How to Escape Group Chat Hell
Young adults are in more group chats than ever—sometimes more than 20 at a time. Here’s how to tame the chat madness.
Category: Gear / Products / Apps
7 Basic iPhone Tricks I Built With iOS 27’s Revamped Shortcuts App
From halting my doomscrolls to automating air-quality checks, Apple’s streamlined Shortcuts app is my favorite iOS 27 feature.
Meetily Lets You Transcribe and Summarize Meetings Without a Subscription—Here’s How
There are endless ways to record and transcribe your virtual meetings with AI. Here’s an option that’s free and open source.
Shut Those Laptops! Anthropic Puts Its Claude Cowork Agent on Your Phone
Claude Cowork now keeps working on tasks even after you close your laptop. It’s part of a larger push toward smartphone-controlled agents.
Usernames Are Coming to WhatsApp Soon. Here’s How to Reserve Yours
Even if you only use WhatsApp sometimes, you might want to snag your username now to stop giving out your phone number.
Apple’s iPhone Camera App Is Getting an AI Upgrade in iOS 27
Siri is now directly embedded into the camera app, and there are more artificial intelligence tools in the Photos app to alter your images.
Meet Microsoft Scout, Your AI Coworker That Never Logs Off
Microsoft’s OpenClaw-style agent appears in Teams, just like a human colleague, and automates your dull office tasks.
Partiful Is Putting Ticket Payments on Its Platform
In the social event planner’s first major move toward monetization, Partiful is getting ticketing directly in the app.
Instagram’s New Instants App Is a Snapchat Clone for Thirst Traps
Instagram’s Instants app lets you send disappearing photos—and it’s probably where your horny friends will post spicy pics.
OpenAI Enables Marketing Cookies by Default for Free ChatGPT Users
ChatGPT’s new privacy policy states how the company uses cookies for tracking, to turn free users into paying subscribers.