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This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Mila Wagner-Sanchez, a freshman at Stanford Univeristy, who uses Date Drop, a new dating app created by Henry Weng, a Stanford senior. It has been edited for length and clarity.I’m a 19-year-old freshman at Stanford University. I wasn’t sure what to…
This interview is based on a conversation with Lyle Wallace, 45, a Dallas pastor. It has been edited for length and clarity.I hit 6 feet 3 inches tall as a freshman in high school and weighed around 185 pounds.Then, while playing a lot of sports like football and basketball during…
YouTube’s top creator, MrBeast, is making a leap into fintech by buying a consumer banking app geared toward teens.His company, Beast Industries, is acquiring Step, according to a joint announcement sent Monday.Step, which describes itself as an “all-in-one” money app, is a digital banking platform designed to help young people get their…
Hey Meta, are you also nostalgic for 2016?As social media users wax poetic and share throwbacks about the social media heyday of 2016, it seems Meta wants to revive a piece of it.The tech giant is working on an internal prototype of a new stand-alone app for sending disappearing photos,…
It was not long ago that building a sophisticated app required a team of experienced programmers hovering over their keyboards. Now, AI has made it possible for a novice with no coding knowledge to whip up high-quality apps from scratch.Emergent, founded out of Y Combinator’s startup class of 2024 by…
Grok is still more than willing to generate sexualized AI images of real people. After doing some tests, I quickly found out that it’s still possible — you just have to use the X and Grok apps.Over the past few weeks, Elon Musk’s AI image-generation tool has faced backlash for…
An app that asks a blunt question — “Are you dead?” — has become a hit in China.The app, called “Si Le Me” (Chinese for “are you dead”), requires users to “check in” by pressing a button. If they fail to do so for two consecutive days, the app alerts…
Branda Statman has had some “scary times” on LinkedIn. Not scary in terms of worrying about her safety — scary in terms of embarrassment. Statman, a brand manager who lives in Phoenix, has scoped out exes or potential partners on the platform more than once without switching to private browsing…
