Facebook redesign focuses on friends, photos, Marketplace and more
Meta’s Facebook redesign elevates Marketplace, refreshes profiles, and aims to win back Gen Z users.
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Amazon adds delivery tracking, last-minute adds, gift ideas to Alexa+
Amazon upgrades Alexa+ with new shopping tools, turning Echo screens into hubs for orders, deals, and gift buying.
Google’s first AI glasses expected next year
Google will compete with Meta with its own line of AI-powered smart glasses.
EU launches antitrust probe into Google’s AI search tools
The European Commission is investigating Google over its AI summaries.
YouTube creators can now test multiple video titles
Here’s what the A/B testing interface looks like in YouTube Studio. YouTube is giving more creators a way to test how different titles perform on their videos. After rolling out the ability to test and compare video titles to a “small percentage” of creators in July, YouTube has now expanded the tool in YouTube Studio … Read more
Microsoft to invest $17.5B in India by 2029 as AI race accelerates
The latest is Microsoft’s largest investment in Asia.
Some of Ikea’s Matter-compatible smart devices are now available in the US
When Ikea announced its collection of 21 new Matter-over-Thread devices last month, it wasn’t expecting the new hardware to be available in the US until January 2026. Over the past month the devices have started showing up across Europe, but a handful of them are now available through Ikea’s US website and some of its … Read more
VSCO lays off 24 staff as its consumer business suffers
In an internal memo seen by TechCrunch, VSCO’s CEO Eric Wittman said the company’s consumer business had declined more than expected, and some of its new growth initiatives didn’t yield the expected results.
India proposes charging OpenAI, Google for training AI on copyrighted content
India has given OpenAI, Google, and other AI firms 30 days to respond to its proposed royalty system for training on copyrighted content.
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The HackerNoon Newsletter: Media Titans: Murdochs vs Ellisons (12/9/2025)
How are you, hacker? 🪐 What’s happening in tech today, December 9, 2025? The HackerNoon Newsletter brings the HackerNoon homepage straight to your inbox. On this day, Smallpox is Declared Eradicated in 1979, Scarface Opened in US Theaters in 1983, US Troops Stormed Mogadishu, Somalia in 1992, and we present you with these top quality … Read more
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Best AI Automation Platforms for Building Smarter Workflows in 2026
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How a Data Engineer-Turned-Music-Producer Is Revolutionizing Spatial Intelligence
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Clean Code: Concurrency Patterns, Context Management, and Goroutine Safety [Part 5]
This is the last article in the “Clean Code in Go” series. Previous Parts: Clean Code: Functions and Error Handling in Go: From Chaos to Clarity [Part 1] Clean Code in Go (Part 2): Structs, Methods, and Composition Over Inheritance Clean Code: Interfaces in Go – Why Small Is Beautiful [Part 3] Clean Code in … Read more
Anthropic and Accenture sign multi-year AI strategic partnership
The two companies are launching the Accenture Anthropic Business Group to bring Anthropic’s AI to Accenture’s employees.
Spotify’s music videos feature arrives in the US and Canada
Spotify is launching its beta music videos feature to Premium subscribers in the US and Canada today, over a year after it rolled out to Premium users in other regions. If you have a Spotify Premium subscription, you should now begin seeing an option to “Switch to video” on some tracks on the iOS, Android, … Read more
Alexa Plus can automatically buy stuff when the price drops
Amazon is launching Alexa Plus shopping features that make it easier to track your orders and avoid missing out on deals. The AI-powered Alexa Plus assistant – like Amazon’s Rufus chatbot – can proactively track products to tell you when they’ve dropped to a specific price, and automatically purchase them when they fall below the … Read more
Pebble’s founder introduces a $75 AI smart ring for recording brief notes with a press of a button
After rebooting the Pebble smartwatch, founder Eric Migicovsky is expanding his company’s device lineup with a new smart wearable: an AI-powered smart ring known as Index 01. Named for the finger where the ring is meant to be worn, the new $75 ring is not meant to be a competitor to the always-on, always-listening AI … Read more
Spotify launches music videos in the U.S. and Canada for Premium subscribers
Spotify will let you switch between music videos and audio at any time.
The next Pebble gadget is the Index 01, a ring with a microphone
Eric Migicovsky, the founder of Pebble and the person leading its recent comeback, is very much in the business of making gadgets for himself. And he seems extremely into the one on his finger: It’s called the Pebble Index 01 (but we’ll just call it Index), and it’s a $75 ring meant to be worn … Read more