Amazon Prime Day 2026 takes place June 23-26

Groceries and household essentials will be a main focus of this year’s deals event.

Apple is building a bill-splitting feature that photographs receipts and assigns items to friends
Apple is building a bill-splitting feature that photographs receipts and assigns items to friends

Apple is preparing a new iPhone feature that lets users photograph a restaurant receipt, assign individual items to different people, and automatically generate payment requests through Apple Cash. The tool will calculate each person’s share of the bil…

A WordPress plugin sold to 15,000 sites has a flaw that lets anyone create an admin account, and attackers are already using it
A WordPress plugin sold to 15,000 sites has a flaw that lets anyone create an admin account, and attackers are already using it

A critical vulnerability in WP Maps Pro, a commercial WordPress plugin with more than 15,000 sales on the Envato Market, is being actively exploited by attackers to create malicious administrator accounts on vulnerable sites. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2…

Tencent is letting PayPal users pay through WeChat’s merchant network, solving China’s tourist payment problem
Tencent is letting PayPal users pay through WeChat’s merchant network, solving China’s tourist payment problem

Tencent has announced that PayPal users will be able to make cashless payments in China by scanning QR codes through WeChat Pay’s merchant network. The integration, which will be available to US-based PayPal users first with more markets to follow, con…

A new app, The Mall, is building a universal feed for online shopping

The Mall lets shoppers build a personalized feed of brands, track sales and drops, and discover products across thousands of retailers.

DuckDuckGo makes its ‘no-AI’ search engine easier to access as its traffic booms

Alternative search engine DuckDuckGo launches ‘no AI’ web extensions for Chrome and Firefox users.

Strava blames zero-code AI apps and scrapers as it tightens API access
Strava blames zero-code AI apps and scrapers as it tightens API access

The popular fitness-tracking platform, Strava, is restricting access to its API as part of efforts to clamp down on AI scraping, as reported earlier by TechCrunch. Developers who want to build an app using Strava’s data now need to pay for a flat $11.99 / month subscription. In an update on its developer hub, Strava […]

Strava declares war on scrapers ahead of IPO

Strava will charge a flat monthly fee from developers to access its API

Apple destroyed the mid-tier watch market. Now it’s coming for the $200 billion eyewear industry.
Apple destroyed the mid-tier watch market. Now it’s coming for the $200 billion eyewear industry.

When Apple launched the Apple Watch in 2015, the mid-tier wristwatch market had a handful of dominant companies. Swatch Group sold watches under Tissot, Hamilton, and Longines. Fossil Group sold under Michael Kors, Armani, and Kate Spade. Movado sold u…

Snapchat Planets Meaning: Order, Rankings, and How Friend Solar System Works

Snapchat Planets turns your friendship ranking into a tiny social solar system, where being Mercury is elite and Neptune might sting a little.