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New App Made for People Living Alone Surges in Popularity

The app requires users to check in every two days to confirm they are alive.

Martha McHardy

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ICE BREAKER

ICE-Tracking App’s Popularity Surges Following MAGA Meltdown

ICEBlock is currently the most popular social networking app in the Apple Store

Tom Sanders

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LIMBO

TikTok App Still Can’t Be Downloaded Even After Trump Order

“Did anyone else’s TikTok auto uninstall and not allow you to redownload,” an X user asked.

Isabel van Brugen

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RULES ARE RULES

Apple Won’t Let Elon Rename Twitter on the App Store: Report

The issue reportedly has to do with the App Store’s minimum character requirement for the names of iOS apps.

AJ McDougall

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APP-ALLING

Kari Lake-Linked Tech Firm Wreaking Campaign Finance Havoc

Superfeed Technologies, a company with Trumpworld ties that once retained Kari Lake as an adviser, appears to have provided unreported free services to GOP candidates.

William Bredderman

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HELPING?

Inside Travis Scott’s Team Up With ‘Tinder of Psychotherapy’

The rapper announced he was working with BetterHelp to offer a month of free therapy to Astroworld victims, but the company has been scrutinized over its practices.

Cheyenne Roundtree

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UNLOCKING A MYSTERY

A New Crime App Wants You to ‘Solve’ Jeffrey Epstein’s Death

CrimeDoor, an augmented-reality app, lets users turn rooms in their home into crime scenes. And they’ve partnered with the sister of a teen girl who was murdered.

Tarpley Hitt

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MELTDOWN MODE

Is the Trump Administration Really Going to Ban TikTok?

“All this awesome comedy would just be gone,” a top creator tells The Daily Beast.

Tarpley Hitt

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REVEALED

Report: Popular Chat App ToTok Revealed as Spying Tool

ToTok is part of a digital arms race among authoritarian governments in their efforts to devise more sophisticated spying methods.

Emma Tucker

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PULL THE PLUG

Apple Removes App That Let Activists Track Hong Kong Police

People’s Daily, a Chinese Communist Party newspaper, published an editorial that claimed Apple was aiding “rioters” in Hong Kong just one day prior.

Anna Kaplan

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Glued to the Screen

Will Apple’s New iOS Curb Smartphone Addiction?

With the new Screen Time app, Apple is finally acknowledging that internet and smartphone addiction is real. But the app may be lacking a few key features, experts say.

Tanya Basu

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