Microsoft’s Your Phone app lets you mirror your Android device to a Windows 10 PC
Just a few short months after announcing the Your Phone app for Windows 10 at the Build developer conference in May, Microsoft has launched the …
Apps & Software
7 paid iPhone apps you can download for free on August 15th
Several of the paid iPhone and iPad apps on sale for free we covered in yesterday’s post are actually still on sale, so you can …
Alexa and Cortana can now be summoned on rival devices, in case that excites you
If you’re the proud owner of an Amazon Alexa-powered device who’d prefer to summon the digital dulcet tones of Microsoft’s assistant Cortana instead of Alexa …
iOS 12 developer beta 8 is now available to download
On Monday, Apple released and then quickly pulled the seventh developer beta of iOS 12, following numerous reports of major performance issues. It was a …
Google Voice redesign rolls out on iOS with new look and new features
After half a decade of radio silence, Google finally updated the Google Voice app on iOS, Android, and on the web last January. All at …
5 apps that are way better on Android than they are on the iPhone
Few internet flame wars have raged as long as the one that iOS and Android users have been waging since the two mobile operating systems …
6 paid iPhone apps on sale for free on August 14th
We had a great roundup of paid iPhone and iPad apps for you yesterday that were all on sale for free. If you missed it, …
Chrome may soon add a feature that will speed up the entire internet
Google’s Chrome browser is the most popular web browser on the planet by a massive margin. According to market research firm Net Applications, Chrome’s share …
Report: Apple secretly met with developers to push subscriptions on the App Store
In the spring of 2017, Apple convened a group of more than 30 software developers at a Tribeca loft in New York City. The iPhone …
iOS 12 developer beta 7 pulled after massive performance bugs found
Apple was forced to pull a high-speed about-face on Monday afternoon, after it was discovered that the seventh iOS 12 developer beta contained a number …
Report says Google tracks your location on iPhone and Android even when you forbid it
Death and taxes are two of the most famous certainties in life, but surely we can add another to that list. One involving the absolute …
iOS 12 developer beta 7 is available to download right now
We’re well into August and with the next iPhone event theoretically just around the corner, iOS 12 beta updates have hit a frenzied pace. iOS …
7 paid iPhone apps you can download for free on August 13th
We helped our readers fill their iPhones and iPads with tons of great paid apps on sale for free last week, but we hope they …
The 6 best free iPhone games of the week
It’s an incredibly spare week for new games on the App Store, but we managed to find six that should help you while away the …
To keep running a page with a ‘large audience,’ Facebook wants proof of where you live
Anyone who manages a Facebook page that has a “large audience,” which is the somewhat nonspecific language Facebook uses in a new blog post today, …
Fortnite on Android’s bypass of the Play Store could cost Google $50 million
After a delay that still feels way too long, Fortnite is finally coming to Android. It’s launching first through the Samsung Galaxy App store, and after that, …
Spotify might let free users skip any ad, even though it needs all the ad revenue it can get
Spotify is dependent on the revenue it gets from subscribers and, for all of you moochers who don’t pay anything, the ads that the music …
10 paid iPhone apps you can download for free on August 10th
If the nine paid iPhone and iPad apps we shared with you on August 9th somehow weren’t enough, don’t worry because we’ve got 10 fresh …
Samsung runs out of Milk, inks streaming music deal with Spotify instead
Samsung is trying as hard it can to compete against the iPhone, and it’s generally able to do so when it comes to matching Apple’s …
This is the first look at new emoji coming next year
Every year, official arbiters of online expression at the Unicode Consortium consider new ways for vocabulary-deficient people to express themselves online. It’s a long and drawn-out …
Hackers found a way to alter sent WhatsApp messages, but don’t freak out just yet
Facebook’s WhatsApp chat app is one of the most popular messaging applications out there. It’s available on virtually any platform, making possible encrypted chats and …
Young people are actually trying to get plastic surgery to up their Snapchat game
There apparently exists, in developed Western countries, a not insignificant number of people so enamored with the way social apps like Snapchat and Instagram make …
9 paid iPhone apps you can download for free on August 9th
We were too busy to round up yesterday’s best paid iPhone and iPad apps on sale for free, so we did some extra digging on …
Google Maps is almost perfect, so of course Google had to find a way to ruin it
I’ve said it a bunch of times already, but it’s always worth repeating: Google Maps is one of the must-have apps right now, even on …
Facebook is shedding massive traffic – and it’s apparently flocking to YouTube
Four billion. That, according to a new study shared with CNBC by market research firm SimilarWeb, is how many monthly page visits Facebook has shed in …
The iPhone doesn’t spy on your conversations, Apple tells lawmakers
Of all the companies you’d suspect might want to listen in on the things you say, or record parts of your conversations with their devices, …
Tim Cook throws subtle jab at Spotify
Spotify may have had a multi-year head start on Apple Music, but Apple’s music streaming service has impressively managed to make up a lot of …
Update to Google Classroom is supposed to make homework suck less
Google decided to get a jump on the new school year by rolling out what it’s described as the biggest redesign yet for Classroom, its …
8 paid iPhone apps you can download for free on August 7th
Today’s roundup of the best paid iPhone and iPad apps on sale for free includes eight different apps that span a wide range of categories. …
Sorry, Alexa – practically no one uses you to buy things from Amazon
Researchers estimate that voice shopping is a market that’s going to explode in a big way over the next couple of years, hitting more than …
