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Microsoft finally kills this legacy Windows app — for good this time

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Microsoft is swapping its legacy Skype for business communication platform for a new option in Teams.

5 iOS 18 apps that could be set for major upgrades at WWDC 2024 (and the AI features they could include)

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These 5 apps could benefit the most from Apple’s rumored push into AI for iOS 18.

Delivery app Getir pulls out of UK in major setback for the online grocery industry

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The Turkish firm, which also owns app Gorillas, said it would be calling it quits in Britain as well as in the US, Germany and the Netherlands.

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Google rejected 2.28M "policy-violating" Android apps and blocked ~333K developer accounts from Google Play in 2023, up from 1.5M apps and 173K accounts in 2022 (Bill Toulas/BleepingComputer)

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Google rejected 2.28M “policy-violating” Android apps and blocked ~333K developer accounts from Google Play in 2023, up from 1.5M apps and 173K accounts in 2022 — Google blocked 2.28 million Android apps from being published on Google Play…

Google could be embracing lock screen widgets again by opening the "At a Glance" widget to other apps

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Google could be embracing lock screen widgets again by opening the "At a Glance" widget to other apps

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Leah McSweeney’s sober dating app hosts first event

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The "mysterious and sexy" bash at Bisou in Tribeca featured sober singles, 1980s grooves, burlesque dancers, mocktails from Aplos and QR-coded condoms.

Report shows dating aid Tinder is the app most users want to delete

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In news that may not surprise those active in the dating scene, a new study found that Tinder is the mobile app users most want to delete. Online privacy company TorGuard analyzed more than 40 popular U.S. apps and isolated how many times…

Android malware posing as a fake Chrome update is stealing banking app logins

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Some online scams are more conspicuous than others, but the most insidious can be especially tricky to spot. For instance, last week, cybersecurity firm ThreatFabric …

Elon Musk teases X TV in latest bid to make social media platform ‘the everything app’

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A 12-second clip Musk shared to X showcased the forthcoming network's logo for the first time as it flashed across a stack of old televisions.

Must-Have Apps for Your New Samsung Galaxy Phone

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Congratulations on joining the Samsung Galaxy family! Your new phone boasts impressive hardware, a beautiful display, and a feature-packed interface. But with so much potential ...

Instagram is DOWN: Thousands of users worldwide hit with outage plaguing the app

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Instagram is experiencing outages worldwide, leaving thousands of users unable to use the app or login. The outage hit around 2pm ET and is impacting the US, the UK and Australia.

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Christian AI app quickly scraps 'creepy' digital priest after backlash

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The bearded avatar quickly went rogue, promising to forgive users their sins, advising on how to marry one's brother and claiming it had been a Catholic priest for 25 years.

EU feature to download apps from websites leaves users vulnerable to being tracked... even in Incognito Mode

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The tech that powers Apple's feature for EU users to download apps from websites leaves users vulnerable to being tracked, even while in Incognito Mode.

Apple's iOS 18 iPhone software update will bring big upgrades to apps you use daily

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Apple's iOS 18 software update is coming and it's leaked again, this time with new info about which popular apps will get upgrades. Continue reading at TweakTown >

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Grocery delivery app which thrived during lockdown and has links to Russian oligarchs reveals plans to leave the UK - with 1,500 jobs to be axed

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The Turkish company, once valued at £9.5 billion, has links to two Russian oligarchs, Vladimir Potanin and Arkady Volozh.The firm will also leave Europe and the US to focus solely on Turkey.

Microsoft Edge recent update patches issue that randomly installs Copilot app on Windows 11 PCs

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Microsoft said a little while ago that an update of the Edge browser prompted an unexpected 8KB installation of Copilot.

Biden issued warning about keeping a 'dangerous' campaign TikTok account as list of politicians still using app despite possible ban is revealed

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Republicans are demanding that Biden's campaign cease its 'dangerous' use of TikTok after many top presidential advisors and security officials have warned of its national security threats.

Academics Are Building an Online Dating App to Better Understand Online Dating

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When academics attempt to better understand a given industry, there are plenty of ways to go about it, from running studies of their own to poring through the data relevant to that industry. There’s no shortage of traffic safety data…