Ditto replaces swipe-based dating with an iMessage flow that texts college students a weekly match every Wednesday at 7 PM—users just show up at the provided time and location. Founded in 2026 by UC Berkeley dropouts Allen Wang and Eric Liu, it has 150,000 signups and raised $9.2M seed from Gradient, Peak XV, and Scribble; about 20% of connected matches turn into dates.
On Aug. 6, 2026, Google said Wallet lets parents set secure balances for kids under 18 with daily spending limits, transaction-history views, and purchase alerts; parents can lock/unlock the account or trigger a “spending timeout.” Rollout is US-only and builds on last year’s supervised payments in select countries.
Google’s “Ask Maps” adds agentic food ordering that can find a restaurant and add items to your cart for checkout, launching with Square and Toast and adding Uber Eats soon. It also supports hotel and local-event search plus conversational place edits from uploaded storefront photos that extract updated opening hours, and “Personal Intelligence” (Gemini) that can use Gmail plans, disabled by default.
Nikita Bier has stepped down as head of product at X, Elon Musk’s social media platform, after a little more than a year in the role. Bier announced his departure on Wednesday, August 5, 2026, saying…
TikTok says it flagged Perez Hilton (Mario Lavandeira Jr.)’s Tuesday night livestream within minutes, but a “moderator error” delayed removal and the account ban; the stream stayed live about 15 minutes. Miami-Dade deputies dispatched a crisis unit after viewer calls, and TikTok denies it ran 30+ minutes.
A flaw in Apple’s Private Relay feature can expose users’ real IP addresses despite the service being designed to hide them, security researchers revealed in August 2026.
Researchers Talal Haj Bakry…
Sunbird Messaging relaunched on the Google Play Store in August 2026, giving Android users access to iMessage — including blue bubbles, reactions, and high-quality video — for $2.99 per month. The…
Tinder will expand its Events tab to 26 cities by end of Sept. 2026, building on its March LA rollout that has powered 60+ partner-discovered events. Match Group notes Tinder MAUs slid 7% in Q2 2026, as nearly half of singles 18–29 want shared in-person experiences.
MacPaw’s 2026 partnership with Liquid AI brings locally hosted AI inference to SetApp developers via its Eney assistant. Liquid AI is developing Elix (on-device inference) and local memory, using hardware-specific architectures for privacy/security plus a customization layer; MacPaw targets offline assistants and an open developer stack with cloud options like Google.
Google says it will remove Google Assistant access on Android phones and tablets starting Sept. 4, 2026, swapping users to Gemini over “a few weeks.” Afterward, you can’t use or switch back; it also covers Wear OS, Android Auto and paired audio, while Home/TV remain unchanged.
Signal has added support for linking multiple phones to a single account, allowing users to access and respond to messages across more than one Android or iPhone using the same phone number.
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The Electronic Frontier Foundation published findings in August 2026 warning that Android app developers may be inadvertently sharing their users’ precise location data with advertisers and data…
