If you’ve used the Meta Ray-Ban Display for any extended period of time, you’ve probably noticed one major omission in the smart glasses’ capabilities: there’s no app store. That means, while you can still do quite a few things in the Meta Ray-Ban Display, like get turn-by-turn directions, message notifications, and video calls, you can’t […]
Fans Feel Betrayed as Nothing Preps Budget Phone 3a Lite Launch
Leave it to Nothing to aggravate fans—its own and very vocal tech enthusiasts—yet again. As is tradition now, the tech startup, known for its transparent wireless earbuds and light-up smartphones, has announced a “Phone 3a Lite” that will be announced on Oct. 29 at 9 a.m. ET / 1 p.m. GMT. Phone (3a) Lite. 29.10. […]
Apple Hopes Tennis Will Remind You the Apple Sports App Exists
Apple is adding a few new capabilities to the Apple Sports app that it hopes will convince you to actually download the thing. Its biggest item on the list of additions: tennis. For the first time, Apple Sports will now be able to track and relay tennis scores in real time. In Apple’s own words: […]
PSA: Get Your Parents Off the Meta AI App Right Now
As much as I’ve enjoyed using Meta’s Ray-Bans, I haven’t been a very big fan of the switch/rebrand from the Meta View app, which was a fairly straightforward companion to the smart glasses. Now, we’ve got the Meta AI app, a very not-straightforward half-glasses companion that really, really tries to get you to interact with—what […]
This AI App Is Using an AI-Generated Ad to Show How Easy It Is to Generate AI App Slop
Back in my day, the phrase used to be “there’s an app for that,” and that’s still the case, though with one major amendment: now, it’s “there’s an AI app for that.” In fact, there’s even an AI app for making apps—buckle up, kiddos, things are about to get meta. Let me explain: Rork, which I […]
Border Patrol App Modified to Let Immigrants Deport Themselves
Customs and Border Protection has released a new app that makes it easy for undocumented immigrants to inform the government of their plans to depart the United States. CBP Home, as it is called, replaces CBP One, an app that allowed migrants to apply for asylum interviews at the U.S.-Mexico border. That app, of course, […]