Tech Roundup: Apple Music Classical, Google Trends Redesign & More

[A recurring feature on the latest in Science & Technology.]

• Meta's WhatsApp agrees to be more transparent about changes to its privacy policy introduced in 2021; reportedly building a decentralised, text-based social network.
• TikTok launches Series, letting select creators sell collections of up to 80 paywalled videos, each up to 20 minutes, that cost anywhere between US$ 0.99 to US$ 189.99; announces Project Clover, outlining its plan to appease European regulators' concerns over Chinese surveillance by keeping user data on servers in Europe and allowing an audit.
• OpenAI builds a ChatGPT app for enterprise messaging service Slack to help deliver "conversation summaries, research tools and writing assistance.
• Reddit releases a TikTok-style feature that that separates text and video content into individual feeds in a bid to "discover new and interesting content and communities in uncluttered spaces."
• Google rolls out the ability to translate image content in Translate on the web; expands its VPN service to all Google One subscribers across all subscription tiers and adds a new "dark web report" that monitors for stolen information.
• Google redesigns its Trends website that makes it possible to "explore real-time trends right on the home page."
• Sony releases a new PlayStation 5 update that adds Discord voice chats and Variable Refresh Rate support for 1440p resolution.
• Music streamer Spotify revamps its app's homescreen with TikTok-style vertically scrolling "discovery" feeds for music, podcasts and audiobooks, a new "Smart Shuffle" mode for playlist recommendations, and a new podcast autoplay feature; also unveils Clips, its own take on the Stories format that allows artists to share short 30-second videos.
• Google adds Sent, Delivered, and Read indicator icons to its RCS-powered Messages app for Android; debuts new Google Cloud offering for live games as part of its efforts to build an "ecosystem for live games that unifies understanding and performance" following the failure of Stadia cloud gaming service.
• Reddit to shut down its Clubhouse-style live audio tool Reddit Talk on March 21, two years after launching the service in April 2021.
• Discord starts testing a ChatGPT-powered version of its Clyde bot, as Grammarly announces GrammarlyGO, a generative AI tool that can write and rewrite content in a user's style, continuing the new trend of companies adding AI tools to their products in the wake of ChatGPT's success.
• Apple finally unveils Apple Music Classical, a standalone iPhone app for classical music with over five million tracks; to also release an Android version in the coming months.