(Especially pictures) Juan Medina first considered the idea for his new startup in 2003 after his father’s death when his wife asked him to tell a story about his father, and Medina realized he hadn’t known him that well. Stories, jokes, recipes, and more were either lost or scattered among various friends and family, Medina … Read more
Apple has agreed to change several rules for its app store as part of a settlement with developers who filed a class action lawsuit against the company. The main change is that Apple is “making it clear” that developers can send emails to users “using payment methods outside of their iOS app.” The company has … Read more
Part of WhatsApp’s end-to-end encryption scheme is that users must set up the service with a phone as the “main device” for an account. The company announced in July that it was working on next-generation encryption that would enable a true multi-device connection without the need to connect to a smartphone. It looks like WhatsApp … Read more
Android Auto is best known for accessing your phone from the dashboard of a car – so you can easily access Google Maps, music apps, and data without using your phone. But for years, Google has also been offering an Android Auto experience right on a phone for people who don’t have a compatible dashboard … Read more
In an APK teardown of the latest version of the Peloton Android app, 9to5Google found evidence that the company is preparing the software to support a rowing machine in the near future. The point of sale found various code snippets that mentioned a device with the code names “Caesar” and “Mazu”. The latter is a … Read more
While Apple may have released Siri before Google Assistant and Amazon Alexa, its voice-activated assistant is the least advanced of the three in many ways. This has a lot to do with the amount of data and the training digital assistants need to understand different languages, dialects, and language patterns. To improve its digital assistant, … Read more
With the introduction of Samsung’s Galaxy Watch 4 series and the new Wear OS version from Google, Spotify has introduced a significant update to its Wear OS app, the company said. Much like a feature added to the Apple Watch app last May, the updated Wear OS app from Spotify lets you stream and download … Read more
Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the weekly TechCrunch series that recaps the latest in mobile OS news, mobile applications and the overall app economy. The app industry continues to grow, with a record 218 billion downloads and $143 billion in global consumer spend in 2020. Consumers last year also spent 3.5 trillion minutes using apps on Android devices alone. … Read more
After months of testing with more than 100,000 beta testers, Citizen is introducing its Premium Protect offer for all users today. The subscription service costs $ 20 per month and opens up a number of features in the app. The most important of the new paid features is the Get Agent button, which provides access … Read more
Fakespot, an app that analyzes Amazon reviews to determine which are fake, is no longer available for iOS. Amazon successfully convinced Apple to remove it from the App Store after the company raised concerns that the application was providing misleading information and creating potential security vulnerabilities. The e-commerce giant has confirmed to Engadget that it … Read more