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It’s day 6 of Gizmodo’s March Madness bracket challenge to name the greatest app of all time and things are heating up. Thus far in the competition, we’ve had some huge apps taking on smaller or even defunct players and the tech giants swept every round. But yesterday, Vine came from behind and crushed Snapchat with…

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Welcome back to Gizmodo’s March Madness bracket challenge to name the greatest app of all time! Flappy Bird punched above its weight in yesterday’s contest but ultimately folded and with 54 percent of the vote, iMessage advances to the next round. Today, the Dick Pic app goes toe-to-toe with the short-form video…

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“I’d never really done the online dating thing,” Los Mayers said. Mayers, an app developer living in Brooklyn, had met all of his previous partners in person the old-fashioned way. But last summer, his ex broke up with him, and newly single, he decided to give online romance a shake. Mayers spent a month on Hinge. He…

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At the beginning of 2023, TikTok was one of the weirdest and most delightful places on the internet. An app with a reputation for memes and 30-second dances had become the front page of the internet, and it seemed TikTok was only getting better as the platform matured. A year later, TikTok’s growth finally appears to…

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A US Federal Judge blocked a Montana law Thursday that would have banned TikTok in the state starting on January 1st, arguing the bill is unconstitutional on the basis that it violates users’ right to free speech.

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Last week was certainly exciting for the prospect of green and blue bubbles finding peace and harmony in the chat realm, though that excitement was a bit premature in Nothing’s case.

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Google sent a letter to European regulators asking them to free up Apple’s iMessage for all platforms, according to a report from the