apps
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Apple Defends Delay of iOS 14 Feature Limiting App Tracking, Blasts Facebook
Earlier this year, human rights and privacy groups including the Electronic Frontier Foundation and Human Rights Watch wrote to Apple, asking why it was delaying the introduction of a feature that would force apps to receive explicit opt-in from iPhone users before tracking them. Apple responded, according to Bloomberg, with a letter slamming Facebook.
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Twitter Debuts Coward Mode
Great news for chickens: It’s now easier than ever to pretend you never posted that cringe to Twitter, which is rolling out a new, Instagram Stories-like type of post that auto-deletes after 24 hours. These are called Fleets, which is slightly confusing until you realise it’s a bad pun.
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Meet the Company Aiming to Create the Next Evolution in Collectibles
Lots of companies make products people collect, but very few of those companies innovate the idea of collecting itself. That’s what a company called Figpin is trying to do. From the outside, it looks pretty simple; it’s a pin company that makes Star Wars, Marvel, DC, anime, all matter of geeky pins. If you are…
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This App Turns Designs Into Working Code
Creating apps from prototypes is a huge problem. Dragging boxes around a screen and picking fonts is hard enough. Then, once the designer is done, a coder has to plug all of that in to a back end.