in the Bay Area today that it insists is entirely different from all the other carpooling services out there, including its own Lyft Line....

"they won't be able to profit from their participation." Lyft's Emily Castor

Snapchat redesigns chat to add stickers, audio, and video notes

Casey Newton March 29, 2016 12:00 pm15 hours ago

Snapchat is releasing a major update today that bolsters its chat function with a variety of new multimedia features. The long-rumored update adds more than 200 stickers featuring walruses, sloths, aliens,...

Plus a change in how Stories are displayed

Juno wants to woo Uber drivers with a more ethical ride-sharing app

Andrew J . Hawkins March 29, 2016 12:11 pm15 hours ago 10

It was a sunny afternoon in Manhattan and I needed a ride from Rockefeller Center to The Verge's office on West 40th Street. So, like thousands of people do everyday, I pulled out a smartphone, tapped an...

"Juno is for the drivers."

Google Photos for Android just made tweaking your photos painless

Sean O'Kane March 29, 2016 10:52 am16 hours ago 24

An update to the Android version of Google Photos was released yesterday that adds an important feature from the iOS version of the app: non-destructive editing. The updated Android app will now track and...

Tinkerers rejoice

SoundCloud’s subscription streaming service is here (and it needs work)

Jacob Kastrenakes March 29, 2016 09:00 am18 hours ago 8

SoundCloud is finally ready to take on Spotify. After months of teasing, SoundCloud’s subscription music service is debuting today: it's called SoundCloud Go, and in many respects, it's the same as any...

Many big hits are missing

Transmission, the popular Mac torrent app, is now on Windows

Chris Welch March 28, 2016 05:17 pm03.28.2016

Everyone who downloads torrents has his or her own preferred bit torrent app, and now Windows users can try out one client that's among the most popular for OS X. Transmission, which has been around for...

Still free to use, and free of ads

The New York Times may make it harder to use Facebook and Twitter to jump its paywall

Recode Staff March 28, 2016 04:57 pm03.28.2016

The New York Times has one million digital subscribers, but it wants more. Now it looks like it’s trying to get them by plugging holes in its paywall.

The Times is experimenting with limiting the number...

Test limits visitors to 10 articles each month

SoundCloud’s subscription streaming service is here (and it needs work)

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Instagram's changing feed has triggered a global thirst crisis

Casey Newton March 28, 2016 03:14 pm03.28.2016 35

Earlier this month, Instagram said it would begin showing the "best" posts in your feed first, abandoning the chronological feed the app has used since its inception. "All the posts will still be there," t...

Let's stay together

Uber is recruiting engineers through an in-app coding game

Amar Toor March 28, 2016 04:18 am03.28.2016

Uber is scouting for potential hires through hacking challenges offered to users during their rides. The challenges are appearing in the Uber app under a heading that reads: "Code on the Road." Several T...

Code on the Road

Microsoft apologizes for ‘offensive and hurtful tweets’ from its AI bot

Nick Statt March 25, 2016 05:23 pm03.25.2016 53

Microsoft today published an apology for its Twitter chatbot Tay, saying in a blog post that a subset of human users exploited a flaw in the program to transform it into a hate speech-spewing Hitler...

How Tay became an AI garbage fire

Google makes its $149 Nik Collection of photography tools completely free

Sam Byford March 25, 2016 12:11 am03.25.2016 29

Google has dropped the price of the Nik Collection, a suite of seven desktop plug-ins aimed at advanced photographers, from $149 to nothing. The Nik Collection first came under Google's stewardship when...

From $499 to $149 to $0

Snapchat buys Bitmoji app maker Bitstrips

Recode Staff March 24, 2016 09:23 pm03.24.2016

Snapchat is buying Bitstrips, the company behind the Bitmoji app that lets you create an avatar of yourself to share on social media and over text, according to a source familiar with the deal.

Fortune’s...

Personal emoji coming to Snapchat?
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