Apps

Lost an hour last weekend, gotta clean this weekend. Blech.

Neato Robotics this week issued an app update for its Wi-Fi enabled Botvac Connected vacuum cleaner, allowing users to take control of their autonomous cleaning device from Apple Watch for the first time.

Keyvan Mohajer is hoping the past nine years of research and work building a digital assistant at SoundHound will be worth the wait.Today, SoundHound CEO Mohajer said the company is publicly releasing its Hound app, a tool that lets users search for answers to questions and complete some tasks through voice commands. Some examples include searching for restaurant results on Yelp or summoning…

Nearly every one of the world's largest technology companies is trying to figure out how to let computers understand human speech, but a Santa Clara-based startup may have just cut its way to the top of the field. Hound, as its app is called, is a voice-powered digital assistant. You can talk to it, ask it questions, and have it perform tasks for you. What sets Hound apart is that it's faster and more capable than anything you've ever tried before. It's available now on iOS and Android....

Knowledge isn't snobby if you do it right.

Because changing is hard to do.

Sometimes you want four hot, tasty dumplings, and you want them delivered to your desk.

If you posted your #2015bestnine on Instagram last year, you could be part of a new dating app.

Many people say sex and smartphones don’t mix. But hear us out.

Tinder users will now have better chatting tools, thanks to an upgraded messaging experience in the mobile dating app. Amid a flurry of changes that began rolling out last night to the iOS application, Tinder added support for sending your matches GIFs. It also upgraded the size of emoji in chat and lets you “like” the individual messages you received from a match. On the…

Tinder just released a pretty major update that allows hopeful singles to send GIFs to their matches using the dating app. Thankfully, you can't just send any old GIF to a total stranger; you're limited to whatever's available through Giphy. So consider this a last ditch move when you're really struggling to come up with that first message. If you lack any semblance of creativity or inspiration, Tinder will even help you out and surface which GIFs are currently trending. GIFs are located next to the...

But you still have to be at your car.

Chelsea Handler’s new mobile application Gotta Go! has hit the App Store. The humorous, but also potentially practical app, is designed to get you out of awkward situations – like bad dates or boring meetings, for example.The launch coincides with the debut of Handler’s new Netflix series, Chelsea Does, which began streaming over the weekend. The app’s creation and…

This week's list includes an app for live streaming podcasts, a clever new alarm clock app from Microsoft and an app for making your own live wallpapers.

In spite of Apple expressing a desire to switch its apps to Swift, just a handful of them are actually using the programming language so far, according to an engineer with Instagram.

New Year, new apps.

Does it make sense to use your Apple Watch as a remote control for your media devices? Smart remote maker Peel thinks so, having just launched a universal remote control application for the Apple Watch which lets you operate over 400,000 models of home electronics, including not only televisions, but also DVD players, and even audio and streaming devices, like the Roku.The Apple Watch app…

Modiface has a new app that lets you try on a wedding dress before you head out to the boutique.

There are a number of holiday app sales now running as mobile developers slash prices in hopes of reaching potential customers who will soon be unwrapping smartphones for Christmas. But one of the better promotions, starting today, is called “App Santa” and involves a group of indie developers behind some of the most popular applications on the iOS and Mac App Stores. The group…

Chinese tech trends are distinctly different to North America’s but today, in a move that bears parallels to WeChat-only companies, popular messaging app Kik acquired the small company behind one of the most successful apps (bots) on the Kik service.

The American public is becoming less religious and less likely to attend church than in decades past, according to research like the Pew study released last month. But for Christians looking to spread the faith, there’s been a recent bright spot: apps that can put the Bible in the pockets of millions, plus open the door for new and potentially more habitual forms of prayer and meditation....

A look at the best lifestyle apps ever made for the iPhone, based on our list of the 100 best iPhone apps of all time.

Amber Reyngoudt and Dave Peck want to figure out how to perfect the mobile shopping experience — and they thinks it’s flipping through fewer products, not more.Skull Ninja Labs’ first product is Hit or Miss — a tinder-like interface where users can swipe through a curated set of products and quickly build a profile of the things they like that’s. But the catch…

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Everything is connected these days. Not only are our households filling up with an ever-increasing amount of screens, but the rest of our physical world is becoming wired as well. The coffee maker, the vacuum cleaner, and the refrigerator — it's all hi-tech nowadays. And the thermostat, washing machine, and television? All of those are now "smart" devices, brimming with Bluetooth and running software seemingly designed to piss your parents off when things don't work just right....