TikTok comes for Google: It's going to be a battle royale between the two companies for dominance in search. TikTok is testing the ability for users to take or upload a photo to find similar products in TikTok Shop. Bonus is that you will no longer have to rely on textual descriptions. Read more
More bytes from Apple:
🍎 It's the little things that truly make consumers happy: Two of the long-awaited iPhone features are now here: the ability to schedule messages to send at a later date and time and support of RCS, the next-gen messaging standard and replacement for SMS that will make texting with Android folks much less painful. Read more
🍎 Check your compatibility: Meanwhile, not every device is going to operate with iOS 18, so we've put together this handy-dandy guide to devices that are compatible. Read more
🍎 Apple App Store improvements: Apple is giving developers more tools to increase their app revenues and promote their apps with win-back offers and the release of a new commerce API. Read more
🍎 Can't check out Apple WWDC?: We've got you covered with a roundup of everything unveiled so far. Read more
It's a mystery: A hacker claims it breached billions of records that would impact basically everyone in the United States. The stolen data appears partly legitimate, but there is some difficulty in confirming the data is actually correct. Read more
Gemini Nano AI comes to Pixel: The June Pixel drop will allow users to access the model as a developer option. Apart from that, the feature drop includes Display Port connectivity support for Pixel 8 and Pixel 8a, reverse phone number lookup for unknown numbers, fall and crash detection for Pixel Watch 2, and doorbell notifications on the Pixel tablet. Read more
Crunchbase expands its diversity-tracking feature to Europe: Hopefully this will bridge some of the gap in the data landscape and make it easier to find up-to-date information about how much venture capital funding goes to ethnic minorities. Read more
Creating cookware that won't poison you, with Jordan Nathan: Jordan Nathan founded Caraway after he had an experience with Teflon poisoning that left him searching for a better — and healthier — cookware brand. On this week's episode of Found, Nathan joins Dom and Becca to discuss how he built a brand around aesthetically pleasing nontoxic home goods as we continue to dive into DTC companies. Listen here
