Taylor Hatmaker
Roblox is adding two new ways for people who spend time in its virtual worlds to find old friends and make new ones.
The company announced Friday that it would introduce a contact importer and friend recommendations, two new features designed to connect existing users to each other and...
If your Instagram is awash in algorithmically generated portraits of your friends, you aren’t alone. After adding a new avatar generation tool based on Stable Diffusion, the photo editing app Lensa AI went viral over the last few days, with users sharing their uncanny AI-crafted avatars (and the...
Elon Musk reminded his followers on Friday that owning Twitter now means he controls every aspect of the company — including what its employees said behind closed doors before he took over.
Earlier this week, Musk teased the release of what he called “The Twitter Files,” declaring that the...
Blizzard has a lot going on. The company’s leadership is a toxic trash heap nightmare (hi, Bobby Kotick!) and it’s only partially cleaned house. Its failure to deliver on the lofty promises of the Overwatch League makes the game’s scene, both competitive and casual, even less of a...
Though it’s been available for the iPhone for months, Truth Social is now listed in Google’s app marketplace for the first time.
Axios first reported Wednesday that Truth Social, former President Trump’s social network, cleared the necessary hurdles to get approval from Google. The app became available on Android...
Moments before Meta’s big annual developer conference was set to begin, TechCrunch’s staff scrambled to see who had a charged Meta Quest headset, which it turned out was nobody. But because I knew what corner of the closet mine was in (upper left), here I am.
After merging my...
Between recent drama around gambling and its controversial decision to take a bigger slice of the subscription revenue pie, it’s been a dramatic couple of weeks for Twitch. Now, the company says it’s testing one new way for streamers to bring in cash from their most committed followers...
Roblox outlined a vision for the future of its busy social gaming platform on Friday, incrementally ushering its community into a new era that might not always resemble what’s come before.
At RDC, its annual developer event, the company highlighted new features designed to improve the platform, with a...
Moderating an online community is hard, often thankless work — and it’s even harder when it happens in a silo.
On Twitch, interconnected channels already informally share information on users they’ve prefer to keep out. The company is now formalizing that ad hoc practice with a new tool that...
A social network of virtual pocket worlds with a daily user base roughly the size of Spain’s population, Roblox is ubiquitous among kids 13 and under and mostly mystifying to adults, who can’t generally see past its simple gameplay and blocky environments.
Those blocks are comprised of what Roblox...
