United adds TSA wait times to its mobile app
United adds TSA wait times to its mobile app

If you’re flying United Airlines, you’ll now have a better idea of when you need to get to the airport to make your flight. Yesterday the airline announced several updates to its iOS and Android mobile apps including estimated security wait times at all of United’s US hub airports as a result of the ongoing […]

Exclusive: Beehiiv expands into podcasting, taking aim at Patreon

One way Beehiiv is convincing creators to switch from rivals like Substack and Patreon is by not taking a cut of revenue.

WhatsApp just caught an Italian spyware firm building a fake version of its app for iPhones
WhatsApp just caught an Italian spyware firm building a fake version of its app for iPhones

WhatsApp has notified approximately 200 users, primarily in Italy, that they were tricked into installing a counterfeit version of the messaging app that was actually government spyware. The fake application was built by SIO, an Italian surveillance te…

A new dating app, Sonder, has a deliberately annoying sign-up process (and it’s working)

Sonder profiles are completely unstructured, encouraging users to build something that looks like a mood board or a digital collage. Think MySpace rather than LinkedIn.

Cameo partners with TikTok to boost popularity

Cameo launched a new TikTok integration that allows U.S. creators to offer personalized videos through the app.

Snapchat’s ‘Reals’ joke mocks Instagram’s many ripoffs
Snapchat’s ‘Reals’ joke mocks Instagram’s many ripoffs

It’s April Fools’ Day, and Snap is using the occasion to “announce” that it’s switching the name of Snapchat’s Spotlight feed, the app’s Instagram Reels-like feed of shortform vertical videos, to “Reals.” In a video featuring co-founder and CEO Evan Spiegel, Snap also includes a description of “Reals” as a place where “real people share […]

Samsung’s new app claims to alleviate motion sickness using sound
Samsung’s new app claims to alleviate motion sickness using sound

Samsung released a new free app today called Hearapy, now available for Android devices through the Google Play store, that it claims can reduce the symptoms of motion sickness using just sound. The app’s functionality is very straightforward. It plays a low 100Hz sine wave tone through a pair of connected headphones for 60 seconds. […]

Go play this secret game in your TikTok DMs

The game is available globally and can be accessed in both one-on-one DM chats and in group chats.

Caller ID app Truecaller hits 500 million monthly users

Truecaller now has more than 4 million paying users across the world.

Roku launches a standalone app for Howdy, its $2.99 streaming service

With this new app, Roku says subscribers can access Howdy’s library of content on the go.