TechCrunch

Viral call-recording app Neon goes dark after exposing users’ phone numbers, call recordings, and transcripts

A viral app called Neon, which offers to record your phone calls and pay you for the audio so it can sell that data to AI companies, has rapidly risen to the ranks of the top-five free iPhone apps ...
Engadget

Google's AI Search Live is now available to all US app users

Search Live is now available for Google app users in the US, offering real-time, multimodal search, powered by AI. This feature will enable users to have real-time conversations with Google Search in ...
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

This app says you can win money by playing games. Wisconsin users say they're not getting paid.

Wisconsin consumers say a company called Playful Rewards LLC promises to pay users for playing games but isn't following through. Twenty-six consumers have issued complaints about the company to the ...

The AI Equalizer: How Big Tech Tools Can Elevate Small Businesses

This has shown me how technologies like AI and automation are no longer just “nice-to-have” tools—they're reshaping ...
TechCrunch

Neon, the No. 2 social app on the Apple App Store, pays users to record their phone calls and sells data to AI firms

A new app offering to record your phone calls and pay you for the audio so it can sell the data to AI companies is, unbelievably, the No. 2 app in Apple’s U.S. App Store’s Social Networking section.
New York News on MSN

Corporate Wellness Apps: Empowering Employees for Optimal Performance and Balance

In an era where work-life balance is increasingly elusive, corporate wellness apps are emerging as game-changers for b ...
The New York Times

Apple Takes Down ICE Tracking Apps in Response to Trump Pressure Campaign

Trump administration officials issued several legal threats over ICEBlock, a popular app that allows users to alert others to the presence of nearby immigration agents. By Chris Cameron Reporting from ...
SlashGear

iPhone Users Should Probably Uninstall These Free VPN Apps ASAP

Apple users of free virtual private networks, or VPNs, may be exposing sensitive data to the Chinese government, as a report by the Tech Transparency Project (TTP) shows that several popular VPN ...
9to5Mac

Bizarre app that pays you to share your audio calls hits #2 in App Store social apps

A bizarre app that invites you to record and share your audio calls so that it can sell the data to AI companies has become the second most downloaded social app in the app store. Neon Mobile says ...
Democrat and Chronicle

New app lets Rochester users save on meals: Here's how it works

A new app has launched in Rochester that aims to reduce food waste by offering prepared food at deeply discounted prices. Too Good To Go was founded in 2015 in Copenhagen by a group of young ...
The Verge

Nothing’s ‘first step’ to an ‘AI OS’ is not first, or an OS, but is fascinating

Nothing is launching an app store for AI-built smartphone software. Nothing is launching an app store for AI-built smartphone software. is a London-based reporter at The Verge covering all things AI ...
The New York Times

OpenAI’s New Video App Is Jaw-Dropping (for Better and Worse)

This week, we — the two authors of this article — spent hours scrolling through a feed of short-form videos that featured ourselves in different scenarios. In one hyper-realistic nine-second video, we ...