Category: Mobile Applications

‘Modern Love Podcast:’ Dating Apps Suck. A.I. Clones Are Making Them Even Weirder.

Eli wasn’t finding a connection on the apps, so he did something drastic.
TikTok Asks Court to Temporarily Pause Ban As It Looks to Supreme Court or Trump to Weigh In

The company is requesting a pause on a law that requires the app to be sold or face a ban in the United States by mid-January, aiming to buy time for the Supreme Court or the incoming Trump administration to rescue it.
Ukraine Weighs Telegram Security Risks Amid War With Russia

The messaging app’s popularity has soared during the war with Russia, leading Ukrainian officials to increasingly weigh Telegram’s upsides against its security risks.
Payments Are Going Digital, but Many Seniors Still Rely on Cash

“We’re putting another burden on the elderly that we don’t have to,” one researcher said.
TikTok Creators React to Legal Ruling on U.S. Ban

The social media service was flooded with videos on Friday after a panel of judges upheld a law that could shutter the app in the United States.
Cash App Wades Into the Exclusive World of Presale Concert Tickets

Legacy credit cards and banks aren’t the only banking options to come with perks for premium access to events anymore.
TikTok Faces U.S. Ban After Losing Bid to Overturn New Law

The law will ban the video app in the United States by Jan. 19 if its owner, ByteDance, does not sell it to a non-Chinese company.
Forget the Instagram Hard Launch: Are You Location-Sharing Official?

It’s the final frontier in digital expressions of coupledom. But for some people, it’s always going to be creepy.
How to Use Bluesky If You’re Leaving X

The apps look and feel similar. Here is how to use Bluesky and what you might miss from X.
Reddit Says It Is Working to Resolve Outage

Tens of thousands of users reported that the website and app were inaccessible starting just before 3 p.m. Eastern on Wednesday.
How Google Spent 15 Years Concealing Its Internal Conversations

Trying to avoid antitrust suits, Google systematically told employees to destroy messages, avoid certain words and copy the lawyers as often as possible.
Bluesky Is Growing Up. Maybe Too Fast.

The fledgling social media site has been flooded by people seeking alternatives to Facebook, X and Threads. It hasn’t all been easy.