Apps

A new wave of digital tools has emerged to help citizens monitor Trump’s crackdown. But internet surveillance can also be used against you.

The bare-bones Mac writing app represents a literalist sensibility that is coming back into vogue as A.I. destabilizes our technological interactions.

Open it up, log on anonymously, and you’ll get a real-time sexual map of your neighborhood.

An app called Opal finally succeeded at curbing my time spent on social media through a combination of mild friction, encouragement, and guilt.

A new feature on the camera app Halide allows you to take pictures without Apple’s A.I. optimization.

The platform interface has gradually made it harder to find the music I want to listen to. With the latest app updates, I’d had enough.

How to host a dinner party for nine using a pre-trash haul from Too Good to Go and other food-waste apps. Carb-averse guests, beware.

How bots, mercenaries, and table scalpers have turned the restaurant reservation system inside out.

Betting should be legal, but pro leagues and major networks are undermining the value of sports in a bid to get in on the action.

It’s time to move beyond the flawed idea of a global conversation platform.

As classical listeners shift to streaming, Apple’s bespoke app falls short of its smaller-scale competitors.

Much of what’s on the new social network is the kind of banal celebrity and brand self-promotion that users have tried to avoid on Twitter.

Check this box to filter out all reptile owners.

Uber is like a cab, but it costs five hundred dollars if there’s a thunderstorm.

Would you like to share this picture of you kissing your ex-boyfriend with your contact “Ex-Boyfriend Do Not Call”? It’s just so sweet.

In 2022, the entire Internet began to feel something like a dying mall populated only by stores we don’t want to visit.

A recently added feature gathers narrated articles and podcasts in one place, making it easy to listen whether you’re at home or on the go.

The sounds recorded on the artist’s new A.I.-assisted album aren’t songs, per se, but they possess surprising glints of melodic elegance.

The difference between this app and the social-media giants isn’t its relationship to truth but the size and scale of its deceptions.

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