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Spotify has over 406 million users worldwide who enjoy a wide range of musical artists, as well as a large selection of audio and video podcasts.  If you’ve only listened to music or podcasts in the Spotify mobile app and never changed the settings, you’re missing out on features that can improve your listening experience.  …

BeReal is a social media app that aims to leave behind artificial glamour and give you a more authentic way to tell your stories. Instead of carefully curated images, BeReal offers “a new and unique way to discover who your friends really are in their daily life,” according to the company.  BeReal users post a picture, called a “BeReal,” within …

Google launched a “Data safety” section in its Play app store on Tuesday. The feature is meant to show people safety and privacy guidelines before they download an app, such as how data is collected, protected and used. “We heard from users and app developers that displaying the data an app collects, without additional context, is not enough,” Google said in a post. …

A new Google policy will effectively ban call-recording apps from the Play Store starting next month. Under the change, spotted earlier by Ars Technica, call recording will no longer be allowed via Google‘s accessibility APIs. It’s part of the tech giant’s ongoing crackdown on apps that use its accessibility APIs as technical workarounds, rather than for accessibility reasons.  Since the …

Zoom wants to make it easier for users to get attention in meetings. The company’s ubiquitous videoconferencing platform now has a gesture-recognition feature in its desktop app that’ll display a thumbs-up emoji when you make the gesture on camera and a raised-hand icon when you raise your hand.  The feature has been part of Zoom’s app for iPhone since last summer but …

If you have iOS 15 or 14 downloaded on your iPhone, you have access to all sorts of fun ways to customize your home screen. You can switch up your app icons, take advantage of a pseudo app drawer called App Library and experiment with widgets. (Plus, rumors suggest that iOS 16, which Apple could show off at WWDC in June, might introduce bigger …

Garmin’s $150 Vivosmart 5 is deceptively simple. It looks like a run-of-the-mill tracker on the outside but packs many health and fitness features from Garmin’s more expensive watches in a lightweight band. There’s blood oxygen, 24/7 heart-rate monitoring, sleep tracking and the body battery score, a way to determine your energy levels. You can wear it for almost a week …

Surfshark VPN said Tuesday it will soon release updates to its popular virtual private network app, after it was among six popular VPNs dinged by AppEsteem researchers for unsound security design in an April report. Researchers revealed that the Surfshark app obtains an alarming amount of influence over a user’s device security by installing a risky piece of tech known …

In an effort to lure iPhone users away, Google is rolling out its Switch to Android app in the Apple App store.  The app helps users more easily migrate data — think photos, videos and contacts — from an iPhone to Google’s Pixel phones, without the need for a cable when making the switch. Google will add support for other …

For more than a decade now, a bright promise in fashion and apparel has loomed just over the horizon. Smart clothes with sensors and next-generation textiles could transform our wardrobes into health-tracking garments.  These ideas haven’t just come from startups. Even companies like Levi’s and Under Armour have floated the idea of jackets that offer touch control shortcuts and workout …