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You surely don’t need anyone to tell you this, but iPhone users were experiencing some serious functionality issues with Spotify and other required-for-basic-existence apps as of Friday morning. Users took to Twitter and elsewhere to offer up public messages of mourning regarding the app-related fuckery. At the time of this writing, the DownDetector site showed […]
The effects of the last year’s chicken sandwich wars were still lingering in the first of 2020—at least, that’s what Grubhub found. On Thursday, the food delivery service released its annual “State of the Plate” report, which analyzes over half million orders placed on the app between Jan. 1 and June 20. The data was then used to determine the top […]
The tech industry continues to monopolize, as Uber announces its new deal to buy the food delivery app Postmates for $2.65 billion in an all-stock deal. The buyout follows Uber’s failed attempt to purchase Grubhub last month. “Uber and Postmates have long shared a belief that platforms like ours can power much more than just food delivery — […]
HBO‘s efforts to clear up confusion has, ironically, left many customers even more confused. OK, let’s take a deep breath before we dive into this. According to The Hollywood Reporter, WarnerMedia announced Friday that it was streamlining its offerings of HBO apps by phasing out HBO Go and a rebranding of HBO Now simply as HBO. The news comes just […]
The Dallas Police Department tried to get people to snitch on each other on Sunday by reporting any illegal activity from ongoing protests in the city through their iWatch Dallas app. The app was instead flooded with K-pop pictures and videos, Mashable reports. Hours later, the Dallas Police claimed that the app was temporarily down due to “technical […]
HQ Trivia is no more. CNN Business reports the once-popular game show app officially ceased operations Friday, about three years after its inception. The outlet obtained a company-wide memo from CEO Rus Yusupov, who confirmed the terminations of 25 full-time staffers. The executive explained HQ’s lead investors were no longer willing to back the company, and that a […]
Simon Weckert, an artist from Germany, came up with an idea to game Google Maps by tricking it into thinking several Berlin streets were cramped up with traffic. Now, as is the case with almost all art, there seems to be a thin line seperating whether this is brilliant or eye-rolling, so we’ll just lay […]
Firefighters in Massachusetts are warning dumb teenagers and adults pretending that they’re still teenagers to not participate in a new TikTok challenge that could end up burning down the house you’re in, according to CBS News. Like most warnings about things young people do, it’s hard to tell if it’s a warning about an actual […]
Creating fake celebrity profiles has become part of the social media experience. Yet when the Bumble dating app tried to stop a faux celebrity page from engaging with its users, it accidentally blocked a Hollywood legend. On Sunday, actress, Sharon Stone, took to Twitter where she revealed that she’d been removed from Bumble because users […]
Instagram is saying good-bye to filters that depict cosmetic surgery. Spark AR, the company behind the platform’s filters, announced the move via Facebook last week amid growing concerns about social media’s effects on body image and self-esteem. Per Spark AR’s post: We want Spark AR effects to be a positive experience and are re-evaluating […]
