Signal announced earlier today that it has hired board member, Meredith Whittaker, to serve as the company’s first president, a move that indicates the popular encrypted messaging platform’s expanding plans to compete against bigger rival apps like WhatsApp and Telegram. Whittaker, a former Google manager for 13 years and founder of the company’s Open Research […]
Controversial home safety company ADT announced an in-app ‘mobile safety solution’ to connect Uber riders with security agents.
The math app, currently in beta testing, caters towards elementary school students as well as older adults.
Mozilla looked how popular period-tracking apps and health wearables handled user data. Here are the privacy concerns they found.
It’s no big secret that tech companies like Meta, TikTok, and Google routinely keep a close eye on as much of its users’ activity as possible, but a new website tool is exposing just how sneakily (and creepily) they go about it. Last week, security researcher and former Google employee, Felix Krause, wrote an article […]
Last year, Apple introduced a new feature within its iOS 14.5 update called “App Tracking Transparency.” The feature allows users a simple way to finally opt out of targeted, in-app ad campaigns. Since then, Apple estimates that roughly 78 percent of its iOS 15 users have utilized the privacy setting, much to the ire of […]
A handful of new features included in WhatsApp’s latest update should hopefully put at least some socially anxious users’ minds at ease. Yesterday, the popular messaging platform announced that it soon plans to allow people a 60 hours “unsend” window for deleting texts, along with the ability to silently leave your group chats. New features […]
There are apps that can bring us all kinds of benefits as an alternative to doomscrolling, and you can use them in short snippets.
Syncing Google Calendar with the Apple calendar app used to be complicated and obnoxious, but it’s easier now. Use these steps to link the two.
Food defines a destination as much as a city’s museums. Get ready to enjoy your travels no matter what dietary restrictions you have.
