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Snap Has More Than 30 Million Paid Subscribers Across Snapchat+ And Other Plans
11/5/2026
Power users seem more than willing to pay for AI-powered effects. Ben Montgomery/Getty Images More than 30 million power users are paying for one of Snap's subscription plans, including Snapchat+ and its ad-free "platinum" tier. The company…
AI
AI & Platforms
Arnis turns any place on Earth into a Minecraft world
11/5/2026
Louis Erbkamm built the first prototype in his free time. Now GitHub Copilot helps him maintain it alone. November 3, 2026 | 4 minutes Share: Louis Erbkamm knows his way around Arnis, the smallest town in Germany, but he’s never set foot in…
AI · Open Source · Performance
Web Development
The Blue Wave Has Tech Bros Scrambling for Data Centers in Space
11/5/2026
A wave of Democratic candidates across the country—and notably in Texas, a national data center hot spot and home to Elon Musk’s SpaceX—won their state and congressional races on Tuesday, including many candidates who voiced opposition to t…
AI · Cloud
AI & Platforms
Here’s Why You Shouldn’t Use AI to Vote
11/4/2026
As Americans go to the polls today, many will have had their decision about who to vote for informed by an artificial intelligence–powered chatbot.Around 50 percent of recently surveyed US adults have at one time used an AI chatbot, and 8 p…
AI
Mobile
India’s EloElo nabs $80M from NBCUniversal to bet on the country’s rising microdrama market
11/4/2026
More than 118 million users watch microdramas every month as the serialized format has taken off in India. EloElo’s Story TV is one of the top apps for microdramas, with over 33 million active users, according to analysts. Banking on that s…
AI · Design · Mobile
Web Development
Democrats Sweep Republicans in Nearly Every Race That Matters
11/4/2026
Democrats stormed through key battleground races across the US in their battle to capture the House and Senate on Tuesday night, marking a decisive repudiation of President Donald Trump's second term.The scale of victory for Democrats—in so…
AI
AI & Platforms
When You Should—and Shouldn’t—Use AI to Search the Web
11/3/2026
If you've interacted with the likes of Claude, ChatGPT, and Gemini, you've noticed that in addition to everything else they do, these AI chatbots can search the web for you. Depending on what you’re looking for, it can be easier to find mor…
AI
Mobile
Google takes Dreambeans to India in bid to bring AI-generated personal stories to the masses
11/3/2026
Google has launched its experimental AI app Dreambeans in India, its first market outside the U.S., as the company looks to tap the world’s second-largest internet market to bring personalized visual stories drawn from users’ digital activi…
AI · Android · iOS
AI & Platforms
Apple is ‘not able to predict’ when it’ll have enough iPhone Duos to go around
11/3/2026
John Ternus says Apple is seeing ‘unprecedented’ memory pricing.John Ternus says Apple is seeing ‘unprecedented’ memory pricing.by Emma RothNov 2, 2026, 10:56 PM UTCPhoto: Amelia Holowaty Krales / The VergeEmma Roth is a news writer who cov…
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