The risks of iPad childhood
Monday, January 26, 2026 by Brittany Hainzinger
A typical 8-year-old in the UK now spends almost three hours a day online, and by age two, around 4 in 10 children already have their own tablet. At the same time, children’s enjoyment of reading is at a record low in UK surveys. The issue has gained new urgency after Australia announced a world-first ban on social media for under-16s, according to BBC.
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It's time for more Siri openness in the Apple ecosystem
Monday, November 17, 2025 by Vira Tkachenko
Siri’s long-awaited personalized upgrade won’t arrive until 2026, putting Apple even further behind in the industry AI race and frustrating users. While many think Big Tech giants OpenAI, Google, and Microsoft will continue to be leaders for years to come, Apple has an opportunity to join the ranks.
Unlike its competitors, Apple’s unique vision for ...
Not letting AI become you: The trap so many are falling into
Friday, October 24, 2025 by Richard Harris
I’ve always loved the movie Multiplicity with Michael Keaton. The clever idea of cloning yourself to get more done, or just to kick back while another version of you handles the work - was brilliantly portrayed. In the end, though, it drives home a simple truth: when you try to create another “you,” things rarely turn out the way you expect.
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Introducing capn web a new javascript rpc protocol
Wednesday, October 15, 2025 by Russ Scritchfield
A new Remote Procedure Call (RPC) protocol and implementation named Cap'n Web has been introduced, written entirely in TypeScript. Designed as a spiritual sibling to Cap'n Proto, this new system is engineered specifically for the modern web stack. Cap'n Web distinguishes itself by having no schemas and minimal boilerplate, which simplifies setup and integrat...
Raised H-1B costs may shift tech jobs to U.S. Developers
Monday, October 6, 2025 by Richard Harris
A new requirement imposing a $100,000 annual fee on many H-1B visa petitions has reshaped the debate about how U.S. companies recruit technology talent. The measure applies broadly to employers hiring or renewing foreign workers and significantly increases the financial burden on businesses that depend on this visa category.
What the new rule changes
The fee appli...
Open source messaging app Bitchat works without signal or internet
Thursday, October 2, 2025 by Trey Abbe
Bitchat is a messaging app designed to operate without relying on cellular networks or internet connections. It uses peer-to-peer communication, allowing devices to connect directly via Bluetooth or Wi-Fi. Messages can be sent even when traditional networks are unavailable, making the app useful in areas with poor coverage or during temporary outages.
The app uses a ...
Salesforce breach let hackers steal Google customer data
Monday, August 25, 2025 by Richard Harris
In June, one of Google’s corporate Salesforce instances was affected by activity consistent with the UNC6040 campaign described in the post. Google responded by conducting an impact analysis and implementing mitigation steps. The affected instance stored contact information and related notes for small and medium-sized businesses. Investigators confirmed that data ...
Comet web browser launched by Perplexity
Friday, August 15, 2025 by Austin Harris
Perplexity recently introduced Comet, a new web browser designed for the modern internet experience. Over the past three decades, the internet has evolved from a static library of pages to a dynamic, interactive space where people live, work, and connect. As the internet becomes an extension of human thought, the tools used to navigate it have not kept pace. Comet was c...
ChatGPT agents bridging research and action
Tuesday, August 12, 2025 by Austin Harris
You can now ask ChatGPT to handle requests like “look at my calendar and brief me on upcoming client meetings based on recent news,” “plan and buy ingredients to make Japanese breakfast for four,” and “analyze three competitors and create a slide deck.” ChatGPT will intelligently navigate websites, filter results, prompt you to log in...
Raidiam research reveals API security risks
Thursday, August 7, 2025 by Austin Harris
A new report from Raidiam, a global leader in secure API access management, has uncovered an API security crisis hiding in plain sight: 84% of enterprises operating outside regulated environments have API security protections that fall dangerously short of what’s needed given the sensitivity of the data they expose.
The report, Helping ...
WebGPU in iOS 26
Wednesday, August 6, 2025 by Austin Harris
While much of the attention surrounding iOS 26 focused on Apple’s new “glass” UI system and enhanced lock screen, a more profound change quietly reshaped the technological landscape for developers and creatives. iOS 26 introduces full WebGPU support, a move that completes a long-standing puzzle in browser-based media and AI processing, and enables a ne...
State of Crypto Summit 2025
Thursday, July 17, 2025 by Richard Harris
Coinbase convened over 600 policymakers, financial leaders, and technology innovators at its third annual State of Crypto Summit, highlighting a dramatic shift in crypto’s global role and unveiling its largest initiative to date: building the future of global payments.
State of Crypto Summit 2025: Coinbase Hosts Third Annual Summit, Unveils Bold Push into ...
Building the Future of Web Automation
Wednesday, July 16, 2025 by Russ Scritchfield
Browserbase, the company behind cutting-edge browser infrastructure for automation, announced a major product update recently, reinforcing its vision for the future of intelligent web automation. Founded just 16 months ago, Browserbase has rapidly become foundational to how businesses leverage AI to streamline online workflows.
CEO and Founder Paul Klein shared that ...
EazyPostcard lets you write to global leaders
Saturday, July 12, 2025 by Brittany Hainzinger
EazyPostCard, the new French platform for sending digital postcards, has officially launched worldwide. Created by renowned French entrepreneur Mathieu Burthey, this innovative service combines the emotion of physical postcards with the convenience of digital technology.
EazyPostcard lets you write to global leaders: Reinventing the traditional postcard
EazyPostCa...
Apple charged for illegal app store fees
Tuesday, May 13, 2025 by Austin Harris
The European Commission has recently found that Apple is violating the Digital Markets Act (DMA). The DMA requires Apple to allow developers to direct customers outside of apps to make purchases and find other app distribution channels without incurring any charges. Apple has been breaking the law by imposing illegal fees, displaying scare screens, and placing restricti...
Unlock real AI agent experiences through Claude
Monday, May 12, 2025 by Richard Harris
Cloudflare, Inc., the connectivity cloud company, recently announced a wave of global technology companies, including Asana, Atlassian, Block, PayPal, Sentry, Stripe, and more, are working with Cloudflare to create powerful AI experiences through Anthropic’s AI assistant, Claude. These software companies are enabling Claude and other AI assistants to securely inte...
Double your app engagement steal these 10 story ideas
Thursday, December 5, 2024 by Vlad Lastovsky
Let’s be honest - how many apps do you still have on your phone that you never use? It’s a common scenario. You download one, try it out, and within weeks, you uninstall it. You’re not alone - nearly 70% of users stop using an app within 30 days.
Steal these 10 story ideas to double your app engagement
What keeps users around? Engagemen...
Anticipatory design faces challenges in business implementation
Thursday, November 14, 2024 by Russ Scritchfield
In the rapidly evolving digital landscape, anticipatory design is emerging as a game-changer. This innovative approach, driven by Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML), and Big Data (BD), aims to enhance user experience by predicting and addressing needs before they are even articulated. However, despite its promising potential, many businesses are grappli...
LEO satellite connectivity simplified by Skynopy
Wednesday, July 10, 2024 by Austin Harris
Skynopy recently announced that its fundraising of $3.1M closed in only 3 weeks, just months after its creation. This funding round was supported by a pool of investors, including the pan-European fund Heartcore Capital, Kima Ventures, Better Angle, and BPI France, alongside well-known entrepreneurs like Thibaud Elziere (e-founders, Hexa) and Yohann...
Epic Games defeats Google in court
Thursday, April 18, 2024 by Richard Harris
In a twist that sounds straight out of a high-stakes courtroom drama, Epic Games has thrown down the gauntlet with a bombshell injunction proposal aimed at shaking up Google Play's entire rulebook. This comes hot on the heels of their David-versus-Goliath victory over Google in December, where a U.S. jury cast the tech behemoth as the big bad monopoly wolf of Androi...
Gemini AIs app trails behind ChatGPT
Wednesday, April 3, 2024 by Brittany Hainzinger
According to Stocklytics.com, Gemini AI’s app garnered 633K installs in its debut month. However, these numbers placed Gemini behind ChatGPT’s debut by a notable margin of 1 million installs. ChatGPT registered over 1.6M downloads during its first month.
"Gemini AI’s initial performance, while commendable, highlights the formidable lead es...
Future of digital communications according to Sendbird
Wednesday, December 20, 2023 by Richard Harris
Over the last year, human-to-machine interactions skyrocketed almost overnight with the launch of ChatGPT. These interactions were as intelligent and personal as ever, and the hype cycle for generative AI, large language models, and next-generation chatbots has stayed in hyperdrive.
Today, we’re experiencing the biggest paradigm shift since the Internet Dot.com...
Open source AI chatbot privacy issues addressed by Sendbird
Tuesday, December 12, 2023 by Richard Harris
Last month Sendbird became the first communications API platform to integrate Llama2, Meta’s open source LLM. By adding support for Llama2, on top of existing ChatGPT and PaLM-2 integrations, Sendbird became the first platform of its kind to offer organizations greater flexibility for their integration of generative AI chatbots. By doing so, companies can choose t...
AI performance monitoring from Datadog and Vertex AI
Thursday, November 16, 2023 by Richard Harris
Datadog, Inc., the monitoring and security platform for cloud applications, announced an expanded strategic partnership with Google Cloud, which enables Google Cloud customers to proactively observe and secure their cloud-native and hybrid applications within Datadog’s unified platform. As part of the expanded partnership and integrations, Datadog is one of the fi...
GraphQL API launches from Point One Navigation
Thursday, October 19, 2023 by Richard Harris
Point One Navigation announced the public launch of its GraphQL API, delivering instant integration and unprecedented observability into precision location for GNSS-powered devices.
The GraphQL API radically simplifies development, eliminating the need for vendor libraries, intermediate data stores, or working with convoluted networks of REST endpoints. Developers bu...
OneSignal to delete inactive app users by October 31st unless you pay
Thursday, October 12, 2023 by Richard Harris
OneSignal, a company that provides a push notification service for mobile and web applications, just announced they are going to start deleting subscribers that are in-active for over 18 months unless you choose a paid subscription plan.
In an email to developers, they said: "If you'd like to retain all your push subscriptions (players), you can upgrade...
Generative AI virtual agent from Serviceaide
Wednesday, May 24, 2023 by Brittany Hainzinger
Serviceaide, Inc. has announced its AI-Everywhere Luma Virtual Agent and AI-based solutions. Integrating Generative AI, Luma 3.0 provides a quantum leap in efficiency, productivity, cost reduction, and business process innovation. Luma provides the benefits of Generative AI with nothing extra to buy, it’s built into our technology core to improve all service manag...
API exploration tool SwaggerHub Explore launches from SmartBear
Thursday, March 16, 2023 by Brittany Hainzinger
SmartBear is giving developers instant access to RESTful and Apache Kafka endpoints with the new SwaggerHub Explore. The free API exploration tool has an easy-to-use interface and accelerates the development lifecycle, allowing developers to easily visualize API data in a single place and quickly evaluate functionality before investing valuable time in API integration. ...
Communication trends and predictions for 2023 from SendBird
Wednesday, January 18, 2023 by Richard Harris
As Twitter morphs around Elon Musk’s vision and Meta dives deeper into the Metaverse, businesses are reconsidering how they want to communicate with their customers. In 2023, we’ll see not only more companies but a wider variety of companies take a page from WhatsApp, Line, and WeChat as they bring the community and dynamic conversations into their own apps....
Nintendo Switch error monitoring from Bugsnag
Wednesday, December 28, 2022 by Richard Harris
SmartBear announced that its error monitoring and app stability tool Bugsnag now supports the Nintendo Switch system, giving gaming studios visibility across platforms and devices. With Bugsnag, developer teams can achieve better collaboration, faster deployments, and more stable applications to ensure every end-user has a next-level experience. Earlier this year, Smart...
Predictions for 2023 in software and app development
Wednesday, December 7, 2022 by Richard Harris
Got a software industry prediction? Something you want to shout out about the app world? Whatever it is, we want it!
We are working on our predictions issue for January 2023, which should be our biggest yet!
This will be our 7th annual “predictions” issue.
Last year’s globally hit over 12 million views + our 100,000 subscriber readership....
Send money across 5 continents with IPSIPay app
Tuesday, October 11, 2022 by Brittany Hainzinger
Innovative Payment Solutions, Inc. announced that it has completed the key integration of its IPSIPay mobile application and back-end payment processing infrastructure through its commercial partners.
This major achievement allows IPSIPay users the ability to easily transfer money and make payments through the IPSIPay app throughout five continents for receipt a...
Using blockchain to grow your business
Tuesday, August 16, 2022 by Mark Kaley
By now, almost everyone who spends time in the tech space knows that blockchain technology is having a moment. It is a digital technology that has gained prominence in recent years, especially concerning the cryptocurrency industry.
How you could be using blockchain to grow your business
Blockchain technology is not just for tech-savvy bitcoin traders, however. Th...
IP blocking warning when preventing click fraud
Friday, July 29, 2022 by Austin Harris
Click fraud is a massive problem, stealing tens of billions of dollars from advertisers every year. The fraudsters responsible for this crime include technically savvy website owners, transnational organized crime gangs, and even Nasdaq-listed multinationals.
The scam works like this: criminals create websites, and contact advertising networks like Microsoft Ads to r...
TreeTrunk NFT smart contract lands
Monday, March 14, 2022 by Richard Harris
John Wolpert, co-founder of TreeTrunk and Group Executive, Enterprise Mainnet Products and Technology at ConsenSys chats with us about what TreeTrunk is, how the TreeTrunk NFT smart contract will become widely used, how it can distribute royalties immediately and securely, and a lot more.
ADM: What is the long-term vision for TreeTrunk?
Wolpert: The primary j...
