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Apps

March 2024

  • Simon Usborne plays piano with his son.

    ‘There’s joy I haven’t felt for years!’ How an app finally got me hooked on the piano

  • Author Lucy Sante photographed at her home in upstate New York for the Observer New Review by Mike McGregor, March 2024.

    ‘I was having a much better time as a girl in that parallel life’: how an app sparked a late-life gender transition

  • a picture of some typing on a laptop keyboard

    Spending on accidental subscriptions has doubled in a year in UK

  • Open source software solves simple problems, but it isn’t perfect.

    TechScape newsletter
    How much does Spotify really pay Apple?

February 2024

  • Monzo app logo

    Monzo to clinch extra £350m from investors before expected listing

  • the Apple app store icon

    Apple reportedly faces €500m fine from EU over music streaming access

  • Young woman using dating app on phone

    Are dating apps fuelling addiction? Lawsuit against Tinder, Hinge and Match claims so

  • Illustration by Observer Design of app logos with happy or sad faces and a devil emoji with dollar signs in its eyes

    ‘They thought they were doing good but it made people worse’: why mental health apps are under scrutiny

January 2024

  • A lone vehicle in a car park viewed from the air

    Parking apps lock in the status quo. To reimagine Australia’s cities, we must think beyond them

    Julia Powles
  • Apple iPhone 15s on display.

    TechScape newsletter
    TechScape: ‘Hot garbage’ or core protection? Inside Apple’s ongoing beef with the EU

  • App Store icon

    Apple to allow EU customers to download apps without using App Store

  • Apple’s Vision Pro, a ‘spatial computing’ platform is positioned as a success to the Mac and iPhone.

    TechScape newsletter
    TechScape: Why Apple’s Vision Pro headset won’t have Netflix, Spotify or YouTube

  • On my radar
    On my radar: Margo Price’s cultural highlights

  • Pushing Buttons newsletter
    Pushing Buttons: Why the Traitors online game is a new frontier for the way we watch TV

  • Welsh StreetSnap app targets racist and homophobic graffiti

  • The Vinted phenomenon: how one woman sold her clothes – and created a billion-dollar company

  • Climate and vaccine misinformation seemed worlds apart – but it turned out the Cranky Uncle was a universal figure

December 2023

  • A man uses a smartphone and app to pay for street parking

    Hackers steal customer data from Europe’s largest parking app operator

    Owner of RingGo and ParkMobile says data including parts of credit card numbers taken in cyber-attack
  • Hand holds a mobile phone displaying the Threads app logo.

    Meta’s Threads app launches across EU in blow to competitor X

    The tech giant’s app, which launched in July 2023, first needed approval from the European Commission over privacy provisions
  • Police officers in riot gear gathered in response to demonstrators protesting ‘Cop City’ near Atlanta, Georgia, on 13 November.

    Atlanta police use Signal to discuss ‘Cop City’ amid outcry over transparency

    High-ranking members of police department using encrypted phone app to communicate about project amid public concern
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