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July 2024

  • A man looks at his mobile device running the iOS Apple weather app

    Figma’s AI app creator accused of ripping off Apple weather app

    Company pulls Make Designs after requests to design weather app result in program ‘almost identical’ to iOS app

June 2024

  • Anya Ryan

    Why I quit
    Dating apps took over my life – so I ditched them and learned to live in the moment

    Anya Ryan
    I used to remove myself from experiences in favour of chasing matches. Now I’m fulfilled by the company of real people, says freelance writer Anya Ryan
  • ‘We offer escapism, we offer fantasy. It is a place to go when the things happening around you are not as enjoyable,’ said Kate Fahlsing, director of creative strategy at Chapters.

    As spicy as you want it: interactive fiction games put forward a new kind of narrative

    Once derided for saucy advertisements and romance novel plots, these mobile games are venturing into the mainstream
  • ‘Our first time’ … Gemma New will conduct the world premiere of City of Floating Sounds.

    In the key of 5G: the ‘dimensionalist’ who wrote a symphony for 1,000 phones

    Mobiles are usually hated at concert halls. But Huang Ruo wants Mancunians to start using theirs on the way in – and not stop. The Chinese-American explains why the sounds of rain and traffic are all part of the experience

May 2024

  • Stephen Merchant doing a high kick and looking into the camera

    Weekend
    Stephen Merchant on his ‘preposterous’ trajectory; the trouble with the Zoe nutrition app; and when does drinking become a problem? – podcast

  • Illustration by Observer Design of a woman and the Zoe nutrition app.

    ‘Personalising stuff that doesn’t matter’: the trouble with the Zoe nutrition app

  • Author Andrew O'Hagan<br>Scotish Author Andrew O'Hagan, at his home in London. His most recent book 'Mayflies' is about a friend of his from his youth and the hedonistic times they had. He is also Editor at Large of the London Review of Books and Esquire Magazine. Date: 11 August 2020 Photograph by Amit Lennon. **RE-TOUCHED High Res. Use This!

    On my radar
    On my radar: Andrew O’Hagan’s cultural highlights

  • Download window for the Bumble app is shown on an Apple iPhone, with graphic depicting three stages of the dating experience including photo of a smiling woman

    ‘A lot of effort to get one date’: Bumble app makes women’s first move easier

April 2024

  • Headteachers say they are forced to mend desks and unblock toilets after losing caretakers to cuts.

    Brief letters
    Proof that teaching’s going down the pan

  • Elle Hunt

    Outside London, the dating pool may be smaller – but there are fewer sharks

    Elle Hunt
  • An illustration of a heart made of jigsaw pieces, with a missing piece and a hand holding a smartphone

    ‘The science isn’t there’: do dating apps really help us find our soulmate?

  • Social media app icons on a phone screen

    Apple removes WhatsApp and Threads from Chinese App Store

  • ‘We may lose ability to think critically at all’: the book-summary apps accused of damaging authors’ sales

  • Tories planned to make millions from members’ data with ‘True Blue’ app

  • Smartphone app could help detect early-onset dementia cause, study finds

March 2024

  • A woman wearing augmented-reality goggles, touching the 'screen' at the foreground of the image

    Wearable AI: will it put our smartphones out of fashion?

    Portable AI-powered devices that connect directly to a chatbot without the need for apps or a touchscreen are set to hit the market. Are they the emperor’s new clothes or a gamechanger?
  • Apple and Fortnite

    Apple’s claims about risk of outside payments ‘do not survive scrutiny’, Epic Games tells Australian court

    At start of what is expected to be a five-month trial, Epic says Apple has allowed such options for physical goods and the ‘sky did not fall in’

    • ‘There’s joy I haven’t felt for years!’ How an app finally got me hooked on the piano

    • ‘I was having a much better time as a girl in that parallel life’: how an app sparked a late-life gender transition

    • Spending on accidental subscriptions has doubled in a year in UK

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