Google announced a set of new AI-powered study features across its Search and Gemini platforms in August 2026, targeting students with tools that include interactive visuals, 3D simulations,…
Meta announced a dedicated Mac app for Meta AI in August 2026 that can see a shared screen window to offer suggestions, answer questions, or generate content, plus dictation across other Mac apps. It also connects to Instagram/Facebook, Meta ad campaigns, and Google Workspace to analyze reach, likes, shares, and saves and produce decks, documents, spreadsheets, and weekly performance updates.
WSL’s official fantasy game launched in Aug 2026 to fix retention problems from the unofficial Aerial Fantasy. It combines 14 WSL teams and 12 WSL 2 clubs, splits the season into six “legs” (3–6 matchweeks) with mini-tables/prizes plus a full table, kicking off with Man Utd vs London City Lionesses.
Bloomberg (Aug 2026) reports hidden code in TikTok’s current U.S. iPhone app suggesting peer-to-peer DM payments: recipients “tap to accept,” senders attach messages like Venmo, using TikTok Pay. TikTok says it isn’t being tested, and Reuters (early 2026) noted a Brazil central bank fintech application.
Apple will replace its per‑install Core Technology Fee in the EU with a flat 5% commission, and detailed the update Tuesday after an August 2026 announcement. Standard in‑app purchase fees drop to 26% (from 30%); alternative payments cost 20% or 10% for qualifying programs, with a 12‑month payment lock, as the company responds to a €500M EU DMA fine.
Reddit says it’s testing (Aug 2026) converting text posts into short AI-voiced videos that read the post and selected comments with synced on-screen highlighting. The feature is live on web and rolls to iOS/Android Tuesday via a “Read/Play” toggle, including a 3-minute r/boardgames example labeled “Real conversation voiced by AI.”
Reddit started testing audio and video versions of popular posts on Aug. 18, 2026, in limited iOS/Android experiments across select English-language communities. Compatible posts get “read” or “play” options without changing the original text or comments; CEO Steve Huffman outlined it on the July 2026 Q2 earnings call to gauge usefulness and authenticity.
Spotify announced on August 17, 2026, the launch of “Playlist Notes,” a feature that allows listeners to add written context to songs, podcast episodes, and audiobooks within their playlists. The…
Feedly, the world’s largest standalone RSS reader with 15 million users, has been experiencing significant performance problems for over a week in 2026, with paying subscribers describing its web app…
YouTube is changing how it counts views, moving to a system that registers a view as soon as a video begins to play. The update takes effect on August 24, 2026, and the platform says creators will…
Indie dev Marco Arment launched Unforgetful for iOS and Mac on Aug 14, 2026, aiming to beat Apple Reminders for chronic snoozers by using the existing Reminders database and swapping in its own notifications. Alerts repeat until tasks are marked complete and deleted, snooze intervals scale as you defer, and the app avoids showing multiple tasks at once.
Google has introduced a new photography feature called Camera Looks for its Pixel 11 lineup, but older Pixel devices will not have access to it — at least for now.
Camera Looks processes image data…
