meetings Free app for people who talk too much in meetings David Pescovitz

productivity Busy Simulator makes app notification sounds to make you seem busier than you are David Pescovitz

apps Blog online with a paper notebook Rob Beschizza

blender Flexpressions: latest facial animation tech in Blender Rob Beschizza

international space station This app makes it easy to see the International Space Station fly by Mark Frauenfelder

app store Apple lifts threat to remove popular terminal app from App Store Rob Beschizza

bytedance TikTok exploited Android security vulnerability to grab MAC addresses, maybe for ad tracking, no way to opt out — stopped in November, WSJ reports Xeni Jardin

social distancing United Nations app to help socially distance for coronavirus 'does not work' Xeni Jardin

videoconferencing Zoom patches Windows vulnerability that let attackers steal your Windows login from dodgy chat links Xeni Jardin

poets Monty Python co-founder Terry Jones's last major project was this Canterbury Tales app David Pescovitz

apps The Photo Roulette app sends a random photo from your phone to your friends John Struan

spothero Review: SpotHero should be called SpotZero Mark Frauenfelder

skin in the game This app turns your iPhone into an iPod David Pescovitz

madrid is a harsh mistress The Catalan independence movement is being coordinated by an app designed for revolutions Cory Doctorow

whatsapp WhatsApp fixes security bug that let hackers take over with a GIF Xeni Jardin

apps Fluid paint simulation on the web Rob Beschizza

apps Stop typing and "The Most Dangerous Writing App" wipes everything Rob Beschizza

time How much keyboard latency can you take? Rob Beschizza

crystal prisons Apple removed a teen's award-winning anti-Trump game "Bad Hombre" because they can't tell the difference between apps that criticize racism and racist apps Cory Doctorow

douyi FTC fines app TikTok/Musical.ly $5.7 million for child data privacy violations Xeni Jardin