A new health safety page provides prevention and testing information. The dating app Tinder agreed Thursday to provide information on testing locations for sexually transmitted diseases, ending a feud with a California advocacy group. Tinder has battled with the Los Angeles based AIDS Health Foundation since the group launched an ad campaign last fall linking the mobile dating app with the spread of STDs. Tinder responded to the charge with...

Being a Meteorologist is like being an umpire: People only notice your work when you’re wrong. Yet we’re all obsessed with the weather. Well, according to the people behind a new weather app called Sunshine, anyway. But are they wrong? Checking the weather is the first thing many people do each day, but Sunshine CEO and co-founder Katerina Stroponiati says 73 percent of the population doesn’t trust the reports. Even if weather reports are spot-on, there’s another problem...

This View app claims to be “a new directory for each of your classes”, and this email has a snazzy design, highly unusual for college email spam. Note the design and wording makes it almost seem like it was sent out by the school administration2 for me to join some sort of new class discussion app. This is just the very beginning of this app’s numerous tricks to bootstrap itself into popularity.

An app that can differentiate between a variety of crying sounds made by babies has been developed by Taiwanese researchers.

Facebook clearly believes it has its next hit app on its hands to follow Messenger with its private photo-sharing service, Moments. The company has now announced it will soon discontinue support for photo syncing, and is instead asking users to download the Moments app through a pop-up notification that appears at the top of the News Feed. That means if you want to continue to access photos you’ve privately synced from your phone...

More adolescents are killed by HIV/Aids around the world than by anything else, apart from road traffic accidents. While HIV infection rates have been falling globally in the past 10 years or so, among adolescents in some regions they have been on the rise - prompting fears of a "hidden epidemic". One in eight new HIV infections occurs in this group of young people.

Each time you install an app, you’re asked to accept the permissions it’s requesting to access the features on your phone. It’s a standard cost of entry for downloading pretty much any app, and particularly free ones. If you’re not paying with money, you’re paying with your data. But despite knowing that an app can access a particular feature, you probably mentally write it off as an infrequent occurrence, or perhaps, only when the app needs certain information.

“Bro, your face is pissing me off, want to throw down?” That’s an example of the sort of dialog that goes on in a new app called Rumblr, which can be used to set up fistfights with total strangers — you know, Fight Club style. Rumblr is set up like a dating app, except the dates happen in parking lots and back alleys, not restaurants, and they culminate in throw-downs instead of get-downs. Here’s the pitch on the website...

Today Google is rolling its Play Music on-demand service into a new $9.99 subscription for ad-free viewing across all of YouTube that will launch October 28th in the US and globally soon. However, iOS users will be charged $12.99 to cover Apple’s in-app purchase tax. The new service replaces Google Music Key and gives user a simple way to instantly watch or listen to YouTube video and Play Music content on-demand without ads.

There’s a big hole in weather forecasting nowadays: none of them really ask the guy on the street how it’s feeling outside. And that untapped avenue is the target for Sunshine, a mobile weather app released last week on the iOS App Store. Unlike a traditional weather app, Sunshine shows you a local street map with crowdsourced reports from people using it to report local sky conditions.

The app was created by friends Julia Cordray and Nicole McCullough based in Canada. It had been dubbed 'Yelp for people' but soon came under fire for being 'irresponsible' and 'horrible'.

You can already rate restaurants, hotels, movies, college classes, government agencies and bowel movements online. So the most surprising thing about Peeple — basically Yelp, but for humans — may be the fact that no one has yet had the gall to launch something like it. When the app does launch, probably in late November, you will be able to assign reviews and one- to five-star ratings to everyone you know...

Mobile browser traffic is actually twice that of mobile app traffic, according to a just-released Morgan Stanley report that rates Google’s stock as a buy. This appears to fly in the face of recent, strong, and repeated evidence that the app is winning, capturing 80-90 percent of our time on mobile. Actually, both are right. Using comScore data, Morgan Stanley says the web is winning...

Would you download an app that is solely designed to track and report everything you watch? OK, how about if it also paid you $11 per month? That's the offer that a new app released on Tuesday is making. Created by data collection startup Symphony Advanced Media, VideoPulse tracks any and all video consumption of its users through a Shazam-like passive listening program that hears what you're watching and tracks it.

Apple confirmed on Sunday that a tool used by software developers for the company’s devices was copied and modified by hackers to put bad code into apps available on the App Store. So far about 40 apps with malicious code, or malware, have made it into the App Store, said researchers at Palo Alto Networks, an online security company that is investigating the incident.

A malicious Android app that held people to ransom has been discovered by researchers at security firm Zscaler. Adult Player appeared to offer pornography, but secretly took pictures of users with the phone’s front-facing camera. It then locked the user’s device and displayed a demand for $ 500 (£330) which was difficult to bypass. One security expert told the BBC that ransomware was a lucrative and growing area of cybercrime.

With today's rollout of a new logo, and updates of select core Google apps to reflect it, we knew it was only a matter of time until the Google app got updated as well.

The Best Show in the Universe: No, I don't want to install your app.

The Ashley Madison leak has been devastating for the site's customers, but the reputation of the company's owner isn’t faring much better. Leaked files from last week’s Ashley Madison dump reveal plans by Avid Life Media (ALM), the company behind the adultery-themed website, to launch an app that allows men to rate each other’s wives, the Daily Dot has discovered.

WhatsApp has finally updated its Play Store listing to 2.12.250 with all of the goodies that we've been anxiously tracking over the past months.