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Andrew Liszewski
Andrew Liszewski
Nintendo’s Music app made it easier to relive your pandemic obsession.

Open one of the the Rainy, Sunny, or Snowy Day themed playlists for the Animal Crossing: New Horizons soundtrack on the Nintendo Music app and you’ll now find a new “Play hourly tracks” button. Pressing it will automatically play the hourly track that correlates to your current time of day.

A screenshot of a new button added to the Nintendo Music app.
Screenshot: Nintendo Music
Richard Lawler
Richard Lawler
Google’s restricting its Wear OS Clock app to Pixel watches.

Just as it did with its Weather app for wearables in September, Google has announced that new Wear OS devices from other manufacturers will have to rely on something else. If you have a non-Pixel watch with the Clock app already, it will keep working, but without new updates.

With your favorite watch brands offering their own default clock apps on Wear OS, Google’s Clock app (alarm, timer, and stopwatch) is no longer available for download on Wear OS smartwatches – except for pre-installed on the Pixel Watch.

Emma Roth
Emma Roth
Airbnb’s anti-party tech is in effect for Halloween.

The company will use the length of a reservation, property type, distance from a guest’s location, and timing to block “higher risk booking attempts” — similar to what it did on New Year’s Eve.

Airbnb says its anti-party system prevented 38,000 people in the US and 6,300 people in Canada from booking entire homes during Halloween last year.

Emma Roth
Emma Roth
OpenAI is acquiring the creators of Apple’s Shortcuts app.

The team behind Software Applications Incorporated sold its Workflow app to Apple in 2017, which later became Shortcuts. Now the startup, along with its AI interface for the Mac called Sky, is joining OpenAI.

OpenAI says it plans to “bring Sky’s deep macOS integration and product craft into ChatGPT.”

Stevie Bonifield
Stevie Bonifield
Apple removes Tea from App Store for “failing to meet the company’s terms of use.”

The app that suffered multiple data breaches earlier this year and a replica for men called TeaOnHer were removed for “failing to meet the company’s terms of use around content moderation and user privacy,” according to 404 Media.

Apple also cited “an excessive number of complaints,” including reports of posts including minors’ data.

Terrence O'Brien
Terrence O'Brien
Pebble is officially back in the App Store and on Google Play.

Earlier this month, the Pebble app returned to iOS and Android with support not just for the new generation of Pebble smartwatches, but also the original wearables. That means those out there still clinging to their old Pebble 2 from 2016 will no longer have to rely on Rebble.

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Jess Weatherbed
Jess Weatherbed
VSCO is giving iOS users AI editing tools.

The photo editing app’s first “AI Lab” feature can automatically remove objects or people by matching the surrounding area, similar to removal tools in Photoshop and Google Photos.

An image upscaler is also “launching soon” that enhances resolution and details “while preserving color accuracy and composition,” according to VSCO.

Three screenshots demonstrating the new AI remove tool on VSCO’s iOS image editing app.
The tool will be familar to anyone who’s used similar object removal features: just draw over what you want to delete, and tap “remove.”
Image: VSCO