Large eyes, soft lines and vibrant coloring: You, too, can look like a character straight out of a Disney movie. The Voilà AI Artist app has taken social media by storm by providing users with AI-powered photo filters. But what happens to those images once uploaded to the web? The app features four different options, including 2D… Read More »
The crowdsourcing crime-tracking app Citizen, whose earliest backers include the venture capitalist billionaire and Palantir co-founder Peter Thiel, is ditching plans to develop a private police force that could be summoned by users via the smartphone app, CBS MoneyWatch has learned. The company began offering the service in Los Angeles last month as a pilot… Read More »
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OnePlus’ new Digital WellPaper app turns your app usage into one of three live wallpapers on Android. Apps are simplified into six categories — social, lifestyle and communication, entertainment, gaming, information and business, and tools — which translate to six colors within each wallpaper that become more or less prominent as you use the apps.… Read More »
Media mogul Barry Diller ripped Apple over the fees it charges companies that have apps in iPhone maker’s App Store. “[Our apps are] overcharged in a disgusting manner,” the chairman of IAC and Expedia said in an interview on CNBC’s “Squawk Box on Friday. Diller, whose companies have apps in the App Store slammed Apple… Read More »
Image: TWITTER VIA BRANDON WENERD Hacking. Disinformation. Surveillance. CYBER is Motherboard’s podcast and reporting on the dark underbelly of the internet. Crime and neighborhood watch app Citizen has ambitions to deploy private security workers to the scene of disturbances at the request of app users, according to leaked internal Citizen documents and Citizen sources. The… Read More »
Following the release of iOS 14.5 to the public last month, multiple apps began asking users to enable the App Tracking option. With the latest version of the Twitter app for iOS, users are now being asked to enable tracking in order to receive “relevant ads.” The new prompt was implemented with version 8.65 of… Read More »