Apps

A dark, space-like background filled with colorful floating Spotify playlist tiles, each with abstract artwork and titles like “Movie Tearjerkers,” “Chill Commute,” “Unexpected Cardio Beats,” “Sampled Favorites,” “First 100 Songs,” and “Lower My Wrapped Listening Age,” representing Spotify’s AI-generated and personalized playlist features.

You can now boss Spotify’s algorithm around with prompts

The algorithm no longer decides alone — you get a…

Snapchat Family Center screen showing a parent and teen Bitmoji at the top, with a teen profile named Ash, birth date, username, and a list of recent conversations highlighting friends contacted in the past seven days, displayed on a smartphone against a yellow background.

Snapchat adds new tools to help parents manage teen safety

The app won’t show messages, but it will show how…

Two smartphone screens showing Bluesky’s Find Friends feature, with one screen displaying phone number verification using a six-digit code and the other showing a list of matched friends from contacts with follow and invite options.

Bluesky launches mutual-only Find Friends on mobile

A safer, opt-in way to find friends is finally rolling…

Bluesky app interface shown on two smartphones, highlighting the new “Live Now” feature with a red live badge on a user’s avatar, a post indicating a Twitch livestream, and a preview screen with a “Watch now” button linking directly to a live stream.

Bluesky rolls out its Live Now badge to all users

Bluesky lights up profiles to say one simple thing: I’m…

An image of an iPhone mockup for MacPaw's Setapp Mobile, an alternative iOS app store for EU users. The first mockup shows multiple app listings, the second shows a preview of the app, and the last one shows an app activation popup.

Setapp Mobile is shutting down on iOS this February

Setapp Mobile gave users choice on iOS, then took it…

OpenAI ChatGPT Pulse

What is ChatGPT Pulse and why it works while you sleep

Instead of asking questions, ChatGPT Pulse shows up with answers…

Illustration showing a central padlock with a user icon and key symbol, surrounded by icons for fingerprint authentication, a physical key, and security elements, representing passkeys and passwordless account protection.

How to add passkeys to your OpenAI account in minutes

One tap, one look, and you are back in ChatGPT.…

Promotional image showing three smartphone mockups of TikTok’s PineDrama app, highlighting a vertical feed of short drama episodes, personalized recommendations, and a Discover tab with soap-style show thumbnails and trending micro-dramas.

TikTok launches PineDrama, a new app for binge-worthy one-minute shows

Instead of memes, PineDrama feeds you plot twists.

Screenshot of the ChatGPT Translate interface in dark mode showing side-by-side translation boxes, with English text on the left, Spanish translation on the right, language detection and language selection dropdowns at the top, and quick action buttons below for making the translation more fluent, more business formal, simplified for a child, or suitable for an academic audience.

ChatGPT Translate puts a chatbot spin on online translation

ChatGPT Translate looks familiar at first glance, but its real…

ChatGPT mobile interface displaying a Mexican dinner menu response followed by a sponsored grocery item card, illustrating how shopping ads appear below answers.

OpenAI plans subtle shopping ads inside ChatGPT

ChatGPT is getting ads, but OpenAI wants them to look…

A black-background grid showing Apple Creator Studio apps, including colorful icons for Final Cut Pro, Logic Pro, Pixelmator Pro, Keynote, Pages, Numbers, Freeform, Motion, Compressor, and MainStage, each labeled beneath its rounded-square icon.

Apple Creator Studio is built to lure Adobe users

Adobe still owns many pro workflows, but Apple is now…

Animated screenshot of Microsoft Word showing text being selected and a pasted URL automatically turning the words “hyperlinks” into a clickable link, demonstrating Word’s new paste-to-link feature without opening a dialog box.

Microsoft Word finally lets you paste links the way you always wanted

Word users can now skip the hyperlink pop-up entirely.