Following tests on Instagram, Meta begins testing age verification tools on Facebook Dating, letting users upload IDs or video selfies screened by partner Yoti (Ashley Gold/Axios)

December 5, 2022

Ashley Gold / Axios:
Following tests on Instagram, Meta begins testing age verification tools on Facebook Dating, letting users upload IDs or video selfies screened by partner Yoti — Meta is testing age verification tools on Facebook Dating, a move the company says will make the product safer, per an announcement shared exclusively with Axios.

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China has let dating apps flourish amid its crackdown on tech; data.ai: the number of dating apps with 1K+ downloads is up from 81 in 2017 to 275 in 2022 (New York Times)

New York Times:
China has let dating apps flourish amid its crackdown on tech; data.ai: the number of dating apps with 1K+ downloads is up from 81 in 2017 to 275 in 2022 — China has cracked down on many tech companies, but has allowed dating apps that provide social connections to flourish.

September 28, 2022

OpenAI starts letting DALL-E 2 customers upload and edit people’s faces, after initially banning the uploading of photos that may depict real people (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
OpenAI starts letting DALL-E 2 customers upload and edit people’s faces, after initially banning the uploading of photos that may depict real people — After initially disabling the capability, OpenAI today announced that customers with access to DALL-E 2 can upload people’s faces to edit …

September 19, 2022

LGBTQ dating app Grindr closed up 213.84% at $36.50 per share in its NYSE debut under the new ticker GRND following its SPAC merger (Alex Harring/CNBC)

Alex Harring / CNBC:
LGBTQ dating app Grindr closed up 213.84% at $36.50 per share in its NYSE debut under the new ticker GRND following its SPAC merger — – Grindr surged in trading Friday in its first day under a new ticker following its merger with blank-check company Tiga.

November 19, 2022

SEC filing: Coinbase Chief Product Officer Surojit Chatterjee leaves, as the company plans to restructure its product team into four divisions (The Block)

The Block:
SEC filing: Coinbase Chief Product Officer Surojit Chatterjee leaves, as the company plans to restructure its product team into four divisions — Chief Product Officer Surojit Chatterjee is set to depart the exchange. — Coinbase revealed plans to overhaul its entire product team, which now reports directly to the CEO.

November 2, 2022

Apple’s iOS 16 webpage now lists iCloud Shared Photo library as “coming later this year”; the feature was also removed from the latest iOS 16 betas (Andrew Orr/AppleInsider)

Andrew Orr / AppleInsider:
Apple’s iOS 16 webpage now lists iCloud Shared Photo library as “coming later this year”; the feature was also removed from the latest iOS 16 betas — Apple announced iCloud Shared Photo Library as part of iOS 16, but it appears that the feature won’t arrive in the iOS 16 release on September 12.

September 9, 2022

Meta debuts Instagram ads on the Explore page and tests ads in profile feeds, letting creators earn extra income, and a shorter ad format for Facebook Reels (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Meta debuts Instagram ads on the Explore page and tests ads in profile feeds, letting creators earn extra income, and a shorter ad format for Facebook Reels — Following another quarter that saw marketers pull back on their ad spending, Meta today announced it’s increasing its ad load on Instagram with the launch of two new ad slots.

October 4, 2022

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