Marking the 30th anniversary of the deadly Loma Prieta earthquake and its devastation to buildings, bridges, freeways and lives in the San Francisco Bay Area, California officials on Thursday launched a long-awaited statewide warning system that will send cellphone alerts before earthquakes.
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Apple removed a smartphone app that allows Hong Kong residents to report police movements from its online store Thursday after an official Chinese newspaper accused the company of facilitating illegal behavior.
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The Federal Trade Commission sued dating website operator Match Group on Wednesday, claiming it uses scammers’ phony love interest advertisements to dupe thousands of people into buying paid subscriptions on Match.com.
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In the wake of climate warming that threatens to destroy African farmers’ crops, a team of Penn State scientists on Monday unveiled a new artificial intelligence tool in a cellphone app that can predict crop growth and help protect vital food supplies from intensifying heat.
Read moreA federal judge signed off on a settlement Friday in which “Pokemon Go” maker Niantic agrees to set up a way for property owners to have targets removed from their properties, in hopes of ending the barrage of game-playing trespassers at cemeteries, Washington’s Holocaust Museum and the Auschwitz concentration camp.
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An app designed to give users advance warning of an earthquake recently received an important update, after failing to warn Southern California residents of a magnitude 7.1 earthquake in July.
Read moreThe New York City Council introduced a bill Tuesday that would prohibit cellphone companies and app developers from sharing customers’ data while the customers are within the city’s five boroughs.
Read moreStill in a howl despite the intercession of actress Olivia Munn, a Long Island woman claims in a federal class action that the dog-walking app Wag is profiting handsomely off a system of connecting conscientious owners to unvetted strangers.
Read moreRussia is requiring dating app Tinder to hand over data on its users – including messages – to the national intelligence agencies, part of the country’s widening crackdown on internet freedoms.
Read moreThe D.C. Circuit on Tuesday struck down a government watchdog group’s lawsuit seeking to stop White House personnel from using secured messaging services to discuss official business.
Read moreSpyware crafted by a sophisticated group of Israeli hackers-for-hire took advantage of a flaw in the popular WhatsApp communications program to remotely hijack dozens of phones, the company said late Monday.
Read moreDrivers for ride-hailing giants Uber and Lyft are turning off their apps Wednesday to protest declining wages at a time when both companies are raking in billions of dollars from investors.
Read moreThe San Francisco County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously Tuesday to require most businesses to accept cash rather than debit or credit cards only.
Read moreHertz claims in a federal complaint that Accenture failed to deliver the website and mobile app that it was paid $32 million to design.
Read moreA class of smartphone users filed a class action in Illinois state court accusing mobile advertising network Kiip of secretly tracking their personal information and communications without consent even when a phone is not in use.
Read moreTwo days before New York City will force them to pay drivers a minimum wage, affiliates of the ride-hail companies Juno and Lyft brought lawsuits Wednesday to maintain the status quo.
Read moreA crime-reporting app for Bay Area Rapid Transit riders will now collect less intrusive information about users – and keep is collected for only a limited time – under a settlement approved by a federal judge Monday.
Read moreThe Los Angeles city attorney did a victory dance Friday in its lawsuit against IBM and The Weather Channel app, claiming a change in its terms of use acknowledges the app uses user locations both to provide the weather and tailor advertising and “confirms why we sued in the first place.”
Read moreA new phone app from a group of researchers at the University of Washington will monitor vital signs and can detect when a person overdoses on opioid drugs, according to a new study published in Science Translational Medicine on Wednesday.
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