Tech Xplore

Your clothes may become smarter than you

You're probably used to the sight of smartwatches on people's wrists. But what about smart clothes? Researchers at the ...

I tried using Google to redesign my wardrobe and the results were a disaster

Google Try-On is a clunky mess ...
The New York Times

In a Clothing Pickle? There’s an App for That

Pickle, a new peer-to-peer apparel-rental app, helps users stay on trend without having to go into debt or rely on climate-unfriendly fast fashion. By Kasia Pilat When Halley Kate McGookin, a social ...
WBUR

This app lets you rent clothes from people's closets

Katie Zaccardi doesn’t like to wear an outfit twice. So she uses an app to rent clothes. Zaccardi, a 25-year-old order management analyst who lives in Boston, logs onto Pickle when she needs clothes ...
Wall Street Journal

Thrift App Vinted Has an Eye on America’s Secondhand Clothes

Europe’s largest online secondhand retailer has been trying to pierce the U.S. for years. Now its CEO thinks it finally can. Vinted has grown into a household name in Europe, and Chief Executive ...
Gizmodo

Threads Is Now Clearly More Popular Than X (in Mobile App Form), Report Says

While X is still the microblogging champion in web browsers, multiple reports are making Threads' ascent seem durable and convincing. Reading time 2 minutes Say what you will about the social media ...
Ars Technica

Apps like Grok are explicitly banned under Google’s rules—why is it still in the Play Store?

Elon Musk’s xAI recently weakened content guard rails for image generation in the Grok AI bot. This led to a new spate of non-consensual sexual imagery on X, much of it aimed at silencing women on the ...
MacRumors

U.S. Senators Ask Apple and Google to Remove X and Grok Apps Over Sexualized Image Generation

In a letter to Apple CEO Tim Cook and Google CEO Sundar Pichai, U.S. Senators Ron Wyden, Ben Ray Lujan, and Edward Markey have requested that Apple and Google remove X Corp's X and Grok apps from ...
The Verge

Democrats ask Apple and Google to remove X’s undressing bot from their app stores

Grok’s nonconsensual deepfakes violate the app stores’ terms of service, the senators argue. Grok’s nonconsensual deepfakes violate the app stores’ terms of ...
9to5Mac

Apple asked to pull X and Grok apps over ‘sickening content generation’

Three U.S. Senators have asked Apple CEO Tim Cook to temporarily remove X and Grok from the App Store due to “sickening content generation” in recent days. Senators Ron Wyden, Ed Markey, and Ben Ray ...
Entrepreneur

This Side Hustle Pays $3,000 a Month — And All You Need Is a Closet Full of Clothes

Forget Airbnb — Gen Z is renting out their Chanel bags instead of spare bedrooms. Using peer-to-peer apps like Pickle, young adults are making up to $3,000 a month lending their clothes and ...
CNN

This chic side hustle is gaining traction: Renting out your clothes

Emilie Nasseh, a 30-year-old living in Manhattan, has made up to $2,000 a month through an unconventional side hustle: renting her clothes and accessories. Nasseh uses Pickle, a peer-to-peer clothing ...