Some Samsung smartphone users have reported that their devices randomly sent photos to their contacts without their knowledge and without a trace. Samsung is aware of the issue and is working to resolve the problem. A small number of people that own Samsung smartphones have reported that their devices randomly […]

Most Americans don’t get enough exercise. Less than a quarter of adults ages 18 to 64 met the government’s recommended physical-activity guidelines from 2010 to 2015. Those guidelines call for healthy adults to do a minimum of 2 1/2 hours of moderate-intensity activity – or 75 minutes of vigorous-intensity activity […]

Most Americans don’t get enough exercise. Less than a quarter of adults ages 18 to 64 met the government’s recommended physical-activity guidelines from 2010 to 2015. Those guidelines call for healthy adults to do a minimum of 2 1/2 hours of moderate-intensity activity – or 75 minutes of vigorous-intensity activity […]

Instagram’s Stories feature now has 400 million daily users. Snapchat – the inventor of the Stories format – still has less than 200 million users in total. The Facebook-owned app has more than one billion users overall, it announced earlier this month. On Thursday, Instagram announced that it now has […]

Pokémon Go finally started rolling out the Pokémon trading feature on Thursday. The bad news is that when the feature launched, you had to be level 40, the game’s max level, to take advantage of the new features. The good news is that Niantic, the game’s developer, has a history […]

Dreams is a new company that’s reformatting TV for smartphones. It got $US5 million from investors including Box Group, NEA, SV Angel, and Ronny Conway’s A Capital Ventures. It’s made watching TV on your smartphone an intuitive experience by reformatting it to fit a mobile frame. When you first enter […]

After testing a feature that would notify users when their Instagram stories were screenshotted, Instagram has decided not to include it. You are now free to screenshot away without fear of looking creepy. Instagram lurkers are free to return to business as usual, as the popular social media app announced […]

Snap introduced a new feature to Snapchat on Monday that lets you unsend a sent message regardless of whether recipient(s) saw it. This is different from the already available Clear Conversation option, which only deletes the content from your end. Clear Chats works in group chats or in one-on-one conversations, […]

The only new app Apple launched at its annual developers conference is called App Store Connect. It allows app makers to easily administer and update the apps they build for iPhones and iPads. The app it’s replacing, iTunes Connect, had a 2-star rating. This shows that Apple is listening to […]

Apple made a ton of important announcements at this year’s Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) keynote. But while some announcements were fun and exciting, others laid important groundwork for developers, consumers, and Apple itself. And so, here are the 5 most important announcements Apple made at WWDC 2018, its biggest conference […]

18-year-old Daniel Singer is the founder of Panda, a social media app similar to Snapchat that’s triggered by audio cues. Singer raised $US200,000 for his first project, YouTell, when he was only 14. Now, Singer is creating an app that he says will “turn conversations into Pixar movies in real […]

This week, Apple announced the next version of the Mac operating system, macOS Mojave, will feature a system-wide “dark mode” for the first time. Developers and Apple fans love the new dark mode, but what really needs a true system-wide dark mode is iOS. This week, Apple finally gave Mac […]

Headspace, a favourite meditation app of Wall Street and Silicon Valley, has launched a new subsidiary charged with developing a suite of prescription-level apps for a range of health conditions. Called Headspace Health, the subsidiary is starting clinical trials on its first product this summer. Headspace Health hopes to get […]

Apple announced a new app for iOS 12 called “Measure.” It’s an augmented-reality app that works as a virtual ruler to measure length or distance using your iPhone’s camera. However, 7% of all AR apps on the App Store are measuring apps, according to data from mobile analytics company Sensor […]

Apple’s FaceTime is getting a major upgrade in iOS 12.1 – and group chats are finally being added. Up to 32 people will be able to chat together, and FaceTime will be integrated into group messages. Apple’s FaceTime’s update was supposed to be launched with iOS 12, but Apple delayed […]

Kanye West made good on his promise to release his new album “Ye” on June 1, but one night before the album’s release, he decided to livestream his album release party on the WAV app. The WAV app was relatively unknown until Thursday night, but as of Friday afternoon, it’s […]

A new study from Pew Research Center found that one out of two teens reports being online “almost constantly.” The study found that another 44% say they go online multiple times each day. The time teens spend online has gone up significantly since Pew’s 2014-2015 study. Back then, only 24% […]

Uber is on track for a 2019 IPO, the company says, but a few things need to happen first. The company wants to improve safety and user experience, but they also need a CFO. Some efforts have already been made as far as safety goes. Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi said […]

Mobile payments have been on the rise in the years since companies like Apple, Google, and Samsung started implementing the technology into consumer smartphones. More than a fourth of US smartphone owners above the age of 13 will be making in-store purchases using their phones at least twice this year, […]

An Irish freelance journalist created GirlCrew after resorting to using Tinder one night to make female friends. The app has over 100,000 members and has raised $US1 million from prominent figures in tech, including LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner. On a Friday night in 2014, Elva Carri found herself alone and […]

At this week’s Google I/O developer conference , the company unveiled a host of features geared at helping you monitor how frequently you use your devices. It’s all part of a new initiative that the company is calling “Digital Wellbeing” and includes several apps and automatic features. Unfortunately, the scientific […]

If you’re a Snapchat user, you’ve no doubt noticed the subtle quirks and hidden tools that are uniquely Snapchat. Chief among them: the seemingly random emoji that appear next to your friends’ names, like this: Those emojis are anything but random. In fact, they’re Snapchat’s way of helping you keep […]

Ex-Vine CEO Dom Hofmann’s “personally funded” followup project to the six-second video app just got postponed. Hofmann attributes the halt to financial and legal difficulties, as well as his underestimating the new project’s popularity among audiences. Former Vine CEO Dom Hofmann announced Friday in a post that his “personally funded” […]

Google recently made its first significant refresh to Gmail in years and added a new standalone app to its lineup: Google Tasks. Before now, Tasks worked as a to-do list built into Gmail. And while Tasks still works with Gmail – and Google Calendar, too – it now has its […]

Kris Jenner is hiring a personal assistant on Bumble Bizz, the app’s professional networking feature. Anyone can match with Kris Jenner’s profile for the next two weeks. Jenner will announce the hire on her Instagram. Bumble, you’re doing amazing sweetie. Kris Jenner, the matriarch of the Kardashian-Jenner clan, is hiring […]

In iOS 12, the Stocks app on iPhone is getting a facelift. Every stock will get a shiny new chart, showing its performance over the day, as well as a list of relevant articles curated by Apple News articles. The iPad app will also be updated, taking advantage of the […]

Spotify on Tuesday unveiled a new free version of its mobile app. The app now gives non-paying users more control over their music by letting them listen to playlists in any order. Spotify’s smartphone app was previously limited to shuffle mode for those not paying for the Premium tier. Spotify […]

Husband and wife Neha and Sid Khattri were on the final leg of a four-week vacation when they found themselves in an inconvenient predicament: The Khattris had plans to visit LA’s beaches before their flight home to New York, but had nowhere to leave their bags for the day. Saddled […]

San Francisco is dealing with the harsh reality of a homelessness crisis that’s gone from bad to worse. In 2017, more than one in 100 homeless Americans lived on the city’s streets. Tired of feeling helpless, Jacob Savage and Neil Shah created an app called Concrn that lets people send […]

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Poshmark is a fashion marketplace app that lets users buy and sell used-clothing online. Jennifer Inthavong, a Poshmark seller in LA, says that she’s netted a steady income since she started selling on the app in 2013. She’s since quit her job in order to stay at home and sell […]

Everyone in Silicon Valley seems to be talking about Airtable, a user-friendly spreadsheet app that makes it super easy to build custom applications – no coding experience required. Airtable has achieved something of a cult following, especially among developers. Tesla uses Airtable to track inventory of vehicles as they leave […]

Calm, a meditation and relaxation aid, is now worth roughly $US250 million, according to CNBC. The San Francisco-based startup’s new valuation comes after Insight Venture Partners invested more than $US25 million into the company on Monday. Calm’s value now matches its closest competitor, Headspace, which also was valued at $US250 […]

Dave Morin, a former Facebook manager who founded the photo-based social network Path, tweeted that he was considering rebuilding Path after receiving renewed interest in the wake of the backlash against Facebook. Morin turned down an offer to sell Path to Google for $US100 million just three months after building […]

Instagram is making another change to its algorithm in a direct response to backlash from users. The app is getting a “new posts” button that lets users refresh their feeds manually rather than automatically. Moreover, new posts will be prioritised by how recent they are. “Based on your feedback,” a […]

Worried about how Cambridge Analytica got ahold of the Facebook data of millions of people? Your friends could be the ones who unknowingly gave it away. Here’s how to fix it. The following is a transcript of the video. Apps you don’t use are still accessing your Facebook data. Ever […]

Stock-trading app Robinhood could be valued at $US5.6 billion when it closes an upcoming fundraising round, according to a Thursday report in The Wall Street Journal. According to The Journal’s sources, the funding round is being led by Russian billionaire Yuri Miller’s investment firm, DST Global. DST Global led Robinhood’s […]

Thousands of students walked out of their schools Wednesday to protest gun violence in the US and demand action from lawmakers. Snapchat’s Snap Maps are helping visualise the national moment in an incredible way. Snapchat’s Snap Map is helping users around the world visualise the massive movement protesting US gun […]

Warren Buffett has long championed low-cost investing,often recommending Vanguard’s S&P 500 index fund for the average investor. New fintech – financial technology – companies are attracting users for their convenience and sleek interfaces, but the fees associated vary between apps. We looked at the fees and the expense ratios for […]

The 7-minute workout combines aerobics and cardio for a great session you can do at home. It’s based on a science-backed routine called interval training. Although the workout is short, it will get your heart racing if you do it right. Looking for a way to get the benefits of […]

YouTube is releasing an alternative version of its YouTube Kids app that will rely on human curation to sift through video content instead of an algorithm, according to Buzzfeed News. The whitelisted app will reportedly be available in a matter of weeks. The move comes after a Business Insider investigation […]

Before iOS 7 launched in 2013, iPhone and iPad users would have to manually download any and all software updates for apps once they became available. An aggressive red badge on the App Store icon would show you the number of apps that needed updating. There was no automatic downloading […]

MoviePass is a $US10-per-month subscription service for going to the movie theatre. It comes with plenty of positives, but it also raises some dilemmas. One of those is how to navigate a relationship when your significant other doesn’t use the service. There’s even a comment thread on Reddit dedicated to […]

Movie theatre subscription service MoviePass terminated a “small percentage” of its customers, claiming violations of its terms of service. Numerous users were told by customer service representatives that they did not violate the MoviePass terms and conditions, and are now going through an agonizing process to get their cards reactivated. […]

Online footwear retailer GOAT and sneaker consignment shop Flight Club are merging, but will maintain separate brands. The two companies have shaken up the footwear industry and attracted fans among sneaker enthusiasts. GOAT, a Y Combinator-backed startup, also announced that it had received an additional $US60 million in funding from […]

Snapchat users now have the ability to create their own personalised Snapchat Lenses and Filters, which you can buy through Snapchat’s website or application. Custom Lenses are only available for iOS users in the US for now, but Snap is working to roll out the feature globally, and for Android […]

Tinder is free to use, but Tinder Plus costs either $US10 or $US20 depending on which side of 30 users fall on. A California court found Tinder’s pricing to be a form of age discrimination and the dating app can’t charge more to older users. Tinder may challenge the ruling […]

Eddy Zillan invested his entire savings into cryptocurrencies when he was 15 years old and made over a million dollars in profits. Zillan has spent the past three years studying cryptocurrencies and now offers his services as a cryptocurrency consultant. When Eddy Zillan first started trading in cryptocurrencies, he was […]

A new app called “Impersonate the Don” lets you impersonate President Donald Trump using a cartoon avatar. The app costs $US2 and is only available on iOS. The app was made by Josh Miller, a Princeton dropout who joined Facebook at the age of 22 when the company acquired his […]

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Depression is the leading cause of disability worldwide, and it can kill. Yet scientists know surprisingly little about why it happens and how best to treat it. We do know that talking seems to help – especially under the guidance of a licensed mental health professional. But therapy is expensive, […]

As time passes, even the biggest and most popular applications get further away from their original looks. Changes in consumers’ aesthetic preferences and heightened expectations for app usability urge companies to invest in updates to interfaces, so that they gradually evolve to meet demand. So what did some of the […]

From Facebook to Instagram to Twitter, my social-media feeds have been flooded with selfies next to famous artwork. The selfies are seemingly parallel in nature to the artwork. You probably know what I’m talking about. These things: As it turns out, all those photos are from a Google app that’s […]

The dating app Hinge has a ton of data about its most eligible bachelors and bachelorettes living across the US. The company chose 10 people from 10 major cities across the United States to make its list of 100 most eligible singles in 2018. It’s almost the end of 2018 […]

Dutch blockchain company LegalThings is creating a blockchain-based app that will establish legally binding contracts for sexual consent. The app was created in the wake of the #MeToo movement; the company hopes to establish clear lines of communication around sexual acts. Critics of the app argue that it oversimplifies sexual […]

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Litterati is an app that encourages users to pick up and track litter. It has registered almost 1 million pieces of litter, just received $US225,000 grant from the US National Science Foundation, and ran a successful Kickstarter campaign. It was inspired by trash its founder Jeff Kirschner saw dumped in […]

2017 has been a pretty great year for apps. Live trivia gameshow HQ Trivia burst onto the scene, and apps like IKEA Place took full advantage of augmented reality. Here are some of the best apps of 2017, in no particular order. The following is a transcript of the video. […]

HQ Trivia set a record on Christmas Day, as 730,000 people competed for a $US2,000 jackpot. The day before, an average of 550,000 players competed in two games with unusually high $US12,000 jackpots. That’s around twice as many people as usually log on to the four-month-old app, which seemed to […]

HQ Trivia was supposed to release its Android app in time for Christmas, but it didn’t. The app’s makers say they are working to get HQ Trivia in the hands of all Android users on January 1, 2018. HQ Trivia, the hottest iPhone game of 2017, previously said it would […]

Edward Snowden, the National Security Agency contractor turned leaker, is working on a smartphone app. The app, Haven, is intended to turn smartphones into mobile security systems. Haven is available to try for free in open beta. Edward Snowden is best known for revealing the spy programs of the US’s […]

Apple made a crucial change to the language of its App Store guidelines this week. The change states that all games must disclose odds related to items earned from so-called “loot boxes” – a mechanism for rewarding players with valuable in-game items. The concept of “loot boxes” has been a […]

Throughout 2017, I tested dozens of gadgets and probably twice as many apps. But as the year draws to a close, there are only a handful that rose to the top of the heap. This list includes a few unlikely winners, like a tiny phone designed to be used as […]

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Lip-syncing app Musical.ly has established the “Creator Fund” which will provide $US50 million in funding to support its users through educational grants, scholarships, and virtual workshops. The app was purchased for close to a billion dollars in November and its co-founders are using some of their newfound investment to nurture […]

I recently tried out two new, digital approaches to networking: LinkedIn Career Advice and Bumble Bizz. I had a hard time connecting with fellow journalists and starting conversations on both. One of the apps proved to facilitate a more enjoyable, seamless experience – although not that effective in actually meeting […]

Lots of first-time cryptocurrency investors are downloading Coinbase, an easy-to-use app for buying and selling bitcoin. According to one estimate, the app notched 700,000 downloads over a single week in December. That was twice as many downloads as Snapchat or Instagram over the same time period, according to the analysis. […]

Apple’s latest startup acquisition could give its music service a jolt. On Monday, Apple officially announced it was buying Shazam, maker of a popular music-recognition app. It’s not hard to understand why the iPhone maker might have been interested in Shazam. As we can see in this chart from Statista, […]

The price of bitcoin is soaring. Coinbase, one of the services that makes it easy to buy and sell bitcoin, is soaring too – it’s now the no. 2 app on Apple’s iPhone App Store. Bitcoin has had a volatile ride over the past week, with prices for a single […]

Apple on Thursday released its year-end list of top US apps for iPhones and iPads. The apps Apple chose are the most popular of the year, meaning they’re the apps that consistently topped the free apps chart in the App Store. Facebook, Google, and Snapchat claim 11 of the top […]

Venmo has become so popular, its name has become a verb in the same way “Google” has. People use the the PayPal-owned mobile person-to-person payment service to pay rent, split bar tabs, and hold fundraisers. It’s become a must-have app for millennials, and as we can see in this chart […]

Paste is a new app from acclaimed iOS app developer FiftyThree. It’s basically a PowerPoint replacement, but with added emphasis on beauty, collaboration, and on its iOS apps. It’s worth a try if you want easy-to-use software to put together a presentation deck. For the past couple of decades, there […]

Snap CEO Evan Spiegel put out a 60-second video explaining Snapchat’s new redesign. This redesign is the biggest in Snapchat’s history. “One of the complaints we’ve heard about social media is that photos and videos from your friends are mixed in with content from publishers and creators and influencers,” Spiegel […]

Google released updates for its Docs, Sheets, and Slides apps on Monday, which include optimization for the iPhone X’s screen. The apps look great on the new iPhone X’s edge-to-edge display. They use up all the available screen real estate that the iPhone X has to offer, including the area […]

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