Communications Major

To a generation who grew up alongside the internet, location-sharing feels less like a privacy threat and more like an expression of affection.

The way we talk about relationships has drastically changed in recent years, especially online. Here is a glossary of some of the most popular words and phrases you should know

The internet is full of ways to curate (read: fake) your personal brand. Can we be honest about this one thing?

For many of us, they are the last thing we look at before sleep each night, and the first thing we reach for upon waking.

Smartphones have altered the texture of everyday life, digesting many longstanding spaces and rituals, and transforming others beyond recognition.

Snap It proposes a simple solution to those who struggle to keep track of their caloric intake: Take a photo of your food, and immediately see its calorie count.

Apple launches CareKit as latest health app platform with hopes it will attract developers the way their existing ResearchKit health app does.

The Cupertino-based firm plans to release the software this April, with the aim to make it easier for end-users to track their health and monitor symptoms, treatment and medications. As well, it should be easier for patients using these apps to quickly share data with their doctors or family members and loved ones.

Three years since the pandemic was declared, many of the apps, platforms and digital tools that millions relied on to stay connected are struggling, shrinking or shutting down. Zoom has slashed 15 percent of its work force. Epic Games killed off the group video app Houseparty in late 2021, and even Meta’s Portal devices, which after years of challenges surged in popularity in 2020, got the ax last year.

The pandemic made people appreciate the small things in life, and even that had to be shared. Now those moments live on Instagram as a new kind of slideshow.

The one category among these that feels like a genuine trend—one not bolstered by Apple’s own apps or APIs—is mental health and mindfulness. As its Editor’s Pick in this category—and, on top of that, its App of the Year—Apple selected Calm. The app, which debuted in 2012, includes guided meditations ranging in time from three to 25 minutes, “Sleep Stories” to wind you down at the end of the day, breathing exercises, and music selections to help you relax, focus, or sleep.

The gay meet-up app Grindr releases a new set of 500 trademarked emoji, including bear, otter and handcuffs.

Dubbed "Sindr", the app will help Catholics find mass and confession times and locations.

Vine was a place for people with talents across different disciplines — it allowed artists-slash-comedians-slash-musicians to flourish.

The app can be confusing for people over a certain age, but it returns something vital to our correspondence: the mundanity of our regular lives is the most captivating thing we could share with one another