Apps & Web

Don't Freak Out When a Smartphone App Asks for Permission

By Lisa Eadicicco

The Best Browser Privacy Tools (That Don’t Make Life More Difficult)

By Techlicious

The Best White Noise Apps and Sites

By Techlicious

Yahoo to Users: No More Signing in with Google or Facebook

By Jared Newman

Batman: Arkham Knight Is Going to Be All About the Batmobile

The next Arkham game is real, and Rocksteady's been working on it all along.

By Matt Peckham March 5, 2014

FileThis Automatically Gathers and Files Important Documents Online

FileThis is one of the more exciting new products for taking financial records to the digital realm.

By Techlicious March 5, 2014

Quick Gmail Trick: Pre-Write Email Messages with Canned Responses

Watch the above video or follow the steps below:1. Click the gear icon in the upper right-hand corner of Gmail, then choose Settings.2. Click the Labs tab, find Canned Responses, click the Enable radio button...

By Doug Aamoth March 4, 2014

Zynga Wants You Back with New Farmville, Words With Friends and Poker

What's Facebook? Zynga's new games are all about phones and tablets.

By Jared Newman March 3, 2014

Volvo Shows Off the Apple CarPlay iPhone Interface

Hot on the heels of Apple rolling out the details behind its CarPlay interface, Volvo has posted a video to YouTube showing off what everything will look like.

By Doug Aamoth March 3, 2014

A Glimpse at Cortana, Microsoft's Version of Siri and Google Now

The Halo-inspired AI will reportedly follow Google into creepy-useful territory.

By Jared Newman March 3, 2014

Shutterfly "Doodle" Feature Lets You Draw Custom Gifts

Draw pictures or words with your finger in your choice of colors.

By Techlicious March 3, 2014

BroApp Sends Automatic Texts to Your Girlfriend to Make Her Think You're Thinking About Her

There's really going to be no middle ground here. Either you're going to think this app is brilliant, or you're going to think it's stupid.

By Doug Aamoth February 28, 2014

Google Maps Gallery Is Like an Interactive Map Database

Google today announced the launch of its new Google Maps Gallery, an effort to take interesting historical maps, data overlays and other unique views of our world and make them explorable through the Google Maps interface.

By Techlicious February 28, 2014

The Final Fantasy XIV PS4 Beta Is Live, and Anyone Can Join

Beta testing is live for phase one.

By Matt Peckham February 28, 2014

Learnist's iPhone App Now Lets You Learn from Celebs as Well as Everybody

The platform for educational curation evolves further from its Pinterest-like roots.

By Harry McCracken February 27, 2014

Google Now Launcher: Google Brings Its Own Android Home Screen to the Play Store, Sort Of

It's for Nexus and Google Play Edition devices only, but you don't have to wait.

By Jared Newman February 27, 2014

Report: 4G LTE Speeds in the U.S. Sharply Declined Last Year

Does your cell phone’s data speed seem slower than it used to despite your carrier's claim that its 4G is getting faster? According to wireless network analysis firm OpenSignal, it's not your imagination.

By Techlicious February 26, 2014

There's Now a Hookup App to Facilitate Threesomes

Though we believe there's already a service for this called "Craigslist"

By Samantha Grossman February 24, 2014

WhatsApp Will Offer Free Voice Calling This Year

The popular messaging service -- which made news last week following Facebook's plans to acquire it for $19 billion -- will allow voice calls as early as April, said chief executive Jan Koum at a conference in Spain

By Sam Frizell February 24, 2014

WhatsApp Suffers Outage

Messaging app was down for hours, just days after news of $19 billion acquisition by Facebook

By Sam Frizell February 22, 2014