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just fix the parse issue
tried to fetch wp-json api but found that the response doesn't contain header image info.

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        &lt;p class=&quot;wp-block-paragraph&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://deepx.ai/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer noopener&quot;&gt;DEEPX&lt;/a&gt; was founded in 2018 by CEO Lokwon Kim, who previously worked at Apple, Cisco Systems, the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center and Broadcom.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
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        &lt;p class=&quot;wp-block-paragraph&quot;&gt;DEEPX, which has around 65 employees, is not the only company that has developed AI chip solutions. The Korean outfit competes with&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;https://techcrunch.com/2024/04/02/hailo-ai-chip-startup-lands-120m-to-battle-nvidia/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer noopener&quot;&gt;Hailo&lt;/a&gt;, which landed a $120 million funding round last month;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;https://techcrunch.com/2024/04/04/sima-ai-70m-funding-multimodal-genai-chip/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer noopener&quot;&gt;SiMa.ai&lt;/a&gt;, which closed on $70 million, also in April; and&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;https://techcrunch.com/2022/10/25/ai-chip-startup-axelera-lands-27m-in-capital-to-commercialize-its-tech/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer noopener&quot;&gt;Axelera&lt;/a&gt;, a Belgium-based AI chip startup that secured $27 million in 2022.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
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        &lt;p id=&quot;speakable-summary&quot; class=&quot;wp-block-paragraph&quot;&gt;TabaPay has abandoned its &lt;a href=&quot;https://techcrunch.com/2024/04/22/softbank-backed-tabapay-is-buying-the-assets-of-a16z-backed-synapse-after-it-filed-for-bankruptcy/&quot;&gt;plans to purchase the assets&lt;/a&gt; of troubled banking-as-a-service startup Synapse, TabaPay confirmed to TechCrunch today. Synapse says the problem is banking partner Evolve Bank &amp;amp; Trust. And Evolve says it is not involved, and not to blame. Meanwhile, another player in the saga, Mercury, says Synapse’s allegations have “no merit.”&lt;/p&gt;
        &lt;p class=&quot;wp-block-paragraph&quot;&gt;Synapse’s counsel declared in bankruptcy court on Thursday that the deal would not be moving forward, Fintech Business Weekly’s Jason Mikula &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jasonmikula_breaking-tabapay-will-not-acquire-synapses-activity-7194371857708384257-P_z3?utm_source=share&amp;amp;utm_medium=member_desktop&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer noopener&quot;&gt;shared on LinkedIn&lt;/a&gt;. A spokesperson for TabaPay confirmed to TechCrunch on Thursday afternoon that the company had “pulled out,” adding that TabaPay had sent “termination notice of the purchase agreement this morning based on failure to meet the purchase agreement closing conditions.”&lt;/p&gt;
        &lt;p class=&quot;wp-block-paragraph&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://synapsefi.com/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer noopener&quot;&gt;Synapse&lt;/a&gt; CEO and co-founder Sankaet Pathak, however, believes that TabaPay can still be convinced to stay in the deal. He told TechCrunch that his “understanding is that &lt;a href=&quot;http://tabapay.com/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer noopener&quot;&gt;TabaPay&lt;/a&gt; is still interested in doing the acquisition, but Evolve has failed to meet their closing condition for TabaPay to be able to close.”&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
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        &lt;p class=&quot;wp-block-paragraph&quot;&gt;That closing condition is that Evolve Bank &amp;amp; Trust must fully fund its FBO accounts and has thus far failed to do so, according to Pathak. &lt;a href=&quot;https://youverify.co/blog/fbo-accounts&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer noopener&quot;&gt;FBO&lt;/a&gt; stands for “For Benefit Of” account, and is defined as “a bank or investment account that is set up to receive funds on behalf of a third party or beneficiary.”&lt;/p&gt;
        &lt;p class=&quot;wp-block-paragraph&quot;&gt;For its part, an Evolve spokesperson told TechCrunch that “Evolve was not party to the Tabapay (sic) acquisition, and we did not have closing conditions to meet. However, we did have a settlement agreement with Synapse that had a funding condition. Evolve satisfied that condition.”&lt;/p&gt;
        &lt;p class=&quot;wp-block-paragraph&quot;&gt;Still, Pathak maintained that: “Until last night Evolve had communicated that it would be funding its FBO accounts as required by the parties’ settlement agreement, but it continued to request extensions to resolve the issue with Mercury and to obtain Mercury’s buy-in,” Pathak told TechCrunch. “And last night, Evolve informed Synapse and TabaPay that they had fully funded the accounts – while they have not. Given that open issue – TabaPay is unable to close the transaction.”&lt;/p&gt;
        &lt;p class=&quot;wp-block-paragraph&quot;&gt;San Francisco-based Synapse, which operated a platform enabling banks and fintech companies to develop financial services, was founded in 2014 by Bryan Keltner and Pathak. It was providing those types of services as an intermediary between banking partner Evolve Bank &amp;amp; Trust and business banking startup Mercury.&lt;/p&gt;
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        &lt;p class=&quot;wp-block-paragraph&quot;&gt;Synapse ran into difficulties last year after having served as an intermediary between banking partner Evolve Bank &amp;amp; Trust and business banking startup Mercury. When Evolve and Mercury decided to end their respective relationships with Synapse and work directly with each other, Evolve and Synapse were reportedly &lt;a href=&quot;https://techcrunch.com/2023/10/13/synapse-evolve-mercury-fintech/&quot;&gt;at odds with each other&lt;/a&gt; as the relationship was winding down. (Evolve is not to be confused with another Mercury partner, Choice Bank, that the FDIC is looking into over compliance with how it &lt;a href=&quot;https://techcrunch.com/2024/04/17/fintech-banking-startup-mercury-is-expanding-into-consumer-banking/&quot;&gt;allowed Mercury accounts to be opened up overseas&lt;/a&gt;.)&lt;/p&gt;
        &lt;p class=&quot;wp-block-paragraph&quot;&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;https://medium.com/@sankaet/mercury-reconciliation-issues-7f3c8dec9b93&quot;&gt;a Medium post&lt;/a&gt;, Pathak alleges that when &lt;a href=&quot;https://medium.com/@sankaet/mercury-reconciliation-issues-7f3c8dec9b93&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer noopener&quot;&gt;Mercury and Evolve ended their partnership with Synapse&lt;/a&gt;, Mercury moved $49.6 million more out of the Synapse-affiliated accounts than Synapse believes it should have and has not reconciled the overdraw.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
        &lt;p class=&quot;wp-block-paragraph&quot;&gt;In October, Mercury publicly said that the transition away from Synapse was complete and “reconciled.”&lt;/p&gt;
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        &lt;p class=&quot;wp-block-paragraph&quot;&gt;“Our hope with open sourcing this information is that there will be a public outcry (at least from our customers) that will motivate Evolve and/or Mercury to swiftly resolve this issue instead of hoping that this problem would go away,” Pathak wrote. “This resolution is material to Synapse and our ability to be able to close the TabaPay transaction. Our understanding is that Taba would finish the acquisition if Evolve met their closing condition of funding their accounts.”&lt;/p&gt;
        &lt;p class=&quot;wp-block-paragraph&quot;&gt;In a written statement, a Mercury spokesperson told TechCrunch: “We have thoroughly investigated Synapse’s claims from the moment they were brought to our attention in March 2024 – six months after we migrated off of Synapse – and are confident that they have no merit and all customer funds are accounted for.”&lt;/p&gt;
        &lt;p class=&quot;wp-block-paragraph&quot;&gt;The spokesperson added, “After Mercury sued Synapse in December 2023 seeking to recover significant Mercury revenue that Synapse withheld in violation of their contract, Synapse began manufacturing allegations and counterclaims against Mercury. These claims have varied in number and type, and we’ve investigated them all out of an abundance of caution, but all have proved meritless.” Mercury specifically denies the allegations that “Mercury customer FBO accounts were allegedly overdrawn.”&lt;/p&gt;
        &lt;p class=&quot;wp-block-paragraph&quot;&gt;On April 22, TechCrunch reported that Synapse had filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy and that its &lt;a href=&quot;https://techcrunch.com/2024/04/22/softbank-backed-tabapay-is-buying-the-assets-of-a16z-backed-synapse-after-it-filed-for-bankruptcy/&quot;&gt;assets would be acquired by TabaPay&lt;/a&gt;, according to the two companies.&lt;/p&gt;
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        &lt;p class=&quot;wp-block-paragraph&quot;&gt;The deal was pending bankruptcy court approval.&lt;/p&gt;
        &lt;p class=&quot;wp-block-paragraph&quot;&gt;The $9.7 million purchase price was significantly lower than the over $50 million in venture capital that Synapse had raised from investors such as Andreessen Horowitz, Trinity Ventures and Core Innovation Capital over time.&lt;/p&gt;
        &lt;p class=&quot;wp-block-paragraph&quot;&gt;Founded in 2017, Mountain View-based &lt;a href=&quot;http://tabapay.com/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer noopener&quot;&gt;TabaPay&lt;/a&gt; is an instant money movement platform that SoftBank backed in a 2022 round of an undisclosed sum. It is not clear how much venture capital it has raised.&lt;/p&gt;
        &lt;p class=&quot;wp-block-paragraph&quot;&gt;Last October, Synapse&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;https://techcrunch.com/2023/10/06/a16z-backed-fintech-synapse-lays-off-40-of-its-staff/&quot;&gt;laid off 86 people&lt;/a&gt;, or about 40% of the company. This was after the startup had previously let go of 18% of its workforce last June. At the time, Synapse said “the current macroeconomic conditions” had begun to impact its clients and platforms, affecting its anticipated growth.&lt;/p&gt;
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      <pubDate>Thu, 09 May 2024 20:59:55 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Apple’s ‘Crush’ ad is disgusting</title>
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        &lt;p id=&quot;speakable-summary&quot; class=&quot;wp-block-paragraph&quot;&gt;Apple can generally be relied on for clever, well-produced ads, but it missed the mark with &lt;a href=&quot;https://youtu.be/ntjkwIXWtrc&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer noopener&quot;&gt;its latest&lt;/a&gt;, which depicts a tower of creative tools and analog items literally crushed into the form of the iPad.&lt;/p&gt;
        &lt;p class=&quot;wp-block-paragraph&quot;&gt;Apple has since apologized for the ad and canceled plans to televise it. Apple’s VP of Marketing Tor Myhren &lt;a href=&quot;https://adage.com/article/digital-marketing-ad-tech-news/apple-apologizes-ipad-pro-crushed-ad-it-missed-mark/2559321&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer noopener&quot;&gt;told Ad Age&lt;/a&gt;: “We missed the mark with this video, and we’re sorry.” Apple declined to offer further comment to TechCrunch.&lt;/p&gt;
        &lt;p class=&quot;wp-block-paragraph&quot;&gt;But many, including myself, had a negative and visceral reaction to this, and we should talk about why. It’s not just because we are watching stuff get crushed. There are countless video channels dedicated to crushing, burning, exploding and generally destroying everyday objects. Plus, of course, we all know that this kind of thing happens daily at transfer stations and recycling centers. So it isn’t that.&lt;/p&gt;
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        &lt;p class=&quot;wp-block-paragraph&quot;&gt;And it isn’t that the stuff is itself so valuable. Sure, a piano is worth something. But we see them blown up in action movies all the time and don’t feel bad. I like pianos, but that doesn’t mean we can’t do without a few disused baby grands. Same for the rest: It’s mostly junk you could buy off Craigslist for a few bucks, or at a dump for free. (Maybe not the editing station.)&lt;/p&gt;
        &lt;p class=&quot;wp-block-paragraph&quot;&gt;The problem isn’t with the video itself, which in fairness to the people who staged and shot it, is actually very well done. The problem is not the media, but the message.&lt;/p&gt;
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        &lt;p class=&quot;wp-block-paragraph&quot;&gt;We all get the ad’s ostensible point: You can do all this stuff in an iPad. Great. We could also do it on the last iPad, of course, but this one is thinner (no one asked for that, by the way; now cases won’t fit) and some made-up percentage better.&lt;/p&gt;
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        &lt;p class=&quot;wp-block-paragraph&quot;&gt;What we all understand, though — because unlike Apple ad executives, we live in the world — is that the things being crushed here represent the material, the tangible, the real. And the real has value. Value that Apple clearly believes it can crush into yet another black mirror.&lt;/p&gt;
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        &lt;p class=&quot;wp-block-paragraph&quot;&gt;This belief is disgusting to me. And apparently to many others, as well.&lt;/p&gt;
        &lt;p class=&quot;wp-block-paragraph&quot;&gt;Destroying a piano &lt;a href=&quot;https://youtu.be/fZevi_QW908&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer noopener&quot;&gt;in a music video &lt;/a&gt;or &lt;a href=&quot;https://youtu.be/Zx8ZXV7wjyw&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer noopener&quot;&gt;Mythbusters episode &lt;/a&gt;is actually an act of creation. Even destroying a piano (or monitor, or paint can, or drum kit) for no reason at all is, at worst, wasteful!&lt;/p&gt;
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        &lt;p class=&quot;wp-block-paragraph&quot;&gt;But what Apple is doing is destroying these things &lt;em&gt;to convince you that you don’t need them &lt;/em&gt;— all you need is the company’s little device, which can do all that and more, and no need for annoying stuff like strings, keys, buttons, brushes or mixing stations.&lt;/p&gt;
        &lt;p class=&quot;wp-block-paragraph&quot;&gt;We’re all dealing with the repercussions of media moving wholesale toward the digital and always-online. In many ways, it’s genuinely good! I think technology has been hugely empowering.&lt;/p&gt;
        &lt;p class=&quot;wp-block-paragraph&quot;&gt;But in other, equally real ways, the digital transformation feels harmful and forced, a technotopian billionaire-approved vision of the future where every child has an AI best friend and can learn to play the virtual guitar on a cold glass screen.&lt;/p&gt;
        &lt;p class=&quot;wp-block-paragraph&quot;&gt;Does your child like music? They don’t need a harp; throw it in the dump. An iPad is good enough. Do they like to paint? Here, Apple Pencil, just as good as pens, watercolors, oils! Books? Don’t make us laugh! Destroy them. Paper is worthless. Use another screen. In fact, why not read in Apple Vision Pro, with even faker paper?&lt;/p&gt;
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        &lt;p class=&quot;wp-block-paragraph&quot;&gt;What Apple seems to have forgotten is that it is the things in the real world — the very things Apple destroyed — that give the fake versions of those things value in the first place.&lt;/p&gt;
        &lt;p class=&quot;wp-block-paragraph&quot;&gt;A virtual guitar can’t replace a real guitar; that’s like thinking a book can replace its author.&lt;/p&gt;
        &lt;p class=&quot;wp-block-paragraph&quot;&gt;That doesn’t mean we can’t value both for different reasons. But the Apple ad sends the message that the future it wants doesn’t have bottles of paint, dials to turn, sculpture, physical instruments, paper books. Of course, that’s the future it’s been working on selling us for years now, it just hadn’t put it quite so bluntly before.&lt;/p&gt;
        &lt;p class=&quot;wp-block-paragraph&quot;&gt;When someone tells you who they are, believe them. Apple is telling you what it is, and what it wants the future to be, very clearly. If that future doesn’t disgust you, you’re welcome to it.&lt;/p&gt;
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      <pubDate>Thu, 09 May 2024 20:58:54 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Google built some of the first social apps for Android, including Twitter and others</title>
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        &lt;p id=&quot;speakable-summary&quot; class=&quot;wp-block-paragraph&quot;&gt;Here’s a tidbit of startup history that may not be widely known outside of the tech firms themselves: The first versions of popular Android apps, like Twitter, were built by Google itself. That revelation came about via &lt;a href=&quot;https://open.spotify.com/episode/2nQVkHpWWNjw0WQuqOHiv3?si=b0d99648e8044c18&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer noopener&quot;&gt;a new podcast&lt;/a&gt; with Twitter’s former senior director of product management, Sara Beykpour, now the co-founder of the AI news startup Particle.&lt;/p&gt;
        &lt;p class=&quot;wp-block-paragraph&quot;&gt;In a podcast hosted by Lightspeed partner Michael Mignano, Beykpour reminisces about her role in Twitter’s history. She explains how she began working at Twitter in 2009, initially as a tools engineer, when the company employed only around 75 people. Later, Beykpour moved to work on mobile at Twitter around the time when other third-party apps were growing in popularity on other platforms, like BlackBerry and iOS. One of those, Loren Brichter’s &lt;a href=&quot;https://techcrunch.com/2010/04/09/twitter-acquires-tweetie/&quot;&gt;Tweetie&lt;/a&gt;, was even acquired by Twitter to form the basis of its first official iOS app.&lt;/p&gt;
        &lt;p class=&quot;wp-block-paragraph&quot;&gt;As for Twitter’s Android app, that came from Google, Beykpour said.&lt;/p&gt;
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        &lt;p class=&quot;wp-block-paragraph&quot;&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://techcrunch.com/2010/04/30/official-twitter-app-launched-for-android-2-1/&quot;&gt;Twitter for Android client&lt;/a&gt; was “a demo app that Google had created and gave to us,” she said on the podcast. “They did that with all the popular social apps at the time: Foursquare … Twitter … they all looked the same in those early days because Google wrote them all.”&lt;/p&gt;
        &lt;p class=&quot;wp-block-paragraph&quot;&gt;Mignano interjected, “Wait, so back up; explain this. So Google wanted companies to adopt Android, so they build you apps?”&lt;/p&gt;
        &lt;p class=&quot;wp-block-paragraph&quot;&gt;“Yes, exactly,” Beykpour responded. &lt;/p&gt;
        &lt;p class=&quot;wp-block-paragraph&quot;&gt;Twitter then took the Android app that Google built and continued to develop it. Beykpour was the second Android engineer at the company, she said.&lt;/p&gt;
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        &lt;p class=&quot;wp-block-paragraph&quot;&gt;In fact, Google had detailed its work on the Android Twitter client &lt;a href=&quot;https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2010/05/twitter-for-android-closer-look-at.html&quot;&gt;in a 2010 blog post&lt;/a&gt;, but much of the press &lt;a href=&quot;https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2010/05/twitter-for-android-closer-look-at.html&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer noopener&quot;&gt;coverage&lt;/a&gt; at the &lt;a href=&quot;https://thenextweb.com/news/twitters-official-android-app-launches&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer noopener&quot;&gt;time&lt;/a&gt; didn’t credit the app to Google’s work, making this a forgotten bit of internet history. In Google’s post, the company explains how they implemented early Android best practices within the Twitter app. Beykpour told TechCrunch that the post’s author, Virgil Dobjanschi, was the main software engineer.&lt;/p&gt;
        &lt;p class=&quot;wp-block-paragraph&quot;&gt;“If we had questions, we were supposed to ask him,” she recalls. &lt;/p&gt;
        &lt;p class=&quot;wp-block-paragraph&quot;&gt;Beykpour shared other stories about Twitter’s early days, too. For instance, she worked on Twitter’s video app, Vine, (after returning to Twitter from a stint at &lt;a href=&quot;https://techcrunch.com/2015/04/29/psst/&quot;&gt;Secret&lt;/a&gt;), and had been under pressure to launch Vine on Android before Instagram launched its video product. She met that deadline by launching Vine roughly two weeks before Instagram Video, she said. &lt;/p&gt;
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        &lt;p class=&quot;wp-block-paragraph&quot;&gt;The latter “significantly” affected Vine’s numbers, and, in Beykpour’s opinion, was what led to the popular app’s demise.&lt;/p&gt;
        &lt;p class=&quot;wp-block-paragraph&quot;&gt;“That was the day the writing was on the wall,” she said, even though it took years to eventually shut Vine down.&lt;/p&gt;
        &lt;p class=&quot;wp-block-paragraph&quot;&gt;At Twitter, Beykpour led the shutdown of Vine’s product — an app still so well-liked that even new Twitter/X owner Elon Musk&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.forbes.com/sites/brianbushard/2024/04/17/will-elon-musk-revive-vine-new-x-poll-could-answer/&quot;&gt; keeps&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.forbes.com/sites/brianbushard/2024/04/17/will-elon-musk-revive-vine-new-x-poll-could-answer/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer noopener&quot;&gt;teasing&lt;/a&gt; about bringing it back. But Beykpour thinks Twitter made the right decision with Vine, noting the app wasn’t growing and was expensive to run. She admits that others may see it differently, perhaps arguing that Vine was under-resourced or didn’t have leadership’s backing. But ultimately, the closure came down to Vine’s impact on Twitter’s bottom line.&lt;/p&gt;
        &lt;p class=&quot;wp-block-paragraph&quot;&gt;Beykpour also shared an interesting anecdote about working on Periscope. She joined the startup right as it was &lt;a href=&quot;https://techcrunch.com/2015/03/13/how-periscope-works/&quot;&gt;acquired by Twitter&lt;/a&gt;, and after leaving Secret. She remembers having to officially rejoin Twitter under a fake name to keep the acquisition under wraps for a time. &lt;/p&gt;
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        &lt;p class=&quot;wp-block-paragraph&quot;&gt;At Twitter, she also talked about the difficulty in getting resources to develop products and features for power users, like journalists.&lt;/p&gt;
        &lt;p class=&quot;wp-block-paragraph&quot;&gt;“Twitter really struggled to define its user,” she said, because it “used a lot of traditional OKRs and metrics.” But the fact was that “only a fraction of people tweet,” and “of the fraction of the people that are tweeting, a subset of those are responsible for the content that everyone actually wants to see,” was something that Beykpour says was difficult to measure. &lt;/p&gt;
        &lt;p class=&quot;wp-block-paragraph&quot;&gt;Now &lt;a href=&quot;https://techcrunch.com/2024/02/29/former-twitter-engineers-are-building-particle-an-ai-powered-news-reader/&quot;&gt;at Particle&lt;/a&gt;, her experience building Twitter is informing strategy for the AI news app, which has the goal of connecting people with the news they care about that is going on around them.&lt;/p&gt;
        &lt;p class=&quot;wp-block-paragraph&quot;&gt;“Particle is a re-imaging of how you intake your daily news,” Beykpour says on the podcast. The app aims to provide a multi-perspective view of news while also providing access to high-quality journalism. The startup is looking to find another way to monetize reporting beyond ads, subscriptions or micropayments. However, the specifics of how Particle will do this are still in discussion. The startup is currently talking with potential publisher partners on how to compensate them for their work.&lt;/p&gt;
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        &lt;p id=&quot;speakable-summary&quot; class=&quot;wp-block-paragraph&quot;&gt;WhatsApp is updating its mobile apps for a fresh and more streamlined look, while also introducing a new “darker dark mode,” the company announced on Thursday. The messaging app says that over the years, it has primarily focused on adding utility to the app and that while the product continues to grow, its design needs to evolve as well.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
        &lt;p class=&quot;wp-block-paragraph&quot;&gt;The messaging app is introducing a new color palette after considering over 35 different colors. WhatsApp focused on deeper tones to reduce eye strain in low-light situations. The app’s dark mode, a popular option for many people, is now one shade darker to make it easier to read messages.&lt;/p&gt;
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        &lt;p class=&quot;wp-block-paragraph&quot;&gt;WhatsApp is adding a native bottom navigation bar on Android to make it easier for users to find what they’re looking for quickly. The new navigation bar, which has been available on iOS for quite some time now, lets you quickly look at your chats, updates, communities, and calls.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
        &lt;p class=&quot;wp-block-paragraph&quot;&gt;As for iOS users, WhatsApp is making it easier to send photos and videos thanks to a new attachment layout. Instead of a full-screen menu, users will now see an expandable tray that allows them to see the options more clearly when sending media, polls, documents, and more.&lt;/p&gt;
        &lt;p class=&quot;wp-block-paragraph&quot;&gt;WhatsApp is also updating its icons to a rounded, outlined style. Plus, the app is refreshing the default background in chats.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
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      <title>Plinky is an app for you to collect and organize links easily</title>
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        &lt;p id=&quot;speakable-summary&quot; class=&quot;wp-block-paragraph&quot;&gt;The internet is full of cool websites, and some of them are so interesting and useful, it’s no wonder people want to save them for posterity. Bookmark managers, notes apps, and read-it-later services like Pocket are great for collecting and organizing links, but the fact is there are too many links across too many platforms and apps to keep track of easily.&lt;/p&gt;
        &lt;p class=&quot;wp-block-paragraph&quot;&gt;A former Twitter engineer, Joe Fabisevich, has built an app called &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.plinky.app/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer noopener&quot;&gt;Plinky&lt;/a&gt; that aims to tackle that problem with a new approach tha

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The WordPress REST API does returned featured media in .yoast_head_json.og_image.

If you want the API returns extra resources about a post, use _embed search parameter.

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