Homeland Security aims to combine its face and fingerprint systems into one big biometric platform—after dismantling centralized privacy reviews and key limits on face recognition. The agency is ...

As AppStories+ subscribers will hear on next week’s post-show, Federico and I recently had similarly frustrating experiences moving tools we’d built from one Mac to another. What we moved and why ...

A cybersecurity expert said that the Ring ‘Neighbors’ app could be a valuable tool for investigators as they continue searching for missing Nancy Guthrie. Someone living in Nancy Guthrie's ...

Federal immigration agents are using facial recognition technology that draws from US government biometric databases containing more than 1.2 billion face images, according to federal records reviewed ...

Hostinger’s logs suggest more sites are blocking AI training crawlers like GPTBot. Assistant and search crawlers are gaining access, including OpenAI’s search bot. Traditional search crawlers looked ...

Google app’s Voice Search is finally getting a major redesign on Android. This change modernizes the interface with some subtle tweaks. You will now see a large Google “G” logo at the top center of ...

One prioritizes convenience and personalization. The other puts privacy first. Which one should you use? We help you decide. I've been testing PC and mobile software for more than 20 years, focusing ...

Most people use dating apps to find love. Tiffany Chau used one to hunt for a summer internship. This fall, the 20-year-old junior at California College of the Arts tailored her Hinge profile to ...

The Google app is replacing the Pixel Launcher search. Tapping the Pixel Launcher search bar opens the Google app. This appears to be an intentional change rather than a bug. This change means you now ...

Google’s (GOOG) (GOOGL) new AI search tool to build a comprehensive travel itinerary is weighing on travel-related stocks with shares of Expedia (EXPE), Booking Holdings (BKNG), and Tripadvisor (TRIP) ...

With iOS 26.2, Apple is adding a prompt that allows iPhone users in Japan to select a preferred search engine. As noted on Reddit, the option to choose a search engine comes up after installing iOS 26 ...