apps
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The Apps Our Editors Can’t Live Without
Once of my tech pet peeves is setting up a new phone. I only recently started importing my apps from the cloud, mostly because I trust nobody and nothing. Previously, I went through the painstaking motions of downloading my apps afresh — always starting with the ones I’m most obsessed with. That got me to…
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Having Allegedly Failed To Gobble Up Bumble, Dating Giant Match Group Buys Rival App Hinge
Tinder’s parent company Match Group, the online dating conglomerate that owns a number of dating sites including OKCupid and Match.com, has acquired rival service Hinge. Per The Verge, that leaves women-centric Bumble as the “only notable dating app” outside Match’s control, though not for lack of trying.
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Apple’s New Privacy Guidelines May Get Facebook’s Awful Onavo VPN Off The App Store
Apple’s new App Store privacy guidelines restricting apps that collect data on users’ friends – specifically, the address books of iPhone users – already seemed to be in large part a response to Facebook’s sprawling Cambridge Analytica data scandal. But the company could also be targeting Facebook’s Onavo Protect VPN service, which poses as a…
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A Startup Set Its Scooters To Scream ‘Unlock Me Or I’ll Call The Police’ When They’re Touched
It’s happened to everyone: You’re walking home, minding your own business, when no random devices suddenly start screaming at you about how the police are coming if you happen to bump into them. Fortunately, someone is finally disrupting that space.