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Snapchat will enhance location sharing in its parental control hub, Family Center, the company announced Thursday. Users have been able to share their location with others on Snapchat for quite some time, but the latest additions allow parents to share their location on the app when their teen leaves or arrives at a designated location, such as school. You can now receive alerts from within Family Center. Previously, parents had to find their teenager on Snap Map or visit their profile to see where they were. This new feature allows parents to see their child's location directly within Family Center,…

Indian video editing platform InVideo launches an AI-powered generative video creation feature that allows you to generate video clips using prompts. The platform, backed by Tiger Global, Peak XV and others, is calling this release InVideo v3.0. You can use text prompts to generate videos in a variety of styles, including live-action, animation, and anime styles, and export the resulting videos in formats suitable for YouTube, Shorts/Reels, and Linkedin. Users can also edit these videos by prompting them to make changes or additions to specific parts of the clip. Image credit: Screenshot by TechCrunch InVideo has not developed a proprietary…

PayPal is launching several features that will allow users in groups to pool money with friends and family to collectively pay for trips, vacations, gifts, and more. The company is launching the feature in the US, Germany, UK, Italy and Spain ahead of the holiday season. “Reboot” might be a better verb here. PayPal actually introduced a pool feature some time ago, fancifully called “money pools.” It debuted in 2017, perhaps as a reaction to people coming up with the idea earlier and getting a lot of attention to it. However, PayPal ended this service worldwide in November 2021. At…

The U.S. government has confirmed that hackers with ties to China have infiltrated multiple U.S. telecommunications service providers and gained access to wiretapping systems used by law enforcement to monitor American citizens. In a joint statement released on Monday, CISA and the FBI said they had uncovered an “extensive and significant” cyber espionage operation in which China-linked actors compromised the networks of “multiple telecommunications companies” in the United States. did. CISA and the FBI have not named the compromised organizations, but the Wall Street Journal reports that telecommunications providers whose networks were compromised include AT&T, Lumen (formerly CenturyLink), and Verizon.…

Many startups and large technology companies have been working on building artificial intelligence to code software. Now, another new player is coming out of the shadows to throw his hat into the ring, with a mission to solve the many problems that arise when humans and all AIs write code together. Tessl is building what it calls an “AI native” platform that developers and their teams can use to create and maintain software, and is currently opening a waiting list for anyone interested in trying it out. The word “under construction” is used here very specifically. Tessl's products are not…

Startup inspiration can come from anywhere. But for Atlas.co*, a freemium browser-based real-time mapping tool built by a team of (initially student) engineers based in Oslo, Norway, there's a business opportunity in competing with expensive legacy. The realization that mapping software might strike the founder during class. “When I took an introductory GIS class, [geographic information system]Half the class couldn't download it because their computers didn't meet the software requirements,” CEO and co-founder Fredrik Moger told TechCrunch. “That's a barrier in general, right? And I think Adobe was facing the same problem probably 10 years ago, and then Figma came…

India, the world's most populous country, is experiencing increasing traffic congestion due to a rapid increase in private car ownership and a decline in the use of public and non-motorized transport, with relatively narrow roads and inadequate parking in urban areas. The parking lot is also a problem. New Delhi is aware of these challenges and has sought new ways to quickly address them. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said at an event in September that air taxis will soon become “a reality in India”, indicating his government's interest in supporting the new mode of transportation. The country's aviation regulator,…

British consumer rights group Which? has filed a legal claim against Apple under competition law on behalf of the approximately 40 million users of the company's cloud storage service, iCloud. The class action lawsuit, which seeks compensatory damages of 3 billion pounds (approximately $3.8 billion at current exchange rates), alleges that Apple gave preferential treatment to its cloud storage service, effectively locking people into paying for iCloud. It alleges that the company violated competition rules by doing so. Rip-off price. “iOS is proprietary and in control of Apple's operating system, and it is Apple's obligation not to use that dominance…

It's been 13 years since Apple released Final Cut X. That's just over half the lifespan of the video editing software, which celebrated its 25th anniversary in April of this year. Having gone through several lifetimes in the consumer software world, some wonder if the company has quietly washed its hands of its products. After 13 years of waiting, Final Cut Pro is finally up to 11 and now Apple isn't messing with it anymore. The software will be available for download on Wednesday. Existing users can get Final Cut Pro 11 as a free update, but new customers will…

OpenAI could release an “AI agent” tool as early as January. This is according to Bloomberg, which reported that OpenAI is close to launching software code-named Operator that can perform actions directly on a person's computer. OpenAI is said to be initially planning to launch Operator as a research preview via its developer API. Operator will go up against the likes of Anthropic's recently announced agent feature, Computer Use, and Google's rumored consumer-focused agent. It's unclear whether OpenAI has any advantages. Bloomberg reports that it could take the form of a general-purpose tool that performs tasks in a web browser.…