Dumb Co dared me to trade my iPhone for a hacked flip phone
Dumb Co sells flip phones that sync to your smartphone, bridging the infinite connectivity of the iPhone and the unrealistic limitations of an early 2000s relic.
FanDuel sent a video from star athlete Bryce Harper to a customer with a gambling problem
The video calls highlights the murky relationship between professional athletes and gambling apps.
‘Slow-cial’ app Roost forces you to slow down to the speed of a carrier pigeon
This developer didn’t expect his side project to grow to 300,000 users, but people love Roost because it’s an alternative to an always-on, fast-paced online culture.
Venus Williams-backed WeWard can now lock your apps until you hit your steps
With funding from tennis star and angel investor Venus Williams, the French app WeWard says that it increases walking time by almost 25%.
Reddit is using LLMs to solve a problem LLMs largely created
In the AI era, platforms have no choice but to fight fire with fire to cull spam.
Yep, we’re using OpenClaw to date now
Ben Guez has “a bunch of potential international wives in [his] DMs,” thanks to an automated script he set up using OpenClaw, Claude code, and Instagram trials.
Anthropic and Gov. Newsom forge deal allowing California government to use Claude at half price
As Anthropic forges a closer relationship with the state of California, the federal government has made an enemy out of the OpenAI rival.
Elon suffers another day short of trillionaire status
Right now he’s merely a several-hundred-billionaire, according to Bloomberg’s Billionaires Index.
If you want to cut your screen time, just get a Brick
After years of struggling to curb my screen time, apparently all I needed was a $59 hunk of plastic.
Ribbie turns real-time baseball stats into arcade-like, pixel art broadcasts
Ribbie lets you follow along live with MLB games with a delightful, arcade-inspired interface.