Apps

Taxi drivers take part in a protest against the private taxi company Uber and other apps for alleged unfair competition, in Mexico City, on June 3rd, 2019.

For the LGBTQ community, the digital age should have opened an age of freedom. Instead, it has opened them to new threats across the globe.

The Federal Trade Commission has fined the video-sharing social media app TikTok $5.7 million for illegally collecting data of children under 13, a record-setting amount for a child privacy violation.

Can newly developed mobile applications help the homeless, when access to technology is unreliable at best?

Mental health apps offer therapeutic solutions at far more flexible price points, schedules, and platforms than traditional therapy. But with them comes the chance of inconsistent use and unlicensed clinicians. Do they help more than they harm?

A sector-by-sector breakdown of all the ways Apple is sneaking into your daily life, work, and play.

An open application to the university’s Impact Challenge.

High-interest loans are predatory whether you get them at a corner store or in an app.

As she stacks piles of wood, Alexis Coe ponders the depersonalization of the working class.

Don't hate the app, hate the game.

"Gamifying" stress therapy might make treatment a lot more fun.

Answers to some of your questions about how the NSA and its British counterpart have been scouring smartphone apps.

A closer look at the app economy.

The country so small everyone is related to everyone else.

Smartphones are useful for many things. Diagnosing melanoma is not one of them.