Period-tracking apps are popular digital tools for a range of menstrual, reproductive and general health purposes. But the way these apps collect and use data involves risk. Many apps encourage users to log information well beyond their menstrual cycle, including sexual activity, medications, sleep quality, exercise, social activity and perimenopause symptoms. As well as this…
Between applying layers of sunscreen during a day at the beach, I delete the dating apps from my phone. Good riddance, I think. But in a moment of boredom, a few weeks later, they’re back. “Maybe this time…,” I tell myself. By now, deleting dating apps feels about as monumental as taking out the trash….
SAN JOSE, Calif. – A new emergency notification system was launched in San Jose yesterday, just before the Ranch Place Fire sparked. That fast-moving brush fire in the East San Jose hills came very close to several homes on Tuesday, as it burned through 92 acres. “The fire started getting closer and closer, and then…
President Donald Trump’s family business is taking preorders for a gold-colored smartphone, the T1. Trump Mobile, which launched Tuesday, says the device will be available in September, cost far less than Apple’s and Samsung’s smartphones — and be made in the United States, aligning with the president’s “America First” economic ethos. Industry experts and tech…
The study asked about signs of addiction to mobile phones, social media and video games. Those signs can include being preoccupied thinking about them and being unable to cut down on using them. Catherine McQueen/Moment RF/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Catherine McQueen/Moment RF/Getty Images If you or someone you know is in crisis, contact…
At the risk of sounding like someone who’s old before his time, I have a fairly substantial list of tech pet peeves. At the lower end of the scale, I don’t understand folks who hold their phone at a distance when having a conversation, nor am I a fan of using a phone without a…
Following the announcement in early June, Google is more widely rolling out Scheduled Actions to the Gemini app on Android. Scheduled Actions let you run a prompt at a specific time, day, date, or after an event. To create, just “provide details about when and how often you want to schedule the action” in the…
NEW YORK — More and more celebrities are looking to attach their names to your phone. Or rather, wireless services that could power it. From cosmetics to snacks and signature spirits, brands launched or co-owned by high-profile figures are just about everywhere you look today. But several big names are also venturing into the market…
Adobe launched its own take on how smartphone cameras should work this week with Project Indigo, a new iPhone camera app from some of the team behind the Pixel camera. The project combines the computational photography techniques that engineers Marc Levoy and Florian Kainz popularized at Google, with pro controls and new AI-powered features. In…
Apple has released a scaremongering, self-serving warning aimed at the Australian government, claiming that Australians will be overrun by a parade of digital horribles if Australia follows the European Union’s lead and regulates Apple’s “walled garden.” The EU’s Digital Markets Act is a big, complex, ambitious law that takes aim squarely at the source of…