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AI was a major focus for app development this year, but thankfully it wasn’t the only thing that mattered.From useful productivity tools to breakthroughs in creativity and privacy, the best new apps found ways to innovate that didn’t involve just spewing out images and text. And even within the AI field, some apps found smarter ways to use it than others.As is custom, this list celebrates apps, websites, and browser extensions that either didn’t exist a year ago or received transformative new updates, the hope being that…

While Bungie may well be going through a rough patch over the past couple of months, Destiny 2‘s Season of the Witch has proven to be quite good in the end. Now, with Season 23 about to release on November 28, Bungie’s revealed more details about its Seasonal Artifact. Notably, the latest Destiny 2 weekly blog goes in-depth on the Queensfoil Censer: a mysterious Ahamkara-borne object that’s going to infuse Guardians with power over the course of the Season of the Wish. Players can expect a focus on Solar, Strand, and…

Snoop Dogg and Gwyneth Paltrow are two celebrity voices available from Speechify on the Artifact app, but there’s another 30 or so voices available including a ‘Dwight”’clone.Photo: Ronald Martinez (Getty Images)On Thursday, the Artifact news app announced it was adding speech-to-text features that will allow users to listen to articles with an AI voice powered by Speechify. The update should be available free for all iOS users, and the feature should be out on Android sometime in the near future.If An AI Reworks…

Anyone who plays Fortnite long enough will come to love its yearly summer festivities, and as usual, this year’s Summer Escape Event has proven to be a great time for players looking to engage in fun quests and earn new cosmetics. This week provides a new quest that tasks you with destroying 10 stones in battle royale mode, which offers you the reward of a new harvesting tool known as the Artifact Axe. If you’re wondering what qualifies as a stone and how to destroy them, we’ll give you the details below. How to…

Clickbait in web journalism and blogging is a big problem, and the staff of the Artifact news app thinks it’s found a solution by way of AI. Artifact has introduced the capability for readers to flag clickbait headlines and have artificial intelligence rewrite them to accurately reflect article contents. AI won’t rewrite every news article headline that Artifact circulates. The GPT-4-infused app will only tinker with a header if enough app users flag it as clickbait. Once that happens, Artifact gets to work on…

The invasion of chatbots has disrupted the plans of countless businesses, including some that had been working on that very technology for years (looking at you, Google). But not Artifact, the news discovery app created by Instagram cofounders Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger. When I talked to Systrom this week about his startup—a much-anticipated follow-up to the billion-user social network that’s been propping up Meta for the past few years—he was emphatic that Artifact is a product of the recent AI revolution, even…

There are lots of ways to write a headline, many of them bad. Take this article, for instance. It might’ve been titled:Why Banning TikTok Won’t Protect Our PrivacyYou’ll Never Believe What This App Lets Users DoorEmerging App Wages War Against Fake Newsor evenThis Trendy News App Empowers Users With One Weird Trick.But if it had been, then you might’ve felt let down by the actual content of the story. Clickbait tends to do that: make big promises, build expectations, and then deliver something much less exciting than…

Instagram founders’ news app Arifact launched a new set of features Monday, allowing users to report clickbait articles, react with emojis and share articles as images. The clickbait flag feature now lets you mark an article as misleading through the three-dot menu in the article view or through a long press in the feed view. The company says that it will use these reports as signals to “better prioritize helpful articles over misleading ones.” Until now, the app allowed users to report an…

Instagram co-founder Kevin Systrom thinks that the social media industry is ready for something new. Major social media platforms have become better than ever at capturing our attention by optimizing their algorithms to entertain us with viral videos and funny memes. But while people are consuming more content, they’re often posting less, according to Systrom. “People have flocked to services like TikTok or Twitter or Facebook less to connect with their friends ... and more and more to be entertained,” Systrom said.…

Artifact is an iOS app made by the founders of Instagram. With a TikTok-like feed, the main idea is to deliver only the news that matters to you. Not only can you follow your favorite outlets, but the app recommends articles from your main interests, whether it’s politics, economics, tech, food, or whatever else. With an expanding userbase, I enjoyed using the app because I could see if my articles were interesting for the audience alongside their comments (I’ll warn other writers that reading the comments on…