Mobile Apps

Meta is gradually transforming WhatsApp with AI and payment features, aiming to create a super app, though user trust and competition remain challenges.

Mobile applications are quietly attracting more and more malevolent attention -- and for good reason. They contain a trove of private information about their users.

While staring at screens for more than six hours a day may sound excessive, experts appear conflicted on the subject.

Deepfake fraud is rapidly emerging as one of the most dangerous cyberthreats, eroding consumer trust in biometric authentication. AI-generated attacks manipulate Face ID and voice authentication to gain unauthorized access, steal payment details, and bypass traditional security measures, putting bot...

Although DeepSeek is barely out of the starting gate, questions have been raised about it as a threat to national security. Those are the kinds of questions that have sunk U.S. sales of companies like Kaspersky and Huawei and threaten the popular social media app TikTok.

A popular app from China shook tech markets Monday, sparking fears that the United States may be losing its edge in artificial intelligence. China-based DeepSeek claims to have developed an AI model rivaling ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini — at a fraction of the cost.

While artificial intelligence has energized the marketing departments of smartphone makers like Apple and Samsung, it isn't generating much enthusiasm among users, according to a new survey.

The campaign discovered by Zimperium zLabs targets Android mobile phones and aims to distribute a variant of the Antidot banking trojan that the researchers have dubbed AppLite Banker.

While mobile apps still capture significant attention, all-in-one web services in mobile wallets are emerging as an essential accompaniment to individual mobile apps.

Apple's flavor of generative artificial intelligence, called Apple Intelligence, was laced throughout its latest watch, AirPods, and phone offerings, announced at its "Glowtime" event on Monday.

While large language AI models continue to make headlines, small language models are where the action is. At least, that's what Meta appears to be betting on.

Intel raised the curtain Tuesday on some new tech it's banking will recoup some lost ground to its chip-making rivals. At the annual Computex expo in Taiwan, the company announced a new generation of processors for data centers, pricing on its AI accelerator kits, and the architecture for an AI PC c...

An effective approach to children’s online safety needs to strike a balance between protecting kids' user privacy and free speech, as well as distributing responsibility to the government, online services, and parents, according to a new ITIF report.

Nearly two dozen dating apps were flagged by Mozilla's Privacy Not Included researchers as failing to meet privacy and security standards, sharing customer data with third parties, and excluding the right of a user to wipe their data from the app.

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