Calm Down—Your Phone Isn’t Listening to Your Conversations. It’s Just Tracking Everything You Type, Every App You Use, Every Website You Visit, and Everywhere You Go in the Physical World It’s a universal modern-life experience to talk about something and immediately see an ad that seems like it must be a result of that conversation. Maybe you tell someone you’re planning a vacation and then start seeing advertisements for flights and hotels. Maybe you talk about how you want to take up running and find yourself bombarded by bann…

Shops not replying when offering a free mobile app development for their store Hi, I am trying to get some clients via mail and build for them a mobile app version for their store. I started writing mails about 20 days ago and offered the app for 500€ to about 27 stores, where just two replied that will forward the request to the relative department. No one else even replied, so i thought to make just one or two apps for f…

PDF organizer Stack is the latest app to hit the Google graveyard Screenshot: GoogleStack, one of Google’s experimental Android apps, is due to disappear on September 24th. A product of Google’s Area 120 incubator, Stack was one of those overlooked gems that was just, well, useful: it allowed you to create or import PDFs and store them in different categories that it called Stacks: tax, insurance, medical, et…

Site/app that can show the cheapest rates to fly without a specific date? I’m an inexperienced traveler and I’ve been wanting to explore to different places both in the US and internationally. I notice that anytime you’re looking for plane tickets you of course select your departure, destination, and dates of travel. While there are dates that are preferable, most of the time it doesn’t really matter, I would just be …

iOS 18: Podcasts App Now Shows Chapter Segments When Scrubbing In iOS 18, Apple’s Podcasts app now shows chapter segments of a podcast when you scrub through a currently playing episode, making it easier to browse through the audio content. Image credit: Reddit user Wristnut As spotted by Redditor “Wristnut,” navigating the timeline across the chapter segments shows the chapter name above the line. Note th…

ChatGPT’s Mac app is here, but its flirty advanced voice mode has been delayed Image: The VergeThe advanced voice mode for ChatGPT that sparked a tussle with Scarlett Johansson was an important element of OpenAI’s Spring Update event, where it also revealed a desktop app for ChatGPT. Now, OpenAI says it will “need one more month to reach our bar to launch” an alpha version of the new voice mode to a small group of ChatGPT …

This App Is the Best Way to Lurk on Reddit It’s the cleanest choice for when you just want to browse.

Moe’s Southwest Grill App: Buy One Entree, Get One Free (Valid at Select Locations) Moe’s Southwest Grill offers *Buy One Entree, Get One Free* when you follow the instructions below. * Note: Prices and availability will vary by location. Thanks to staff member *Eragorn* for…

OpenAI’s ChatGPT App for Mac Now Available to All Users The ChatGPT app for Mac is now available to all users, OpenAI announced today. The app first came out in mid-May, but it saw a slow rollout that was limited to ChatGPT Plus subscribers until now. OpenAI says that the ChatGPT Mac app is meant to make it easier for users to access ChatGPT and to ask questions about email, screenshots, websites, a…

Bitcoin Payments App Strike Enters UK as Global Expansion Rolls Out The payments firm now operates in over 100 countries and territories globally.

macOS 15 No Longer Needs Twice the Free Space for App Store Installs Starting with macOS Sequoia, app downloads and installations from the Mac App Store will no longer require double the amount of local storage space available. Instead, the free space requirement now matches the final install size of the app, plus a small buffer, according to Apple. The new space requirement in macOS 15 should significantly bene…

Help naming my movie tracker app Hi, I’m designing a social network app for movie lovers, a tracker for movies and TV shows, that includes reviews. I’m designing it by myself, and I’m very bad at coming up with names, plus I don’t have money to hire any services, including naming services. If anyone comes up with a good name, I will get in touch with them to have their contact …

Blackmagic’s free camera app is now available on Android, but there’s a catch Less than a year after its iPhone debut, Blackmagic’s robust camera app is now available for select Android devices. | Image: Blackmagic DesignAfter launching on the iPhone last September, the robust Blackmagic Camera app is available on Android devices today, with the same professional-grade shooting features and compatibility with Blackmagic D…

Apple’s App Store Policies Charged Under New E.U. Competition Law The company’s App Store policies are illegal under the European Union’s Digital Markets Act, according to regulators in Brussels.

EU Accuses Apple’s App Store Steering Rules of Violating DMA and Opens Investigation into Developer Fees The European Commission has formally announced its preliminary view that Apple’s App Store policies are in breach of the Digital Markets Act (DMA), specifically in relation to anti-steering rules. Under the DMA, developers distributing their apps via Apple’s ‌App Store‌ should be able, free of charge, to inform their customers of alternative ch…

Japan and South Korea Are Fighting Over an App at a Tense Time SoftBank and Naver helped bridge geopolitical relations with a joint venture to own the operator of the messaging app Line, but now the partnership is fraying.

Top Stories: Apple Watch X Rumors, New Final Cut App for iPhone, and More The avalanche of news coming out of WWDC earlier this month is finally starting to slow, but that doesn’t mean there wasn’t still lots to talk about in Apple news and rumors this week. This week saw some additional rumors about the upcoming Apple Watch models, the release of major Final Cut Pro updates, the launch of Apple’s annual Back to Scho…

How does the mobile passport app work It’s been over 12yrs since I’ve traveled abroad. I will be traveling alone with my two kids. So if I recall when returning back to the States I needed to fill out a declaration page. My understanding is, the app replaces all that. My questions are as follows 1) do I fill out all my info within the app on the plane as I would the declaration page…

This App Lets You Set a Homepage for Safari on Your iPhone or iPad See your favorite website every time you open a new tab.

Apple Launches Sale on Mac App Store Games Several popular Mac App Store games are on sale for the next week, with discounts of up to 75 percent off available. Valheim, Death Stranding Director’s Cut, and Inscryption are all half price, with several other titles also on sale at even lower prices. Valheim – $9.99, down from $19.99 Death Stranding Director’s Cut – $19.99, down from $39….