Sarah Perez, Author at TechCrunch

Dot’s AI really, really wants to get to know you

Sarah Perez — Fri, 21 Jun 2024 18:53:41 +0000

Dot is a new AI companion and chatbot that thrives on getting to know your innermost thoughts and feelings.

Roots introduces a screen time app for tracking ‘digital dopamine’

Sarah Perez — Thu, 20 Jun 2024 13:30:40 +0000

Roots is designed to help people get a better handle on what sort of apps are worth spending time on and which are not.

iOS 18 could ‘sherlock’ $400M in app revenue

Sarah Perez — Tue, 18 Jun 2024 19:52:42 +0000

Apple's changes may affect apps that today have an estimated $393 million in revenue and have been downloaded roughly 58 million times over the past year.

Now a Series A startup, kids’ app and ‘digital toy’ Pok Pok is coming to Android

Sarah Perez — Tue, 18 Jun 2024 14:00:00 +0000

Pok Pok's growth caught investors' attention, leading to a $6 million Series A.

Hands-on with the BlackBerry-style Clicks keyboard for iPhone

Sarah Perez — Sun, 16 Jun 2024 15:00:00 +0000

The Clicks keyboard case has arrived, and it’s delightful, if not entirely practical for everyday use — at least, not without weeks of practice.

Apple gives developers a way to nominate their apps for editorial consideration on the App Store

Sarah Perez — Thu, 13 Jun 2024 19:43:32 +0000

From a new Nominations dashboard in App Store Connect, developers will be able to create their nominations, either one by one or by uploading a spreadsheet to nominate apps in bulk.

Apple’s Spotlight Search gets better at natural language queries in iOS 18

Sarah Perez — Thu, 13 Jun 2024 17:33:48 +0000

With the Core Spotlight framework, developers can donate content they want to make searchable via Spotlight.

After the Yahoo News app revamp, Yahoo preps AI summaries on homepage, too

Sarah Perez — Thu, 13 Jun 2024 14:07:29 +0000

Yahoo’s AI push isn’t over just yet. The company, also TechCrunch’s parent, recently launched AI-powered features for Yahoo Mail, including its own take on Gmail’s Priority Inbox and AI summaries of emails, and today it’s rolling out an AI-powered version of its Yahoo News app, leveraging technology it acquired from its latest acquisition, Artifact. Still, […]

iOS 18 cracks down on apps asking for full address book access

Sarah Perez — Wed, 12 Jun 2024 19:05:14 +0000

To give users more control over the contacts an app can and cannot access, the permissions screen has two stages.

Washington’s political class doesn’t know Y Combinator exists — yet

Sarah Perez — Wed, 12 Jun 2024 02:13:03 +0000

After educating the D.C. market, YC aims to leverage its influence, particularly in areas like competition policy.

FTC Chair Lina Khan shares how the agency is looking at AI

Sarah Perez — Tue, 11 Jun 2024 23:53:48 +0000

With dozens of antitrust cases and close to a hundred on the consumer protection side, the agency is now turning to innovative tactics to help it fight fraud, particularly in the AI space.

Apple’s AI, Apple Intelligence, is boring and practical — that’s why it works

Sarah Perez — Tue, 11 Jun 2024 20:30:00 +0000

Some of the new Apple Intelligence features that Apple debuted at WWDC 2024 don’t even feel like AI, they just feel like smarter tools.

At last, Apple’s Messages app will support RCS and scheduling texts

Sarah Perez — Tue, 11 Jun 2024 17:57:00 +0000

These messaging features, announced at WWDC 2024, will have a significant impact on how people communicate every day.

Light introduces its latest minimalist phone, now with an OLED screen but still no addictive apps

Sarah Perez — Tue, 11 Jun 2024 15:00:00 +0000

Unlike Light's older phones, the Light III sports a larger OLED display and an NFC chip to make way for future payment tools, as well as a camera.

AI news reader Particle adds publishing partners and $10.9M in new funding

Sarah Perez — Tue, 11 Jun 2024 13:00:00 +0000

Particle announced it has partnered with news organization Reuters to collaborate on new business models and experiments in monetization.

Elon Musk threatens to ban Apple devices from his companies over Apple’s ChatGPT integrations

Sarah Perez — Mon, 10 Jun 2024 21:54:51 +0000

Elon Musk's posts seem to misunderstand the relationship Apple announced with OpenAI at WWDC 2024.

Apple brings its GenAI ‘Apple Intelligence’ to developers, will let Siri control apps

Sarah Perez — Mon, 10 Jun 2024 19:30:00 +0000

Apple's SDKs (software development kits) have been updated with a variety of new APIs and frameworks.

Apple debuts AI-generated … Bitmoji

Sarah Perez — Mon, 10 Jun 2024 18:26:32 +0000

Apple Intelligence will have an understanding of who you're talking with in a messaging conversation.

With macOS Sequoia, you can mirror your iPhone on your Mac

Sarah Perez — Mon, 10 Jun 2024 18:03:48 +0000

The new OS, announced at WWDC 2024, will allow users to mirror their iPhone screen directly on their Mac and even control it.

Apple revamps its Photos app for iOS 18

Sarah Perez — Mon, 10 Jun 2024 17:42:46 +0000

Apple says the new design will lead to less time searching for photos.