Love it or hate it, TikTok is turning into a force to be reckoned with.
The video app, owned by Chinese company ByteDance, has now been downloaded more than one billion times around the world, according to new data from app analytics company Sensor T…
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8 apps to help your MacBook run better — all on sale
Relying on free apps to enhance your MacBook’s functionality isn’t always the right move. With premium apps, you get tons more features, better privacy protections, and fewer annoying ads.
What’s more, you don’t have to spend a fortune to reap those …
This $20 top-rated app is meant to boost the functionality of your Mac dock
Even though macOS is often regarded as the best designed operating system out there, it could still use some improvements.
For starters, the dock — which holds the app we use on the regular — is way overdue for an upgrade. Its last major overhaul came with the introduction of the Mac OS X 10.0 which was launched in 2001. Like, if the Dock were a person, it can already vote in the presidential elections next year.
To be fair, there’s nothing particularly wrong about the dock. But it’s just… there. And although it is central to how we interact with the Mac, it doesn’t really do much aside from providing quick access to programs. Read more…
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Criminals might want to think twice before stealing Tesla.
A man led police on a chase through Riverside, California, after stealing a Tesla from a parking garage. The moment the Tesla was moved from its parking spot, the owner knew that his ca…
Period tracking app says it will stop sharing health data with Facebook
After The Wall Street Journal reported that popular period-tracking app Flo had been secretly sharing some of its users’ most personal health data with Facebook, Flo is promising to make some changes.
Along with a number of other popular health apps,…
3 texting services that help teens when sex ed can’t
The internet has changed how kids learn about sex, but sex ed in the classroom still sucks. In Sex Ed 2.0, Mashable explores the state of sex ed and imagines a future where digital innovations are used to teach consent, sex positivity, respect, and r…
View More 3 texting services that help teens when sex ed can’tHow to save money: A step-by-step guide for millennials
Put down the latte and listen up: If you’re like the millions of Americans living paycheck to paycheck, saving money needs to be on the top of your to-do list. Like, stat.
Understanding personal finance can be intimidating. You know how much money you make and you’re trying to save a little bit here and there, but the reality of mounting student loan bills and other living expenses can weigh heavily on millennials — which is why it’s difficult to think of the bigger picture.
Listen: a personal finance app (or two or three) can be your best friend in terms of getting smarter about how you save — and spend — your money. (We recommending starting with YNAB, but more on that later.) Read more…
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View More How to save money: A step-by-step guide for millennialsApple, Google pressured to drop Saudi app that lets men track and control women
Google and Apple are under pressure from human rights groups and a U.S. senator to remove from their stores an app called Absher. The app was created by the Saudi government and includes a feature that helps men monitor and control women who are under their guardianship, including wives and unmarried daughters.
Saudi men have this right thanks to the country’s oppressive guardianship laws, which mandate every woman has a male guardian to make critical life decisions on her behalf. That guardian can be a father, brother, husband, or son, according to Human Rights Watch. So men get the power to approve things like whether a woman applies for a passport, studies abroad, travels outside the country, or gets married. That system was already well in place before Absher’’s debut, but the app makes controlling women much more efficient. Read more…
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View More Apple, Google pressured to drop Saudi app that lets men track and control women10 apps on sale for Presidents Day
We love to use any celebratory day as an excuse to shower you in exclusive deals on stuff. (See? We’re nice!)
And now that Presidents Day weekend is here, we’re bringing you another round of discounts on apps and software that can help to upgrade you…
Coffee Meets Bagel reports massive data breach on Valentine’s Day
Millions of people who use the dating app Coffee Meets Bagel woke up on Valentine’s Day to some unsetting news: their personal information had been compromised.
Coffee Meets Bagel reported a massive data breach affecting “approximately” six million users Thursday. That news of the hack just so happened to coincide with Valentine’s Day is a fittingly cruel twist for the service that purports to be about making “authentic connections.”
“With online dating, people need to feel safe. If they don’t feel safe, they won’t share themselves authentically or make meaningful connections,” the company said in a statement. “We take that responsibility seriously, so we informed our community as soon as possible—regardless of what calendar date it fell on—about what happened and what we are doing about it.” Read more…
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This software will teach you how to type at over 100 WPM — and it just went on sale
Typing was one of those things almost everyone learned in school — along with cursive and the names of all the state capitals. And just like your penmanship and your ability to pinpoint South Dakota’s seat of government — it’s Pierre, by the way — your typing skills probably aren’t what they used to be.
And while the capacities to write in cursive and identify 50 cities aren’t all that relevant to most jobs, feel free to let both fall even more by the wayside. But typing? You *kind of* need to know how to do that well if you want to make a living in today’s job market. (It’s the Digital Age, baby!) Read more…
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View More This software will teach you how to type at over 100 WPM — and it just went on saleThis automation tool could change the way you use Instagram (for the better)
Connecting with your Instagram followers is fun… until it isn’t. Once it becomes part of your job description for marketing purposes, the hassle of scheduling, posting, and following up on #content can swiftly outweigh the thrill of racking up like…
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